I would say that, for us Washingtonians, temperatures in the mid-sixties is just plain wonderful, and we’d delight in days like that, but, on Monday (Oct.26... That was yesterday, folks…), 64° F was right down cold and miserable!
The cause?
Well, we dropped 20 degrees from Sunday, and to make matters worse, it rained all day long…
It was one of those days when sky and horizon melt into one…
You know what I mean…
Gray and gloomy…
The rain pelted down so hard at times, that neither sky nor ground could be seen…
Good day to stay in and take it easy…
That’s what we did…
Read a lot… Snoozed… Called our loved ones… Complained about the weather… Read some more…
Didn’t feel like posting any new comments on the Blog… (Sorry, Gede…)
And didn’t get “cabin” fever until about 4:00...
We had reservations at the Hillside Restaurant (just up the road from us) for 6:30, but decided to risk the elements and venture out for a bit prior to that…
One of the reasons for this craziness (besides “cabin” fever), was that I happened to look at the pictures on Sunday evening, and to my surprise, I found a surprise…
Look at the next to the last picture…
See those clumps down at the bottom?
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I must’ve thought they were rocks when I was uploading, but those rocks are actually turtles!
Seven of’em! Goodness gracious… How could I have missed something like that?
Well, that gave us an excellent excuse to risk the wrath of the weather gods…
Just had to find out about this little conundrum, you see…
Drove around the lake at least a couple of times, but couldn’t find, see, or hear anything resembling a turtle… (Can you hear these creatures?)
However, we did find out that there are turtles in the lake, so, at least, we were not hallucinating…
After this unsuccessful outing, we splashed our way over to the Hillside Restaurant, where both Luanne and I ordered the Prime Rib dinner… Fabulous! (Also… My wallet was very happy that it only cost a buck per ounce, which is something of a rarity these days).
We had just over 120 miles to drive today (Oct. 27), so we pulled out from Myrtle Beach around 10:00...
No rain, but, like yesterday, there was no discernable break between heaven and earth at the horizon…
Matter of fact it got darker the further South we drove, and I just knew I was going to be drenched when I was setting the trailer up, but, no… No rain…
Got the truck unhooked, the “umbilical chords” fastened, and the trailer leveled, and my first wife tells me that she cannot receive Satellite TV…
There are two trees in this whole area, and I (without thinking about it) managed to plant us right between them…
Oh, yeah… I’m good!
You know the rule, right? “If wife not happy, no-one happy!”
I re-hooked… Un-fastened… Un-this and un-that…
Then moved the whole shebang to a clear-shot-at-the-sky-spot…
Happy wife, happy everybody!
Just as I crawled (totally exhausted, mind you) into the trailer, the rain came…
Am I lucky, or what?
I sprawled out for a while, then decided, since we only have 2 nights here, to take a quick trip into Charleston-town…
Stopped at a Walmart on the way, and from there got totally lost, taking a 20-some mile tour through the countryside, all the while having the windshield wipers do the Charleston (Oh… That’s good! I must be on a roll)…
It was coming down so hard, it was almost impossible to see more than a few feet at times…
Something Wife #1 didn‘t appreciate… Poor thing…
We finally got ourselves down to Meeting Street; found a parking space, and, just as the Heavens opened up the flood gates, we sprinted across the street into an open store front…
We got a bit wet, but nothing serious…
Lu spotted a restaurant across the street (where we came from, of course), and as soon as the rain abated, we made dash for it…
Of course, I dashed the wrong way (thinking, for some reason, that the door into the place was there), and by the time we turned around, another million gallons of “Angel Bathwater” poured down upon us… We got a bit wetter…
I do believe my Better Half was slightly put out by my side trip, but she calmed down after I bought us some fluids and some very yummy hors d’oeuvres…
Here’s how bad it rained: We tried to walk around after eating, but couldn’t get more than half a block from our truck, because the roads were flooded… Decided to head home, and try again tomorrow.
So there you have it….
Another tale completed from some wet gypsies…
Take care, and keep an eye out for updates…
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