It got a little cool during the night, 42, but warmed up nicely to a mostly sunny 72. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Kathy actually wanted to go to Walmart this morning. The HEB grocery store we went to the other day is big and has a lot of stuff, especially crowds of people. We were surprised at the lack of a crowd at Walmart, on a Saturday morning. I think she may actually want to start shopping there. She didn't even have to stand in line to get a live person check her out.
Then it was on to the Don Wes Flea Market. Its almost next door to the campground we stayed at when we first arrived in the area last year, about 20 miles from our current campground. Initially it looked like there were a lot of cars and we expected it to be crowed, instead it was much emptier that it was last year. We wonder if it won't fill up more starting around mid-January.
We managed to get a great parking space close to the entrance.
From the entrance. Lots of empty space for booths.
This place in the photo below sells Wisconsin cheese and meat. I went in to buy some cheese curds but they only had white curds, which I don't care for.
More empty space.
The people who run this shop aren't woke. The sign says Trump 2023 Take America Back
This is more like the entire place was last year.
Finally we made it to the other side and the fruit and vegetable stand. The people who run it brought a pickup and tandem axle trailer to the nearby campground weekly when we were there last year. They were only at the campground for 2 hours but they did a LOT of business.
And live music! You could hear this guy singing from almost everywhere on the site, and he could sing. If he had CD's out for sale I would have bought them. I was familiar with every song he sang. I think everything he sang was a country & western hit in the 1970-2000 time frame. None of it was the tripe they now call country.
Our big flea market purchase, a $4 bag of "small", red grapefruit. I hope they are as good as they were last year.
After all the exercise at Walmart and the flea market we decided that we deserved pizza for lunch. We went to Moran's Pizzeria and Restaurant for lunch. Its not far from the flea market, which is good because it puts it 20 miles from our current campground, otherwise we would be tempted to go back to often. We has pizza there several times last year. We had garlic rolls for an appetizer and a 14" mushroom & pepperoni pizza. Kathy had a diet Coke and I drank water. The bill was less than $20, and it was a GREAT pizza.
Back home it was nap time. Around 5:30 I went for a 1.6 mile walk around the campground. To walk that far you have to walk almost every street twice. I visited a little with a couple who were taking their dogs to the "dog park". They arrived yesterday, from NE Missouri. They will be here until the end of March.
After supper Kathy was going to go sit in the hot tub for awhile so I went along. I'm definitely not a hot tub person, we had one at our house in Missouri and the only time I was ever in it was to work on the filter once. Actually, it didn't feel to bad.
We met a Violet and her 40 year old daughter while there. They, including Violet's husband, just arrived from North Dakota. This is the 3rd year they have been coming to this park. Last year they got tired of pulling their 5th wheel back and forth so they bought a park model before they left. Their daughter helped with the driving and will be flying back to ND in a few days. She is a teacher and off for Christmas break.
As I've walked/biked around I've seen license plates from Texas (quite a few from Texas), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa (at least 3 couples are here from Iowa), Oklahoma, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Missouri and Ontario, Canada.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours as He has blessed me.
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