Six Month Rule At This Campground

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: October 27, 2023

The OFM decided to walk the paved road that parallels the normal hike and bike gravel path this morning just for some variety. It turned out to be a nice choice. We took the road outbound to the normal turn around point and came back on the Hike and Bike path to the Castle.

Here is what the road looked like in the early morning dim lighting.

The hike and bike is about 75 feet to our right in this photo.

Just before we got to the turn around point we found a large heron patrolling a pond area. It happily posed for a nice photograph to our delight.

Notice we even got the reflection from the water in the picture.

The rest of the 2+ miles went well and comfortably all the way back to the Castle.

This is a portion of the latest coloring effort that is in progress. It is being a major learning experience in blending and shading the coloring. The blending is being done with odorless mineral spirits and definitely has a learning curve for the OFM. Until now most of our blending and shading has been done with basically smearing the pencil marks mechanically on the paper by rubbing and is called burnishing. This is a much superior way to do it but takes a lotttttttt more finesse to get it right. We have seen the difference in real life and it will be an important next step in the OFM learning process.

This city campground we are in has a rule that every 6 months you have to take your rig out of the site you are in for a night. You can leave all your stuff there but the rig has to spend the night elsewhere. The campground manager makes certain you have a chance to just move to an empty site for a night and right back to your home site. But most of the folks that this effects is those whose rig stays here full time. A neighbor across the street pulled out this morning for a week vacation at a near by tourist attraction. My next door neighbor took this opportunity, since his overnight move date was soon arriving, to move across the street and spend the night there, In the morning he will be moving back with his stay clock reset to six months. Lots of the folks in here cooperate carefully to keep each other legal like this. So here is what my next door neighbors site looks like this evening. Their motor home is right across the street ( 50 feet) to the left in the picture. And everyone stays legal.

We spent more time today attempting to set up a satisfactory rolling plan for the OFM Teams and we think it will come together in a manner that may work out OK. But it is not there yet.

Enjoy your weekend and have tooooo much fun.