It got COLD here (REALLY COLD for the Gulf Coast - I think it has something to do with global warming, and it is Bush's fault) last night. Wind chill was in the single digits and actual temperatures got down to 18 degrees for about 3 hours. The highest we saw today was 36. The campground shut off all the water at 4 yesterday. The hose connections are not frost proof and the couple that I tried the morning were frozen, I couldn't turn the handles. They had warned us about the shut off and I had filled our water tank the day before. We have enough on board water to easily last us 3 days, if we are a little cautious about how much we use when taking showers. It is supposed to be below freezing the next 2 nights. I talked to one of the guys at the office and they aren't sure when they will turn the water back on. It would not surprise me if they turn it on for a couple of hours tomorrow and then turn it back off for the night.
We only had reserved a spot for a month, our month ran out today. A couple of weeks ago I tried to extend our reservation but they had no more openings for sites with 50 amp electrical service. This morning we moved to a spot with 30 amp service, where we will be parked for the next 3 weeks. Doesn't sound like a big difference but the difference is 50 amps on TWO legs of 110v service versus 30 amps on ONE leg. basically only 30% of the amount we had. We can get by with that, we just have to be careful about not running to many electrical appliances at the same time.
This morning I walked over, when it was a windy 19 degrees, and worked on caning again. Dick, the guy who I was supposed to help yesterday, was there when I got there. He had issues with his satellite service yesterday and was tied up all morning with a service guy. He brought the 2 chairs we are working on with him from Van Wert, OH, where he lives except during the winter. I don't know why he had been having problems earlier, he did great today.
We did get out some today. Kathy had heard a good report about a Mexican restaurant over in Daphne, about 15 miles from us, so we went over and tried it out. It was GREAT!
After that we went to a boot place that was only a couple of miles from the restaurant. They were supposed to have wide boots but they only had 2E widths in stock, I need 3E or H's. During the summer I had melted parts of the soles of my safety shoes, walking in coals when I was tending piles of brush that I was burning. I never felt the heat. I was shocked when I noticed how much I had damaged the soles. The place has an on-site cobbler. He is going to replace the soles for me, it will cost an arm and leg, but a lot less than the cost of a new pair.
We thought we remembered that when we went to Mobile last year we went through a low headroom tunnel, one that our motor home would not fit through. We thought we remembered that trucks had to take another route. We drove to the west side of Mobile but didn't see any low clearance tunnel. We did go through the tunnel under the bay, but it must have 16 or 17 feet of clearance, they don't even have a maximum height sign posted.
Then it was back to the park for the rest of the afternoon.
May God bless you and yours.
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