It's been a couple of quiet days.  Sun has been intermittent and we've needed sweatshirts or sweaters, but that's ok.  We haven't been out of the park - just enjoying the warmish weather.  Roger got another puzzle out and set it up outside.  I worked all day yesterday trying to get the rug started.  I must have tried six times before I finally got going on one.  So many different patterns out there for a hexagonal rug - so many difficult patterns.  I finally found a simple one and am able to listen to a book as I work - it's that simple.  It just might work and look OK.  

We paid our rent for February yesterday and cancelled our reservations for March.  We will be leaving here on the March 4th and heading for Arizona.  I still haven't done the reservation thing except for two days in Yuma as I'm hoping against hope we can get into the base in Tucson - it is first come, first served, but March may still be quite busy with snowbirds.  We will find someplace, no doubt.  Not being tied down to a one month lease, we just may be home late March instead of early April.  It will depend on what we find in the way of parks to stay in.  We want to leave the RV in Arizona and pick it up on the way to Pensacola in May so we have to decide where that will be and which route we will take east. 

Rog washed the truck yesterday - now they are predicting it to rain on Monday and Tuesday.  Figures, huh?  Truck looks nice, though, for a while, anyway.

I know I'm getting old and cranky, but is it absolutely necessary for kids under 10 to scream all day long while they are playing? My neck muscles tonight are so tight from 8 hours of screaming kids.  We live near three RVs who have kids and are full time in the park.  During the week it isn't so bad - they are in school - at least most of them.  Come Saturday and Sunday they are wild.  Of course, they are joined by weekenders who have small children.  They all get together - and scream.  

The park is packed again this weekend.  I don't think that there is ever an empty space on the weekend here.  There are 355 sites.   I don't usually walk Maggie on Saturday because of traffic, kids, dogs.  I did this morning as my Michigan friend wanted to walk.  Maggie had a set to with a bull dog, got chased by kids who wanted to pet her, and we had to dodge vehicles everywhere.  We did get our two mile walk, though.

We had a closer encounter with a coyote on our walk this morning.  I didn't see it, but my friend did and yelled at me to stop.  It was close enough that Maggie barked at it.  I don't think she really knew what she was barking at, but she felt it necessary.  It just loped on by, down the path, under the fence and out into the neighborhood bordering the park.  Yesterday a woman I see often with her two dogs told me that she lives in the neighborhood and has been walking her dogs for years around the park.  She warned me she had seen two on the western side of the lake.  She also told me that this is the first year she has encountered so many of them.  The clearing of the western area just outside of Santee Lakes for houses (about 400) certainly has pushed the coyotes out of their habitat. Other people have reported seeing more rattlesnakes, but, fortunately, I've not encountered them.  

Maggie has a new friend.  I've met a woman out walking every morning for the last few days.  She always stops to talk to Maggie.  She is from Castle Rock, Colorado.  She and her husband recently lost their Bassett Hound and she is having some issues dealing with the loss. She says that one minute she doesn't want another dog because she doesn't want to go through a loss again, but then again, "my house and RV are not homes without a dog." She and her husband have been trying to adopt a couple of Yorkies that were recently found in a house that had over 100 of them.  She said that there are 1500 applications for the 100 dogs.  Today she was going to the local shelter.  I hope she finds something.  I did warn her that we tried to adopt a dog from here but we were turned down because we were in an RV and were from out of state.  I hope she has better luck, although, it turned out the best for us, because we found Maggie when we got home!  This morning she gave Maggie a little stuffed bone with a squeaker in it.  Maggie carried it home with her ears and tail up and just pranced all the way.  She is sleeping with it right now in her day bed.  

Saturday night - laundry night again.  I'm writing this while I wait for the washers to finish.  We weren't alone tonight as we have been the last few Saturdays, but there were washers available.