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Gulf waters

There are two kinds of RV sites here: pull-ins and back-ins. You can tell which is which by where the utilities are. On RVs, the utility hook-ups are always on the left side, so if you look at a site and see the utilities on the left, it’s a pull-in site. If you see the utilities on the right, it’s a back in site. Pull-ins only work for motorhomes. Back-ins work for motorhomes or trailers. So usually, you find motorhomes in the pull-ins and trailers in the back-ins. You have to reserve the back-ins for trailers, because what happens to the people with trailers if there are only pull-ins? If you pull your trailer in to a spot with your truck, then how do you get your truck out? But then there must be an exception to every rule, and here is the exception to this one. First time I’ve ever seen a trailer in a pull-in spot. Don’t know how they did it. No truck tire tracks on the grass. It was like this when we got here.
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Anniversary

Happy anniversary to us. Four years. Four years ago today was our first day of full-timing. We drove the motorhome from our house in Louisville to Dakota Ridge RV Park in Golden; a distance of twenty-five miles. It was cold and snowy. We stayed in town a few more weeks before our first foray out of town. Many miles and adventures since. We’ve come a long way.
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October bird list

Order Bird
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1 black bellied whistling duck
2 mottled duck
3 blue winged teal
4 northern shoveler
5 green winged teal
6 pied billed grebe
7 american white pelican
8 brown pelican
9 neotropic cormorant
10 double crested cormorant
11 anhinga
12 magnificent frigatebird
13 great blue heron
14 great egret
15 snowy egret
16 little blue heron
17 tricolored heron
18 reddish egret
19 cattle egret
20 black crowned night heron
21 white ibis
22 white faced ibis
23 roseate spoonbill
24 wood stork
25 black vulture
26 turkey vulture
27 osprey
28 white tailed kite
29 northern harrier
30 sharp shinned hawk
31 red shouldered hawk
32 white tailed hawk
33 red tailed hawk
34 crested caracara
35 american kestrel
36 merlin
37 sora
38 common moorhen
39 american coot
40 black bellied plover
41 snowy plover
42 semipalmated plover
43 piping plover
44 killdeer
45 american oystercatcher
46 black necked stilt
47 greater yellowlegs
48 lesser yellowlegs
49 willet
50 long billed curlew
51 marbled godwit
52 ruddy turnstone
53 red knot
54 sanderling
55 western sandpiper
56 least sandpiper
57 dunlin
58 short billed dowitcher
59 long billed dowitcher
60 wilson’s snipe
61 laughing gull
62 ring billed gull
63 herring gull
64 caspian tern
65 royal tern
66 sandwich tern
67 common tern
68 forster’s tern
69 black skimmer
70 rock pigeon
71 eurasian collared dove
72 white winged dove
73 mourning dove
74 inca dove
75 ruby throated hummingbird
76 belted kingfisher
77 golden fronted woodpecker
78 yellow bellied sapsucker
79 least flycatcher
80 eastern phoebe
81 vermilion flycatcher
82 great crested flycatcher
83 great kiskadee
84 couch’s kingbird
85 scissor tailed flycatcher
86 loggerhead shrike
87 white eyed vireo
88 blue headed vireo
89 red eyed vireo
90 blue jay
91 horned lark
92 bank swallow
93 carolina chickadee
94 black crested titmouse
95 carolina wren
96 bewick’s wren
97 house wren
98 marsh wren
99 ruby crowned kinglet
100 blue gray gnatcatcher
101 gray catbird
102 northern mockingbird
103 brown thrasher
104 european starling
105 tennessee warbler
106 orange crowned warbler
107 nashville warbler
108 magnolia warbler
109 black throated green warbler
110 palm warbler
111 black and white warbler
112 american redstart
113 ovenbird
114 common yellowthroat
115 hooded warbler
116 wilson’s warbler
117 lark sparrow
118 savannah sparrow
119 lincoln‘s sparrow
120 northern cardinal
121 rose breasted grosbeak
122 blue grosbeak
123 indigo bunting
124 painted bunting
125 red winged blackbird
126 eastern meadowlark
127 great tailed grackle
128 brown headed cowbird
129 house sparrow

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Cardiology update

Had a visit with the cardiologist. He says I’m doing fine. I shouldn’t worry about the blood pooling in my right foot. It’s just the blood coming from the lump in my calf. That lump in my calf is definitely not a blood clot. It’s probably just the result of a bump. With the blood thinner I’m on, the internal bleeding is no surprise. I bleed indefinitely inside or out. The swelling is on its way down, so it’s all better now. One more month on the Plavix blood thinner and I’m done. I’ll get to be drug-free again. I probably won’t need so many band-aids either. Otherwise, no change from last spring. “No change” means no improvement in overall energy or exercise capacity, but that’s not entirely bad. I still get to walk at full speed without chest pain. “No change” also means no new problems. That’s my monitor. In that regard, “no change” is a very good thing.