Just as a quick note before I get into our recent activities and inactivities, Bob saw a shirt in a local store that was selling Murrells Inlet merchandise. The shirt had MISC in big letters for Murrells Inlet, South Carolina but also looking like the abbreviation misc for miscellaneous.
We’ve been having a relatively quiet past few days with some short outings as well as some planned and unplanned house duties with a lot of sports watching thrown in. On Friday, we drove to the new Market Common development. It’s very close to the Myrtle Beach Airport and has mixed retail and residential development as well as a nearby park with a lake and walking/exercise trail.
that would be a dangerous place for me to live
Also on Friday we did our first run to the county garbage and recycling center, as the homeowners forgo curbside service. The facility is only a few miles from the house, and it accepts everything from garbage to batteries to cardboard to mixed recycling (paper, plastic, aluminum, and glass) to yard trimmings.
Saturday, Bob mowed the lawn, and I helped with getting the clippings in the bags to take to the garbage and recycling center. Unfortunately, while mowing he noticed that a portion of the front yard on one side by the back gate was very wet and there was some standing water under the gate.
He checked both the neighbor’s spigot and our spigot which are in that area. The neighbor’s spigot was off, but ours had been on, although it didn’t appear to be leaking water. We texted the homeowners and when they replied we talked by phone. They called their water utility who sent someone right out to check. Long story short, the utility guy thinks it was due to the spigot being on. I’m glad we didn’t wait longer to mow, as we are never on that side of the house. As of today (Monday), the standing water is gone but the ground is still squishy.
Otherwise, we spent most of the weekend watching various sports teams for college and professional American football and college volleyball. There were some good games, some of which went our way and some of which did not. Sunday it stormed here, so it felt like we had a good excuse to be inside. We also had Squeegee to entertain us. He’s not terribly active but very sweet, and he curls up in the cutest and/or funniest poses.
Today we drove over to Garden City, which was the area with all the big houses that we saw on our boat tour on Thursday. It is a community that basically runs along an isthmus that faces Murrells Inlet and the Atlantic. I took some photos of some of the houses on our drive.
Peckish Travels 