Linda was up at 7 AM this morning and I got up at 7:30. It was 66 degrees F in the coach so I turned on the Aqua-Hot diesel burner and turned up the thermostats. I made our morning coffee and got to work finishing yesterday’s blog post.
John and Marian Hagan would be visiting this afternoon and staying for dinner. Given the large meal we had for dinner last night we wanted to take it easy today so a little after 9 AM we had a light breakfast of grapefruit and English muffin with apricot preserves. So good.
After breakfast Linda did some light cleaning. I was going to do a load of laundry and recharge the water softener but Linda reminded me that I had decided to do all of those chores tomorrow. Deal. I started working on this post but eventually got dressed and settled in at my computer. I spent the rest of the morning updating my BCM article status tracking Excel spreadsheet and uploaded it to our Dropbox. I also cleaned up the organization of the files to match the status sheet and backed them up to the NAS.
As planned, we skipped lunch. John had indicated they would arrive around 2 PM. I asked him to call when they got to the office and he did. I was going to drive up and escort him in but getting to our site is very straight forward so I just gave him the directions. A few minutes later they pulled up and I got them parked next to our car, which Linda moved to one edge of the pad when she returned from Winn-Dixie this morning.
After giving John and Marian and tour of the interior remodeling project we spent most of the afternoon sitting outside. Linda thought about using the induction cooker to make dinner outside and remain in the conversation but realized she needed two burners. When it was time to prepare dinner Linda went inside and Marian went with her to help.
For dinner Linda made a salad and risotto with olive oil, garlic, mushrooms, and dark greens. She bought a frozen vegan cheesecake at Earth Origins the other day and served that for dessert. John and Marian brought a bottle of Barefoot Riesling wine and between Marian, Linda, and me we finished it. That’s only 250 mL per person, so not really that much.
We eventually moved inside and continued our conversation over coffee. John and Marian were members of our FMCA Freethinkers associate chapter until they bought a house in Dunnellon and sold their motorhome. Since we saw them two years ago they have gotten more involved in the humanist group that meets at The Top of the World (an adult planned community) and joined the Unitarian Universalist church just south of Dunnellon, both of which have given them the opportunity to make new friends in the area. They had a half hour drive to get home and left at 6:30 PM.
After cleaning up the dishes we watched TV and doodled on our iPads. I probably should have worked at my computer but did not feel like it. I did check my e-mail and had a reply from Butch with his edits for the BCM article on the ITR Oasis Combi Installation he did last fall (2014) in their MCI MC-9 NJT motorcoach. I also looked at, and commented on, several posts/comments on RVillage. Linda was off to bed at 11 PM and I was tucked in with the lights off by 11:30.