Daily Archives: December 12, 2016
Cloudy with Meatballs . . .
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The weather continues to be overcast, supposedly with rain on the way. Of course, just as I’m going back on a gate.
It was a short day for me. At least the ‘awake’ part. Trying to get myself oriented onto night shift, I didn’t go to bed until about 3:30am and then was back up at 11.
Jan had fixed up a delicious batch of her Crockpot Spaghetti and Meatballs for lunch, and this was possibly the best batch yet, probably due to the new meatballs we tried.
This time we used the Sam’s Choice Premium Angus Meatballs, and you could really taste the difference. At least you taste a lot more meat than breading, and the Romano cheese inside certainly didn’t hurt.
YUM!
And enough left for tomorrow.
And then after lunch I was back down for a nap until about 3:45. I need to leave for the gate by about 4:25 since it’s a 20 minute trip. I always like to get to the gate a little early the first day in case anything has changed since my last visit.
When I did arrive about 4:45 I found things had really built up since my last time here.
They’ve even got a flare stack going. At least it’s a pretty good piece away.
When we were down here in 2013 working a frack site near Whitsett, we had a big stack less than 100 yards from us. One afternoon oil got mixed in with the gas and the whole thing became a flaming oil volcano.
At first it started spurting the the flaming oil out, a couple of times even making a flaming ring, like a smoke ring. Then the flames just started rolling down the sides and out on the surrounding brush, setting it all on fire.
Alarms started going off all around and guys were rushing over to put the flames out. Even at that distance I could feel the heat. And luckily they go it out before it reached the storage tanks.
Thought for the Day:
In 1859 English settler Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits onto his property in Australia . By the 1920’s the population had increased to about 10 billion.
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