So very Florida, tropical flowers everywhere!

OK, as promised, this week a little more about our beautiful new campground.

 

Called Camelot (Merlin probably feels right at home) , they had fun with their signs and details on buildings etc. ..

Merl', lording over 'his' Camelot

                           

                                         Even the dogs wear crowns around here ..

And as I mentioned, it's right on the water, called the Coastal Waterway, which is in fact an inlet from the Atlantic, and it has it's own, private dock.

You have to dodge some traffic to get to it, because Hwy #1 separates the park from the water, but it's easy to do, there's lulls in the traffic because of the traffic lights a little further down the road.

                       Looking back towards the campground

From it you have a nice view of the inlet and Florida's East Coast Barrier Island that separates it from the ocean.

This is looking at the Island over the Inlet

Talking about that dock, it's a popular hangout for all kind of birds, like these Pelicans:

        

     

And Dolphins! Yeah, my first ones!

  

I hope I'll see some more, and a little closer maybe ...

In the meantime, James has finished most of the projects he was working on from before the holidays and is now actively looking to find more.

He went to Home Depot to pass out some new business cards, and went for an interview to Orlando to a company that has it's offices there, but small (short-term) 'handyman' work over here in Melbourne. 

He is in fact hired for that job, but he's still looking around for other opportunities that might have bigger jobs available.

This fence and kitchen were some of his previous jobs ..

This weekend he also had to do some 'fixin'-up to do on the RV. 

I'd noticed a soft spot under one of the windows, and it turned out we'd had a leak that caused some dry-rot ..

Yikes! Fortunately it was all dry, and James took the window out (just 6 screws or so) and after scooping out all the loose stuff, he squirted a whole lot of caulking in and around the edges of the sill, and plopped the window back in.

Not the most elegant repair, but he doesn't have much time and we're tight on money to do it 'proper', so this will have to do for now ..

I've been working hard at catching up with the blog (only one more to go!), taking my daily walks to the dock, and I finished the Christmas puzzle and started my 'snow-puzzle' ..

Since the weather has still been 'unseasonable' warm over here (high 70/low 80), I'm trying to get a little bit in the winter-mood here with all that snow!

So far it's not really working, but I just heard that the temperatures are supposed to go down this week! Yeah! 

Finally a word about the truck. Yeah ... saving the 'best' for last ..

After much deliberation we've decide to have US Engine send us a whole new engine, like they've offered to do, and not go for 'just' repairing the heads.

They didn't have one in stock anymore so they've started to build another one. 

It's probably another week before it's ready, so ... we'll be here for a while longer ... 4 weeks? 5 anybody? Do I hear 6?

I need a glass of wine. Oh, make that half off one, it's (one of) my New Year's resolution(s) ... right, bad timing!