Surprise Package

Friday June 22, 2012
Lithia Springs Park Site 25
Lithia, Florida

 

Another humid morning after another rainy night.

I get up this morning and slog through 4.5 miles at a snail’s pace.  Temperature 75, humidity 93%.  The most interesting thing about it is the two wild hogs that went running across the road in front of me nearly scaring me to death.  I had no idea there were wild boar here.  I’ll have to ask the rangers.  We’ve been here a LOT of days over the past 4 months and I’d never seen them before.  When I finally get back,  my clothes are sopping.  I can ring them out.   I begin my stretching exercises outside but it is so hot I come inside.  I never do this.   Oh my, it’s only June.  What will August be like??

 

 

David goes off to Brandon to get our Check Engine light turned off by replacing the faulty Oxygen Sensor heating element part of the Emissions control apparatus.  He has arranged all this with several phone calls and we think we are all set.  The part is in, he gets to the shop early.

I finish my exercise routine, shower and get some breakfast for myself. One of my goals today is to clean all the floors and carpets in the motor home. 

By the time I am nearly finished with the cleaning, he calls to say they couldn’t get the old part off without potentially breaking it and having to go to greater lengths to extract the broken piece embedded in the exhaust manifold.  This might mean the manifold too would have to be replaced.   The mechanic suggests we skip it as this part really isn’t necessary anyway.  Well then……….    Guess we need a second opinion on this operation from our back home mechanic via telephone.   Took the whole morning, the problem is not solved and more things are added to the list.  Drat!  

BUT, the silver lining is that they didn’t charge him anything for all their time and trouble.  Great guys at Precision Auto in Brandon.  This is the second time we’ve had work done there and been very satisfied. 

The only golden part of all this is that David was feeling well enough to do it!!

 

Oh dear, what can the park Ranger want??

Am I the only one who wonders what I did wrong when I see an official of some kind headed my way?  Or is it left over guilt from all those things I did do when I was younger and could.  :-)

 

 

Just after I hang up with David one of the park’s little gas powered carts comes down the drive and a guy hops out with a package in his hand.  They had told us early on that they didn’t accept packages for campers so I have never had anything sent here.  I have no idea what it is he was bringing to the door.  When I go out, he explains that someone called yesterday and asked that if she sent a package to Sherry and David in Site 25 would it get to them.  He’d promised it would and here it was.   What in the world could it be and from whom I wonder.

 

 

I thank him, take the box inside and open it up to find a brand new copy of The Most Scenic Drives in America.   I have no idea who sent it but the fact that whoever it was did not know that our last name was Boyd makes me think it must have been one of this blog’s wonderful followers.   I hope whoever was so generous will fess up so that we can thank them for such a nice book to dream with.   It really was a WONDERFUL surprise.   Like a Christmas present you didn’t know was coming.  Definitely makes my morning.

 

In the afternoon, the sun lures me outside.

 

 

The sun is shining.  I want to be outside.  I take the camera to see what’s new in our front yard.  I stay out as long as the “88 feels like 98” degree temperature and the mosquitoes will allow which unfortunately isn’t very long.  It’s amazing how full of water the air is.  I do see quite a few mushrooms shooting up all over with all this rain.  I notice the moss seems to be creeping over everything it can.  I wonder if over the next 10 days of rain it will cover Winnona as well.

 

 

 

I send out an Update on David to his family via email.  Not sure how many do or do not read the blog.  There is only one who comments fairly frequently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We spend the rest of the afternoon lazily doing a lot of nothing.  I read a Margaret Truman Mystery.  He reads the Myeloma Listserve.  The rains start again pretty seriously after dinner around  6:00 and are still coming on strong at bedtime.   We’ve finished Stem Cell Transplants from the Patient’s Perspective and return to reading aloud the last couple hundred pages of Shadow Country.

 

It is a slow, wet, humid day and a rainy evening. 

Great for mushrooms and moss.  We didn’t do much and David is disappointed he didn’t get that light checked off his list.   But he’s feeling pretty good, not too tired and we had a wonderful surprise.
All in all, I’ll take it! 

Many thanks again to our secret benefactor.  
Now who could it be????