Great lunch-January 9, 2014

Before you get today's fun, you are required to look at yet another sunset picture. It is supposed to be raining tomorrow so there won't be a picture.

I like the pinkish orange halo around the sun.

 

Today we had lunch at Don's Seafood with Cheryl and Doug. I am not sure I have explained how we met. Perhaps I did. Cheryl and Cheryl met in the laundry room at Lake Osprey RV park in Elberta, Alabama. They were from Seattle. So, an Alabama couple became friends with a Washington state couple in Elberta. Emails, texts and phone calls have followed us all across the country. They sold their house in Seattle and hit the road. They are parked at their daughter's house in Lafayette so they can visit their grandbabies. Zoey is 4 1/2 and Gage is a newborn. We are glad they could get away. We explained the South Dakota connection to them and now they are also residents of that state. We had fun catching up, or as Cheryl calls it, "camping out" at the restaurant. Don, whom this restaurant is named after, is one of the Landry bunch if you know who they are. They know seafood like nobody else does. We were there talking for so long we were on our third wait staff person before we left! The second one got the tip. It was fabulous food and we hope to go back before we leave. The four of us are plotting another camp out before we leave.

 

Our water woes continue. A worker repaired a broken water main at the fish cleaning station and we thought we would have water tonight. But we do not. The guy next door tells us that the water district ran out of water. We didn't believe it but then we found on a local television website that a second district has run out of water and a third one has a boil water notice posted. I am not sure what is happening here but lack of water is very, very serious. In the middle of the night I realized if a home caught on fire there would be no working fire hydrants. What happens then? Water is necessary for existence so how long can a water district not provide water? Is it even legal for them not to provide water? This is not a good situation. We still have water in our onboard tank and our pump works but it just isn't pleasant to have to turn on the pump every time we need water. It's inconvenient. We probably won't stay too long here though we would probably like to because of the water issue. I know life is never perfect, but my goodness, we need water. Ok, I am through complaining today. I'll go back and look at the sunset picture! It was too nice a day to end it by complaining.