Daily Archives: April 25, 2011
The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
First off, we have a new champion, the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili.
First we had the Naga Jolokia chilies, also known as Bhut Jolokia, or Ghost chilies. Known at the time as the hottest chili in the world, it rated at a hair over 1 million Scoville units. I’ve had hot wings made with these at the Cypress Creek Café in Wimberley, TX. They call them Devil’s Breath Wings.
But after years on the throne, the Ghost chili was overthrown by the Naga Viper, rated at about 1.38 million Scoville units.
And now, The King is Dead. Long Live the King. The Butch T comes in at almost 1.5 million units.
But I guess they’ve got a ways to go.
Pure capsaicin tops out at about 16,000,000 Scoville units. Apparently exposure to that can stop your heart.
The weather here has been really great, with temps in the high 60’s and low 40’s with a lot of sun. But I’ll be glad to get somewhere with higher humidity soon.
Not 95% like in Houston, but not like the 20% here in Arizona, either.
I’m really tired of waking up with the inside of my mouth dry and cracked, and feeling like a place old spiders go to die.
About 10, while I was making coffee and Jan was heating up our muffins, our daughter Brandi called to say that Landon is crawling. Later she sent some video of him playing with the new toy that arrived in the mail today from the Easter Bunny.
Here’s a still shot from the video. He does seem pretty happy with it. I think we, uh, I mean the Easter Bunny done good.
Can hardly wait until we can Skype again next Sunday.
For lunch we had leftover pizza and chips. Really good after Jan added her own special touch of spices.
Then after lunch I went outside to do some rig maintenance before we hit the road on Wednesday.
First off, was to close the grey tank valve. Not really maintenance, but I want to have pretty of water built up when I dump.
Next I checked the engine oil level and added a quart of Rotella 15W-40HD. That’s doing real good, since it’s the first oil I had to add since my last oil change about 12,000 miles ago. Plus when we’re parked on concrete, I also look underneath the coach after a few days, to check for leaks. None found so far,
Then I checked my coolant level and topped off the reservoir. This took the last of the gallon I bought in Elkhart, IN last September. Time to get another jug.
About 2 pm I drove over to Pinetop to get some extra keys made for the rig door, and then while I was out, stopped off at an NAPA Auto Parts to pick up some more diesel antifreeze. NAPA is the only place besides truck stops where I’ve been about to find the stuff.
About 5pm we headed out to meet Nick and Terry, and Jim and Shar Lewis at Red Devil Pizza in Lakeside. We ate here last year and remembered it as being good, and it still was.
Jan had the Baked Penne and I had my old favorite Spaghetti and Meatballs. Very good, and much, much better than The Pizza Factory a few nights ago.
After a lot of good conversation, we headed back to the rig a little before 7. We had a great time getting to know Jim and Shar and hope we get to see them our next time through here.
That’s about it for today.
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Thought for the Day:
"Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but never forget that God/the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary."
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