Daily Archives: January 15, 2011
Our Cute Blond Chipmunk . . .
Catching up on some old stuff, someone had asked about Brandi possibly having the flu last week. Turns out it was a false alarm. After having flu-like symptoms on Monday, she felt fine on Tuesday. Dodged a bullet there.
I did get a chance to check out my new Sears Air Compressor yesterday and found it worked as advertised. It was able to inflate a rig tire from 90# to 100# in less than a minute. Probably better than I could do with on-board air compressor. Really worth the money.
On a completely different note, I found this fascinating, and maybe a little scary.
They could actually have a real live Wooly Mammoth born in the next 4-5 years.
Jurassic Park, anyone?
The other day I was going thru some paper work and came across the title for our toad, a 2004 Dodge Dakota Crew Cab pickup. It had about 101,000 miles on it when we bought it in December 2007, just a little over a month before we hit the road.
I noticed the other day when I had the brake work done that the Dakota now had over 163,000 miles on it, which means that in our 3 years of traveling, we’ve put 62,000 miles on it.
What’s amazing about this is that this does not include the 37,000 miles being towed behind Beauty. When the truck is in tow mode, it doesn’t register mileage.
This means that besides that 37,000 miles, we’ve driven the truck almost twice that distance just riding around seeing the sights after we park the rig.
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This morning, after a very late night (early morning??) we left the rig a little before 11am heading to the Texas Tea Room to meet Brandi, Lowell, and Landon for lunch. We’ve really grown to like this place, with their great soups and sandwiches.
Nick Russell called about 11:15 to say that he’d gotten his fuel filter replaced and they were back on the road. He said the fuel in the old filter was black which means it probably was algae growth caused by all the rain and cold weather while they were in Florida.
Jan was going to Landon-sit this afternoon while Brandi and Lowell take in a movie and run some errands, so she rode home with them while I headed out to do some errands myself.
First stop was Kroger’s to pick up some lottery tickets, then it was on Chis’ to drop off some magazines for Miss Piper.
Piper had two wisdom teeth pulled out Friday morning and the poor thing was still suffering. Her cheeks were still puffed up and swollen.
I told her she looked like a “cute blonde chipmunk” and wanted to take her picture for the blog. She told me in no uncertain terms “NO”.
But, not to be denied, I managed to grab a photo when she wasn’t looking. You can see it by clicking here: Cute Blonde Chipmunk
Then I stopped by Home Depot looking for my undersink icemaker water filter. But they didn’t have it. Turns out a little later research showed that my model had been discontinued. So I’ll have to try and figure out how to fit another type in its place.
Finally I headed over to Brandi’s to get the small share of Landon-sitting that Jan allows me. I only somewhat jokingly said that Landon may not walk until he’s two, because between Jan and Brandi, he never gets put down.
Brandi and Lowell got back home about 5 pm and we decided to have dinner at our favorite King Food. Hmmmm! Chicken in Hot Garlic Sauce, Extra, Extra, Extra, Extra Spicy, and then add jalapenos!
We got home a little after 7, certainly better than last night’s 1:30am.
More tomorrow…
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Thought for the Day:
There’s no such thing as a stupid question, but they’re the easiest to answer.
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