Good Pork Chop Meal Tonight

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Point Mallard Campground

Date: June 17, 2023

The day started out nice with a bit of cool and warmed up during the day to finish a bit hot with a breeze. Pretty decent weather and clear skies. The AC cut on a couple of times during the day but we opened a window a couple of times also.

The morning walk started mid morning and pictures from the 2.3 mile walk were all that were worth talking about. Everyone seemed to be on their best behavior all day. That was very nice.

The morning trail turned out the one near the very back of the campground the OFM is not a big fan of. However today he realized he had not walked it since December of last year so away we went to enjoy whatever was there.

It is a nice trail that loops behind the campground and ties into the other eleven miles of trails here.

The first part of the trail system we joined was a paved section around the golf course and inland about a hundred yards from Flint Creek. The golfers were being nice and having fun and actually fun to see the silliness they show after a bad shot. He he he. We headed on along the road until we got to a spot to turn right into the natural area on the grave trail that parallels Flint Creek to head back. This very nice trail brought us back to the fishing bridge seen often in this blog. Folks were busy not catching fish this morning from what the youngsters were complaining about.

Shortly we came to a new to us writing on a post that was installed a few years ago and nothing has happened since until this writing was put on it since yesterday.

We have no idea what the writing is about. Do any readers have a guess?

A bit farther along is an old tree we were sure it would fall at least ten years ago. We have been waiting at least that long. Two years ago the tree was barely alive. Looking carefully at it today showed it was totally dead now. The stump is weird like it was growing around some object on the ground years ago. But now it does not seem like enough stump left to keep the old dead tree trunk upright any more to us.

Near the trail was a cluster of vegetation and other tree parts were clustered. We almost missed him. The large turtle was being very still as we got closer to get the picture. When we took this picture we were only about seven feet from the turtle and they usually get gone before we took this picture.

Since tomorrow is Father's Day the campground is PACKED solid with folks celebrating the holiday and on Monday another holiday with lots of great fragrance cooking on all sorts of pits outside.

Speaking of good food, tonight the OFM had the last of the medium thick pork chops he had cut into 3/4inch cubes. Potatoes chopped to fit went into the pot first. Then olive oil to get them cooking. Then the pork chop cubes were added at the right time. Finally at about the three quarter done point a large dollop of BBQ Sauce of his choice flooded the food and simmered for a few minutes. The the cold Root Beer was put in a mug and the wonderful feast began. YUMMITY YUM YUM.

With a great meal like that and an easy day like today, Great Sleeping should be next step in a great day of trying to have tooooo much fun.