Thursday August 3rd 2023

The rain got in the way today. The morning forecast called for a partly sunny day with no real chance of rain. The atmosphere had other ideas. Shortly after the noon hour it started to rain. It didn’t get dark. The sun was still visible on all of the horizons, but it rained steadily for about an hour. Overall it was a cooler than normal day with the high just reaching the ninety degree mark.

I had planned to take a hike in one of the county preserve parks this afternoon. The park is on the St. Johns river about half an hour away. The rain arrived when I was preparing to head out. It probably would have been dry at my destination, but I didn’t take the chance. Instead I just continued to work on various chores around my RV home.

A little extra length during my walk around the RV park this evening replaced the exercise I missed from the skipped hike in the preserve. The sights and features of the RV park are very familiar after more than a month of walks. There have been a few changes as RVs come and go, but for the most part I have seen most of the sights before. Today there was an Egret along the banks of the main retention pond. I have only seen an egret here one other time this summer.