The next morning, we still smelled some smoke in the air.  Kelly went for a walk to investigate.  She found that the place where the grounds keeper had built the fire yesterday, was still smoldering and even had some actual flames, being kicked up by the stronger wind in the morning!  She grabbed the hose, which was right there and doused the flame and the entire area completely!  (We Californians are sensitive to fires left unattended!)

Having saved the campground, we went for a walk down the Spanish Moss framed street to the local hardware store.

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(Yes, Kelly stood in the middle of road to take this, but I had her back!)

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Wild blackberries along the road.  They're very small and didn't have much taste.

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The hardware store was actually the first place we encountered where almost no one was wearing any masks at all!  We only saw one customer wearing one.   They also had eggs brought in from one of their customers which were "too big to sell," and gave us a few of them.  The white eggs are "jumbo" sized, for scale:

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And no, the carton didn't close.  All of those brown eggs were double-yolked.

After that, we visited the local grocery store (Piggly Wiggly), just across the street from the campground.  Most people there were wearing masks, so I guess it's just a thing in the hardware store!

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We encountered a Southern Favorite; "Bald Peanuts!"

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And they actually have raw peanuts, so you can make your own!

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We now don't smell any smoke and it's a nice 78 with a good breeze while we're relaxing in the screen house updating this web page.

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