Friday July 7th 2023

After spending four days traveling up to North Carolina and back at the beginning of the week, my daily routine is out of wack. In my head, the trip was over the weekend, so this should be the start of the week not the end. How dare the fourth be on a Tuesday. Getting settled back into a pattern of preparing meals, taking my walks around the park and generally getting on with life is the challenge at hand. I didn’t succeed yesterday, but today was pretty much back to normal.

I got my first walk of the day in early before the heat of the day really settled in. The ducks were back in their normal place in the front retention pond and the geese had moved back to the more sheltered pond at the back of the park. The park was its normal sleepy self for a weekday morning. My second walk of the day was cut short by a thunderstorm. It looked bright and dry when I departed my RV home, but the sky was dark to the west. I cut my loop much shorter than normal, but it still started to rain before I got back home. A few seconds after I shut the door to my RV home the rain opened up at full blast.

That was the second time today that the rain got in the middle of my plans. While the sky was still bright and only moderately threatening I headed east about fifteen miles to the Betz-Tiger Point Preserve. This is a nice county park on the tributary creeks to the Nassau river. My intent was to walk one of the trails, but mother nature had other ideas. Thunder and dark clouds were rapidly approaching forcing me to retreat to the car. The return trip to my RV home was in a very heavy downpour. There was limited visibility, lots of air to ground lightening strikes and surprising areas of standing water. It was not a fun drive home.