Author: Steve

  Then they took them for a walk.    

  Mom and Dad took the kids for a swim today.    

  In Denver, thunderstorms develop in response to afternoon heating.  It takes afternoon heating and there has to be some moisture from somewhere.  If there is a flow up from the south, Denver can get afternoon thunderstorms.  Here, thunderstorms seem to happen whenever they want.  Guess South Texas always has enough heat and humidity for thunderstorms.   It was quiet when we went to bed, but the storm blew up during the night.  Our patio awning was retracted out of harms way, but the big picnic table umbrella was still out.  By morning, the umbrella had been turned inside out.  The wind on it had enough leverage to tip the cement table over too.  I don’t know how much that table weighs, but we had to recruit help to stand it back up.   A little rain, but mostly wind.  It was enough to keep Annie awake and shivering for about four hours though.  The wind, and Annie, were both quiet by the time we got up in the morning.  Annie had to sleep all day today to get ready for more storms tonight.     It’s funny, I describe our RV Park as being empty because all the residents are gone, but there is more to it than that.  There are lots of owners that are not winter residents.  There are a bunch of summer owners.  They’re more of a weekend crew.  Some drive their campers back and forth.  Some bring their campers down and leave them here all summer, using them on weekends or week-long vacations whenever they can.  Their beach cottages.  It’s just different; winter owners to summer owners.  A different part of the cycle.    

  Check out this rig.  Looks funny on the top, so I got the model description and googled it.  An Airstream skydeck 390.   http://www.rvconnection.com/Images/SkyDeck/ResidentialModel/ResidentialBrochure.pdf   A full deck on top.  Nice stairway down into the coach.   Judy talked to the couple in it.  They take it around the country to places like the infield at NASCAR events, and rent it out.  It costs a lot for someone to rent, but it impresses the hell out of your business clients; a corporate skybox at NASCAR.    

  Very few residents in Gulf Waters now.  Most of the property owners have moved on for the summer.  There are weekend and holiday visitors though.  We’re full this long holiday weekend.  Young families.  Swarms of kids.  All enjoying the park.   The Indy 500 is tomorrow.  Early rounds of the French Open too.   Got my dozen birds at Paradise Pond, but I had to include the northern cardinal to do it.  (I usually get my dozen or more without counting the more common birds that we see every day year-round.)  Got the Philadelphia Vireo and the Blue Bunting.  We haven’t seen many of those in the last couple weeks.   Afternoon thundershower.  That would be a nice weather pattern to settle in for a few days.   Evening light.