where you can see the road.
First, two campers were walking the mile back to their camp from the Lake, had caught four rainbow trout fish. I’ve never eaten that before… and to my surprise they invited me to lunch. That was really really good.
Second, a young couple and their two kids were picnicking. I was busy doing something at my van and heard a small wee voice say “Do you want some corn?” and this little girl handed up an ear of roasted corn. They had roasted corn in the husk over the fire. Boy was that good. I went about my work and later stopped to thank them for the corn and they offered me more, and then watermelon, then oranges (quartered), and then small Snicker candy bars. Wow… guess it pays to be nice to people. We chatted and joked and I asked it they needed to adopt a grandma. They joked back, SURE!
And finally, a couple of gals camped at the other campground… with their families, came over to see my rock collection. We sat and looked at the three trays of polished rocks I finished last winter in Quartzsite, and joked and laughed… and then they invited me over for dinner. Wow! This day has got to end… I could gain weight here. And what did they have??? Shrimp cocktail, one of my favorite things on earth. And Black Eyed peas and bratwurst. And fresh salad with most of the ingredients straight from Terri’s garden. Terri is a very interesting gal and she even invited me to come down and stay over with them on my days off… and have a hot shower. They offered me a bedroom but I explained that I never sleep inside anymore, but then they offered me their driveway. Perfect.
I was so full by the time the day ended. And I laughed to myself that this was the day of my 50th High School Class reunion back in Indiana… and I thought, NOPE, this day has been WAY BETTER than if I had gone to Indiana. Just WAY BETTER! (O.K., I admit it, I’m curious as to how the reunion went.)
The other day I baked delicious cornbread in my Griswold Cast Iron skillet in my Solar Sun Oven. Yummm.
