Raindrops KEEP falling

Rain, Rain go away.

Well, we aren’t singing it very loudly while our kids are singing their own songs to the weatherman. 12 inches of snow or more forecast for Central Pennsylvania and much of the northeast tomorrow, and winds of 45 mph with gusts much higher today that are trying to blow Nederland, Colorado clear into Kansas. Oh, and snow.

But the torrential rain which began this morning here in Central Florida will not end till tomorrow morning so we sun-seekers had to find our own shine today.  And we did.

Just a couple of miles up Rte 17 is Barberville, home to the Barberville Florida Pioneer Village and Art Center.  But its even more famous as the site of the amazingly colorful, and therefore decidedly SUNNY, Barberville ROADSIDE. ‘Roadside what?’ you may ask?  Well, check this out!

And its right next to the Amtrak mainline where we saw the southbound Autotrain heading for Orlando.

 

For a start, HUGE yard art.  Continuing along, Spanish style Talavera pottery coming out someone’s something or other.  And on, and on, and on.

Including owner Carlos’ fantastically trained Parrot.  I think the birds name is ‘Parrot’.  He/she (I can’t tell) can do three tricks and next season maybe four.  Carlos and his pet make a really funny team.  I told him they need a stage. ‘Next year, also!’

On to Pierson, Florida, a couple more miles up 17 and into the local library.  The librarian told us this building was originally the town hall and jail.  They had to remove the manacles from the wall to put in the shelving. Do NOT accumulate library book fines in this town!

We swam north a bit farther to Crescent City and on the way passed a field of Thursday dinners fattening themselves up.  

Say thanks, everyone.

And after the library visit in CC we hit their ever popular lake side park (except on torrential rain days) to see the wildlife. 

Yes, another BIG WHITE BIRD.  

But always lovely to see, in our book!

Speaking of books we turned TOAD around and headed back to FROG at de Leon UMC to get in some solid reading time lulled partly into nap time by the gently and continuously falling rain.  But thank you JESUS! NO raindrops fell on our heads from anywhere inside the coach!

             ---------------------OOPS! Flash! Breaking News!: Drips are dripping slowly from one of the AC interior bolt-covers.  Ah, well. A bucket is working, and we'll tell the techs at the next shop we stop at whats up. It is SO hard to find a leak in any roof, or roof accessory, like our Air Conditioner.  Just ask any roof owner!

Tomorrow we drive south on Rte 17 to Sanford, where our friends the Fishers, who met us at Sonny's Saturday night,  live. We've learned that an old acquaintance of ours, Rick Stauffer, lives there also, with his family (though his kids are pretty much well grown by now) and they've invited us to their home in Osteen for lunch.

Oh, and there are more libraries down that way too! 

-Ken