Thursday, September 29, 2011

Quiet Day at Defeated Creek

We got up this morning rather expecting to be at least a bit sore from our hiking experiences yesterday. We both felt a bit stiff, but not for long. I had a lump and bruise on my hip last night, and this morning the lump had gone down.

We heard news about the listeria outbreak and decided to do some research online. One of the things I found is that some groups are more susceptible to listeria and to food borne illnesses in general. One such group is "the elderly." But how old do you have to be to fit in this group? The best answer I could find online is 65 and up. Oh, no! We can't be "elderly," can we?

We got the bikes down and tooled around the campground a bit and went over to the marina and to the day use area. The deer seem less disturbed by our presence when we're on our bikes than when we're walking. They're everywhere, along with the squirrels. We've seen some squirrels carrying what we think is nesting material, so they're probably making more baby squirrels.

Tonight on our walk we spotted this nifty tear drop unit. For some reason, I find tear drops and other very small camping units irresistible.


Tonight we again ate at our picnic table and had a campfire. We're turning into regular campers! Unfortunately, we didn't have any marshmallows, so we had to make do with looking at the flames and hot coals, something that humans must have been doing for millenia now.

We did another couple of loads of laundry today, but it took much longer. One of the two washing machines was out of order.

The TIVO still hadn't connected successfully, reporting an SO3 error, but tonight it finally succeeded. Yay!!!

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