Our Location today is Sugar Loaf Key, Florida, USA.
It was close to 8:00 by the time we woke up this morning and
we didn’t dally long at making ourselves presentable. The reason was that after
experiencing electrical power problems at our pedestal I wanted to be certain
something would be done to correct the problem. We had our breakfast and tidied
the trailer before sitting to read at the computer.
We were still connected this morning to the power pedestal on
the adjoining site with the knowledge that it was scheduled to be occupied
starting tomorrow. The morning was
passing us by so at 11:00 I walked to the office to find out what was going on.
Sandy the same woman that wrote up the report yesterday for Kathy and I was
again on duty. When I expressed my concern she immediately called the gentleman
in charge of maintenance who was on his lunch. He said that he’d already
checked our post and found nothing wrong with it but agreed to speak to me if I
wanted after he finished his lunch.
I returned to the trailer to let Kathy know what was
transpiring but before we could sit down to have our lunch guess who was
knocking at the door. He explained our post was the last on that circuit and
when he used the meter the power had good readings. However when we reconnected
our trailer to the post and turned the power on there was a loud pop from
inside the pedestal and our trailer was without power again. He opened the box
to confirm that the breaker and plug were new but he also found one of the
connections to be loose. No matter what he did our trailer could not get power
from that pedestal even with good readings on his meter but it worked just fine
on the post next door.
We spent the rest of the afternoon taking care of
documenting and research on the computers. When that was completed I returned
to the office to be certain we’d be able to continue using the power pedestal on
the site next to us. Fortunately Sandy the woman who had been kind enough to
take care of the situation had blocked the use of that site until the day of
our departure. This meant we didn’t have to worry about coming home to find we
had no power coming in to our trailer.
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| Parked by the pool at the KOA. |
Last Thursday when we’d gone to Key West so I could donate
blood they had given us a weekend schedule of where I could find the Big Red
Bus because they no longer took donations at the office. So with that
information we’d traveled to Big Pine Key where I made my donation later that day.
When I came out of the office today what did I see parked by the pool? The Big
Red Bus! Today’s stop was not even on the list I was given last week and it
didn’t even appear online. I stopped in to say hello to the same staff that was
on the bus last Thursday.
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| The wind picked up and the clouds started to fill the sky. |
I fired up the Weber to grill some Johnsonville Brats for
supper while Kathy got things ready inside. Within minutes of starting the Weber
the sky started to cloud and the wind really picked up making us think that we
were in for a serious storm. We enjoyed our meal and have everything closed up
outside but so far no storm.
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| This what the sky looked like at 4:30. |
We might be getting to bed early tonight so we can get an
early start to tomorrow’s planned adventures. Thanks for following along and
feel free to leave a comment. Be Safe and Enjoy!
It’s about time.
Krackers
You
Might Be a Redneck If
Most
of your prayers involve the outcome of a sporting event.
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