Awake: 5:21am Temp 45 sleep 6+10 overnight @ Livingston, Texas.
We return Corinne’s call from yesterday & share the talk time. She sounds
great!
Nick calls from Seattle: we share talk time with him also. Little Jerry
can be heard babbling in the background; maybe he’s trying to say: “Hi,
‘Geeeeee’ Daddy.”
Later I call my cousin Cy in Beltsville, Maryland; I haven’t talked with
him since September 4th when we toured Gary & Grace around Kirschtown. Cy
is planning on a 2008 time frame for selling his house & moving back to
PA.
Diane returns Kathy’s call of last Sunday; they kibitz for over an hr. The
big news is: Diane & her husband are buying a house in Leisure World, a
gated community in Phoenix, with a lot of activities in which they can
participate. Their present home is about 40 min away & may be rented out
according to Kathy. Other big news: their son Billy is engaged to marry
Fay in Sept., 2007.
Now it’s time for us to take a walk; but 1st we drive about 8 miles to the
Pedigo Park in west Livingston where we attend the monthly “Trade Days.”
This was similar to another flea market we visited in Tyler but on a
slightly higher scale. We saw no rusty or dirty items for sale & very
little merchandise from China. The local artists did display some rather
interesting & unique things but nothing we couldn’t do without. Our walk
time was good. En route back to our bus, we pick up some needed grocery
items from Wal-Mart.
Katrina calls while driving back from her Masters Class in Denver….. & of
course, she’s wearing her headset. We have a good time talking; catching
up on her recent activities, her next summer travel plans; etc, etc. She
is amazing: she will be driving her car, stopping @ a grocery store,
arriving @ her rental house, unpacking those groceries & then start
cooking & we have no idea that she has even arrived back @ her house.
5:30 dinner: Pork tenderloin with sweet potatoes & a spinach salad.
@ 6:05, we walk up to the Escapees’ activities center where the members
are having an Ice Cream Social. This is a Sunday tradition for Escapees’.
@ these social gatherings, any new visitors are called to gather up front
& give a short introduction of themselves: names, how long RVing, where
they are from, where they are going, what brought them here, etc. K & I
were going to skip this formality until our table people hinted that the
persons who go up & introduce themselves always get served ice cream 1st.
That did it! So after the introductions of some 6 couples, we were ready
for ice cream. Would you believe: on the spot, they decided to change the
way of serving the ice cream, calling out by flavors. Those who ordered
butter pecan were first than “Bunny Tracks,” than cherry vanilla etc.
Kathy was nearly finished eating her big glob of “Bunny Tracks” by the
time I was served “Chocolate.” While we eat, we listen to any new
developments of the Escapees campground; anyone that needs prayers for a
spouse; etc. It was a very personable gathering.
High temp=68 Lights out: 10:42pm
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