Rainy Day in the Hill Country . . .
The drought certainly seems to be over in Texas. Well, at least in our small part of the Texas Hill Country. It started raining last night, and continued pretty much all day.
We headed over to Gina’s about 11:30 to meet up with her and her nephew Matt Jones. Gina wanted to get a new big screen TV and Matt had come over to help out with the purchase and setup.
Pretty quickly we headed into San Marcos with our first stop being lunch. Gina suggested we try Taste of China, a Chinese buffet right along I-35. Turned out to be pretty good, too. Good choice, Gina.
After lunch we drove right down the road to the local Wal-Mart so Gina could pick out her new big screen and a few other things as well.
She settled on a 55” Vizio, 1080P, 100,000 to 1 Contrast Ratio, with Internet and WiFi connections. In addition we also picked up a wall-mount kit as well.
Of course, by the time we were ready to head for home, the bottom dropped out in the rain department, and since we planned to take the TV home in the back of Matt’s pickup, this constituted a problem. But thinking ahead, Matt had also bought some cheap tarps and a roll of tape, so a little judicious wrapping took care of that problem.
Back at Gina’s, Matt and I worked on getting the TV up on the wall. And it went pretty smoothly, too. While I prepared the TV and fastened the brackets on the back, Matt screwed the wall mount to the studs using lag bolts. It isn’t coming down. Then all that was left was to lift the TV up and latch it to the wall mount.
Since Gina won’t have a cable connection to the new set for a couple of days, I went ahead and set up the WiFi connection for her so she can stream Netflix and Hulu movies on it in the meantime.
About 5:30, Matt headed home, and Jan, Gina, Gina’s daughter Sharelle, and I all headed over to Milagro’s, our favorite local Hill Country Tex-Mex place. You have to know to ask, but, besides the regular salsa, they also have a really hot habanero salsa. But it’s not just the hot part that I like, but it has such a wonderful smoky roasted taste.
Actually I think it’s my favorite part of eating there.
We got Gina and Sharelle home about 7:30, and then Jan and I drove back to the rig with it raining all the way. And it looks like it will be raining all day tomorrow, too.
But at least Sunday’s looking nice, so maybe Jan will have a chance to put out her deer corn finally.
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Thought for the Day:
“If you die in an elevator, be sure and push the UP button.” – Sam Levenson
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