Today is Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011

After lots of talking and wawtching the news, we decided to stay put today.  The weather that's coming in is not to our advantage, but this Coffee Creek RV Park in Santo, TX is a really nice campground with friendly, helpful people.  We have been most fortunate in the campgrounds we have visited, but I suppose I have a special place in my heart for this one. They have several huge, tiled, WARM bathrooms with showers I am able to use.  It's the first one we've seen that we can "cuss a cat" in.  Not that we need to cuss a cat!  I'll bet the bathroom isn't much smaller than our entire mobile house.   The particular one we used also had a laundry and we have all clean clothes and everything.

The sky today has exhibited a large array of black clouds varying in intensity and ability to drop massive amounts of rain wherever we might want to go.  In fact, we had a shower on the way to having a shower, but the rains abated while we made our way back to the trailer, for which we gave thanks!

We managed to order Christmas presents this afternoon and have most everything ready except for wrapping.  That we'll do at Kath's.  Calvin is planning on calling us tomorrow.  He has an assignment to do a family tree and needs help from both grandma and granpa.  Hopefully we'll have the information he needs in our brains.

We have had some emails making suggestions to us about our blog, so this afternoon the "technical"one worked on setting perameters so that people who want to post a comment can, and maybe we can figure out how to see the comments.  Remember:  machines HATE me.  The "logical"one (uh...the one who types this blog) read on her Kindle.  I'm reading "Caravans" by Michner.  It's a fascinating book about Afghanistan after the Second World War and the insights and friendshipe of a young American attache with several Afghan and German people and their perceptions of life, not only there, but in our country as well.  It has given me a different view of life in Afghanistan and the mud complex where Bin Laden was.  The only thing I cannot find out (while reading on Kindle) is the copywrite date...remember:  machines hate me!

One of the things that concerned us the most in planning this trip was how to exercise Junnie.  He's only a little over one year and usually tears through our house at least once a day.  With the hardwood floors, it may take him several tries before he is able to get up enough traction to go flying forward and putting on brakes takes him skidding to walls, chairs, tables or whatever is in his way.  We have found a wonderful use for flies.  Junnie has chased, jumped, twisted, chirped frantically, lashed his tail, batted at and run all over the camper, getting lots of exercise.  When he catches his prey, he gets extra protein while cleaning up from his catch!   I shall have to think long and hard in the future to wonder why God chose to send so many flies into out world.  I know they do lots of good things for us, but they can be a pain, too.  Now, I wonder of what use is the mosquito?

Blessings,
Chillin' Trio Trekkers