Mother's Day Morning In Texas Thinking About Casinos & Oysters

Stepping outside with me in the picture, to retrieve my swimming suit, you can see that Mother's Day morning in my zone of Texas looks like it might be a bit stormy.

But, stormy is not in the Mother's Day forecast for my zone of Texas. Currently it is 70 degrees, heading to a predicted high of 91, with a Mother's Day Sunday of some sun and breeziness.

We've been having ourselves an awful lot of breeziness in these parts.

Yesterday, during my afternoon swimming session, there were whitecaps on the pool, not to the level that surfing was possible, but at one point a big gust of breeziness sent my towel flying from its resting location on a lounge chair.

I don't know what I'm making mom for Mother's Day lunch. Maybe that Ivar's Clam Chowder I got yesterday at Town Talk. My mom makes the best Clam Chowder. Better than Ivar's. Mom likely won't care for Ivar's Clam Chowder.

I mess fresh seafood. Where I lived in Washington, in the fertile Skagit Valley, I was a short distance from getting myself fresh dungeness crab, oysters, clams, salmon, all sorts of goodies from the sea.

A few miles west of my abode in Mount Vernon there's the Swinomish Casino. The Swinomish Casino has the best seafood buffet I've ever had the pleasure of enjoying. The Swinomish Casino buffet's oysters are made the way my mom makes them.

In Texas we don't have casinos. Texas ran most of the Indians out of town, with very few remaining. I don't see why Texas would have any better luck stopping the Indians, who remain, from opening casinos, than other states have had. I don't think the Washington tribes have ever lost a court case against the state, whether its over casinos or fishing rights.

I think I may have heard of one or two tiny Indian casinos in Texas. Or attempts to open one.

In the little Skagit Valley, in Washington, an area way smaller than Texas, both the Swinomish and Skagit Indians have big casinos. I just read that the Swinomish are adding a big hotel to their casino complex. I think they've already added a marina. I thought they already had a hotel. Maybe this is an additional hotel. I know the Skagit's casino already has a big hotel attached to it. I've been in that one.

I really don't see the harm in casinos. I am not a fan of the gambling part, but I am a fan of the other entertainments to be found in a casino.

I'm going swimming now and think about all the other things missing in Texas.