Made it to Poche’s

Sunday
Sherri and I packed up the motorhome and pulled out of the barn about 12:00 noon. When you are at your home base for more than one week you accumulate a lot of S T U F F. You know you find something in the house that you forgot you had and you bring it into the motorhome and all of a sudden you have a ton of things that you really don’t need when you are traveling.
Well it took us some time to pull out all those extras and put them away in the house. Then we had to vacuum up all the grit and grime we had deposited on the floor. I did the vacuuming…with Sherri’s instructions…and she did the mopping. We had the MH looking real good inside before we pulled out.
From the lake we headed to the State Park down the street. It is real nice having a State Park 2 miles from us. We camp there some when we are returning from a road trip and then we stay there some before we are leaving. We use the dump there which cost so usually we incorporate a stay to make it worth our while. Today we just used the dump and gave the old black tank a real good cleansing. We had gone 3 weeks on the black tank this time and I was surprised that we could go that long! I think about things like that when we are planning on staying at a park that has no sewer. I have the gray boy for the gray water but the black is something you have to handle at the dump site. So 3 weeks is not bad…and too we had Kris’ birthday party and all those folks over for one weekend.
OK nuff said about our black tank…HE HE. I know you don’t want to hear about that. We got er done and moved out of the State Park about 1:00. Now we have a 5 hour drive ahead of us so we were looking to arrive at the RV park around 6:00. As  things would have it we stopped and refueled at the Flying J in Greenwood  and then ate a bite of lunch…which cost us about an hour so our arrival time was 7:00. Sherri called the park to see what time the office closed and luckily they did not close until 8:00.
We pulled in at 7:00 and the lady met us at the office. She was in a hurry to get us a site and parked so she could close the office and go home. I really don’t blame her…so we found us a site we liked and got settled in.

We fixed some BBQ for our dinner and then settled back to watch some TV. We wanted to watch the Country Music Awards but we don’t get the East or West coast feeds so we tried the local stations…which we found out we don’t get those either. We are in the boonies I guess. We watched what we get on satellite and were happy to get that.
Soon it was bed time and we turned in to get a good night sleep. Tomorrow will come soon enough…
Somewhere in Time

Thunderstorms sweep across the park

Monday
The prison break alarm went off this morning and sent me grabbing the sheet and blanket to pull them over my head. I am not too crazy about that choice of alarms but it does get you up and going when it goes off. Sherri and I both made it down to the living room and poured us a cup of coffee. We sat and looked out the windows toward the pond at the back of the MH but it was still dark outside. Not much to see but we knew that we had a great view. We had stayed here last year after reading Fred and Jo Wishnie’s post about this park. They were on their way somewhere and pulled in here for a while.

The park is built around ponds that at one time might have been used for raising catfish? Not sure what but there are 4 ponds of good size with the camp ground backing up to 2 of the ponds. We chose site number 8 which is located on the main road into the campground. They have WIFI here but it is off of a DSL line located at the office so you have to be close to the office to get a signal. We were not close enough so I will have to walk down to the screened in pavilion to upload this post to the Internet.
After Sherri left for work I got the ladder out of the bay and set it up at the front of the MH. I took the table out and set the grill up on it. One thing about these sites they don’t have tables here.
I had bought some new glass cleaner some time back and wanted to give it a try on the front windshield. It is made by Rain-X. I got a cloth first and while the glass was wet from the morning dew I cleaned off all the bugs. Then I applied the cleaner on all the glass surface…being careful not to get it on the painted areas. When all was finished it looked real good.
I put up my ladder and returned inside for a while to rest. Then I decided to take me a stroll around the ponds to see what there was to see. I first walked down to the office end and checked out the pavilion to see how it was set up. Then I turned and headed out the other direction. Just past the MH not too far I noticed that the wind was picking up. I looked back over my shoulder and I could see a black cloud looming on the horizon. That did not look too good. I thought I had better go inside and check out the weather channel. Sure nuff we were under a thunderstorm warning. The storm was coming up from the Gulf and it looked like it was going to be a bad one. Well that is my luck…sitting out here with no where to hide and a storm is on the way.
The storm did come and with it was a lot of rain and wind. No hail…thank heavens. It lasted for about 2 hours with good wind gust that blew my grill off the table and sent me outside to chase it down. I stowed it back in the bay and got the table folded up and safely put away. Back inside I had to dry off and then spent the rest of the time watching the weather channel.
About 3:00 it started to calm but the sun never did show up. I was glad to have the things cleaned up outside before it started raining and blowing. I left the grill in the bay and when Sherri called about dinner I told her that it would be OK to go to Prajean’s to eat. I really did not want to pull all that out again.

Sherri came and picked me up and we drove back toward the Interstate to Prajean’s. We ordered the chicken and sausage gumbo…which by the way was exhalant as usual. Our bill came to much more than we wanted but then this will be the only time we eat out. We like to save our money for fun things rather than eating out. I have noticed that so many of the people I follow on their journals eat out so much! My budget is not set up for that. We spend more time eating at home and spending our extra money on seeing the sites.
Well back to the MH we headed. It had been a good day and it was time to get comfortable. We watched a little TV and then I noticed Sherri had fallen asleep on the sofa. She had a hard day so I sent her to bed and I followed not too far behind…
Somewhere in Time