Friday January 27th 2017

The cold front that started to impact the area yesterday moved through last night. There wasn’t any significant stormy weather, but the temperature started to fall. Today’s high temperature was in the sixties. The high tomorrow is predicted to around 60 degrees.

The gloomy weather put me into a food focused mood. I had hot cereal for breakfast. The last time the oatmeal was out of the cabinet was last spring. It really hit the spot this morning. I imagine it will start a trend of oatmeal for breakfast until the warm weather catches up with me.

Today’s Pelican picture. They are sheltering from the cold wind.

Next up on my food focused day was baking some brownies. I have used the convection oven for muffins but this was my first attempt at brownies. I used a mix designed for an 8×8 pan and it came out fine. Unfortunately, they are already half gone. The extra walk around the campground was not nearly enough exercise to offset the minor gluttony.

The next culinary experiment was cooking up some stew beef to serve over noodles. It could best be described as beef burgundy with out the burgundy cooked on the stove top. I’ve cooked similar concoctions before, but this is the first time in the RV. It came out fine after an extended low and slow cooking. I only had to reset the smoke alarm once. The slightest wisp of cooking odors will set it off. I need to look into swapping this detector for one designed for kitchens.

The cooking jag, kept me at home all day. This morning I watched as several RVs departed the campground. I suspect after a month or so in residence. They were here when I got here. Later in the day new tenants arrived for the vacated long term sites and weekenders arrived for the few transient sites. I suspect my site will not be empty long after I leave on Monday.