Well we been here fer’ ‘five days, enjoyin’ the solitude, scenery and friendship.
The weather has seemed to do what ever it wants, regardless of the forecast. Before we left home I checked, rechecked, monitored and checked again, to see if we were gonna have us some good ‘solar’ weather. All said it would be clear for the next nine days. Right good campin’ with lots o’ sun fer’ them panels.
Not so! The first three days were nice temps, but solid overcast and all we did to our onboard power grid was deplete, deplete, deplete. Not till Saturday afternoon did we get some steady clear skies and start to charge the batteries. It was still a learnin’ experience, everyday we’d be down another 10% with little chargin’ goin’ on. But it taught us we can definitely go for four or five days with no sun as long as we start at 100% charge. At that point we’d have to use the generator and battery charger to replenish some juice cause we’d be at 50% of charge and don’t want to go past that point for the health o’ the battery bank. So Saturday and Sunday were clear and we now are back to 100% charge. Had to replenish some water today, not cause we we’re out, but getting’ low.
Thursday our friends Randy and Amy from Tennessee came out to visit fer’ a spell. They used to hunt here when they lived in Florida. They were here to visit their daughter and gave us a call in the morning. Amy had said that Randy mentioned comin’ out here to have a look around fer’ ole’ time sake. Co-incidentally we were here and they arrived around noon. We went fer’ a drive on all the roads in the management area and Randy saw what had changed since last here. It was Randy and Amy along with our daughter and now deceased son-in-law who introduced us to this place and we used to come out to camp with them now and then. Well we got to spend about three and a half hours with Amy and Randy before they had to head for home. It sure was nice to see them as we hadn’t seen them in almost two years. We try to stop and see them each year at the beginning or end or our annual big trip, but things just haven’t worked out for a while. Good Bye good friends, we’ll see ya’ soon I hope.
The rest of the week we’ve pretty much spent visitin’ around camp. Saturday Linda and I went to St. Cloud to the Flea Market to look fer’ some clips fer’ the solar panels. No luck, I’ll have to try the market in Melbourne. We did find one at Home Depot, but $2.90 is a little steep when I need eight.
Of course no trip to town from the ‘Boonies’ is complete without a dining experience. Linda has had a cravin’ fer’ fried clams and we stopped at the ‘Catfish Place’ in St. Cloud to see if they served ‘em. Sure enough, so we stayed and had lunch. She had the clams and I had shrimp and catfish. Both were excellent and I wouldn't hesitate to return.
Soon, Real Soon!
We then were goin’ to spend the afternoon at the flea market, but it was deserted. Both vendors and shoppers were in short supply, so we tried to lollygag around town till supper when we had planned to eat at our favorite pizza place. We did finally cave in the on the time and had supper at 4:30, just splittin’ our favorite sub there, then it was back to camp.
Today was church services at 11, then run fer’ some agua to shore up our supply. Before we new it it was 3:45 and I said, “The day is shot already!” So we just went visitin’, then I came home to write this post. Tonite is steak on the grill, then off to the ‘community fire’ fer’ some tellin’ o’ tales and swappin’ lies.
Our good friends Bud and Linda could not make it out with us this trip, so I promised Bud that I’d post some more pictures of the camp. I took these from the roof of our trailer and could not cover the entire area cause the sun was shinin’ in my face. That don’t make fer’ good picture takin’ they tell me. So here ya’ are Bud!
This here’s the left side o’ the snowbird’s camp circle.
This here’s the right side o’ the circle. As ya’ can see these folks are still a’sceerd of Indians I guess.
This here‘s in front of our rig. Can ya’ see me on the roof?
Behind our rig there are more folks but the sun was a shinin’ there, so I didn’t get a picture. Now Bud this is just our side of the camp, there’s folks parked over across the road in the ‘Non- Generator’ section. There’s plenty o’ folks and still plenty o’ room. Remember if’n ya’ click on the picture it makes it bigger!
Well I got to get my windy self out to grill those steaks if’n we’re gonna eat tonight. As always, hope to see ya’ down the road as we’re;
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