I spent my third night in the coach last night and it was the first night spent on the newly foam-enhanced mattress.\u00a0 I was very pleased.\u00a0 I slept well with no hip soreness from a too-thin mattress.\u00a0 Of course it helped that we were smart enough this time to turn off the gas water heater (the intermittent startups are just loud enough – and close enough to the bed – to wake us) and close the windows so we didn’t freeze our butts.<\/p>\n
It was Jett’s fourth night in the coach as she came up Friday with the grandkids.\u00a0 Yes, we have our two lovely grandkids – Regan, 12, and Patrick, 7 – staying with us (or, more accurately, Jett as I need to work) for 2 weeks.\u00a0 I pray for fine weather.<\/p>\n
Patrick went hunting for frogs yesterday at the campground’s pond and found a few.\u00a0 But he also slipped in the mud and fell into the pond.\u00a0 I guess he need pond practice.<\/p>\n
I drove up with a very light load in the big GMC pickup yesterday – just a rug fragment that we intend to us outdoors for the season, my toolbox and a plastic tote filled with a couple of pillows, a DVD player that will travel with us, and a few other items that Jett requested.\u00a0 I threw the day’s Boston Globe<\/em> on top, latched the lid and headed north.\u00a0 About 3 miles up I-93 I was surprised to see the Globe blowing away in a storm of full-page confetti.\u00a0 I can imagine that the drivers behind me were none too pleased.\u00a0 I wasn’t very happy, either.\u00a0 I got to the breakdown lane without running anyone off the road, got out of the truck and was proceeding to move the tote to the front seat (which is where I should have put it to begin with, obviously) when a state trooper pulls in behind me.\u00a0 I had visions of me being cuffed and imprisoned for felony littering, but he was very nice.\u00a0 He wanted to know if I had lost anything other than the paper and the tote lid.\u00a0 I said that was all, he wished me well and let me proceed.\u00a0 But the truth was that I thought I had lost a bag of bulkie rolls (I had seen them twirling in the air when I first noticed the paper storm), a pair of sandals and maybe the remote for the DVD.\u00a0 I devoted the remaining hour of the trip north to mentally kicking myself for being so careless and thinking about how to replace the remote.\u00a0 But when I got to the campgound I found that everything except the paper and the lid was still in the bed of the truck.\u00a0 I was relieved.\u00a0 But still angry with myself.<\/p>\n Maybe I will take a quick look for the lid tonight when I go back.\u00a0 Not that it is so valuable, but it would be one less piece of trash to feel responsible for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent my third night in the coach last night and it was the first night spent on the newly foam-enhanced mattress.\u00a0 I was very pleased.\u00a0 I slept well with no hip soreness from a too-thin mattress.\u00a0 Of course it helped that we were smart enough this time to turn off the gas water heater … Continue reading