Three Day Weekend

Until peak shipping season begins (which should be soon) we work 4 days in a row with three days off.  In order to get onto our regular schedule of Sunday through Wednesday, we had only one day off last weekend (Saturday) but now we are into our normal schedule so we had Thursday for routine errands, Friday for a little sightseeing, and today to spend with our friends Dave and Nancy.

Our first full week passed without any incidents and no unusual aches and pains, but we sure appreciate having a day (or 3) off.  We learned on this morning’s news that a fire had started in a cardboard baler at Amazon late last night, and production had to stop for the fire to be put out and the smoke to be cleared.  We expect to hear more about that tomorrow morning at start-of-shift.

On Thursday we spent the day doing laundry and errands.  Friday we did a little road trip and stopped at a small whisky distillery called George Dickel’s.  It was in the country and the drive there was windy, hilly, and scenic. 

There are a few smaller children here in the RV park so we expected to have trick-or-treaters for Halloween but no one came, so we will just have to eat the treats ourselves.  What tough duty.  In addition, Bob made some of his Palm Beach brownies which we’ll also have to eat!

Dave and Nancy invited us along today for a trip to a nearby town which was full of antique shops.  A late afternoon stop, before returning home, was at a very small distillery where they had a display of an actual old time still manned by a couple of old time bootleggers.  They sure entertained us with stories of the old moonshine days.  Today’s production uses the same recipe but with higher volume equipment.