Daily Archives: January 18, 2017
Rigging Down?
We still don’t know exactly when yet, but they’re supposed to start wrapping this part of the pre-frack up tonight or tomorrow.
Maybe. You never know when they’ll break something, and then it’ll be a couple of extra days. But hey, more money for us.
This will probably be an even shorter blog than the recent short ones, since I’m typing it on the laptop sitting in the truck on the pad. So we’ll see how long the battery lasts.
Although we like the money with both of us working, this 2- 1/2 hour round trip out here from Kenedy is really eating into our sleep time. So before the actual frack starts in the next week or so, we’re definitely moving over here to Westhoff from Kenedy. This will make our commute time less than 10 minutes each way. That will be much nicer.
The only downside is that Jan and I will be working opposite shifts at the same gate, so the whole ‘two ships passing in the nigh’t thing. But it will only be for a couple of weeks or so before we leave here for the year on the 15th of February.
This morning on the way home a little after 5am, we stopped at The Donut Palace in Yorktown, one of a number in the area. Seems like every little town has one. Picked up hot, fresh breakfast kolaches for the trip home, and a couple of donuts for later. Plus a couple of breakfast biscuits for tonight’s dinner on the gate. All still warm from the oven.
Delicious.
After getting about 5 hours sleep we were up and out the door. Jan had prescriptions to pick up at Wal-Mart, and we wanted to have what might be our last meal at Bella Sera. Then after getting gas (driving 100 miles a day eats it up) we were back at the rig for about an hour nap before heading back out about 3:30pm.
After dropping Jan off at the front gate and driving into the pad which is almost 5 miles further in, I caught with a Waterbuck antelope just running down the side of the road along the fence line.
Waterbucks are always easy to identify by the white ring on their rear ends.
Asking around, I found out there’s a whole lot of game animals around here, zebras, other antelopes, and more.
Thought for the Day:
No thoughts today. Too sleepy.
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