Daily Archives: April 28, 2012
Yea, Piper!
Or Up Close and Personal!
First up, congratulations to our granddaughter Piper who graduates from high school next month. Our son Chris called yesterday to let us know that Piper had been awarded a merit four year full scholarship to the University of Houston, one of only four given out every year.
Separately, she earlier had received a $2000 a year grant.
Way to go, Piper!
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Well, after 12 days in the wilderness, we’re back in civilization.
Kind of.
The one main problem with where our gate was, was the fact that we had no cell phone or Internet service. But after days of trying, I finally found a solution.
I bought a Wilson DB 65 Pro amplifier and antenna, and then put the antenna on top of a 30 foot pole mounted to the ladder on our RV. And lo and behold, we had cell and Internet service.
Ten minutes later we got our first call from the outside world. It was the Gate Guard Services office telling us to get packed up because we were moving to a new gate.
So now we had to take everything down and get packed up.
Finally we pulled out about 2:50 for the 8 mile trip on the dirt road from Hell. This road is so bad we can only do about 5 mph in the rig. So it only took us about an hour and ten minutes to go the 8 miles. But once on the highway we made good time.
We pulled into our new location a little after 6 pm and got set up. Or rather I set up and Jan was already running the gate.
And unlike our other gate where the drilling rig was 3 miles away, here we’re up close and personal.
And boy is it windy here. But we do have cell and Internet, so that’s a plus.
I’ll have more later with pictures from our old gate and our new one.
Thanks to everyone for your comments and concerns when we kind of disappeared for a while. Hopefully I’ll be able to post more regularly now.
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Thought for the Day:
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. – Doug Larson
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