Down Day at Brushy Lake

Friday May 13, 2011

Brushy Lake State Park site L-1

Sallisaw, Oklahoma

I got up and went running around the small campground

and then UP the public road leading into it.

UP hill all one way and down hill all the other.

When I put on my Garmin running watch,

it informed me that the battery was low. 

I thought I had just charged it

but apparently not. 

They caution you not to charge it too often

so I have tried to be cautious,

apparently to a fault.

 

The watch worked fine running UP the first time

but then it quit. 

So I did the entire up and down twice

and think that was about 4.5 miles.

David was taking apart his laptop again

in order to set it up in front of the electric heater

to speed the drying.

Yesterday he had taken it apart and used canned air

to try to blow out all the water.

He started it and restarted it a few times

which, after we googled laptop in water,

may not have been a good idea.

He went out to run some time after I did and

we passed on the way.

When we were both back, we made chocolate chip pancakes

to make ourselves feel better after

finding out that his laptop may well not be salvageable

AND

that my car has hail damage on the hood, top and trunk.

The kayaks on top of the car

kept that area from as much damage

as the other two but we will now have to find

the time and place to get this damage repaired.

I did the dishes, some more blog catch up and

bemoaned my fate over being one of

the blogger users who lost a huge post

to a blogger maintenance “error”.

They say these lost posts will be returned.

I sure hope so since it was on Hot Springs National Park

and one of the most difficult posts I’ve ever done

with a lot of pictures.

 

Uploading and adding them in blogger

is ridiculously cumbersome and takes FORever.

David continued to work on trying to get his laptop back.

Finally he determined he was just going to have to wait 3 or 4 days

to see how well it would dry out.

He then moved on to another Down Day List item,

replacing the broken strings in one of our day/night shades.

 

This too proved to be ridiculously difficult

since the “kit” doesn’t come with any instructions. 

Only a DVD, with no sound or search capabilities,

that covers every single possible way

in which this kit could be used in

several dozen situations.

Finding ours took forever.

Doing this task required

infrequently used skills

like sewing.

 

I decided that based on the tenor

of the mumbling and grumbling,

this would be a good time to go back into town

and do the laundry.

They seem to have lost their name

which at one time must have been

Speed Wash.

$1.25 to wash and 25 cents for 15 minutes to dry

was a decent price and 2 hours later

after looking through magazines

I never have around,

People, Oprah, Fitness,

I was on my way back.

David had taken a break in the shades job and

made flounder with garlic and onions,

broccoli and baked potatoes for dinner.

YUM!

He worked on the shade

for the remainder of the evening.

I helped him toward the end

with the stringing and hanging.

So it is hung and nearly finished at this point.

Wish we could say his laptop was working.

But it got moved off of the table in favor of the shades.

And will have to be packed up in pieces for tomorrow.

We plan to be up and trying to break

“our get out early record”

of 8:57 AM tomorrow on our way

to Red Rock Canyon State Park

in Hinton Oklahoma.

We’ll know more about how long we’ll stay when we get there!

J