Golden Tree Tops

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Golden Tree Tops
Now this was a different kind of day! It is moving day and we have had moving days before. But this was the first time that we did not do a lot of the preparations the night before the move. Also, because of the nature of the land around the campground I wanted to wet Swiffer mop the floor before we left. I wanted as much of that “sand” out of the trailer as possible. I usually only sweep the floor with a broom. As a result of that and a few other things we did not leave the campground until about 9:45am which is late for us.

We arrived at Sunsetview Farm Camping Area in Monson, MA just before 3pm. Total traveling time was just under 3.75 hrs, plus 1.5 hour rest stop and lunch break, to go 241 miles.

This site is a “corner” site in a somewhat oval loop. The means that the opening to enter the site is somewhat narrow, it’s wider in the “middle” and is pointy in the back. And to beat all, the owners of this establishment made the “fire ring” so that it narrowed the opening to the site by about one-quarter. Tom backed the trailer into the middle of the opening and right on back to the sewer opening. After correcting for leveling we called it “good.” This, however, does not allow us to open our awning! We need approximately 7’ of space to open the awning and we have about 4’ at the back. Our awning is wet and should be dried out. I’m afraid it will get moldy until Tuesday when we move to Lake George, NY. Oh, yeah. The neighbor was taking advantage of an “empty” site to park his 3rd vehicle. Immediately, when a woman saw us she said that they would move the truck. And they ended up moving two of the trucks with the 2nd truck being moved opened up the width of the site a little bit more.

I worked on setting up the inside of the trailer until Tom had finished with the outside, and then we took off to find St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Thorndike (Palmer). We found it, and the grounds looked like the church is active. But when we checked the sign on the front lawn we found that the Rector is “Jesus Christ”, there is no Assistant Rector and no time or times were stated for worship. Not sure what we are going to do. But we did find a restaurant for breakfast.

Off we went to buy groceries and back to the campground. We were treated to one of the nicest displays that we have seen this fall. On the way home from the store the sun just looked as if it were sitting on the mountains and peeking in the cloud layer that was over us. This made the tops of the tallest trees look as if they were reflecting the sun’s golden ray. It was wonderful! We had an easy dinner and I continued to make sense out of the trailer. We sat down to eat at 7pm. What a stylish time for dinner! We were going to do dishes tonight but we are both so dog tired that we decided to do them tomorrow.

This is a holiday weekend and this place is jumpin’!  Almost every site is occupied and the people are out talking to others and playing music. The campground owners have planned so many activities for all ages. But all we want to do is go to bed!
See you all tomorrow.