The Muse is Loose

We have thoroughly enjoyed three days of respite from trailer park living in a vehicle not quite twenty-one feet long and with NO slide-outs! It is SO close I discovered one morning I was brushing Ann's teeth instead of my own! To use the aisle one person must move to some off-the-trail place. Mix into this setting a fifteen-month old bundle of energy named Calvin who doesn't yet "walk" but walks from one end to the other: holding,grabbing,and gripping whatever he can. Calvin loves the RV! His favorite place is in the driver's seat. If only he had the keys!
Sutherland Springs is actually listed as a Texas ghost town. It was washed away in a flood many years ago. The survivers located to a higher level and rebuilt a few houses, a store with gasoline, drinks, lottery tickets, but no pliars. There is a Baptist Church. It is actively ministering to us trailer-trash folks. I had a woman come by and invite us to a church supper. She said there would be a little preaching. (I've heard that one before!) . I really, really was impressed that this dear lady would bother to invite us to church. I couldn't remember when I was last invited to church by a total stranger. I discovered she and her husband live in the same trailer park where we are. I told her we couldn't come but gave her some money to help pay for their food. These people for the most part are sweaty-blue-collar folks making a hard living and feeling the pinch of higher prices. It is good for us to be reminded how some other folks live.
Tomorrow we load up Dempsey and Emily and head once again to Nixon and on to our little outpost in Sutherland Springs, Texas. If you are coming by we are just off Highway 87 in slot number TWO at Paradise or Pair-of-Dice, or whatever the RV PARK is named. You turn left at the blinking light. We are on the left. Can't miss us. Those two old dogs in front of our car don't belong to us. Emily befriended them and they moved in. She has named them and wants to take them to Nixon. I don't see that happening. Pray the AC doesn't go out or we will be in the Nixon Motel. How old is it? You park your car in a garage next to your room! No doors of course. We are north of Nixon and Stockdale, but just South of LaVernia. What a life!