The Stormy Days – Traveling with Rich & Julie
I am combining two days into one post, January 7 and 8. Why? Because it was windy and stormy both days. We stayed home for the most part.
Today is January 8th and we are under high wind warnings, storm warnings, and coastal flood warnings here in southern Alabama. I saw on the weather channel that tornadoes could be possible closer to Mississippi and Louisiana. But that isn’t very far away from where we are.
If you look closely in the photo above you can tell there are raindrops on the windows. It’s been windy and raining most of the day.
Rich went outside and put everything away. He put the awning in, the lawn chairs and tables away as well as anything else that could blow away or get damaged by the wind. We have noticed several of the other campers doing the same thing this morning.
On the radar channel, it looks like the worst of it might miss us thank goodness. My right knee continues to get worse, so the more I stay home and keep it elevated the better.
I crocheted some more on the alpaca scarf for my new friend. It is coming along quite nicely. This is called a v-stitch. It is simple and easy even for beginning crocheters.
I find a lot of free crochet patterns on Pinterest.
Rich and I were playing cards and he said he needed to run to the gas station for a pack of cigarettes. I told him to bring me home something to drink. I didn’t specify.
He came home with something new. A 24 oz. can of Simply Spiked Peach. It is 5% alcohol, kind of like a beer. I’ve never had it before but he knows I liked the Busch Lite Peach when we tried it. I love this. It tastes exactly like carbonated peach juice with a little kick.
I thought the neighbors from Canada had a funny-looking dog until I looked closer and discovered that it was a huge fluffy cat. I’m glad to see that they leash it when letting it out. They have it on a 30-foot leash so it has room to roam. Some campers don’t.
I remember when we camped in the state of Washington, and we heard a horrible catfight outside late at night. The next morning the neighbors told us they were outside and saw it. One cat almost killed the other one. We heard quite a few catfights in that campground.
I don’t feel it is right that they let their cats loose like that. Dogs can’t be let loose, and cats should not be allowed to be loose either.
Either the strong winds affected the wi-fi signal or everyone else stayed in and was overloading it because our television was iffy at best.
We dug out the DVDs and watched movies on the DVD player. We haven’t had to do that for a while. We have a nice DVD binder that we keep them in. We had a lot more DVDs than this, but we sold what didn’t fit. You can buy binders that hold up to 400. I wish I had done that when we moved into the RV. We sold and gave away some great movies.
As the daylight goes away and darkness sets in tonight I have received more warnings on my phone.
We are in the dark yellow high wind warning area only ten miles north of Gulf Shores. Orange Beach is only nine miles away.
The whole time we have been living in the RV and traveling around America, we have never encountered too severe of storms. We’ve been lucky so far.
The RV rocks when the wind is strong.
Hopefully, we survive the night. See you tomorrow.
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