Daily Archives: June 1, 2011
Landon and the Beachball . . .
Our daughter Brandi sent this video of Landon encountering a beachball. He was so enamored of it they had to stop on the way home and buy him one. Actually they bought him two, since they figured Kitty, their 105 pound Black Lab would probably finish off one of them before too long.
Got up this morning about 10:30 to a cold, steady rain, a continuation of what had gone on pretty much all night. But a pot of coffee and a toasted blueberry bagel with cream cheese helped brighten things up considerably.
About 1 pm we all headed out into a light drizzle to Village RV down in Roseville near Sacramento so Nick could get the cable-controlled black valve that he ( I need ) needs to replace his leaky one. He also picked out one of these to use in the meantime.
It’s a tank valve that just connects to your tank output and gives you a master valve to control everything. Apparently a lot of people use these instead of replacing their bad ones.
While we were there I picked up some 12v vanity mirror light bulbs, and looked for the type of tail light converter I want but they didn’t stock one.
Leaving there, we next headed to a nearby Sam’s Club to pick up some supplies, and then gas while we were there at $3.87 a gallon.
By this time it was after 3 and everyone was getting hungry so we decided on a nearby Fuddrucker’s. We always enjoy their burgers and this was no exception. Nick and I had the Ribeye Steak Sandwich and Terry and Jan had burgers. Since it started raining even heavier we sat around for a good while just talking.
After a while the rain stopped . . . and then a 5 minute hailstorm started. After the hail stopped, it started raining again. You just can’t win.
Our next stop was a Fry’s Electronics we had passed on the way in. Nick was looking for a bigger battery for his cell phone and Terry wanted a case for her new Panasonic camera.
I just like to walk around since I wasn’t looking for anything in particular.
Next it was off to Wal-Mart for some more stuff, and then finally we were on the way home. But before we got there Nick decided he needed a cappuccino fix.
Unfortunately he didn’t speak up until we were out in the middle of nowhere, so we spent a fruitless 45 minutes or so looking for a place to get one.
It’s really amazing how desolate it is here between Sacramento and Yuba City. There’s just nothing. So Nick had to go cappuccinoless. And he was not very happy about it, believe me.
We finally gave up and got home about 7:30 to be greeted by another surprise.
NO power. The storm had apparently knocked it out. Don’t know how long it had been off, but it didn’t come back on until almost 9. Of course we did just fine on the inverter.
Just like boondocking.
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Thought for the Day:
"If all the rich people gave all their money to all the poor people, in five years the rich people would be rich again and the poor people would be poor again."
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