Sunday November 3rd 2024

With the return to Standard Time today was confusing to the senses. It was bright outside when I woke up this morning. For the last couple of weeks it has been the dull daylight that occurs before the sun clears the eastern horizon. My base camp is located on the western side of a hill delaying the sunlight from reaching my windows even more. Tonight’s early sunset didn’t help cure the disorientation either. From experience I know it will be a few days before I get synced with the changes.

I took the last few days off from my furniture building tasks. The bed frame is supporting my new mattress well and I have been getting a good nights sleep. My next projects may need to get delayed a few days. My work space is outdoors under my carport and rain is in the forecast for most days this week. Another tropical system is moving into the Gulf of Mexico. It sounds like this one will die out before the center moves onto land, but plenty of rain may fall before the week is out.

It is time to start some serious shopping for the furniture I can’t build. Specially, I need a couch and a recliner. So far I’ve done some casual looking at furniture at Big Lots and looked online at Wayfair and Amazon. Given the size and weight of these items, I really need to get them delivered in an assembled state. That means I have to shop at a traditional furniture store complete with annoying sales people and long lead times. Not my favorite form of shopping.

Life around my base camp is starting to return. The sleepy summer state is transitioning to an active winter state. There are many indicators of the change. Perhaps the most obvious change is the empty RV sites are almost all occupied now. More subtle changes are the presence of cars in front of more park model homes and the canvas covers removed from the golf carts along side the homes. As a guess, in August there were less than a third of the units occupied. Right now about half to two thirds of the units are occupied. It will be interesting to see how soon the remaining units get occupied.