A Visit with Friends: Jim and Karen Peyton

This morning we drove to Inverness, Florida to visit our friends, Jim and Karen Peyton.   Jim and Karen went to FBC MTZ and we have been friends for at least 35 years.   They moved from Mt. Zion to Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, and finally retired to Florida.  We spent the day enjoying good conversation, catching up about our kids/gtandkids/great grandkids, eating lunch, and taking the grand tour of Inverness.  They are good ambassadors for Florida and Inverness.  They love it here and I would agree that this part of Florida is very pretty....but it is hot and humid!

I took this on the drive to Inverness.  It is a town named "Floral City."  This moss-covered, tree-lined highway goes on for nearly one mile.  It was very beautiful and fortunately for us, we got to drive back through it on the way back to camp.

This is the old courthouse of Inverness.  It is now a museum.  Jim told us that scenes from the Elvis movie "Follow that Dream" were filmed in Inverness and this courthouse.  They have an old movie theater that only shows older movies and "Follow that Dream" is occasionally played there.  They were showing "Bridge on the River Kwai" on this day.

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This is Jim and Karen's home.  It is very beautiful and a typical Florida-style house.  It did rain there while we were inside but no rain on the drive back to camp.  Sadly, we had to say goodbye but since John and Family now lives in Florida, we look forward to more visits with Jim and Karen.

We got back to camp around 7:30, walked and fed Sandy, and I began to work on my blog.  Another MTZ FBC friend, Sheila Burrell, called me so I left the blog and Sheila and I talked.  While I was talking to her, I could see that Carol was messing with the radio and a small fan that we use to circulate air.  Once off the phone, I realized that the radio and fan were not working along with all the outlets in the RV.  First we checked all the fuses.  They were all okay.  Then we noticed that the air was not running and the box that shows what amp service we are using was off.   We had lights but they must be running on the house batteries.  We went outside to check the electric pole and saw the surge protector wasn't lit up.  Was there something wrong with our connection or the pole itself? 

Carol took the small fan and plugged it into the electric pole and the campsite pole next to us.  Neither worked.  We walked down the the bathroom and discovered no power there.  It must be the whole camp.  It was dark and we could hear a few generator working,  We had never used our generator and really weren't sure how to use it or if  it would work.  He got the generator running but when he switched it to run the RV, it was sputter and stop.  So much for that.  About that time, John texted me to see how the day went and we told him about our problems.  He said that "random power outages" occur.  I guess we were experiencing "random" outages.  We opened all the windows and began a restless night.  We left the small fan on hoping the power would return.  At 4:00 the fan began to blow so we knew we had power.  We were so glad.

It was a not so fun end to what had been a very nice day.  Needless to say, I am completing my blog from yesterday this morning.  We are going to Disney Springs today and then to John's for a while this afternoon/evening.  We found out that Disney Springs does not open until 10:30 so we are just relaxing this morning.