Two Festival-Free Days

Wednesday and Thursday we decided to not go to the Festival.  On Wednesday, we drove to Crawsfordville to their Walmart to resupply some groceries.  We took all rural backroads.  Some of the roads we had never been on.  

This is our view from our campsite.  

It was a nice but cold day.  At least the sun was shining.  We do like the Walmart at Crawfordsville better than ours.  It seems bigger and has a better selection.  They still have a watch/jewelry department with a human working behind the counter.  When we got back to camp, we did our usual thing...nap, read, etc.  After supper, we walked around the campground and ended the day watching a couple of John Candy movies.  I turned the furnace on early evening and the heat felt good.  

Thursday, we decided to drive to Brazil, Indiana to check out their garage sales.  Again, we took all backroads there and back.  It was not quite as cold and windy as the past two days so it was nice garage sale shopping.  

We visited Shades State Park to check out there campground.  The sites are set up for tents.  There is no electricity hookups.  It is a pretty setting and has some interesting trails.  There is a ranger talk Saturday evening we may take the boys to on the history of the name of the park.  The park was originally named "Shades of Death" but changed to Shades because of the name was considered unsavory!

Wildlife we saw on the backroads.

I found this cookie cutter at one garage sale and brought it for 25 cents.  It was the only money we spent all day!

We got back to camp about 3:30 which is later than we have on past days.  We enjoyed the day.  We ate supper, took our walk, and then actually sat outside for a while.  The wind was not blowing and it was cool but pleasant.    When we finally came inside, we discovered that our Bose speaker was not working.  It would not charge.  It was very disappointing because we use the speaker to play our XM music from the IPad and Carol uses it when he is driving the motorhome.  The speaker has the volume so that he can hear the music over the sound of the motor.  I spent about two hours on the computer and  Bose website trying to figure out a solution.  Finally, discovered that it needed a software update...who would have thought that...certainly not two tech-deficient senior adults!!  Anyway, I was able to connect the speaker to my computer and through the Bose website able to update the software and the speaker is being charged right now.  Technology is amazing!!

The weather is supposed to improve tomorrow and over the weekend.  We plan to go to Rockville tomorrow.  There is an new antique mall that we want to check out.  We might now have to bundle up so much tomorrow.  Yeah!