August 12, 2012

I hooked up the Casita today.  I always help Jim but he wants me to learn to do it by myself in case of an emergency.  We left camp and drove south through Saginaw and through Detroit to Belleville.  Jim wanted to camp at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. The county fair was over yesterday and he knew it would be less crowded.  When we got here the U.A.W. (United Auto Workers) local 900 union was having their annual picnic today.  They rented all the rides and food carts from the fair for the day.  I set the Casita up and then we walked over to it.  All the beer, cotton candy, pretzels, ice cream, hamburgers, fries, sausage on a stick, and rides were free.  We took advantage of the free beer.  There were lots of old classic cars there also.

We listened to a really good jazz/blues band at the picnic. Then the band announced that a very famous man was in the audience.  Carl Carlton came up to sing.  His most famous recording was “Everlasting Love” in the disco era.  He sang that and another one of his hits, “She’s a Bad Mama Jama”.  He was really good.  Jim took a picture of him and me.

There is a garden at the campground that the campers can pick from.  When we checked in the lady didn’t know if anything was left because of all the campers and crowd this past week.  We picked three different kinds of tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini squash, bell peppers, banana peppers, hot peppers, green tomatoes, and green beans.  There was also some okra but it was too big.  When it gets that big it’s really tough.  We found one geocache today.  For supper I fixed sausage and fried green tomatoes.