A Day at Home -- Mostly

It was VERY late when we got home last night, so we did not get up very early this morning. We spent most of the day inside Auntie Violet -- it was just too chilly to sit outside. In fact, I haven't even pulled our lounge chairs out of Toad yet.

We joined the folks at Menno this morning listening to the video of last month's Harvest Festival. We are so grateful to Bill D who has faithfully mailed us videos of Menno services. And to Gene who sits up in the balcony every Sunday running the video camera! I think that no matter where we travel, Menno will ALWAYS be home to us.

Late this afternoon we finally got up enough ambition to go into town to get Forry milk for his breakfast cereal (I've offered to share my Greek Yogurt with him, but for some reason he'd rather eat his cereal dry than share my yogurt!) The GPS unit in Toad showed that there was a Winn-Dixie grocery about twenty miles from Pine Lake RV Park in the town of Arianna.

We followed GPS Sally's directions, but when we got to where she said the store was, all we found was a park. We finally spotted the store on the other side of the park. There was no road between the park and the store, so I guess Sally assumed we were already there...

A Shopping Trip...

Other than the grocery store, we don't do a lot of shopping. It's just not one of our favorite things to do. But, every once in a while, we break down.

We started out today at the Napa Store where Forry picked up some parts he had been looking for. From there we went to Bed, Bath and Beyond. I needed a new squeegee for the shower and we had been looking for an electric sweeper to use in the coach. We found both of those, plus some new hand towels for the bathroom. I also found a few other things -- BB&B is a dangerous place to shop!

From there we went to the Corelle/Corningware Store at Tanger Outlets where we bought two dinner plates and a lunch plate to replace the ones that got broken the last time we forgot to put the bars in the dish cupboard while moving...

And finally to Winn-Dixie to pick up milk for Forry's breakfast cereal. I can never run into a grocery store for just one thing, so forty-nine dollars later I was carrying my bags back out to the Toad where Forry was catching a quick nap. And darn, I forgot to look for avocados for our salads!

We talked about hitting one of the BBQ joints for dinner on the way home, but Forry noticed a Church's Chicken just across the street from Winn-Dixie. He was hungry, so we decided just to go through their drive-thru and eat on the way home. You can tell we're in the south -- it's the first time we've ever had fried okra instead of fries,

Checking out the Area

Styx River RV Resort is an older, pretty large RV park. It looks like there are around 250 spaces along with several park models and cabins. As you can see, the lots aren't real big and the ground surface is mostly dirt --

It was nice enough yesterday that Auntie Violet put her awning out (the wind was gusty this morning, so she put it back in before we left...).

We took a drive this afternoon to find a grocery store and the check out the country a bit. We ran into this field --

of cotton that hadn't been picked yet. This is the first time we've seen an unharvested field. We saw several other fields that had been picked and had big stacks of pressed cotton covered with tarps along their edges.

The soil here is very red. We saw a bunch of guys around this area of red dirt and stopped to see what was going on. Turns out they were racing little radio-controlled cars around this very hilly track. Forry tried to get a picture of the cars, but they were going so fast he couldn't get one! Note that there were NO children racing these little cars -- they were all grown men!

We did find a nice Winn-Dixie store in Fairhope and picked up some blueberries and orange juice. From there we drove over towards Mobile Bay. We got occasional glimpses of the water, but most of the shoreline is occupied by big houses with large fenced off yards in front of them. It was starting to get dark, so we headed back towards the River Styx with a stop at Ruby Tuesday for a seafood supper.