RVing With a Purpose

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

It was another hot, hot day in Hernando and will remain with predicted heat index in triple digits through Friday. Fortunately, we have full shade at the campground and the heat really hasn’t been oppressive. Of course the fact that we aren’t working out in the heat is a real blessing too.

We did our morning walk and then had breakfast at Carol and Dave’s campsite at 8:30. Dave made his home fries and we had eggs, sausage, toast, and peaches. Too much food, but oh so good. Thanks Dave and Carol!

After a leisurely breakfast we headed into town to run some errands. We ended up going all the way to Southhaven to take care of some estate banking. While we were there we also did some shopping because Southhaven has all the stores, many more options than Hernando. On the way back through Hernando we stopped at Velvet Cream. They have any flavor ice cream you can imagine. They have soft serve and home made hand dipped. There is an entire board listing all their flavors, additions and toppings. More than we wanted to take time to read. With all those options, we decided to get a vanilla soft serve cone. That is our base line for judging an ice cream place. If their vanilla passes muster, then the next time we will try one of the specialty items. This was one of the best vanilla cones we have ever had – maybe better than Cades Cove.

Back at the campground we did a little work and just enjoyed our last day here. There was another beautiful sunset and now its time to pack up for a moving day tomorrow.

Monday, September 17, 2018

It was another beautiful day in Hernando, MS and again today we didn’t see the sunrise, slept late. We know we showed you a sunset yesterday but today’s sunset was even more spectacular. We were getting a short walk before Carol and Dave were coming over to watch a movie tonight, and had to stop to get pictures of the sunset.

We spent today catching up on some accounting and cleaning, but still took time to sit beside the lake and watch the birds, fish, squirrels and deer. Dave and Carol joined us this afternoon and we decided to have a movie night at our place. It was a fun night of movie and popcorn. Tomorrow we will begin getting ready to head to Memphis.

Sunday, September 16, 2018

It was another beautiful day in Hernando, MS. We again slept a little late and then did our morning walk, returning to FRED just in time to watch the live stream of our early church service at Lester Memorial. Unfortunately, there was evidently a problem with the stream and it never came in, so we just watched one that we missed a few weeks back. It does appear that the 11:00 service is now up for viewing so we will watch it one day this week.

After watching the service we did some more walking around the park and some paperwork. We sat outside and watched the birds and people and lake. It was a quiet, peaceful, restful day. This afternoon we shared a big meal of the day with Dave and Carol. Carol made us a Pennsylvania-Dutch meal. It was green beans, ham, and potatoes. Mmmm good. We provided the salad and we had a bowl of fruit for dessert. The food was good but the conversation with friends better. We moved from the picnic table back to the lakeside where we saw a bald eagle fly by again. It was a good day with another pretty sunset.

Saturday, September 15, 2018

We had a quiet night at Hernando Point and enjoyed getting up at a leisurely pace this morning. Our morning walk was about two miles and then we got together with Dave and Carol for breakfast. Dave and Carol had a great artisan bread, cinnamon and pecan, and Max made us all some wonderful french toast. After breakfast and a time of relaxing, we explored the campground a little more. The first loop of the campground is currently closed for upgrades and repairs. When reopened in a few weeks, those sites will have full hookups including sewer. It appears they will be closing and improving the sites in sections. There will be some nice sites in the first loop. However, this COE park doesn’t appear to have the loving care of the COE parks in our area. All the grass needs cutting. A lot more campers came in today but the park still isn’t full.

This afternoon we sat beside the river and watched the fish and birds and fishermen. We even saw a pair of bald eagles fly by.  There was a nice breeze. Very relaxing. Later Anne watched some football.

Anne made a Key Lime pie and we had some of that with Dave and Carol after dinner tonight. It was a slow quiet day. Just what we needed.