Easy living

The day got off to a slow start. We decided to go pick up the air bed and mattress cover so that we have them on hand when Melissa comes visiting. We are looking forward to her visit and hope she is looking forward to the time with us. Of course, when you go shopping for a few things you almost always end up with a few more.

We went by the Life on Wheels (LOW) office to get our registration papers and class schedules. Darn! A couple of classes that we were looking forward to were cancelled. Well, time to go with Plan B. The Lewiston Chamber of Commerce had some really nice information packets made up for us LOW attendees - lots of good information on Idaho. We've decided to take the Selkirk Highway after we leave Farragut State Park and the brochures had some good information for us for planning.

When we got home, I got with making some macaroni salad and a fruit salad to go with our BBQ steaks that we had for dinner. It has taken some relearning to make smaller quantities of macaroni salad but I think I've gotten the hang of it and John said it was terrific. Made the cook happy.

It was a nice evening out so we sat outside for a while. We decided to walk over to see what Terry and Judy were up to. Terry and I discussed computers and photography for a while. We also spoke about the LOW class changes and such as they hadn't picked up their registration packets yet. We let them know that between 8 and 10 a.m. there was a free breakfast buffet for LOW attendees at the Indian Casino outside of Lewiston. John and I weren't interested so I gave them the information in case they were so motivated. Another LOW couple joined the four of us in good conversation. Ron and his wife are planning on going full-time in the new two years. As they camp frequently on forest land and their rig is our size, we picked their brains on the ins and outs of forest service campground selection and they picked ours on banking, mail, registration and other topics. We had good conversation and laughs until we wrapped it up at 10:30 p.m.

We thought we would sleep with the windows open as a slight breeze was blowing. While I was trying to settle down, the wind shifted from the east and brought with it the move hideous smell from the factory way down the river from us. It is worst than a sewer smell. John was fast asleep so I got up and closed the windows and turned on the air conditioner. I was finally able to get to sleep. Funny thing was this smell was one of the topics at tonight's round table discussion. We had the air conditioner on Friday night so we didn't smell it until tonight. There is a lot to see and do around this area. It is just a shame that you have to smell the pulp mill when that wind shifts.