Tuesday February 14th 2017

The weather changed throughout the day. It started as partly cloudy and cool. As the day progressed it got warmer and more humid. The occasional full sun went to a continuous hazy sunshine. It is forecast to be warmer yet tomorrow with thunderstorms.

Today was a day for errands and driving or more accurately driving to errands. Here in southern Georgia there are plenty of basic shops, but not the right ones like. In particular, not the right bank. Some of the things that are here in the local area raise my curiosity level. Why would you allow a Fireworks store in a strip mall?

Fireworks store between a pizza place and a Blood Bank.

In the Walmart shopping center in Kingsland a Fireworks store is located between a Blood bank and a Papa Johns Pizza place. All I could think of is the damage if the pizza oven got out of control. I know it’s not a high risk, but common sense says keep explosives away from fire. There are plenty of fireworks stores in the south but most of them are in standalone buildings or even tents in fields. Those locations I understand. I’m obviously biased by having lived in the Northeast where private use of fireworks is usually against the law. Even though you could buy fireworks in New Hampshire, most towns had local ordinances prohibiting there use.

When you stay at a campground for more than a few days you start to get a sense of its patterns. Since this campground is at one of the exits on Interstate 95 it gets a lot of overnight guests. Most afternoons they start to arrive around 1PM and keep coming until dark. A few come in late, after the office closes, but they usually take sites near the entrance. Around 7AM in the morning they start departing. Tonight the park is particularly full. Hopefully, my neighbors aren’t the 7AM kind, or they are quiet so I don’t wake up early.