Okatoma Resort & RV Park, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly. ~ Proverbs 17:12
It’s Monday. We know that even without considering that yesterday we went to church. Even without consulting a calendar. How? A caravan of cars began rolling through the gravel right outside our coach at 5:15am. In all, eight vehicles before 6am. They came from the other side of the pond. And this morning at 5:15am, we were actually sound asleep. Ugh! At least we’re early risers! 😊
I remembered something I forgot to share during our week with my brother. I don’t remember details, but through his work, he has contacts with power companies, etc. all over the US and Puerto Rico. Remember when Hurricane Maria caused so much devastation in Puerto Rico back in 2017? Remember how for weeks the media talked about how there wasn’t any power? Or water? Well, turns out, it too was fake news. There was power, but they weren’t allowed to turn it on. And there were truckloads of water sitting that weren’t distributed because it simply wasn’t needed. So why dramatize (lie) their situation to the US? Attention? Money? Or something else just as greedy? I can’t remember now what the reason was.
And this is why I don’t believe much of the news. We’ve learned to be cynics. I became one many years ago when an article hit the Akron Beacon Journal that related to people I knew, and most of the article contained falsehoods. But traveling around and coming into contact with museums and people, we’ve really become cynical when it comes to news. The media has published fake news since before we even became a nation. It makes me wonder why people continue to believe anything news media related. People get up in arms about rags like the ‘National Enquirer’, but in truth, much of what you read or listen to is either inaccurate or spun to suit what they desire your perception to be – or sometimes down-right fabricated. So be wise about what you believe, and certainly never take what you read or hear in any form of “news” as gospel.
And that’s my public service announcement for today. 😊
We didn’t do much noteworthy today except walk over to the campground office to check out their Christmas decorations since I’d heard they’d been working on them, and of course, that turned into a longer walk, which was fine. With the way we eat, we can always use the exercise.
But that doesn’t leave me at a loss to tell a story!
We also drove over to a vegetable/fruit stand – a pretty large one – that’s very close to us, to see about getting something to make a stir-fry. This place also advertised ‘Amish Products’, which, growing up and living near Amish Country in Northeast Ohio, made us very curious.
So we’re walking around the store and I mentioned to Blaine that the labels looked just like the ones they have in Beiler’s; a local produce stand back home in Ohio. Blaine checks, and lo and behold, it’s the exact same distributor! Made in Millersburg, Ohio! So weird to see that down here!
So, when we checked out, I mentioned our discovery to the owner, and received a long disparaging talk about how much trouble she’s having with the company who recently bought them out – – about 6 months ago. She then told me that she orders roughly $1,000 of inventory from them . . . . every WEEK! Can you imagine?? In Louisiana? And what are the chances we’d walk into a store in this tiny town that sells goods from Amish country in Ohio? I tried to encourage her by telling her that maybe they’re still trying to work the kinks out since it’s only been 6 months. I hope I’m right. People in Louisiana need to experience Amish jams and jellies!
See! Told you I had a story! 😊