Another Rainy Day

Wednesday, October10, 2012

“Another Rainy Day”


Happy Wedding Anniversary To US!!

I sit here looking at the card that Tom gave me this morning that celebrates the promises that we made to each other only 48 years ago. It was a great day and a great 48 years since that we have walked with God’s blessings. We plan to continue in that way.

Today started with 56 degrees inside and 51 degrees inside. It doesn’t take long for the great little heater in the trailer to bring the temp up to a reasonable living temp for us folks. Tom is so good about turning the heater on when he leaves for the wash house.

The wash house is another matter in this campground. It rates an 8 out of 10 in the Good Sam book, but we have other ideas. It was a big shock when I went to it yesterday and found that there was hot running water but no soap and no paper towels or hand drying devices. The building is a small square with four private rooms on each corner. I think that it is a cinder block construction covered with rough wooden panels on the outside and stone tiles on the floor and floor-to-ceiling stone tiles on the walls. There is no heat in the building. Lights are controlled on a timer that goes on when you open the door and stays on until the timer runs out. Two of the corners are equipped with toilet and sink. The other two corners are the shower rooms. Each has a shower, toilet and sink. The one has a chrome organizer hanging over the shower head, two hooks on the door and a reasonable space to put things on the vanity next to the sink. There is an electrical outlet. The other shower room has nothing to hold soap, shampoo or any other things that you bring into the shower with you. The room does not have any hooks on which to hang things. It does have a very large vanity counter to lay things and that is across the room from the shower. Each room has a half roll of toilet paper. Luckily this place closes down for the winter next week.

Waffles for breakfast!!! Yeah!. And waffle iron worked well this time. Guess we’ll keep it. :o)

Even though it was rainy we started out going north on Route 9 and 9N along Lake George. We drove through some beautiful scenic areas that we could see some colors. It would have been better if the sun were shining. We also drove the “town” of Lake George. It’s a quaint little place with lots of clothing outlets and tourist traps.

As we did yesterday, we stopped to do some geocaching. We were luckier yesterday than we were today. :o(

The rain had stopped for a while and was misting while we were searching for the cache today. It was at the entrance to a private beach area for the residents of Diamond Point in Lake George. No one was there :D so we entered the beach and walked down the sand to the pier. I took a few pictures there. Since it was misting with fog over the hillside and clouds in the air I’m not too sure how the pictures will turn out. I did take a picture of the sign at the end of the parking area just before you enter the gate to the beach. It says that it is a smoke free zone. The last line was supposed to say that there is no alcohol allowed on the beach. But the line was painted over in the same color as the background of the sign. However you can still see the words that were originally carved into the sign.
We rode north until almost the end of Lake George and then turned around to go back to camp. It’s hard to drive in the rain and on wet roads and we were getting the bone chills of the day. Back at camp it was soup for lunch and settling in for a nap.

When we awoke we took stock of what we could use on a moving day and decided that we needed to get some more water and fruit. So off we went in the direction that “The Man” wanted us to go to find Target. On the way we found a Walmart. Since we were getting familiar with the layout of the store we decided to shop there. We went in and out and back to camp to get dinner and wash dishes.
We had visions of times that we could spend at the picnic table eating lunch and maybe dinner, so we had moved the table under the awning and dressed it with a table cloth. In the evening yesterday we put our chairs at the table and covered the table and chairs with a tarp. Tonight we undid the tarp, emptied the rain water from it, folded it and put it away. We undressed the table and put the table cloths in the van. We moved the table from under the awning so it wouldn’t be in our way when we leave tomorrow. Then we went inside the trailer to chase the wet chills away.

The night is being spent as it usually is: I’m writing the blog, email and other things on the internet and Tom is getting ready for tomorrow’s trip, checking his email, posting the geocaches and doing Sudoku puzzles. We are looking forward to a night of restful sleep and a good travel day tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow night from Verona, NY. We will be there to do laundry and move on again on Friday.