Monday is Martin Luther King day so it’s a long weekend down here. Not sure how they celebrate this one, I’ll let you know if I find out.
Now that all the new electronics are wired in, I have been playing with our all singing all dancing programmable remote control for them. I’m making progress, but one poor design feature in the trailer is the placement of the home entertainment centre; it’s in a cupboard and as we all (should) know infrared signals from remote controls don’t travel very well through wood. The good news is that there is a socket on the centre to connect a remote infrared receiver, the bad news is that I can’t seem to find one.
Next on the to do list was some means for Lyn to dry laundry, clothes lines strung between trees are fine, if not frowned upon, provided there is something to support them. Our site is devoid of trees making the task a little more interesting. On our walks around the campsite we noticed a lot of people had white contraptions hanging from the ladders that most RV’s have to allow access to the roof. These contraptions, on closer inspection, turned out to be ingenious clothes drying racks made of white PVC tubing. A quick check of the internet yielded the plans, and $20 at Lowe’s yielded the bits required, including dayglo purple washing line to hang the clothes on!
Sports wise, today was a big day, it was the annual corn hole tournament! I won’t go into details as what this is, but it doesn’t involve corn. If you’re really interested go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole
After dinner we took a walk over to the fire pit where a group of people had a campfire going and we joined them for an hour or so. Most of the campers here are from Michigan or Minnesota, with a few from Ontario, Maine, New York and a few other north eastern states.
I was really pleased to receive an e-mail from the city of Ottawa today announcing that there was an overnight street parking ban in effect.. made me feel really good. Enjoy your snow. Evidently Florida was the ONLY state in the US not to have any snow this week, even Hawaii got some.