Saturday, January 12, 2008

Tending to Ordinary Life Day

Today has been filled with the ordinary things of life like cleaning out the RV and vacuuming, rolling up the patio rug, reloading the bicycle, doing laundry, trading my old paperbacks in for new ones at the visitor center, filling up with gas, buying groceries, doing a little WalMart shopping. Gee I think that's all.

I have stayed five days at the National Seashore, probably my longest stay anywhere except at my son's house. I liked it here (in spite of the scarey storm) and enjoyed seeing the birds and 'gator and such. There were great places for Chorro and me to walk and also good places I could ride my bike. Mostly the weather has been wonderfully warm and sunny.

Here was the most exciting thing I saw today.

Yes, those are my clothes drying at the laundromat.

Very soft sky this evening.


Look what's directly across from tonight's campground! I believe I need to explore 'further'.


My first meal out on my own since I left Montana in October, and it was superb! Steak, baked potato and broccoli. I sat in the bar and watched the football game betwen the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers, played at Green Bay in a heavy snowstorm. Yes, it made me appreciate being in Mississippi.
Outback was pretty crowded, including the bar, and a I chatted with a young man who sat down next to me, also to have his dinner. He was from Texas and stationed here at the military base nearby. He spent his very young years visiting a ranch his father used to own at Wilsall, Montana. Don't you love small world stories? I do.

Chorro could smell the steak on my breath when I came back to the RV and was pretty annoyed with me again. But I reminded him that I took him for a long walk before I went out to eat so he forgave me.

And tomorrow is a new day.

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