We’re movin’ north and neither one of us like it! “North” means heading home, but . . . we’ve only moved as far north as Melbourne and are parked down the row from H’s brother Ron and his wife Nancy who have been in this park already for 2 weeks. It’s good to see them and spend some fun time together again. We’ll be parked together thru Sunday before we edge our way farther north - - county by county.
Thanks to R&N, we have met some neat folks from British Columbia- Terry and Barbee. They are the caretakers of a VERY elderly, partially blind, incontinent, sweet little dog named Charlie. They must keep him in a little male doggie diaper but only had one, which cost them $20. N and I went to Joann’s and $6 later - Charlie is the almost proud owner of TWO new dapper doggie diapers made out of very soft flannel in the cutest little doggie print! With the scrap of fabric that was left we made him a neckerchief with a bright red bow on the front!
When we were parked at WP Franklin, H and I made a nifty light tan sunshade for our awning. R&N liked it, so this morning we picked up more fabric and made one for them. H likes the color of theirs and thinks theirs is made better than ours so now he wants a new “better” one too.
Friday is laundry day (done!) and moving day – but only from spot #41 to spot #53. In this park it’s called the “Wickham Shuffle”!! This afternoon H and I went to a neat flea market up the road in Palm Bay. H’s big purchases were marbles and a remote control helicopter. He gave $10 for it and I am giving him 10 minutes (tops!) before it’s broke! From there we met R&N at the beach and got some rays!
The rocket launch was on time at just before 11pm! According to the local paper, it is a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that is carrying a Nasa Keplar spacecraft on a mission to find distant earth-like planets. R&N let me ride with them to go down and park by the intercoastal waterway to watch the whole affair from lift off. The sky lit up and from as far away as we were, you could hear and feel the roar just like at the 4th of July fireworks, except the “fireworks” never did spray the sky with millions of sparkles and blasts of dazzling lights. It did all that at take off! As each part of the rocket engaged, there was just a spit of sparkles and a long thin trail of jet stream. And, like a brilliant shooting star it stretched out over the ocean to the southeast and disappeared into the collection of stars already dotting the dark night sky.
Saturday we move from this spot to the overflow area, along with R&N. Barbee and Terry because there are no spaces available in the electric/water areas. The weather is fantastic so having no electricity for 2 nights is NO PROBLEM! .
