Friday August 9th 2024

It was another hot day until the afternoon storms started. Today there were multiple short storms over the course of four or five hours. They dropped the temperature from the mid nineties into the upper eighties, but didn’t do anything to help the high humidity.

While I was out driving this afternoon I was reminded that the summer is almost over for school kids. School starts next week for most of the area. This afternoon the school buses were out practicing their routes. The buses were empty, but the drivers would pull up to their future stops then continue on. Thankfully, they didn’t turn on their traffic stop lights. I saw this behavior in a couple of different areas of Polk county. Today must have been a designated training day.

Earlier in the week I saw another tell tale sign of the return to school while shopping at Walmart. The store has had back to school supplies in prominent display since the Independence Day merchandise came down, but didn’t draw much interest. This week it was getting swarmed over by lots of kids with hovering parents. I get the need for a notebook or two along with some writing instruments. Why kids need some of the stuff on display is a mystery. Maybe they are going to bring it to school to help stock the classroom. Obviously it has been too long since I had anything remotely to do with back to school supplies.

The RV resort filled up a little bit for the weekend, but it doesn’t seem to be a busy weekend. I have been here long enough that I can recognize frequent campers. They seem to show up for a long weekend every few weeks. I stumbled on one such regular in a different part of the resort today. It was near my site when I arrived at this campground and came back for about a week in July. This time they seem to be on a more expensive site. I am assuming the theme parks and other things in the area are the draw. I don’t see this resorts pools and recreation facilities getting that much usage.