Thursday March 16th 2023

It was another cool start to the day. The morning temperature was in the high fifties. A strong wind out of the east arrived with the sun. As the day went by the wind weakened and the temperature climbed to eighty.

I don’t have any known pollen type allergies, but once in a while something in the air will get to me. Today was one of those days. When I went outside for my first walk of the day the wind was still blowing hard. It wasn’t long before I was sneezing and getting congested. I tried to keep going, but ultimately cut the walk short and returned to my RV home. Inside, I stopped sneezing immediately and about half an hour later the congestion cleared up. Later I walked to the dumpster with my trash and only sneezed briefly. Encouraged I continued on with my walk about the park. Whatever was bothering me seems to have cleared up. On my final walk of the day everything was normal.

Today was a mixed bag of daily chores, a little bit of maintenance on a sticky draw and general relaxing. It also turned into a two and a half walk around the park day. This was a gopher tortoise and buzzard day. Don’t let anyone tell you a gopher tortoise is slow. I came around a corner along a path to see a tortoise about six feet in front of me. It scrambled into the brush in a few seconds. The other two I saw today were fifteen or twenty feet away. They just stared at me waiting to see if I was a threat. The pair of buzzards were at various locations along the lake during each of my walks in that area. They sure aren’t a very pretty bird.