Daily Archives: May 18, 2011
Just Another Dreary Day In Paradise . . .
Another cold, wet day greeted me when I got up about 10:15, but we fought back with a pot of hot snickernut/pecan coffee and the last of Miss Terry’s blueberry muffins. But we still have a loaf of her homemade bread left, so all is not lost.
The rest of the morning I spent working on client-internet stuff, and then about noon Jan heated up our left-over Italian from last night. It tasted SO much better after Jan added basil, oregano, and a little garlic salt.
Later I walked next door to Nick’s so I could take a further look at his black valve access.
The front valve is the black one and is about 18” inside the bay. Although you can’t really see it from here, only 3 of the 4 bolts used to mount the black valve are accessible from the front. The upper left bolt is completely blocked by the waste tank itself. And on top of that the nuts are on the back side and would be very difficult to get a wrench on.
The rear grey valve is 32” inside the bay and is just completely inaccessible if you needed to replace it. There must be another way.
This panel underneath the coach is directly under the valves but if you look closely about 2/3 down on the left side you will see a weld.
So it may be necessary to cut a access hole in the plate. More research is necessary.
A little before 5 we all headed out to Oakhurst for dinner. We decided to check out Todd’s Cookhouse BBQ which turned out to be delicious. It’s the best meal we’ve had since we ate at the Chukchansi Casino last Sunday night after we got here.
It turns out that Todd Leaf, the owner, won a Kraft Food’s National BBQ Sauce contest in 1999 and Kraft bottled and sold millions of bottles of his sauce. In fact it was the fastest selling sauce in Kraft history.
I had a great bowl of chicken & sausage gumbo along with a rib basket. Jan had a BBQ sandwich, while Nick also had a rib basket, and Terry had a Santa Fe salad with Chipolte dressing. All great.
Coming home we once again stopped for a cappuccino, this time at a new place that Jan was happy to find had the Pumpkin Spice flavor.
Tomorrow the weather is supposed to clear so we plan on driving up to Yosemite National Park, about 20 miles north of here.
Last year when Jan and I drove through, it looked like this.
We don’t expect to see this much, if any snow tomorrow, but we’ll see.
More then.
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Thought for the Day:
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
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