New Chinese Restaurant

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Weather: low 74 degrees, high 89 degrees, partly to mostly cloudy, showers late in the afternoon. Muggy, hot weather.

Our major task today was to move from the site where we have been for the past 12 nights to another one for the last night that we will be here. I will start driving to Texas in the morning, and if everything goes well, should be in Bay City Thursday afternoon.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Carolyn will be staying here for a period of time that is yet to be determined. She will be helping Terri with her stuff. This situation is not something that we're happy about, but Terri needs the help and has no one else to turn to. The old saying that your children are always your children, no matter what their age is, certainly rings true for us.

I had several things to do in order to be ready to leave tomorrow, and the most important was to dump our holding tanks. Our black water tank was about at the limits of it's capacity, and we had plenty of water in the two gray water tanks to do a good flush of the hose after the black water was out. While we were in the process of dumping the tanks and moving to the new site, I had clothes washing so that when I leave, everything will be clean.

Once everything was done that we could do today, it was time for a little meditation, and it was certainly at a good time. I didn't sleep very well last night, thinking about leaving my sweetheart here. The meditation helped me get some much needed rest. Then we started getting Carolyn's stuff together for her stay here. We took it over to Terri's and put it away, which will save time in the morning. An hour or so was spent visiting with Terri and Thomas, and we decided to all go to a new Chinese restaurant in Northport. All of us agreed that the food was better than we expected, and we have found a new place to go eat.

Thomas loves seafood, especially shell fish of any kind, so he had oysters, clams, mussels, crab, and even some shrimp. I don't know where he puts the food. I try to remember he's a growing boy. Thirteen years old and wearing size 11 1/2 shoes. By the time he reaches 15 years old, he'll probably be wearing size 14 shoes or bigger. And this is a kid that would never be classified as overweight.

More later, be safe.

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