BANG - Oceano, CA

It's a quiet Sunday morning. Boots is working on the crossword, AM Joy is on in the background, Karma has had her morning walk and Ruthi working on the receipts. Then BANG something hit our rig! We figured the kids here for the week-end lost control of their ball or Frisbee. Karma, of course, went berserk!

We looked out the window and saw a small bird collapsed on the ground outside Karma's window. We have been watching multiple Vet shows on NatGeo Wild (Dr Jeff, Dr K, Vet Life, Dr Pol, and Dr Oakley) lately. So, we knew that it would be possible for the bird to recover if it wasn't already dead. Ruthi went out, covered the bird's eyes and moved it to a shady area. It was still breathing and blinking its eyes.

It took awhile and we kept checking that it was still breathing. After about 20 minutes, the bird sat up and began to look left/right resting. It took another 20 or so minutes for it to standup and make some movements beyond breathing and head turning. Then our immediate neighbors returned from breakfast and their little dog came charging up our stairs to see Karma. This startled the bird and its recovery seemed to be over. It ran away and flew off. Whew!

Tiny Sinks - Oceano, CA

Back on September 15, 2014, we commented on the fact that many toilets in California are small, very small. Really! They look like the toilets Ruthi's sister has at her pre-school facility. OK, so now we have found the matching bathroom set. Here's the tiniest sink we have ever seen. It is in the bathroom of the very best hamburger joint on the central coast of California - Sylvester's. Really everyone we have met here has told us to be sure and go to Sylvester's. There are a number of locations but the original is just down the road from our RV park - lucky us!

Anyway, back to the main point of this post - check out the teeny tiny sink!

Slither & Skitter - Oceano, CA

44 railroad ties make a staircase from the lower up to upper level. Ruthi and Karma used go down and up for both the morning and evening walks. But the preponderance of snakes and lizards has forced them to only do the "up".

Walking down doesn't give the varmints enough time to get away from the feet stomping down the stairs. Karma on the whole has no interest in either. Though she will glance at them and determine that they are not ground squirrels, and then move on.

Coming up the stairs, Ruthi tries to make a lot of noise and vibration as she would prefer not to have an up-close and personal encounter with either of them. The lizards are ordinary and look the grayish color of the faded railroad ties; hence they are very hard to see unless they are skittering away. While the snakes are coal black with a fluorescent pea green stripe down the back. The snakes are in the garter snake family.

July 4th - Oceano, CA

Municipal fireworks started to go off about 8pm. Because the RV Park is high up on the dunes, we could see about 3-4 cities shooting fireworks into the sky for about 2½ - 3 hours. Ruthi and Karma walked out to the top of the stairs and got a panoramic view of the all the displays. Lucky for us, Karma is not in the least bit disturbed by the noise, crowds, or bright flares in the night sky. After Ruthi and Karma bored of the excitement, they returned home to listen to the private fireworks being set off on the associated (but not regulated by the park) sand dunes west of the parked RVs. The private explosions lasted until midnight. So, all in all the 5-cities area is a 5 hour extravaganza of fireworks.

Now You See Them, Now You Don't - Oceano, CA

Whether it's the 4th of July or any other summer week-end, the park fills up beginning on Thursday night. Then by Monday noon, everybody has gone back to work. Here's the week-end view of our row of RVs.

And, now most of them are gone.