Saturday July 13th 2024

The weather was typical for a Florida summer day. It was sunny in the morning and gradually got cloudier as the afternoon progressed. From about 4PM on there were thunderstorms in the area. So far this immediate area has only gotten a few very brief light rain showers. Off in the distance to the south we were provided with a very dramatic display of dark clouds filled with lots of sky to ground lightening.

I was back on the search for gallon jugs of water this afternoon. The 2.5 gallon container of water I bought earlier in the week will run out soon. I could switch to using my Brita filter pitcher, but that doesn’t keep up in the high heat. My first stop on my search was the Publix grocery store across the highway from the RV resort. I really thought they would have plenty, but at a few cents higher per gallon than Walmart. Their shelves for water were also bare and the price would have been about fifty cents higher per gallon.

My second stop was the Walmart south of the RV resort about fifteen miles in Haines City. They had plenty of cases of half liter bottles, but the only gallon jugs were of distilled water. I still have a few half liter bottles and distilled water isn’t really for drinking. My quest continued.

On my way home from Haines City I looped to the east. This brought me to the Walmart near Disney World. The store was packed with Disney tourists getting stuff for their vacation homes or to make their park experience better. How do I know, you might ask. Many of the shoppers were wearing Disney T-shirts or other park theme park fashion statements. Even more telling I saw several people with Disney Magic Bands on their wrists used for theme park and room entrance.

The good news is this Walmart had a few gallon plastic jugs of water. There were about eight or so jugs at the back of the top shelf. I am tall enough and persistent that I got three of them into my shopping cart. The next thing I knew, I was helping other people get the rest of the jugs down into their carts. When I departed one more Walmart was without any gallon containers of water on their shelves.

I didn’t get a chance to take my usual walk around the RV resort. The late afternoon and evening rain showers kept me inside. I did step outside once long enough to scare a visiting rabbit from along the side of the cement pad at my site. The grass was long and lush in that area. I hope he came back after I went back inside. The grass could use a little rabbit mowing.