Out and About the town!

June 11 – Good Morning!  After breakfast I put a load of laundry in and we left for town.  No walk this morning.  We wanted to get to the Farmer’s Market. 

First stop was Ford.  The service manager came out and he couldn’t get them off either.  He went in and read the service manual and said they are supposed to work exactly like the front ones.  He ended up popping out the push part on one side and put it back in and it pushed in and the headrest came out.  He did the same thing on the other one.  He thinks the tab wasn’t properly lined up on either one so it wouldn’t release.  Yeah, now we can get back to that project!

Bill at the Iron spring

The Farmer’s Market is supposed to be around 7 Springs Park and when we arrived there was just the same guy as the rainy Saturday when we stopped last time.  Although we didn’t stop at his stand for anything, we parked and ventured into the park.  This is where the springs were that the town is names for.  Originally the town was call Seven Springs, but later was changed to Heber Springs.  The spring heads are in clusters of 3, 1, 2 and 1.  They are basically capped off and each spring has a faucet and

Under pavilion 1

anyone can get water from them.  They are all named and have pavilions built over them.  The “springs” were hoped to become a big attraction for the area like Hot Springs but the water contains a lot of sulfur and smelled like rotten eggs and really didn’t catch on.  There was a man filling a cooler with water and I asked him what he was going to do with it and he said “drink it”.  I commented on the smell and he said you leave it sit for 2 days and the sulfur smell and taste disappear and the water is really good for you will all of the minerals in it.  Then another guy came over and he’s a caretaker of sorts for the park and said people draw out hundreds of gallons of water a day there.  The city maintains the park but doesn’t own, they have a 99 year lease. 

Hope they didn't have a
reservation for this one!

We attempted to find to more of the parks on the lake but Sandy Cove appeared to be blocked off due to flooding but we did get to Heber Springs Park.  It has some beautiful sites right on the water but also had a lot of flooding and quite a few spots were inaccessible.  Water was covering picnic tables and we saw one guy launching his boat from a campsite that was flooded but perfect for a boat launch.

We located the restaurant where we are to meet the other volunteers and contact people for breakfast on Saturday and then went to Wal-mart.  They didn’t have some of the things I needed so when I came out I asked Bill if he wanted to grab a bite of lunch and drive out to Ozark Country Store.  Bill NEVER turns down the chance to eat out!  Good thing I brought my insulated bag with ice!  We grabbed lunch at Burger King and then out to the last stop.  They had everything I wanted and Bill wanted to go there anyway for more chocolate peanut butter.  She had local peaches and I bought all the culls to make a peach crisp.

Our favorite sign

As soon as we unloaded I peeled and prepped the peaches.  They would get fruit flies in a hurry and I hate that!  Then I put a crisp in the oven for us and a smaller one I think for the neighbors.  We want them to feed Molly a couple of times next week so maybe I should butter them up a bit!

Time for me to have an iced coffee, well, I made us each one, and rested a bit before logging our expenses for the day and journalling a while.  We work tonight so I am going to post early.