Saturday - woke up to rain and thunder. It rained all morning so we had breakfast and did our inside chores. I thawed a pork loin and put it in our new crockpot. And, read a book! It's been a long time since I have done much of that. The rain continued, so we watched college football and relaxed. I pulled my sewing machine out again and did a little mending too. I'm glad I brought it along for now, it has come in real handy.
The sun finally came out at supper time. We had our hot, home cooked meal and then went for a short walk before dark.
We have had lazy, rainy days some weekends when we were camping, but now we always seem to have a project to work on. Funny how that is, just like having a bricks and sticks place. I am thankful more and more that we have our washer/dryer. It is so much easier to throw in a load every day, even though they are small loads, than to go to the laundry room at the campgrounds or a laundromat (they called them wash-a-terias in Texas) We also don't really have a place to accumulate a lot of laundry in our home.
Sunday - went to 10:00 Mass today. Then came home to change and drove out to explore more towns around us. First we drove by Altamont, where we knew there was a county campground with a lake. We found it about 4 miles south of town, the interior roads were pretty muddy from the rain. There were quite a few campers out there. We had read about previous Amazon Camperforce people staying there, it was about a 30 mile drive for them to come to work.
Then we headed west to Independence, KS. Stopped at a Walgreens (there is not one in Coffeyville) and then picked up what we needed at the Walmart. Independence has a celebration the last week of October called Neenwollah Festival (Halloween spelled backwards). We had hoped to go, but now we know we will be working Friday and Saturday each week.
We drove home on another road, Hwy 75 and went by the Little House on the Prairie site. What? My research told me the Ingalls family moved here from Wisconsin for 1 year, when she was 3 years old, then moved back. We drove through Caney, KS before heading east to Coffeyville. The town and area around Caney will be growing more soon, they are going to build a new oil pipeline there.
On the way home, we found the Kansas City Chiefs radio network and listened to the game. We got home in time for me to watch the last 10 minutes, my Chiefs are now 4-0! The kicker on the team, Ryan Succop, must be one hell of a guy - his last name is pronounced Suck-up! Can you imagine how he was teased as a kid?
We took a short walk after supper, then watched Sunday night football. Fall is a great season!
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