06-19-11 - Was a sunny day

06-19-11
Was a sunny day
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
From the people passing by
4.2
Barnesville
A sunny day, Like I’ve been dreaming of.
High wispy clouds.
Slight breeze.
The potential for too much heat.
Alabama heat.
I’ll take it.
I even had a shower and got ride of my stubble for the first time in 5 days.
I need to find a Laundromat, but there’s none in town.
I even tried to see if I could use the motel’s laundry…but I don’t think they have one. I couldn’t even find the rental/manager’s office for the motel. Just rooms. Who doe they rent them out?
The cown consisted of two competing gas stations at the highway intersection corners, and off to the east the town itself. But there as an oddity about it.
The main street - it was closed. And the roadway was torn up for blocks and blocks. It reminded me of a cross between The Last Picture Show and Neon Parks cover for Little Feats “The Last Record Album”.
All of those businesses needed to be driven to via the back streets and walked to from the side streets.
No telling how long the street had been plowed up, nor how long it would remain so.
But the town was pleasant enough. Friendly people. A lot of the residents rode around the town on bicycles. Not a bad decision considering how close everything is and you could presumably get closer to your shopping destination with the bike than with your car.
I spent the day either at the campsite writing, making solar tea or cooking a dinner in my lunchbox stove; or in town taking pictures and accessing the internet from local home servers.
I found a closer source to camp about a block away - St. John’s Church.
Barnesville was a great find and the city campgrounds was wonderful. I didn’t even mind that the shower required $1.00 in quarters. Luckily, I had just 4 quarters in my change holder. And the shower was longer than I needed it to be, so it was a worthy investment.
The afternoon was hot but started cooling around 5pm. I went back to camp, had some of the solar tea that I’d set up in the afternoon. It was very good.
I I felt cocky and dug out a rice in a bag mix for bbq flavored rice. I added in my last two Cheddybrots and set it to cook.
I was typing up old texts while waiting for dinner. A beautiful blond dog named Daisy from next door came by off leash to say hello, much to Mischa’s chagrin.
Dinner was ready and it was good , though Mischa wasn’t having any of it. I don’t know if it was the Dolly visit or she just wanted the Dogswell Chicken strips more than my “weird smelling” BBQ rice.
I listened to more Dresden files in the comfort of warm temperatures.
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
From the people passing by
4.2
Barnesville
A sunny day, Like I’ve been dreaming of.
High wispy clouds.
Slight breeze.
The potential for too much heat.
Alabama heat.
I’ll take it.
I even had a shower and got ride of my stubble for the first time in 5 days.
I need to find a Laundromat, but there’s none in town.
I even tried to see if I could use the motel’s laundry…but I don’t think they have one. I couldn’t even find the rental/manager’s office for the motel. Just rooms. Who doe they rent them out?
The cown consisted of two competing gas stations at the highway intersection corners, and off to the east the town itself. But there as an oddity about it.
The main street - it was closed. And the roadway was torn up for blocks and blocks. It reminded me of a cross between The Last Picture Show and Neon Parks cover for Little Feats “The Last Record Album”.
All of those businesses needed to be driven to via the back streets and walked to from the side streets.
No telling how long the street had been plowed up, nor how long it would remain so.
But the town was pleasant enough. Friendly people. A lot of the residents rode around the town on bicycles. Not a bad decision considering how close everything is and you could presumably get closer to your shopping destination with the bike than with your car.
I spent the day either at the campsite writing, making solar tea or cooking a dinner in my lunchbox stove; or in town taking pictures and accessing the internet from local home servers.
I found a closer source to camp about a block away - St. John’s Church.
Barnesville was a great find and the city campgrounds was wonderful. I didn’t even mind that the shower required $1.00 in quarters. Luckily, I had just 4 quarters in my change holder. And the shower was longer than I needed it to be, so it was a worthy investment.
The afternoon was hot but started cooling around 5pm. I went back to camp, had some of the solar tea that I’d set up in the afternoon. It was very good.
I I felt cocky and dug out a rice in a bag mix for bbq flavored rice. I added in my last two Cheddybrots and set it to cook.
I was typing up old texts while waiting for dinner. A beautiful blond dog named Daisy from next door came by off leash to say hello, much to Mischa’s chagrin.
Dinner was ready and it was good , though Mischa wasn’t having any of it. I don’t know if it was the Dolly visit or she just wanted the Dogswell Chicken strips more than my “weird smelling” BBQ rice.
I listened to more Dresden files in the comfort of warm temperatures.