tough tough tough

But, as the saying goes "some one's got to do it".

It rained buckets yesterday (no tornado, just rain rain rain) and the sun came out today so him selves spent the afternoon chillin'! I've spend the majority of my time working on a major sewing project of late, so the boys do their own thing!

It was one of those days around here (the Perry, FL Elks Lodge). We are leaving tomorrow so usually (well often anyway) the day before we hit the road is sort of pack up day and shopping for "on the road stuff" which really means sandwich and snack stuff for a travel day (other than those travel days we don't do a lot of sandwiches). And water, it seems I am always buying water - cases of bottles and gallon jugs - go figure 'cause we have filtered water in the kitchen (which really ends up being double filtered) and the water coming into the coach is filtered outside .... hmmmmm...

So remember yesterdays post when I commented and posted a photo or two of the spanish moss - well Sir Arlo found it to be a new play toy today. There was lots and lots of it around on the ground today because of the strong winds yesterday. Sir spent so much time and energy throwing it up in the air and chasing it around - it was pretty comical to say the least. I wish I'd done a video or two.

Below are a few sunset photos I forgot I took when we were in Pensacola last week and found them when I loaded a group of photos from the camera to the laptop. You know me and sunset photos ....

These were taken the day after Thanksgiving when we went back out to the Elks Lodge at the beach (rather than the one we were staying at in Pensacola). Timing was perfect on the return when we stopped to let Sir play in the water (something he truly seems to have forgotten how to do - go figure that one - hope he remembers because within a couple weeks he'll be living at the water for the next six or so weeks).

So that's the post for today ... I will go put some things in travel position now.

We'll be in Brandon, FL at an Elks Lodge there for a few days. We were there last year and loved it - a lot of that had to do with a great bartender at the Lodge and a very social, friendly group there so we did some volunteering and truly enjoyed ourselves. Unfortunately that bartender is no longer there I've learned, but I'm sure it is still a friendly group - just missing a key player! That was also the Lodge that we got involved with their community Christmas last year which was terrific in many ways, hopefully that will happen again.

When we started our great adventure two plus years ago (can you believe we've been on the road for two years and two months!!!) we didn't want to stay at the same places repeatedly - we seem to be doing that more and more often these days - part of it is that I can not stand the thought of paying the price that private campgrounds (more often they refer to themselves as "resorts") charge when all we want is electric and water (sewer or a dump station would be great) hookups (we have occasionally done no hookups for a couple days - easy enough with the inverter and the generator, although the genny is too noisy for my liking! Lodges (Elks and/or Moose) offer us an opportunity to do some "giving back" as well. We have no need for the pools, shuffle board, boccie or any of the other "activities" that private campgrounds feel compelled to offer and charge dearly for, in addition to the fact that there are few, very few, in these parts that can accommodate us without the need for us to disconnect the trailer from the coach.... Off the soapbox I'll go now.

Good night all ..........