Monday, May 10, 2010 - Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO
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My Blue Buds, Spiderwort, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010
I quit
What a miserable day to drive. Gusty headwindy. Raining. Bah! I pulled into the first place I found - this little community RV park just 70 miles into my days drive. Enough already.
Kansas State flowerpot
On my eastbound route this morning I passed a nicely kept white painted old farm silo. You see these old silos everywhere around farm country where time and technology has outrun their function. But rarely cared for. And this is a first for me - bursting forth well above the top of the silo is a full grown hardwood tree. In better weather I'd have stopped for a picture. By the time I got to the KS line I saw several more well tended silo "pots" - enough to name them the Kansas State Flowerpot.
What an elaborate killdeer nest
Yeah, right - a slight depression in the crushed stone drive of the next site over - filled with crushed stone colored eggs. I never would have found it if momma hadn't gone nuts feigning a broken wing as I walked by, nearly stepping in the nest. This park may be lightly used but even so it'll be a miracle if this pair can raise a family and get 'em fledged before disaster strikes. I'll see if I can get a picture tomorrow morning when the rain is forecast to let up. Seems I've said that a lot today.
Night camp
Site 5 - Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO
- This small roadside RV park offers 8 pullthrough campsites with 30/50 AMP electric, water and sewer for $15.00 per day
- There are no rest room facilities available.
- Good Verizon cell phone and EVDO service
- Find the Freeman Community Club RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Finding the Words to Fit It
There is an idea current in the prevailing culture that writing about something that pains you heals the pain. I was not, when I began writing my life story, and am not now, healed of my mother. But you do gain a small distance from anything by keeping it in suspension in your mind while you work at finding the words to fit it. The process is so slow and incremental that you don't notice its effect, but the point is that it is a process.
Source: Almost There: the Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, a Memoir by Nuala O'Faolain