May 24 – When we got ready for bed last night I suggested we get one of the electric heaters out for the bedroom and Bill thought that we didn’t need it.  However, he did get it out and plug it in and I turned it on and set the temp before I went to bed.  Well, it got cold last and even Molly came in and got in bed with us rather than spent a cold night in the living room.  When Bill got up it was in the high 30’s out and not much warmer in the living room.  It did finally get into the 50’s out and the sun tried to come out late in the day but we both wore long pants and sweatshirts outside.  You could see the fog rolling off the lake so when Bill went out I asked him to take a picture for me.

 

Since it was cold out and in I went ahead and did some baking that helped warm things up.  I tried some bread made with cream cheese and eggs but it was more like sponge cake.  Tasted fine but not very bread-like.  Then I made a batch of granola so Bill wouldn’t have to eat eggs every day.  I bought some yogurt so I will have some in that for a change. 

Fog rolling in on Darien Lake

Doug finally made it by and went over things and had us officially sign in.  Basically we really don’t have to do a lot.  We can help out at the front entrance this weekend since it’s going to be pretty busy and they expect to be full.  We are supposed to check the toilet paper but they didn’t give us any or a key to get any and we’re just to be the eyes and ears of the park and report if there are any rule breakers, then they’ll send a ranger out to deal with it.  They put a sign in our yard that designates us as the hosts.  Bill got a cap but I didn’t get anything.  The state has a “Red Cap” program which is the volunteers.  Doug didn’t leave until 1 so we had lunch then drove into Batavia.  It’s a pretty good size town with Home Depot, Bed Bath and Beyond, Michaels, Joann’s and Super Wal-mart.  We made several stops and on the way home we went on one of the Indian reservations to get diesel and it was .40 per gallon less than Flying J and TA.  It was 10 miles out of the way but worth the trip.

 

When we got back we drove both loops and wow, there sure were a lot more sites filled.  The majority are pop-ups and small travel trailers.  There are a lot of tents too.  We also can’t get the Direct TV working so placed 2 calls to them to no avail.  Will have to call a local place to come out and tell us what is going on.  Bummer!

 

We had dinner then donned our jackets to walk our loop.  We did a little trash pick up and I found a perfectly good plastic rain poncho that was left at a sight.  Bill wanted me to pitch it, but it wasn’t even dirty and you never know if you’ll need it.  I checked to see if the ranger had done anything about the swallow nest I told him about at the bathhouse and it was still there.  I even saw a bird leave it and then could hear the babies so I hope they don’t move it until the babies leave.  He was telling us about the different birds here and how one kind looks after another and I asked about the nest since they were protected in CO last summer and he indicated he’d have to do something about it.  I wasn’t sure what that meant.

 

We’re on the end of the row here, but now we have neighbors all along the road across from us and on the other side.  Everyone has a dog or two and these are the biggest dogs we’re ever seen in a campground.  Most RVer’s have small dogs, so you know these are people who camp, not RV.  Huge, big dogs!!!

 

I guess tomorrow I’ll call and see about the TV.  So tonight Bill is watching some of his cowboy movies he got for his birthday.  It’s just how our luck runs!