A Chill Day

Good morning, my friends. It seems we learn something new with each trip. Sometimes we have to re-learn things we've already known. In this case, it was driving more than three days in a row. We shortened our daily distance this trip, but driving for five days in a row was too much. We were both exhausted yesterday. We decided to take some chill lessons from our kitties. Sadie was taking on a zen position on her window hammock.

Only, here's something you need to know about traveling with cats: If you disturb the cat as it prepares to sleep, then you must be prepared to administer snuggles.

Smitty was relaxing on the reclining chairs.

He pawsed his resting to help me with my slow-stitching. 

I made a little more progress on it. It was good to get back to it, and it was hard to stop.

But we needed some groceries, and we wanted to get some of those delicious California avocados. Only...when we arrived at the farm stand we've visited for many years, we found it shuttered, locked, and appearing to be permanently closed. (Insert wailing and moaning here.) What happened? We wondered if this was an ICE-related thing. There's no way to know. I surely hope not.

From there, we made our way to the grocery store. I was feeling sickened at the idea of those nice folks being rounded up and deported. Honestly, there's no way we can know for sure the reason for their absence. I really hope it's something else. And nothing says this closure is permanent. Maybe they just took the holidays off. We're keeping our fingers crossed they'll be back.

Arriving at the grocery store, we found the parking lot planter areas filled with blooming Bird of Paradise, I felt a little bit better after seeing that.

We got our groceries and then headed back the way we came. We'd seen this farm stand on our way to the grocery store, but we couldn't really tell what they were selling because of a barrier in the roadway. We had to come back the other way, and then we could see. Yahoo!!! Avocados for $5 per bag. 

They're the smooth-skinned Fuertes variety. We prefer bumpier-skinned Hass, but they're not in season just yet.

We asked the guy there about those other folks, but he couldn't give us any information. I'm still hoping they'll return while we're here in Escondido.

Heading back to the RV, we found Sadie still showing us the ropes about relaxation. Kitties are very good at this.

It's too bad she's so tense. 

So we listened to what she told us to do, and then we studied hard on our relaxation technique for the rest of the day. We're both feeling much more rested this morning.

We'll spend the day relaxing again...nothing on our Sunday agenda. I'm probably going to get my sewing machine out and do some sewing. My first project will be this requested table runner. All the pieces are cut and kitted up. It should be a pretty quick effort to sew it into a finished top.

It's looking like it might be a nice day of weather. We'd like to get out and walk around this RV park a little bit. It's nothing fancy. Many of the RVs here appear to be permanent residences. The name of the place is the Champagne Lakes RV Resort. As so often happens, the use of the word "resort" amounts to wishful thinking. Also, "Champagne" Lakes because we're very close to where Lawrence Welk used to live. (Young people...ask your parents.) So, we probably won't return here next year, preferring the place we stayed last time we were in Escondido. Still, after saying all that, this place is very quiet. I'll give it that.

Okay, so it's Sunday morning, and that means we'll have our Sunday morning pancakes. The Sunday morning pancake tradition that follows us wherever we roam. Hopefully, I'll have a little bit of sewing to show you in tomorrow's post.