Friday, August 5th - Hung Around Country Village

 The weather was great again today. Overnight low 50 and today's high was a mostly sunny 80. It was a little breezy. It was cool enough this evening to enjoy a campfire.

Yesterday evening when walking around the campground I saw a sign in front of one of the really nice 5th wheel units that advertised mobile RV service. I called the guy this morning and told him about the sporadic workings of our water heater when it was fired with gas. He said he would be down in 20 minutes, and he was. He took the burner assembly apart, cleaned the orifice and adjusted the ignition points. When it was back together it seemed to work fine. Since I had not pulled and anode to check its condition he suggested doing so. It wasn't in horrible shape but since it was out I had him replace it. He also "pressure washed" the inside of the water heater. I was a little surprised at the chunks of "calcium" that flushed out of it. He said it cleaner than the majority of those he flushed.

He and his wife are full times who are from near Amarillo, TX. The spend the summers where its cool and the winters near Tombstone, AZ. As he was putting his tools away a guy walked by and talked to him about his RV furnace. He moved over to that guys site and worked on his furnace.

I did go up to the office and check on monthly rates here, potentially for next summer. This years monthly rate is $870. I still haven't found a place to go when we leave here.

Then we went to Sherrie's for lunch. We had eaten there before and it enjoyed the food. When we were there last fall a guy walked in and Kathy said, "Did you know your brother was going to be up here?" I couldn't believe how much the guy looked like my brother, who we see infrequently, I wasn't sure it wasn't him until I went over and talked to the guy. Lunch today was good.

When we actually looked at photos of the guy and my brother they didn't look quite so much alike. https://bertdsblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/day-10-friday-september-24-ishpeming.html

Then it was on to Yooperland, even though we have been there numerous times.

More Yooperland photos at https://bertdsblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/friday-day-8.html

There is a Camping World next to the campground. We are looking for a better set of camping chairs. We checked it out they had nothing we wanted. As we drove by the pool on our way into the campground we noticed that there was only one senior couple at the pool. By the time we got our suits on and made it to the pool there were 8 people, 2 adults and 6 kids, heading in right in front of us. The water was nice but the pool was fairly crowed. Within 10 minutes here came another adult and 4 more kids. It was enough pool time for me, I returned to the coach and took a nap. Kathy stayed longer.

We spent some time in the evening enjoying sitting at a campfire, until the mosquitos found me. When sitting at the campfire we watched the Camping World flag blowing in the breeze, with the setting sun shining on it. It was quite pretty.

Some kids were enjoying the bounce pad.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.