Yesterday Kathy went over to the clubhouse in the morning and helped tie a quilt. I took a 2.25 mile walk around the campground. We then went over to Sam's club, about 15 miles from us, and had hot dogs for lunch. Kathy loves Sam's hot dogs and I also like them. She bought a crock pot and I bought a 4# container of "deluxe" nuts. On the way home we stopped at a place that was supposed to have fresh fruits and vegetables. The only thing we bought was a bag of "new crop" pecans. They are good.
In the afternoon we went over to the social hour again.
This morning, as I took my walk, I noticed that the Smart Car was loaded.
After my walk I went to the club house and watched them cane chairs. One guy is re-caning an old rocking horse. I watched him for a long time. He spent quite a bit of time studying the old caning as he removed it. I've got to take a photo of it next time I'm over there, it is such an interesting piece. Someone just dropped it off at the RV of the guy who "teaches" caning, Bob Derflinger. As I was watching the cane chairs Bob showed be an album containing photos of many of the chairs they have done over the years. He showed me over a dozen chairs waiting, in the club house. to be re-caned. They have more stored in another building. People donate many of the chairs, or the folks pick them up cheap from flea markets. Some of the guys make any needed repairs, strip off old paint/varnish and get them ready for re-caning. Every year they have an auction to raise money for an assisted living facility that caters to RV'ers. They cane every weekday. I think I will give it a try Monday morning.
While there I also spent time visiting with a guy who used to live less than 15 miles from us when we lived in Niantic. He and his wife have been "full-timers" for quite a few years but they still spend some time in central Illinois every year, to visit their adult children and grandchildren.
We finally made it to Big Daddy's for lunch. I had a hamburger basket and Kathy had an oyster basket.
After leaving lunch we drove back over to the DishTV place. On the way we saw a partially harvested cotton field. Next time we go by it I need to grab a piece of the cotton. All the white you see in the foreground is loose cotton balls.
At the DishTV place I bought the receiver they told me I needed to work with our satellite. I spent several hours trying to get it to work and finally gave up for the day. I talked to a Tech guy at Winegard (the company that made the satellite) and the next step is going up on the roof, taking the cover off the satellite and checking to make sure there is power at the dish. I may get brave and do that tomorrow.
I had purchased a new sewer hose a couple of days ago. I bought just the hose because I like the end connections on my existing hose, the hose that has several small leaks. When I tried to put them on the new hose I found out that my old hose is a counter-clockwise spiral and the new hose is a clockwise spiral. They wouldn't work. I had another old fitting that would work to connect the hose at the RV but needed to make another trip to the RV store to buy a new fitting to connect to the sewer. AARGH!! Everything is back connected and I dumped the tanks with no leaks.
Kathy made goulash for supper. She had canned, or maybe frozen, some tomatoes from her garden and used them in the goulash. It was GOOOOOD.
Not sure what we are doing tomorrow. Plans are to go to the beach Monday or Tuesday. It is supposed to be sunny and in the high 60's both of those days.
May God bless you and yours.
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