6-13-06 (Tuesday): After work today we did a little yard work and housework. While I was doing laundry, I met a woman who is full timing in a 28’ trailer with 5 children that she’s home schooling! Later I met her husband and kids, too. What a nice family! They’re taking a year off and traveling around the country, using the places they go and the people they meet as the basis for their children’s lessons. They bought a FEMA trailer very inexpensively in Ft. Pierce, FL. She sure had a lot of laundry!

We had linguica (Portuguese sausage) for dinner again—we’ve gotten quite fond of it. We also finished up the corn on the cob—I think it must have been Zellwood corn. It was really sweet. After dinner, I took Monkey for a stroll (I go where she decides to go. My only job is to keep her out of the woods (ticks) and not tangled in anything). I ran into Kip, one of the home schooled children I was talking about earlier. What a delightful young man. He appeared to be around 10 years old, but we had quite an interesting conversation. He spoke about the cat they’d had to leave behind and how he was handling those feelings. I asked him what he’d liked best so far in their travels, and he said “all the people I’ve met!” That seemed like an unusual answer from such a young boy.

Wiley and I both had an ice cream attack, so we went into Camden and window shopped and ate ice cream at a neat little outside shop right on the river. On the way to Camden, we stopped to take pictures of the Belted Galloway cows, which are quite a tourist attraction in this area.

Not only are many of the stores and homes in Camden very picturesque, but they also have a lot of charming gardens. I particularly liked this one, which had granite steps and this cute gate, and then a flower-bordered path up the hill to the house. It was kind of dark when I took this picture, but you get the idea.