Thursday March 21st 2024

There was a nice blue sky and a bright sun when I got up this morning. By noon the sky was filled with fluffy clouds. As the afternoon progressed so did the cloud cover. The temperature managed to climb from the low sixties to the low eighties. When it was time for my last walk of the day just before sunset a light rain had started to fall. A cold front with severe weather is forecast to arrive overnight and last into Saturday.

I took advantage of today’s good weather to get all of my outside travel preparation tasks completed. Tomorrow is a travel day. It will likely be raining when I finish my preparations and hook up the car. I only have about thirty miles to travel and my destination is another state park with a similar checkout time. That means I need to leave here as close to the 1PM checkout time as I can manage. Dodging the worst of the waves of rain in the forecast will complicate that task.

My neighbors were also scheduled to checkout tomorrow, but they departed in the middle of the afternoon today. I don’t know if it was planned that way or if the weather changed their plans. They were a bit of a challenge to figure out. Not that I was really trying, but in the week plus they have been here I rarely saw them. They walked there dog in the morning, but I’m not sure when the pooch got another outing. What I saw most often was them dragging a noisy portable holding tank behind their truck to the dumping station. They must of had a problem with one of their onboard tanks, because the frequency was very unusual. I think that is the only time their truck moved.

The wind wasn’t as strong today, so I saw more boats out on the lake fishing. There were a few people fishing from the docks at the boat launch as well. I often see people fishing there, but today was the first time I saw them catch anything. One guy caught a reasonable size large mouth bass.