Halloween at Chesapeake

[JEBar]

interesting, productive day ....

removed and reinstalled the male plug on our 50 amp extension cord .... found the problem to be a broken hard plastic area inside the plug .... was able to put it back together in a way that it will work .... that said, not too happy with it .... replacement ordered that will be installed when we get back home

reinstalled the handle on our Charcoal Chimney Starter .... took longer to dig out a couple of pop rivets than it did to replace them .... on issue is all I have are aluminum and I doubt that with the heat they will last very long .... need to pick up some steel ones

purchased 600+ pieces of candy for Halloween .... will divide it and pack it in a couple of hundred small ziplocs later this week

no leaks found in the truck's cooling system ..

[JEBar]

I just find some things to be funny .... below are pictures of a company that cleans out septic tanks .... their truck was parked by a bathhouse near our campsite at Chesapeake Thousand Trails ... I couldn't help but smile when I saw the company's name

[JEBar]

we've been told that 50 some rigs are due to check in between today and tomorrow .... we haven't seen many children since the weekenders left last Sunday afternoon .... with Trick-or-Treating scheduled for Saturday night, most of those rigs will have at least one kid .... consequently, one task we hope to complete is to fill 75 snack size Ziplocs with candy .... if that doesn't prove to be enough we can most certainly fill some more as the evening moves along

[Sir Henry]

we've been told that 50 some rigs are due to check in between today and tomorrow .... we haven't seen many children since the weekenders left last Sunday afternoon .... with Trick-or-Treating scheduled for Saturday night, most of those rigs will have at least one kid .... consequently, one task we hope to complete is to fill 75 snack size Ziplocs with candy .... if that doesn't prove to be enough we can most certainly fill some more as the evening moves along

I filled 75 bags each with 10 ounces of candy. Unfortunately someone broke into the house and ate three. I hope they last until Halloween.

[JEBar]

we won't weigh ours .... we buy the big bags of individually wrapped small pieces of candy -- Reese's, KitKat, Heath, M&M's, Butterfinger, etc -- we will drop 4 pieces into each bag

[JEBar]

the campground is starting to fill up .... I never cease to be somewhat amazed at how some folks spend hours and no small amount of money to decorate their sites for Halloween .... we plan to take more pictures during our next couple of daily walks ... early this morning, no children could be seen .... by dark, bicycles were being peddled all over the place .. .. we filled about 80 bags as can be seen below .... should the be needed, we are prepared to fill that many more .... the trees are slowly starting and are growing more beautiful every day

[JEBar]

its been a very good day where we are camped near Gloucester, VA .... the rain that was originally forecasted to come in around 5PM isn't due to arrive until sometime after midnight .... all-in-all, we ended up having well over 150 Trick-or-Treaters .... that is down a from years past .... we really enjoyed it

[Hatchdog]

Those are some pretty cute costumes in your pics, especially the last pic with the girl in the white dress with the crazy eyes. Looks like a lot of fun for the kids and adults too.

[JEBar]

Trick-or-Treating here is much like I remember when I was a kid .... families coming through together .... in the picture the mother is on the left, the two girls are getting candy and the father is in the background .... the older girl's costume is that of a Zombie Bride .... the father is a police officer, the mother is a former police officer .... the youngest girl's police costume was correct in every detail ... the are camped across from us and we have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them

[JEBar]

with the forecast for it to be cold and rainy, staying in the camper is pretty much the the order of the day .... several campers have already hooked up and pulled out .... hate it for those folks, no way they could do so without getting wet ..... in addition, once they get home or to their next destination much of their gear will have to be unpacked and dried .... one small task has been completed, that being to clear calcium deposits out of a third or so of the small openings in our camper's OEM show head .... will probably spend some time sharpening blades later on

[JEBar]

well, its still raining and the campground road in from of our camper is now a shallow stream

[markiver54]

well, its still raining and the campground road in from of our camper is now a shallow stream

Not exactly fun.

[JEBar]

its times like this that reinforce the need to have a comfortable place to sit and things that interest you in a camper .... this is far from our first such rainy spell and hopefully we will be able to travel sufficiently to have many other such days down the line

[markiver54]

its times like this that reinforce the need to have a comfortable place to sit and things that interest you in a camper .... this is far from our first such rainy spell and hopefully we will be able to travel sufficiently to have many other such days down the line

Totally understand Jim! I know this is definitely not new to you. Just part of the diversity of traveling.

[JEBar]

as can be seen below standing water abounds .... in fact, the pictures below were taken a few minutes ago and as can be seen, they look very much like ones posted earlier in this thread .... today and tomorrow they are calling for it to be nice here but they are forecasting a 90% chance of rain on Thursday ... rain is also in the forecast for Thursday for the entire area where we will be driving .... consequently, we are shortening this trip by one day .... we plan to pack up and leave on Wednesday instead of on Thursday .... traditionally, this trip has been a good test for our coming winter in Texas .... thankfully, so far, so good

[JEBar]

packing up day .... with it being wet and cold I have zero motivation to get out there and get started ....

[JEBar]

about all that remains for today is disconnecting the utilities, hooking up and pulling out .... the first and longest leg of today's drive should take 3 hours to cover 196 miles where we plan to fill the truck's fuel tanks at a Petro truckstop .... from there the second leg of 46 miles should take just under an hour .... we hope to get on the road around 9:30 and to be home by 2:00

[Hatchdog]

Safe travels and hope everything dries out........uggg

[JEBar]

well, we are home .... we were blessed with surprisingly light traffic and only one very short construction slowdown .... less than fifteen minutes after getting home we were back on the road driving about 25 minutes to pick up our 4 year old, soon to be, grandson .... after getting him home in time for a virtual preschool lesson, we drove about 5 miles to our closest early voting site .... we have to compliment the folks running it, they were very efficient .... there had to be well over 20 folks there who were at various stages of the process .... we were in and out quickly .... on the way home we picked up takeout .... we are now settled in for the evening ... unloading the camper will have to wait until tomorrow

[markiver54]

REST!!!