Trip Day 10  Monday May 3, 2021 Woodbine ,MD

Rather threatening weather today with some rain drops this morning, but nothing but threats all day long. Overcast.

As the morning was Bible Study at 10:30 that took care of the morning activities  and I always look forward to that .  Later in the day we will try to get in sone laundry and a trip to the store for  a few items. 

 

 

 

 

 

A Red Tailed Hawk at the rehab center In the Nature Center.

After the Bible study had started about 20 minutes, I received a long awaited phone call from ”Bill” a mechanic who was going to look at by brake hookup for the trailer as it was not functioning properly.  I turned the Bible study over to Carol, bless her, and stayed with Bill until he finished. Bill stayed with the problem until he believed all the wires were working on three of the brakes but one. Without taking the trailer into the shop. (Hard to do until you are ready to leave) he could not do a more thorough check  to see if that ‘blue’ wire for the brakes would function properly. We set up a plan to try them on the road and if they didn’t work to contact him and see if we could get it to either his shop or another to repair. We believe the brake is working as all indictors read positive.  He was a thorough worker and did not want to charge the second hour (he was here for 2 hours) on the bill. We will get the “acid test” on the road on Saturday when we take a short trip to Fredericksburg and camp at a KOA near there.

Meanwhile Carol had long signed off and we were an hour past lunch time.

That meant an attempt to wash some laundry  possible here at the three washer campground facility. We got all ready and drove to the laundry. Voila! There were three empty washers. So we lucked out .  (God is good) While waiting for the washing wheels to finish their turning, we read books, had a “Dove” chocolate ice cream bar, and folded the dried laundry. It was a quiet time, I am reading  “The Servant of the Lord and the Servant People”.(Tracing a Biblical theme through the canon.)

 

 

One of the largest barns we saw in Carrol County MD.

 A pond in the Nature center.

 During that time we met the resident maintenance lady who cleans the laundry room and is in charge of all the beautiful flower beds in the campground. They are beautiful and well maintained. Turns out she was a “Military  Brat”, and is a member of a total military family. Mother ,Dad, Husband, and numerous other family members. (We noticed many military haircuts in the Park.) Her husband works at the Pentagon and is home she said only about 5 nights a month.  Talkative lady! She had son at age 47, and coincidentally she was born when her mother was 47!!! She was 58 years of age.

The groceries were next  and we took the short 6 mile  drive into Woodbine and the Food Lion again.  A very well kept store, neat and efficient as was the help. Ruth could not find a good cheese for toasted cheese sandwiches so had to settle for ‘semi soft part skim cheese’ …What on earth is that?

That was it for the day and I settled for a supper of leftovers ,which always helps to trim down the space in the “fridge”. The bird count was down to a dozen today ,and if it weren’t for the squirrels and a few birds at the feeders it would have been a “oh hum” day. at the trailer.
The squirrels forced me to move and adjust the bird feeders as they could get to the feeder from the tree. (jumping) .Moving the feeder enough so it was a distance from the nearest tree, they are stymied for now at least.

 

We did have some Goldfinches at the feeder.

                                  A Kestrel we saw yesterday was on a wire.

 

The campground is much quieter today as the ‘weekenders’ have left and there are a number of vacant spots back here in the back of the Park.

Tomorrow Ruth has an appointment to remove a ‘stuck’ eyelash  in Mt .Airy, and then we will hit a few birding spots not too far away, on the way home.

See you then.—Jim