Tuesday November 7th 2023

Today’s weather was a repeat of Monday. The winds were low the humidity, while increasing, was still manageable and the overall temperature peaked in the mid eighties. Overall, it was a very nice day.

I can tell that I have adapted to standard time, since I didn’t wake up early this morning. In fact, I got a very slow start to the day. It was after ten by the time I finished my shower and started on breakfast. I continued on a very slow pace into the early afternoon drinking coffee and catching up on a few chores. When I finally got moving most of the daylight was over.

Walking around the RV resort today I saw signs of a transition from Halloween to Christmas. Most of the people who had decorated for Halloween had removed their decorations from their homes and golf carts. A few people have started to decorate for Christmas. Some candy cane lights and big wreathes are now heralding the season at a couple of sites. I imagine most of the Christmas decorations will arrive after Thanksgiving.

The usual compliment of birds were around the parks retention ponds. They have a lot more bank to forage for food along. The water level has gone down quiet a bit since I arrived here. There is about a six foot area of dried mud between the green grass and the water. That tracks with the fact that it has only rained for a few minutes total since I arrived. Last year at this time I was buttoned down here for hurricane Nicole. It dropped plenty of rain, but thankfully not much else.