Still at Camp Blanding

Sunday 13 January, 2019

     Brad made a nice breakfast on the grill.  Then it was just a hang out day.  We took a lot of walks with Rudy and said good-bye to our new friends, Bill and Judy.  We both made called a few phone calls.   Although we were busy all day we can't remember what we did.

Monday  14 January 2019

   We were up and moving like normal a quick breakfast then off to town to do some clothes

Nicole's

shopping. First stop is lunch just as always.  We found this little place called 'Nicole's Cafe in the Country', what a find.  Looked like an old house converted into a restaurant.  Food and service was great Diane had blackened flounder and I had shrimp with fried green tomatoes.  We did a little clothes shopping Diane bought two new tops and I just had so much fun walking in and out of all the stores.  Back home chicken and waffles for dinner. 

Tuesday 15 January 2019

   What a great day for Diane, she was off to get her hair cut just before lunch.  Later that afternoon it happened, at 4:30 the much shopped for, the researched to death

Rudy heard no fire,

so he's in the sunshine!

and long awaited for vacuum arrived via fed ex.  Now she is happy.  After reading all the instruction and assembly she is ready to go except the batteries need charged over night.  Oh no, she must wait one more day to use it.  Just a little to cold for a fire so we grilled the last of our hog maw sausages for dinner.   

Wednesday 16 January 2019

     We headed into town for supplies and stopped at the drug store, grocery store and washed the truck all before lunch. I know!!   Lunch was at the Stone E Cabin great reviews and the ad on the radio made it sound great.  Well not so much, it was OK.  The best part was 5 or 6 good old boys sitting behind us just a talk'n in that mush mouth southern accent that no one can understand.   Occasionally we could make out a few words and just start laughing.  Other than that the place was unimpressive. 

    We stopped at the Camp Blanding  museum on our way back.  Very surprised what we learned.  This was a big WWII camp where 10's of thousands of men were formed into army national guard units and then sent off to the war.  Each division had a monument with the number of men, followed

POW Camp

by the number killed, wounded, and captured.  Thousand killed from each division only one division suffered less than 1,000 and that was because their troop transport was sunk on the way over, they lost 800 men and were never sent to the front.  The other little known fact is that this was a huge POW processing center most of the German prisoners were sent here, processed and sent to other camps.  Over 4,000 POW's were kept here and treated very well to the point some had to be force to return to Germany.  Enough history, if you ever get a chance stop in the check it out.

    Back home Rudy and I spent the afternoon outside as Diane vacuumed the whole house several times over, she is soooo happy.  Left overs for dinner and a nice fire.