Two New Texans!

For the past 5 years my Daughter and her Navy Petty Officer Husband have been stationed in Bremerton, Washington. He was in the Engineering Section of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74). During this time he was deployed three times, sailed over the equator just as many, and was out to sea for months and weeks at a time in between so that the Flight Wing could train. He's sweated in the Gulf off the coast of the Middle East, visited the Mediterranean, walked the streets of Hong Kong, and visited many other Ports-Of-Call. Some exotic, some not so much.


Meanwhile, my Daughter has endured life in the rainy Northwest. Bremerton, and Washington State for that matter, has some beautiful country, but having been raised in the Mid-Atlantic area, the weather wasn't exactly to her liking. So far this summer, for example, they have had only a small handful of days where the temps rose above 75 degrees. Living life wearing a sweatshirt in the summer and carrying an umbrella was never to her liking.

But now, that is all going to change.

After Rodney completes school on the 29th he is being re-assigned to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. For the next 3 years, at least, he will be reporting to duty on terra firma, No more sea duty, no more weeks, months, or a year at a time away.

Before he reported to the Stennis for duty,  he visited us here on the Lazy S Ranchito. Being something of a self professed redneck hillbilly cowboy, he fell in love with Texas just as my daughter had. They are both so anxious to get here that they are leaving as soon as his last class day is over on Friday and beating it down here.

For my part I have a fat briskett in the freezer to smoke for their arrival and have made arrangements for the neighbors to watch the dogs so we can take him to Bandera for the weekend. When asked what he wanted to see first, without hesitation he said, "The Cowboy Capital of the World, of course". I think he's going to fit in well here.

Fair winds and following seas, son & daughter! We'll see you soon.