Sunday, 30 and Monday, 31 October 2022
I spent all day Sunday finishing and posting the blog entries I'd drafted, from the 15th through the 21st. Monday I wrote and posted 2 more, so I'm able to finish the state only a week behind, much better than the last few states, though still not good.
Also on Monday I did the usual chores: changed the sheets, did laundry, cleaned the windows, planned my driving route to Iowa - like that. None of it particularly onerous (though doing the laundry always seems to take a lot out of me - hauling it to the laundry facilities isn't like having a machine in your own house) but it all took time.
Monday was Halloween which I celebrated in my usual way: pizza and Soapdish. Yes it's completely dumb, but it's totally entertaining. I didn't realize until much later that I hadn't seen a single kid dressed up in costume. And then I remembered that this same KOA was advertising an early Halloween celebration for the weekend after I was here before. The whole campground was decked out in Halloween decorations, all of which were gone by the time I got back here. Glad I missed it. I enjoyed having the kids come by when I lived in a house, but I'm not comfortable with it when I'm in a camper. Not sure what the difference is, but it feels different.
The first night here they'd put me in what seemed to be a nice spot, but it turned out to have a definite slope to it and I barely got any sleep. I noticed that half the campsites were empty when I got up in the morning and asked to be moved to one of those. But the manager said they'd cut off power to a whole row of sites and cut the water to a second row. But I pointed out I didn't have the water attached at my current site and the non-water ones looked much more level, so she moved me. Really nice of her, actually, and she gave me a partial refund because I wasn't getting full hookups any more.
It's only been 3 weeks since I was here last, so it seems odd how different things are - no Halloween, no crowded campground. We couldn't even find anybody to come play with Dext in the dog park. A couple of dogs passed by but their owners said they didn't like other dogs much, which was too bad.
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