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Sunday, September 25, 2011

It's great to be "home"


September 25, 2011
Box Elder, SD

We've had a productive week here at our "home", since we maintain our legal domicile here in South Dakota.  Although we spent the first couple of nights at the Rapid City Elks Lodge, we then moved over to the new campground our mail service has installed.  When they moved their offices our of leased space in Rapid City, they constructed a larger mail processing facility and added a 15-space full service campground.  This is very convenient for us, since we have both virtual (mailbox) and physical (campground) addresses handy, which makes things like voter registration easier.

So, we were able to handle all the state business we had queued up: I got my license renewed, Geri got a new one with the corrected address, and we got her handicap parking permit renewed (Why does a "permanent" permit expire every five years?).  We shopped a bit, we used up a bunch of the food in the refrigerator and freezer, Geri made a great meatloaf and a new recipe for Bolognese sauce with Penne.

We're wrapping up our visit tomorrow, so today I washed to coach and Rover.  It took all day, not because of the time required but because I needed to wait for the sun to shift around from east to west.  I puttered with a few other small projects, Geri finished up the laundry, and we did our meal planning and food shopping for the next few days in the down time, so it was a productive day all the way around.

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