Lazy Day at the Ditch

I woke during the night feeling the nip of the air on my bald head. I pulled the covers over my head and felt my breath warming the space in the safety of the darkness. It was dark and it was cold. We both slept relatively well but also thought we felt the cold during all night. In reality, the temps only dipped to 48 degrees but that was cold enough. I woke around 5:15 and lay there for about an hour and half knowing I should use the restroom but, there was the cold. Finally, I heard Dana rustling so I hurried out of bed and took care of business.

I hustled to get the stove fired up and before too long the water was boiling and the coffee was brewing. I got a fire going and soon we were sitting by the fire sipping our quickly cooling coffee. For breakfast we ate some oatmeal bars and later granola and pears. We sat in our lawn chairs until we got restless and decided to follow the gravel road heading from our campground to the hill/mountain behind us. After about a mile and quarter we reached what we thought was the crest. We rested a bit and headed back down. It was a rather strenuous climb but we were no longer cold.

We returned, read some more and then took naps. After our naps we ate lunch and parked ourselves in our chairs and I read while Dana did some painting.

Fun little story: when I checked yesterday, the camp host asked where we were from.

Me: Indiana
Her: I was born in Indiana
Me: where?
Her: Elkhart
Me: We’re from Goshen
Her: I don’t know where that is.
Me: About 10 miles from Elkhart.
Her: No, I mean I don’t know where Elkhart is. My parents were hippies and we just kept moving around and I was born in Elkhart and then we left and I have never been there since.

So if any of you know a hippy couple that had a baby in Elkhart about 40 years ago, let me know, I found the baby. :).

It was a rather lazy day but enjoyable and restful.

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