May 9th, Wednesday – The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

What’s that old saying?  The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go astray.  Before I get into what happened, quick, where does the line come from?  It comes from my namesake, the great poet Robert Burns in his poem entitled To a Mouse.  Now you know!

So what happened?  Well, we had planned to rise early and make the 1 hour trip to Salem today to see the sights.  However, neither of us was able to rise early enough to make the trip.  It’s not that it was overly cold.  It’s just that the bed was so inviting!  Tomorrow, as Annie would say, tomorrow is only a day away and tomorrow we promised ourselves that we would go.  Really, honestly, we’re going tomorrow.

So what did we do today?  A little of this and that.  I now have all of our campsites set for the rest of the year.  Some parks were already booked for October through December so I had to do some fancy foot work.  All is in place now unless something unforeseen arises.  We’ll end, of course, back in Florida, more to the point at Dade Battlefield State Park where we will be work campers through the month of March.

Barbara on the other hand spent her afternoon at the every famous wishy washy.

getting caught up on our laundry.  So now we both have clean clothes for tomorrow.

That was our exciting day.  We just chilled out, had a glass of wine, did some catching up on this and that, and made plans for the remainder of the year.  Time now for some supper and then early to bed because it will be an early morning tomorrow.

We had a great day spent together.  So many days behind us, so many days yet before us.  Each day we consider a precious gift from God to be graciously received and each minute not to be wasted.  We hope you can approach each new day the same way, with thanksgiving for the day itself and the possibilities that it holds.  As I bring this to a close a thought for each of us to consider:

So that’s it for now.  As always,  if you are coming to the end of your day with concerns and worries let me suggest that you turn them over to God.  After all, He is going to be up all night so why not let him handle them for you.

Time now for our evening prayers and some shut-eye.  Till tomorrow.  Thanks again for sharing our day with us.

These are the voyages of  Graybeard and it’s occupants, four paws and two humans.  Our continuing mission: to explore as many new states as possible, to seek out new acquaintances and make new friends, to boldly go where we have not been before