Sunday January 7th 2018

Yesterday’s clouds were gone this morning. The sun was high in the sky warming the air into the mid sixties. It was a very comfortable day.

I spent the day watching football and getting various chores done. By the end of the second quarter of the second game, I’d had enough football for the day. I packed up the laundry and supplies and drove to the laundry facility. The facility is less than a couple hundred feet from my RV as the crow flies, but actual walking distance is much longer. I need the car to get the laundry and supplies there and back in one trip. To me that’s a justifiable use of the car. I can’t say the same thing about some of my neighbors that use their cars to take a bag of trash to the dumpster three or four hundred feet away. It seems to be normal in campgrounds to see cars going by with white plastic bags of trash on their roofs.

My Pork Chop for lunch cooking on my new grill.

The laundry was very busy today. I had to wait a few minutes for a washing machine and even longer for a dryer. On another day I might not have waited. Today I had already had lunch and didn’t have any other plans so I waited. While I waited I was entertained by a fifth wheel trailer arriving and getting setup. I don’t think the folks arriving were new to RVing, but they sure weren’t very well practiced at setting up. They had a fancy heated water hose that was a couple of feet to short to span the necessary distance. The couple debated how to make the connection. While the guy dug through storage bins for another hose, the woman Googled for the nearest Walmart. Since it was less than a mile away she volunteered to go get another hose. It wasn’t an argument or even a loud discussion, but clearly they had different ideas on how to solve the problem. Their next puzzle was hooking up to the sewer. They didn’t have a single sewer hose long enough. Finding the right combination of hoses and connectors was another challenge. Once these two connections were completed they continued with their setup by putting down the stabilizers and opening the slide outs.

While I was waiting for the clothes to dry the woman returned from Walmart with the hose she purchased. She bought a long yellow garden hose. Usually RVs are connected with “Drinking Water Safe” hoses. Basically these are hoses that do not give off chemicals into the water. I’m not sure how important this is in the larger scheme of things. It certainly didn’t phase either of these people. They hooked it up and started using it without even flushing it first.

Lunch today was a Pork Chop cooked on my new grill. I continue to enjoy using this grill. It not only cooked the chop quickly, it also gave the meat some good grill marks. The cast iron grill heats up quickly and retains heat well for a good sear. Cleanup is similar to a well seasoned cast iron frying pan.

… and the sun sets on another day.