Monthly Archives: September 2012
Oldenburg . . .
Jan was feeling a little better today so about 1:30 we headed over to Oldenburg for lunch and some sightseeing.
Oldenburg was founded by German settlers in the 1830’s, and because of its many church steeples, along with a convent, it is known as “The Village of the Spires”.
Unfortunately in the summer time it’s hard to get a good photo of them because of all the trees. Locals say the best time is in the fall after all leaves have dropped.
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But it’s also known for its many decorated fire hydrants as you can see.
After driving around for a while we stopped at The Brau Haus for ‘lupper’. With a mixture of German and American dishes there was something for everyone. And it was pretty good. Jan and I both wished they had had red cabbage, but it must be a regional thing since none of the German restaurants I’ve checked in this area seem to have it.
I mean what’s a German restaurant without red cabbage, right?
After lupper, we drove around for a while longer, this time looking for the fabled “Polka Dot Fire Plug”, but without any luck. When we asked some locals they said the city was in the process of repainting them, which explained why we saw a lot of plain white ones around town, and also why we couldn’t find the polka dot one.
Finally leaving Oldenburg, we drove back through Batesville and stopped at DQ for dessert.
I think tomorrow we’ll have another stay home day so I can get some things fixed around the rig, and maybe Nick and I can fly our RC planes.
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Thought for the Day:
Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.
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Another Quiet Day . . .
Jan woke up still under the weather this morning so we just made it a stay-at-home day.
I spent part of the morning making some phone calls, trying to solve some rig problems I’m having.
My first called was to Brake Buddy.
For the last 5 years I’ve used a Brake Buddy Classic as the braking system when we tow our truck behind our RV with absolutely no problems. But recently the 12 volt cigarette lighter on it has gotten kind of ‘iffy’ and needed to be replaced. But the typical replacement plugs I found locally are not heavy duty enough.
All I could find were ones rated for 5 amps, but the Brake Buddy needs one rated for 20 amps. So my next try was to call Brake Buddy and get one from them.
And what I got excellent service. When I told them what I needed, the guy took my name and address, and said a new plug would go out to me this afternoon. No charge, no nothing, just great service.
Kudos to Brake Buddy.
Taking care of that, my next call was to Westland Sales about a problem with our Splendide washer/dryer. Once last month at the end of the wash cycle the door wouldn’t unlock. So after fooling with it for a while, I ran it thru another wash cycle and at the finish the door unlocked with no problems.
But then a couple of days ago it happened again, and this time running it through the cycle again didn’t help. But I left it alone for a few hours and it unlocked on its own.
So I called Westland to get some ideas what the problem might be, and after talking for a few minutes, Ryan, the tech, gave me some things to check further, and then get back to him.
After that my last chore was to order some new checks from Checks In The Mail. Unfortunately they have to be shipped to our home address in Houston, so I’ll have to have our daughter ship them back out to us to where ever we are.
For the rest of the afternoon I worked on client website stuff, getting some new domain names, and typing in some text filler for the web pages.
Since Jan didn’t feel like going out for dinner, in fact didn’t feel like eating at all, Nick and Terry invited me over to their rig for a great meal of homemade Sausage and Cheese Rigatoni. Really, really good.
By the time I got back to our rig, Jan was feeling better and I fixed a little something to eat. Hopefully she’s on the mend.
We’ll see tomorrow.
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Thought for the Day:
The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~ Mad Magazine
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