Out and about....

August 27 -  Geez, what a long night!  The noise of the rain never let up and at times it was so loud pounding on the roof of the RV.  Bill got up at 7 for his 8 AM appointment to get the oil changed in the truck today.  It was pouring when he left and finally subsided by the time he got back. 

I did 2 loads of laundry first thing to use up the space in our empty gray tanks as they pump us today.  There was standing water all over the place outside.  The site next to us, the fire pit was over flowing!  I hope there were no tenters still here overnight.  That would be totally miserable!  There were fire pits full of sand and dirt, limbs and branches down everywhere and I was told there was a roof leak in one of the cabins.  It was a rough night for sure!

Bill went for a bike ride and said there were limbs down on his ride and he also had to stop and wait for 13 wild turkeys to cross the road.  Too bad he didn’t have his phone with him to get a photo. 

It pretty much cleared off and we had a nice day, not so hot but no rain.  We left early afternoon and took the rest of the cans/bottles to Meijers and we left with $49.00.  That brings our total to $148.20 and we only have one week left. 

A child's buggy and pony at an
Amish home

Then we went for a ride to a town nearby that I saw has a bulk food store.  It was a nice ride through small rural areas and ended up the store is owned/run by Amish and there were signs along the roads to be watchful of buggies.  We saw a child’s buggy across from the store at an Amish home.  They had some nice fresh baked goods, a deli counter, frozen farm grown meats as well as all the regular bulk items we see at other stores.  I was hoping they carried the gingerbread mix I found in Shipshewana, but no, they did not.  We did get some yummy ginger molasses cookies and some Lebanon bologna that is hard to find.

We made a quick stop at the Wal-mart along the way home for a few items on my list and then came home and relaxed a while.  I had taken chicken out to thaw but hadn’t really decided what to do with it.  Sam’s now puts 3-4 breasts in one package and 3-4 of these are together when you buy them so we will be eating chicken more than once.  I ended up making a spaghetti squash and a spaghetti sauce with chicken in it over the squash.  Then I didn’t need to make a salad for our veggie.  We finished off our gingerbread and settled in to watch some TV and read.  By the time we were heading to bed the wind picked up and the RV was creaking and the awning went in so it looked like it might be another rough night!