We (the cats and I) are waiting for Tom Johnson Camping Center to get our minor electrical problem fixed – which requires waiting for a part that will be here Monday (something to do with a converter board). The wait has actually been a good thing because it has given the cats time to explore and me time to put things away. I’ve heard it said that there’s a place for everything and everything has a place, but that doesn’t apply to me. I’ve never been able to find all those places – and that is even more true in the motor home.
On Friday I walked to the Carson House, but it was
unexpectedly closed. <http://www.historiccarsonhouse.com/> So I walked in
the other direction and found a Dollar General. Dollar Generals are like 7-11s
used to advertise: “If it’s not around the house, it’s just around the corner.”
On Saturday, I walked south, going past a
manufacturing place called <Resistoflex>. I asked the person at the
guardhouse questions about what they do. He did mention that they used Teflon
to line their pipes. (DuPont knew that Teflon was poisonous years ago, even
though they’re still fighting about that.) I’m currently reading “Toms River:
A Story of Science and Salvation” by Dan Fagin <http://www.amazon.com/Toms-River-Story-Science-Salvation/dp/055380653X>, and I imagine that every
manufacturing place is still dumping toxic chemicals straight into rivers and
streams, including the one that runs by the campground here. That certainly was
true for all manufacturing places many years ago and is still true for some
places today. People who complain about the EPA and the Clean Water and Air Acts
have no idea what it was like years ago. For one example, read about Lake Erie
catching fire http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/58#.VtRSsuaEpVc.
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