The 2006 Travels of Richard n Shirley

I got up friday morning about 4 am with a sinus headache. I got some relief with a couple of Tylenol and some allergy tabs. Felt better buy not to chipper. Shirley got up about 8 am and left by 9 am for the pharmacy to get her refill and get a few items. She got back about an hour and half later. We are south of town 10 miles and it is a good 5 miles to the store. It does take awhile.

The rain started here about 2 pm. We had a dinner date with the Deen's and two other couples. We went to the Indian Head Lodge out Peidra road south of town. Its a ways out there. On the way out and back DW and I took these pics of the screnry. I recommend the lodge for dinner. Dinner is only served on friday and saturday from 6-8 pm. Reservations are recommended as the setting is limited. Cost is $13.95 for non working class over 62+ and $15.95 for the working class 61-. Its a serve yourself and all you can eat BBQ with.... It is in the phone book. Ask about the bears and snow fall.

Simply georgous country. The above home is earthen. This is one side, the other sides are covered in earth. It is unfinished concrete and not at all attractive.

What you are seeing is a forest fire, NOT! It looks like smoke but it is actually clouds formed by ground moisture meeting the air above. We had little shower on the way to the lodge. The minivan we rode in is silver but had a lot of tan mud. On the way back we started getting rain. As we got close to town and it was light rain till we gat back to the house.

And it rained all night and is still raining. We get periods of no rain to heavy showers. From the weatherbug, we appear to be in the flashflood area. There is a river that runs thru part of the park. It was up yesterday and should be up more today. Yesterday it looked like it was up a foot. Will take another pic today and compare pics. Our rv friends, Wendle and Sue Deen, are parked by the river. They said that last year in June they had to move because of rising water.

We are up by the hill and away from the water. Which is good. But the exit bridge is over the river. The water would have to rise 5-6 feet to block the exit and another 5-6 feet to get to our space. That is alot of rain and there is other runoff creeks to keep us dry. If it appears to becoming a problem, we will be out of here.

Lets see if the weather will allow us to do some more sightseeing today. We have been here 15 days and have made one trip to town, ate breakfast at two places (don't eat at the motel) and been out for lunch and dinner once. If we can stay healthy, we will get out more. DW said she wants to eat at every place in town. Can I get a loan somebody?

Temp: 58 and cloudy
Forecast: Rain and more coming. If it keeps this up we will all turn green.

And its still raining. We should be above 1 1/2" by now. Temp is 60 after reaching 70. Its soggy and nice.