Here comes the cold front!!

 Friday 29 January 2021

   I forgot one exciting thing last blog.  We were here enjoying lunch when Diane looked out and saw our local hawk thrashing around about 20 feet from the camper.  He has been around all month and likes to sit on the roof of vehicles.  Finally when he was still we could see he had a good sized snake he was trying to subdue.  It took awhile but he eventually flew off carrying he thing.  I would say a two footer anyway.  It was neat to watch.  Just kind of a nice Florida day.  We hung around the campground Diane did some laundry, I went for a bike ride.  Hamburgers on the grill then sat by the fire with a glass of wine.

      

Enjoying the view
from the campfire!

Saturday 30 January 2021

   Another nice sunny day.  We had breakfast and drove down the road to check out a campground we always thought would be nice to stay at.  It sits right on the banks of a nice lake and we pass by every trip, so today we checked it out.  My heavens it was a disaster!  We could hardly get through with the truck. I'm certainly glad we didn't make reservations there for a month or even a night.  But the day wasn't wasted we stopped for lunch(surprised are you)at The Wrap Shack.  Diane had a bang'n shrimp wrap and I had a grouper sandwich with eloutes (mexican grilled corn), it was all very good.  Next was a junk store just got a stop sometimes.  And we hit a roadside vegetable  stand got the best strawberries we have ever had and none  of them made it to the refrig. 

                

               Brad's lunch in Hawthorne, FL.

               Nice day for a drive.

Sunday 31 January 2021

   Today was a planned work day. The shower was draining slow and getting slower each day and Diane has been wanting me to remove the shower door for a good cleaning.  Today was that day.  Diane cleaned the remaining windows and window screens while I got started.  As normal the tearing apart went really well and in short order I had the shower door outside.  I started right in on the shower with the plunger putting just enough water in to help seal the plunger.  That is when thing started to go south.  After a vigorous plunging I stopped and looked,  there is now no water draining at all!  Hit with the plunger again, nothing except for gross stinking brown water bubbling up from the shower drain.  I started to sweat and was trying to come up with a new idea.  I repeated plunging several more times until it became apparent to me it was not clearing.  Diane was starting to worry!  I needed my fish tape(for cleaning drains) I couldn't find it.  Finally I found it in the my plumbing items.  Had the shower draining in no time.  By now Diane had finished the windows, cleaned the door panels, and went to town and back 'til I got finished. We started to reinstall the door and I'm missing a very small screw that holds the door in place. We looked, and looked, and looked no screw it probably went down the drain.  Back to my tool boxes found a screw but it was to long, found the hacksaw with no blade in it,  found another blade, cut the screw and in no time had the door reinstalled.   Sitting here eating dinner Diane looks at me and says we should clean the door once a year.  I Don't Think So!

Monday 1 February 2021

   Woke up it was fairly warm 59 degrees but that turned out to the high for the day.  The wind was blowing quite briskly but Diane looked out window and decided it was decent enough to cook outside. By the time I was done cooking bacon, eggs and home fries the temps had dropped almost 10 degrees and wind blew the grill flame out once.  Breakfast was good fried taters tasted more like potato chips and Diane did do most of the work preparing the food and getting everything ready inside.   But I was outside the whole time!  I forgot to mention a light drizzle settled in toward the end.  We stayed inside worked/played on the computer most of the day. No sun at all today and a strong wind all day long.

  Chicken(rotisserie) on salad for dinner and we are huddled in front of the fireplace.