Saturday July 20th 2024

For the third day in a row this area dodged the big storms. Today the closest approach was to the southeast. Thunder and lightening with very dark clouds were on that horizon for about an hour. The wind was very heavy here during that time as well, but the rain didn’t fall on the roof of my RV home. To a certain extent I want it to rain between 3PM and sunset. During that time, if the sun isn’t blocked by clouds the sun bakes in on the side of my RV home and the AC has a hard time keeping up.

Note: The flower pictures in this blog entry are from yesterday’s visit to Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort.

The state of my refrigerator dictated that today was a grocery day. Saturday afternoon is not the right time for grocery shopping at Walmart. The parking lot didn’t look full, but inside the building I found an excessive number of impatient shoppers. Navigating the aisles filled with shoppers littered with unattended pallets of new stock was a challenge. There seemed to be many shoppers with single minded agendas represented by pushing their shopping carts at high speed with tunnel vision. If they drove their cars that way they wouldn’t make it home in one piece. I only saw two collisions of shopping carts inside the store, but I know I had to slam on my theoretical brakes more than once.

The good news is I was able to buy water by the gallon today. They didn’t have a lot of stock, but more than I’ve seen during my last few visits to various Walmarts. Today the water shortage seemed to be in the half liter bottles selection. The packages with larger amounts of bottles were in short supply. It would be cheaper to filter my own water, but nowhere as easy.