Our RV Adventures

Well, it looks like we will be moving with our drill rig. And supposedly we will move Thursday. But of course you never know.

Melissa, our Gate Guard Service sales rep, came out to the drill rig this afternoon (Monday) and our Marathon Company Man told her they wanted us to move with them, and that they didn’t want to share a guard with the other rig. They wanted their own, i.e. Us. Still don’t know yet how they’re going to handle the fact that there’s another gate guard already there for the other drill rig. Guess it will all work out somehow.

The other nice thing is that we have heard unofficially that the rig will be in this new location for 7 to 8 weeks. If that turns out to be true, it means that Thursday will be our last move before we plan on heading up to Celina, OH the 3rd week in August to get ready for Nick Russell’s Gypsy Journal Rally the first part of September.

And the other, other nice thing is that this new site has 5 bars of 3G Verizon service so we won’t need our Wilson booster. We’re going to be only about 5 miles east of I-37 so everything will be more accessible.

Brandi sent over the latest Landon pics.

Is this kid cute, or what?

Not that I’m prejudiced or anything.

After being here at this site over six weeks, we finally got our first rain yesterday (Sunday) and it really made up for lost time. The storm that hit us came over Corpus Christi first and dropped 5 inches of rain on them, and it seemed to have plenty left over for us.

Luckily the road and our pad are built up pretty high so we didn’t have any actual flooding, But while it was raining there was over an inch of water on the ground under our canopy. The solar screens that we hang from the sides of the canopy kept most of the rain from blowing in so it wasn’t too bad while I was out here. I was glad that no vehicles came thru during that time so I didn’t have to actually get out in it.

On a final note, now that I found out how to install Dropbox on my Kindle Fire, I have it on there, as well as on my laptop, desktop, and Droid Charge. It’s a great program and really makes it easy to copy photos, files, etc. between computers without plugging them in.

In fact, on the Droid you can set it up so that all the photos and movies you take with your phone go directly to your Dropbox account.

Check it out at www.dropbox.com.

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Thought for the Day:

There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth again.

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Don’t know what this guy was doing in a cow pasture. When I first saw him out of the corner of my eye I thought he was a statue or something, but then he turned and looked at me. He did seem pretty content.

I saw him right down the road from our ‘maybe’ new rig site. I drove over Friday morning to check out the location to see what it looks like.

And this is it. Unfortunately we’re back at the edge of the drill site again. The extension on the right is where we would be parked.

The location is part of a two pad site, and there’s already another drill rig on the other pad to the left of this shot, just a couple of hundred yards away. Our pad is down a slight hill from the other rig.

The reason I said “our ‘maybe’ new rig site” is that there’s already a gate guard here at the main entrance to both pads.

That’s his RV behind the light tower on the left. And as it’s set up right now he would have to respond to any vehicles that come into the area, even the ones coming down to our pad on the right in this photo. Our Company Man says they definitely want their own gate guard (us!) so I don’t know how they will divide it up. We’ll have to see. We may end up somewhere else.

Our Company Man also said they plan on starting to tear down here on Wednesday. Don’t know yet what time. So it’s all up in air. As usual.

Under the heading of “What’s Wrong with this Picture”, here’s the temperature at 4:14 Thursday afternoon here in South Texas.

And here’s the temperature in Elkhart, IN during the same time period.

Nick’s Bad Weather Curse strikes again.

Normally Jan and I have our big meal of the day at night, with usually just a snack for lunch. But Friday, coming back from looking over our ‘maybe’ new location, I stopped off at Linda’s Cafe in Charlotte for a couple of their Chicken Fried Steak dinners. Which just as we had been told, were very, very good.

And of course we then planned to just have a snack for supper. But look what showed up from the catering truck delivering food to the rig – two delicious Fried Catfish and Fried Shrimp  & Hushpuppy dinners with Green Bean Casserole.

And it was fresh, hot, and really, really good.

Then today (Saturday) Jan made a delicious crockpot meal of Rum Chicken over while rice, along with 7-UP biscuits. In case you’re wondering, Rum Chicken is what you get when you make Bourbon Chicken and don’t have any Bourbon, so you use what you have.

The last two days have been really slow on the gate, fewer than 40 vehicles each day. But it’s probably the calm before the storm. As they start to cap off the well, trucks with cement, sand, and water flood in, and trucks carrying drilling fluids, waste water, and more, head out, Last teardown we had almost 130 vehicles each day.

So busy days ahead.

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Thought for the Day:

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.

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