Slow days here.
Thursday - The weather was nice. We just hung around the campground. Kathy asked me to get a roll of paper towels out of the "basement". The paper towels are behind a door that is under the living room slide. I have to get on my hands and knees to get to it. While I was on my knees, wearing shorts, I noticed that my legs were stinging. I thought that there must be some type of nettle plant in the grass. I backed out from under the slide, stood up and saw hundreds of small ants on my legs. They bit the heck our of me. PTL for Benadryl, I sprayed some on and took a pill. I didn't have any itching after that.
I have sprayed the grass around the coach at least twice while we have been here. I sprayed again in the afternoon. Guess I better start spraying at least once a week.
In the afternoon I rode over to Lucille's to look at here "3 wheeler", turns out it was an old recumbent bike. A very old recumbent bike. Lucille lives year around in one of the park models in the campground. She and Kathy often work together on puzzles. Kathy volunteered me to see if I could get her bike operational. The tires were flat. I borrowed a cordless compressor from a guy in the campground. The front tire held air but the back tires would not. There are 3 sprockets on the front/pedals and 6 on the rear (18 speed?). The chains were so rusted that I could barely make the rear wheel turn. I came home, got some WD40 and went back and flooded the chain, and parts that were supposed to move, with it. I had the bike turned upside down and after a half hour of turning the drive wheel a little, spraying more WD40 and then repeating, I got it freed up enough that I could use the pedals to turn the rear wheel. Saturday I'm plan on removing the back tires to see if maybe just new tubes will work. Tubes are $10 each and in stock at a local bike shop. Tires are $38 each and have to be ordered.
I think a new bike similar to this would cost around $1,500 today.
I did manage to get in 9.1 miles of bike riding during the afternoon.
Friday - It started raining Thursday night and rained all day Friday. Mid-day we went over for free root beer floats at the clubhouse. Someone said we had received a half inch so far. Most of the time it was a very light rain. After our dessert we went to Cheddars for lunch. Kathy had a pot pie which she said was okay and I had the corn meal breaded fish again, which were excellent again.
After lunch we drove over and looked at the Yellow Rose campground. I wanted to check it out to see if maybe we might want to stay there next year. We like Lakewood but its pretty expensive. It wasn't bad this year because our Thousand Trails membership really cut the rent. When I checked on renewing our membership for another year they wanted twice what we paid for the first year. Without Thousand Trails for the 2024-25 season the rent will be $701/mon, $1,938/3 mon or $2,320/4 mon. In addition you pay for the electricity you use. The 2023-24 rates at the Yellow Rose are $390/mon, $1,053/3 mon & $1,404/4 mon, plus electricity. Four months at the Yellow Rose cost the same as two months at Lakewood. Without question Lakewood is nicer, I just don't know if it is that much nicer. Unfortunately the office was closed so we didn't have a chance to talk to anyone. Also is it 11 miles, 13 minutes from Lakewood to the Cowboy Church. From the Yellow Rose it is 4.1 miles, 8 minutes.
In the late afternoon I rode 4.8 miles in it. I got damp, but not totally soaked. I'm up to 44.1 miles for the week. Even with the bike riding I have gained 10# in the few months since we left MO.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He had certainly blessed me.
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