Monday, November 17, 2017 - Camping with Friends, Carthage, MO
When I work up this morning I thought it must be near 4:30, and was quite surprised to see it was only 2:30. I rolled over and hoped that I would go back to sleep. The next time I checked my phone it was 5:30. So thankful I went right back to sleep and rested so well.
Now coffee was calling my name. In no time I had a hot cup in hand, and pulled out my Kindle to read on my Bible app this morning. After my second cup of coffee I was getting ready to read a few blogs when Dean asked if we were going to walk or not. I said sure, so we changed into something a little warmer and headed to Riverside Park. It was such a nice morning - about 51 degrees, no wind and we walked 2.32 miles in 16.45 min/miles.
Once we returned home and ate breakfast we both got busy. I had several errands to do this morning, cutting Dean's hair, depositing funds at the bank, pick up a T-shirt I had ordered to support a friend who is battling cancer, mailing some cards and submitting an address change to the post office, picking up groceries at G&W, dropping off old prescriptions at the Sheriff's Dept., and making a call to the city to get a special pick-up at the house on Wednesday and giving them a date to close out our account for utilities effective Monday, November 20. Once I returned I helped Dean get hitched up for our 3 day camping trip at Carthage, MO with three other couples. We are looking forward to a little down time and just enjoying being with some great friends.
We left Oswego at 10:33 and pulled into Coachlight RV Park in Carthage, MO around 11:45. We stopped at the office and went in to register. We had to wait for about 15 minutes before someone showed up to get us signed in. He explained he was the only one there today and he seemed to be wearing a lot of hats while doing so.
Soon he was leading us to our site, number 21. What a great location - the site was the most level site we have had in a very long time. We pulled in and basically stopped - without having to move forward or backward, and it was already level to boot! We liked this and wish it was always this easy when parking - not that it is typically that hard but usually there is some kind of maneuvering to do.
This last week has been so busy that I've not had time to clean Bentley the way I prefer to have him looking, so once we had the slides out I moved things out of the way and vacuumed the living area, bedroom, bathroom and the steps/landing to upstairs. Wow, what a difference that made. I also did some dusting and got everything in place. All in all it took me about 30 minutes. This is my kind of cleaning!
We had some left over pizza from Friday and we shared that for our lunch. For some reason the large drawer under our couch fell off the rail on one side on the way here today. Dean has fixed this two or three times but today we could not get it to go back in place. We'll deal with it when we get back to Oswego.
About 2pm, two more rigs showed up within a few minutes of each other and by the time they were parked the last rig for our group drove in. After everyone was settled and had set up we walked down to Keith and Drena's rig with our chairs and visited for a couple of hours. Drena made some coffee - it tasted great with the temperatures starting to drop. At 4:30 we discussed dinner options and decided on Mexican at El Charro. Everyone seemed quite pleased with their meal selection. We returned to the park about 6:30 to our respective rigs for the evening.
Here it is 8:06 and we just turned on Dancing with the Stars. We missed half of it. 😒
I spent the rest of the evening doing some preliminary planning of travels for 2018, including our trip to South Texas for Jan-March, and from Sedalia, MO to Grand Island, NY via Canada to see son Matt and family for most of the month of June.
Enjoyed reading this as I do the others. sounds like you really got with it that very first morning. You got a lot done at a very short time. Going to South Texas for the winter sounds very nice. The summer trip sounds fantastic. I have a question. What did you do with all the stuff in your house? By the way love El Charro's
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for commenting. I wish more people would. Now that I am trying to write something everyday I will also do better about checking for comments. When I was only blogging when we were gone sometimes I was not aware comments were there for awhile.
ReplyDeleteAs far as what we did with stuff in the house - we kept dishes, Dean's stuff from the garage, pictures, and some stuff like that but no furniture at all. I either found someone to keep special pieces of furniture (like the bookcase my dad built when he was in high school), or we sold it. I had quite a bit of mother's furniture that I gave to Misti so there wasn't a lot of furniture to really get rid of. I'm excited about going to South Texas and pray the weather suits my clothes! :)