October 26, 2010 - Tuesday

     The electric skillet is one of the best things we ever got for the RV!  We didn't get it till our trip last year with Oma and Opa.  We had a problem with a propane lock and couldn't use the stove and then in a campsite we were at we saw a family next to ours use one outside on a picnic table next to their RV.  It was like a blinding flash of the obvious!  I have cooked most of our meals in that skillet and easy clean up!
     Because we're staying in the RV today to get everything done so we could be ready to leave I made a big breakfast.  Then Sam took me too the laundry room next to the office and dropped me off.  The washer and dryers were the new front loaders and they were FAST!  I worked on my blog and was no where near ready to stop when the laundry was finished!  I called and Sam came and picked me up.  He was in the middle of cleaning and rainxing the RV windows.  A big job!

     The rest of the day and evening was spent cleaning, inside and out and getting everything ready to pull out the next day.  We had gone to bed - Sam was reading but I fell asleep.  I woke up smelling smoke - leaves - not wood from a campsite and it was late!  We also were under a tornado warning so it was windy.  We looked out the window and could see the light of a pretty big blaze.  After going up to the front windows we could see it was not a campfire!  It was 11:56 p.m.  We could see someone moving around the fire.  Earlier in the day guys who worked at the park had walked around blowing leaves into the road.  It was so windy we could see the leaves that were burning getting caught and blowing around.



Burning of Leaves

     There was no way we could just go back to sleep.  Sam got dressed and walked down to see what was going on.  Joe, the RV park owner, was burning the leaves - his intent was to burn all the leaves before the rain came.  He planned on walking alongside the fire.  He had one hose hooked up.  There weren't many people in the park that night but there were lots of RV's.  Sam talked to him for about 30 minutes and right as Sam told him of the concern of the wind getting out of control and Joe saying he wasn't worried a huge wind blew up and blew the leaves all over.  Joe went around stomping them out and then a few sprinkles of rain started coming down.  That's when Joe decided maybe it wasn't a good idea to keep going and created a break in the leaves and hosed down the fire.  Coincidence - I don't think so!      Sam came back to the the RV and after a long time we finally went to sleep.