This morning we walked up to the entrance to the campground. It was a real workout for our calves, as promised by the Shape-Ups advertising. We watched the instructional DVD today. After a few days wearing our Shape-Ups, we'll probably be suitable cover art for Self Magazine, if you believe the ads!
From the top of the hill, you can see our Excel (on the left) with the lake in the background.
We walked by the site of the new camp hosts who came on duty today, just to be sure they got the note that we need a place to stay over the weekend; all of the reserveable electric sites were already reserved for the weekend when we decided that we'd like to stay the whole allowable two weeks. We're hoping to get into one of the walk-up sites when it comes empty. We notice that more people are showing up in camp already, after the lull Sunday evening.
Most of the day was overcast, with forecasts of storms, but we ended up with only a few sprinkles. We drove to the Visitor Center again, just in time to find it closing for the day, so we'll have to go back tomorrow. We did drive down an extremely steep series of switchbacks past the power plant, to check out some boondocking sites listed in Days End as needing an update. We figure you'd have to have great mountain driving skills to take any size rig down there! Then you'd have to be brave enough to camp by the Rio Chama, near signs warning that the water level is unpredictable and that the water can be turbulent. No thanks.
The sun came out in time for us to eat our burgers at the picnic table, watching the sun go down over the lake and enjoying the hummingbirds. The folks at the next campsite have a feeder out. The little critters are very quarrelsome. It sounds like they're saying "My flower! No, my flower!"
Today I had the frustrating experience of finding that very few doctors are willing to take new Medicare patients. I started out by calling Ed's doctor, only to find that "Dr. Arthur isn't accepting new Medicare patients." I heard the same refrain again and again. Finally one practice said that some of their doctors were accepting new Medicare patients, but it turned out that they would not do the Medicare Welcome Physical, which is what we need. I finally found a doctor in Flower Mound willing to see us. What a lesson. If we had known about this problem, we would have started a relationhip with a Dallas area doctor last year....
At least we still have private dental insurance, so we were able to make an appointment with a dentist, but not until November, three months late for our six month cleanings....
We played some Boggle tonight, with Ken taking two out of three rounds. We haven't played for a while. We'll have to have a re-match soon.
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