Daily Archives: February 9, 2011
High Winds and Grounded Ravens . . .
Still another early morning.
And still more coffee.
But hopefully this is the last early one for a while as I should be able to finish up my computer job today.
I left the rig about 9:45 heading up to my client’s office in Pasadena, driving in the pouring rain. Boy, am I glad I got all the outside work done yesterday.
It took about 4 hours to finished up checking out all the lines, mounting all the wall boxes, hooked up the last two VOIP phones, and neaten up all the cable runs. Then, after a walk-though with the client, I got my check and headed out . . .
to another client’s. But this one only took about an hour to finish up. Then it was by the house to pick up my forgotten camera, but with a bonus.
Brandi was home early due to the bad weather coming in, and Lendell and Sonja, Lowell’s parents, down from Oklahoma, were there, and of course, Landon too.
Speaking of Landon, here’s the obligatory Landon photos from King Food the other night
He looks like he was not too happy to be waked up. But he did cheer up pretty quick.
Leaving Brandi’s, I stopped off at the dry cleaners to pick up our winter bedspread and then dropped it off at the storeroom for use when we return next winter, and while I was there I paid the rent on the storeroom. Normally I do this by automatic bill pay thru my bank, but since this is a change due to getting rid of our 2nd storeroom, I wanted to be sure the payment got done for the correct amount.
Finally it was time to head back to the rig. The rain had disappeared, but the front had come through and it had gotten COLD. When I got back to the rig about 5:30 it was already 32 and falling. It’s supposed to be about 26 tonight, so I’ll disconnect the water just to be safe.
Getting back to the rig I found Jan still under the weather. She’s had a sinus headache for several days now. She finally got rid of the cough, but the stuffy head just hangs on.
When I left she was planning to walk up to the clubhouse about 11 to check out the Tastefully Simple party our friend Jeannie Sparks was having, but the fact it was pouring down rain, in combination with the sinus headache, put the kibosh on that.
Jan didn’t feel like going out for dinner, so I just had my left-over Armadillo Eggs from T-Bone Tom’s the other night. Still great.
Jan eventually fixed herself a microwave dinner, and that was about it for the evening.
And here’s the next installment of our trip to Newfoundland in 2009.
More tomorrow. . .
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Thought for the Day:
If ignorance is bliss why are so many Americans on anti-depressants?
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They called the wind Moriah…Mt. Moriah, that is…
Originally posted on September 7, 2009
After breakfast at our hotel, we left Twillingate about 10 am heading for Corner Brook, about 255 miles away. We had a really nice room overlooking the ocean. Here’s our morning view…
Around lunch we stopped in Windsor to eat at Mary Brown’s Chicken and Taters again. After lunch we placed a call to Miss Piper, our granddaughter, on her 16th birthday. We didn’t get her, but left a message on her voicemail.
About halfway to Corner Brook, around the Mt. Moriah area, we started running into a lot of wind…I mean a LOT!
In fact, even the birds were walking. While we were pulled over a while, we saw a raven trying to fly in the wind and being blown away.
After sitting on a guardrail post in front of our truck for a while, he finally jumped down and WALKED off.
While we were stopped at a Visitor’s Information Center, Piper called us back. She had been in Arkansas, kayaking with her boyfriend and his family. It was good to talk with her.
Fighting the high wind gusts, 40 – 50 mph, we finally arrived in Corner Brook and got checked into our Comfort Inn hotel.
After looking at a map, we decided to drive the 30 miles out to the Lark Harbour area at the end of the peninsular that looks out over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. And once more we were treated to spectacular scenery.
Coming back to the hotel, we decided to eat at Jungle Jim’s, the hotel restaurant. It’s a chain up here, kind of like a Chili”s or TGI Friday’s.
We both had Stir Fry’s, and then split a Spiced Apple Burrito for dessert.
More tomorrow…
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