Our RV Adventures

We started off this morning with coffee and no satellite TV. The high winds that were rocking the coach and rattling the awnings had blown over the sat dish. The ground was too hard to stake it down so it was ripe for being blown over.

A little before 11 Nick and I went up to the office to re-up for another week, but the office was closed, so we’ll try again later.

The wind had picked up some much that I finally went out and let the awnings in, as they were getting really noisy. Then pretty quick after that the sand storms started sweeping across the fairgrounds, in some cases blocking out the rigs parked right across from us. Hope we still have a paint job left when we leave here.

A little after 1 I talked with a friend of mine who owns an A/C company to get a quote on installing a new system in our house in Friendswood, TX. I hoping he can give me a better deal than the original quote I have. Then after talking with him I emailed him a copy of the quote that I had.

About 2 Nick and I drove back up to the office to pay up for another week here. The sand was blowing so hard I figure we were lucky to find our coaches again.

Later I talked with Thousand Trails about the membership that we’re going to be taking over, to be sure the transfer is in the works. We’re hoping to get it completed before we leave here the first part of April. We’ll see.

About 4:30 we headed over to the Five Guys Burgers and Fries to meet Nick, Terry, and his cousin, Beverly. This was our first visit to Five Guys, and it was as good as we had heard. The burgers were delicious, and I like the fact that all the fixings, including jalapenos, grilled onions, and grilled mushrooms, were free.

Coming home we stopped by Lowe’s to pick up a piece of transition strip to see how it’s going to work between the Corian tile in the kitchen and the new Allure laminate in the living room.

I’ve got pretty much all the carpet up under the driver’s seat, and now need to decide where I’m going to make the joint between the laminate and the carpet that I’m leaving under the driver’s feet.

Getting home, the winds had died down, so I took a few minutes to get the sat dish up right and aimed. Can’t miss Monday night TV.

Tomorrow we plan a day trip down to the Tombstone area, and then possibly on to Bisbee.

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Thought for the Day:

When all else fails, Reboot!

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First off, Happy 7th Month Birthday to our grandson, Landon Thomas Morrison.

I got up about 9:45, got the coffee started, and then at Jan’s insistence, set out one of our small electric heaters. It got down to 44 degrees last night, really cooling things off, and the coach was pretty chilly.

We’ve got a cold front coming thru, with highs in the high 60’s and low 70’s, and lows in the low 40’s for the next several days. We may even get some rain tomorrow afternoon.

About 12:15 Nick called and said that Miss Terry’s world-famous cinnamon rolls were coming out of the oven ASAP. Nick had alerted us last night with a rumor that cinnamon rolls might be imminent.

And boy, was he right.

Jan and I sat around with Nick and Terry, enjoying those fantastic cinnamon rolls,  good coffee, and each other’s company. While we were there, we watched the winds come up, the dust devils roam the fairgrounds, and the sand clouds obscure the horizon.

Getting back to our rig around 2:30 (which involved walking next door), we quickly heard from both our son Chris and our daughter Brandi.

Chris, his wife Linda, and our granddaughter Piper were on their way to one of our favorite seafood places in Seabrook, TX called “Outriggers Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar”.

Located underneath the Kemah Bridge,

Outrigger’s has the best shrimp tacos around, as well as big trays of raw oysters. Very tasty!

Our daughter Brandi called us with “Good News, I found Grandma”.  It wasn’t like she wandered off, or was really missing, she was just misplaced.

You see this ginger jar cookie jar contains my mother’s ‘cremains’.

I bought this cookie jar for my mother for Mother’s Day when I was ten years old. And I figured that it was a fitting place for my mother to reside.

But somehow, between our remodeling our house, our moving out, and our daughter moving in, then getting married and having a baby, my mother’s jar was placed inside a box and moved to the garage for safekeeping while the bedroom was being remodeled.

And when I went to look for jar this past winter, she was nowhere to be found. But now she’s back safe and sound.

When we started talking about dinner this evening, we had planned to go to Poco & Mom’s, but, checking their website we found they closed at 2pm today. Bummer!

Our next choice was Guadalajara Grill. We had passed this place several times and noticed the crowded parking lot, and in some cases, people waiting outside for a table. But before we tried it out, Nick called to see if they had something he would like. He saw they had shrimp tacos with pico de gallo, and asked if they could leave the pico off for him. He was told that “There would be a $5.00 surcharge for any substitutions”.

Huh?

When he tried to clarify that leaving something off was a ‘substitution’, he was told that “There would be a $5.00 surcharge for any substitutions”.

Well. How rude!

Needless to say, we went elsewhere and had a great meal at Marie Callendar’s. And of course delicious pie for dessert. The place wasn’t really busy, so we sat around talking with Nick, Terry, and Nick’s cousin Beverly for a couple of hours, finally getting home about 8pm.

Tomorrow I’m going to try to get the last of the carpet up, and figure out how I want to do the trim and the joint between the laminate, ceramic tile, and the carpet under the driver’s feet.

More tomorrow . . .

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Thought for the Day:

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering…What The Hell Happened!

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