At dusk last night we saw an interesting truck and trailer arriving, brightly colored and clearly both vintage. Today on our ride around the campground, we stopped to ask permission to take photos, and the couple greeted us warmly and gave us a tour of the trailer, which they had found sitting in a field and sadly deteriorated. They are justifiably proud of the great job they've done restoring it. They live nearby, in Marshall, TX, and said they come to Brushy Creek as often as they can.
Before we set out on our bike ride, we had fix a flat on my bike. It was the first flat we've had since we got our Electras three years ago. My tires have a kevlar liner, and Ken's came with an embedded kevlar strip. We had nearly forgotten how to fix a flat--which is really a good thing, except that it took us an hour to get the bike rolling again. Today we managed a 40 minute ride without too much pain.
The campground is nearly full. There are kids riding bikes, kids playing on the playground, kids swimming, boats being towed to the water, and lots of traffic. Way more people and activity than earlier in the week. We suspect that on Monday it will all settle down again.
Our big task for the day was hitching up and driving over to the dump station to dump our tanks. Ten days is a bit more than we're comfortable staying without draining the tanks, unless we're spending most of our time out visiting the kids.
Our network has been painfully slow today. I’ve tried a few times to play NPR so we could hear the Saturday shows. Now and then we managed to listen for a few minutes before the player quit again.
Tonight we walked around the campground, curious to see our neighbors. We are more often in RV parks, so the number of tents and small trailers here is quite unusual in our experience.
We had leftover mushroom stroganoff on quinoa and yellow squash sautéed with onions for supper—quick and easy. Then we watched an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs. We have one more saved that we'll watch tomorrow.
We played three rounds of Rummikub. It's hard to judge when to hold 'em and when to lay 'em down! I caught Ken twice with a bundle. He caught me with 20 points. Since we're playing by the round, the points really don't count. However, if they don't count psychologically, then the best strategy is probably always to hold all your tiles after you open until you can lay them all down. We'll probably have to start keeping track of points.....
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