House and Dog Sitting

We drove down to Fletcher's house in Ft. Lauderdale on the 17th to spend a few days house and dog and cat sitting while he was in California on business. Before heading down to his house, Mike took the Pilot and the running boards he had ordered to a local shop and had the running boards put on. It makes it easier for me to get in to the Pilot since it sits higher than the Outback did.

We spent our days walking and feeding the 2 dogs & Tinker and the 2 cats - one of which used to be our cat. Josie is a stray kitten that showed up at our house in Dothan in 2002. When we sold our house in 2006, Fletcher took our 3 cats to live with him and Josie is the only one left of the 3. So she is now a senior citizen at the age of 15. I'm not sure if she remembers us when we visit, but I like to think she does.

We only went out to eat once and that was for Sunday breakfast at the Original Pancake House. Mike had pancakes with link sausage and I had pancakes with bacon. It's always a great place to have breakfast.

On our way home from Fletcher's, we stopped to check out the campground at St. Lucie South. It is a Corps of Engineers campground on the St. Lucie Canal which is part of the 152 mile waterway that goes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Mike made reservations last month for 4 days in July. He chose site RV1 which is right on the canal and we wanted to look at the campsite and take photos.

Mike has made more campground reservations the last few days for several Florida State Parks - with one reservation for each month until the end of the year.