Two States -- To Get Groceries?!

This morning we watched Juni and Tom go down the road --

and leave the RV Park here in Tunica are their way to Red Bay, Alabama and the Allegro Bay factory where they are going to have some warranty work done.

We were out of orange juice, so went into the Piggly-Wiggly in Tunica. I wanted to re-stock some staples for the kitchen as well as pick up a few things for next week. The prices were extremely high; the vegetables all looked wilted; and the meat department area smelled bad. I decided that I'd much drive the extra twenty miles to the Krogers that the GPS had shown.

I always forget that the GPS shows mileage as the crow flies... It was more like 30-35 miles! It was a nice drive through what they call the North Delta country. We saw this line-up of what looked like round bales.  But, when we got closer, we realized

that they were actually tightly packed bales of cotton. Quite a bit different looking then the boxcar-sized rectangles of cotton we saw in fields in Arizona last winter.

Not much later we found ourselves crossing this narrow two-lane bridge over the mighty Mississippi River into the State of Arkansas. The store in Helena, Arkansas that the GPS said was a Kroger, no longer was. It still wasn't great, but it was a lot better than the one in Tunica.

We got back to Mid-South RV Park just as the sun was setting --

These first two pictures were taken facing east --

While this one was towards the west --

Sunsets in Mississippi are gorgeous!

A Bit of Shopping

Juni sent me a note on Facebook last night asking if I wanted to go to the leather store with her today. It turns out that Tunica has an Outlet Mall that has a Wilson Leather Shop as one of its tenants.  Juni had promised her daughter that she would look for a leather jacket for her while we were here. I don't know what it is about stores that sell leather items, but they just smell so good!  I just want to stand in the doorway and breathe in that lovely aroma.

Juni found a very classic coat for her daughter and we looked at lots of purses, bags and jackets. One thing about being retired and not needing a lot of nice clothing -- I wasn't even tempted! From the Outlet Mall, we decided to take a look at the town of Tunica -- the whole two, maybe three, blocks of it.

We did find the Post Office and decided to check.  To my surprise, our box of mail that Daughter MM had mailed on Saturday was already here! She had sent the important letters last week went she had sent us our ballots, so a lot of this box is magazines, newspapers and "junk" mail.

Juni had made a pot roast today using her pressure cooker.  I made a tossed salad to go with it and we had another feast tonight.

I had to come back to Auntie Violet right after dinner as I had a conference call meeting with the Executive Board of Mennonite Church USA. We spent most of the meeting working our way once again through the Purposeful Plan incorporating the suggestions that had been made by the CLC and other groups since the convention in Pittsburgh in July.

At least tonight the wind is not blowing...

Tunica, Mississippi

We got ourselves semi-organized this morning and left Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park and went to find the State of Mississippi. It was only a short drive to join our friends Tom and Juni at Mid South RV Resort in Tunica, Mississippi.  They've been here for a couple of days while we were enjoying our time at the River watching the tugs and barges.

Juni and Tom had arranged for a site right beside them, but when we got to the office about noon to register, we discovered that the people in that site had asked for a late check-out and were still there! The staffer gave us a site down the way a bit and said if we wanted to wait, we could move when the people left. So we just parked Auntie Violet and went to visit with Tom and Juni for a couple of hours. We needed to get our puppy fix anyway and Tika and Izzie were glad to oblige!

By 1:30 our site was free, so we drove over and got ourselves set up. It was a gusty, windy day and by the time we had everything done, we were chilled. It felt good to curl up with my afghan on the couch and read. Well, actually to take a nap...

While they were here, Tom and Juni had discovered a wonderful seafood buffet at the Hollywood Casino. It was so good, they were more than willing to go again tonight (it's only on Friday and Saturday nights). We ate King crab and Snow crab, along with lots of shrimp, stuffed crab, scallops, crawfish, frog legs (not me!), oysters, crab cakes, catfish, etc, etc.  It was so good! There was barely room for a scrumptious chocolate cupcake with chocolate mousse topping.