Pleasant Distractions
Ooo! Birdie! Out of little birds, piercing chirps come. I assume that this is a hummingbird, only because of its tiny size and the local encouragement to put up some hummingbird nests. That branch is actually more like a twig.
Unfortunately, the nature of the mods being made to the Four Wheel Grandby are such that something is always holding up appropriate photos on one detail or another, preventing a blow-by-blow account of any one part of a system. Just as well, since time is short and I write slowly. That, and I frequently find that additional parts must be ordered, slowing completion. Just as the solar panel setup has been redone from scratch, so has the battery and wiring setup, for the better, I think. Their time will come. A couple of people have stopped to ask about the Four Wheel. One other passerby volunteered that I was considered to be the busiest guy in the park. Comparatively speaking (and only so), that may be true. So these are a few miscellaneous things that won’t earn their own posts.
Across the drive from my site, this little grapefruit tree is typical of all in the park. They will be stripped by the park February 1 and the fruit discarded. It’s now or never, so I helped my neighbor pull all the fruit off and leave it in a pile for anyone to take. I grabbed eight or nine. They’re huge!
No glamour for the Mighty Aurora here. It draws a lot of questions – especially the trailer – but is relegated to short, drab runs for food, mail, laundry, propane, and trash hauling. They gawk at the trailer first, then notice the motor. With my departure deadline looming, there remains much to do, and there’s no time to explore.
Strolling Amok 
Heartbreaking to see all those grapefruit go to waste. Are there no local entrepreneurs available who would like to sell them? At the very least, you would think a local food center for the poor, a women’s shelter, or one of the local churches would be interested in free food? No doubt, those avenues have been investigated, but I still think it’s so sad!
Don’t fret. By the start of the third day, they were gone. And the buckets I expected to show up near the office were only a few. Residents apparently hit them like a blight.
I am So glad! Thanks for letting me know! 🙂
The local food bank was my first thought when I saw the grapefruit..
As to your time problem, I’m sure it will get better when you retire! 🙂
Ha! I’m probably stuck in some kind of retirement purgatory, where unpaid suffering will cleanse me of my past paid employment sins, and I shall one day enter True Retirement, freed of worries, mechanical problems to solve, and money. 😉
Those grapefruit look beautiful. Good luck. I hope things go smoothly.