When I got up this morning it was about 3 degrees outside and maybe 22 inside. I was astounded that our pipes (hose) didn’t freeze up. I could only attribute that miracle to my inability to read the thermometer properly. Actually, that’s just a lie, one of many I will make this day. It was probably closer to 30 degrees. Still, it was this cold . . .

Max didn’t care. He happily donned his gay apparel and escorted me around the campground. He was excited to be here because he heard something about this being bear country. Cougars, too. He loves new things to smell.

Speaking of smells, it’s always as great finish to our morning walks when we open the bus door and are greeted by the wonderful smell of freshly brewed coffee. It’s pretty awesome.

Today we visited a couple of Florence Thrift stores, as well as their Goodwill Store. The big purchases were a couple of squishy toys for Max. He loves it when we do that. It’s fun to take him shopping, too, so he can pick the toys he wants, but he stayed home this trip. On a thrift store trip in Tucson Diane ventured out alone while Max and I stayed home and rested. When she returned, she said she got a couple of new ‘friends’ for Max as she set here plastic bags on the floor. She left the room and Max got down from wherever he was sitting and stuck his nose in the bag containing many items and pulled out his gifts, one at a time, and decided it was play time. I may have mentioned this previously, but it was amazing enough to mention it again. He knew which items were his.

Amazing.

We’ve both been wanting as good seafood meal to commemorate our trip but the chosen venue on the wharf was serving only chowder because their coolers were on the fritz. So, we went looking for a replacement and settled on the Krab Shack.

On the way inside you could tell right away that it wasn’t a restaurant because there was a sign “This isn’t a restaurant” on the door. I returned to Diane to discuss our options, and we decided to buy some crab and make our own Louies.

I returned to the Shack and bought half a pound of fresh Dungeness crab. I would have bought a whole pound, but figured at $60/lb., half would do just fine. And it did.

The rest of the day was building the salad so we could park ourselves in front of the TV and watch a Noovie, or two, to finish the day. Or maybe another couple episodes of really old NCIS episodes. Whatever we did, it was relaxing.

Hope everyone had a good day.

Stay safe.