Wednesday, November 12, 2003
DeWayne Hayes COE Rec Area, Columbus, MS - Oct 26-Nov 12
We came back here to take care of some things with Ann, Willie's mom, and finish up the legalities involved in closing Tony's estate. The weather was still quite warm (too warm for us actually -- we discovered our A/C is definitely broken) but it was truly fall. Leaves and nuts were constantly falling from the trees. We were fairly lucky in that we were parked under a hickory nut tree (nuts the size of ping pong balls that sounded quite loud when they hit our roof frequently) and not the Black Walnut (nuts the size of tennis balls!), which was over our patio. The Water Hyacinths were still blooming in the swampy areas and were lovely to see & smell. We also saw our first Prairie Warbler in the trees near our campsite.Of course we went back to our regular bridge groups and enjoyed playing there very much. We had one really good showing, but for the most part we were placing near the bottom.
We took Ann to doctor and dentist appointments and took care of the same for us. We also took her to Noxapater in a rental car (more festive than the truck) for her birthday outing. She got to see how her former house had been redecorated by her nephew (complete with deer heads on the walls!), who owns it now, visited a couple of people and had a nice lunch out.
We usually stayed around the campground in the evening, enjoying walks in the moonlight with lovely views of Mars and the Lunar Eclipse on 11/9. One of our bridge acquaintances told us of a Japanese style puppet theater program that was happening on the campus of MS College for Women (the "W") one evening. It sounded too interesting to pass up, and it was. After some confusion over location and time, we finally found it and enjoyed it thoroughly. The large puppets were operated not by strings but manually by at least two people dressed entirely in black. It was interesting how much emotion could be shown and also how little you noticed the humans in black.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:23 PM 
