Monthly Archives: October 2012
Chinese and Carryout . . .
After our fairly long travel day yesterday, everybody decided today would be an official goof-off day, so not much happened.
After we got back from supper last night I spent a couple of hours making up a new longer cable to connect up our Winegard Carryout Satellite Antenna.
Normally I use at 15 foot cable because it’s easier to handle, and before now I didn’t need anything longer.
But where we’re parked here in the Harbor View Outdoor World resort, the only sight line I have through the trees is located about 30 feet away so I had to make up a longer cable. This one is 75 feet long, which is how much cable I had left on the spool, but I’ll only use it when I have to.
During the afternoon I spent some time over at Nick and Terry’s updating the firmware on his Cradlepoint router trying to increase his Internet speed. And at first it seems to have improved things, but it’s still kind of iffy.
We headed out for dinner about 4pm, a little early because we wanted to drive around the area a little more before we ate. Everyone was “jones’n” for Chinese so we headed over to Hunan Chinese Restaurant in Colonial Beach. The online reviews were good and so was the meal. Jan and I tend to rate Chinese restaurants by their Hot & Sour Soup, and Hunan’s was really good. Not as good as King Food in Webster, TX, but pretty good.
Not allowing Nick to take any more GPS ‘shortcuts’ like last night, we got home safely just about dark and were in for the night.
Later, about 10pm, Nick showed up at our door bearing gifts, in this case, a plate of Miss Terry’s world-famous, still-warm peanut butter cookies.
Jan was asleep when Nick came by so I was tempted to keep them all for myself, but figured Nick would spill the beans tomorrow. So Jan will be able to sample them with our coffee tomorrow morning.
But I did sample one, and it was delicious!
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Thought for the Day:
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. — Will Rogers
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America’s Next Top Model –Toddler Division
Daddy Lowell sent over Landon’s school pictures.
Is this kid cute, or what?
Brandi and Lowell need to get him a modeling contract, quick.
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We left the Hershey Thousand Trails park a few minutes after 10am, and after taking on diesel in Hershey, we headed south on I-83 toward Baltimore.
Then after looping around Baltimore, it was on to, and around Washington D.C., across Nick’s Bridge of Terror, and then arriving at the Harbor View Outdoor World park about 4pm
The trip itself was pretty uneventful, except for two exits that confused the GPS (and me) but it all worked out OK.
After getting parked and set up, we all headed over to Colonial Beach proper to have dinner at Dockside Restaurant. It was recommended by the lady at the park office who checked us in.
And, although the service was a little spotty, the food was delicious. We’d all been wanted seafood, and this place certainly hit the spot.
Jan and I both had the Seafood Platter, with Clam Chowder, Scallops, Shrimp, Oysters, Flounder, and a Crab Cake. All really good.
Coming home, Nick decided to find us a shortcut using his GPS. And in a continuation of today’s GPS problems, it took us down a potholed dirt road that ended in a dead end due to a missing bridge. And with no place to turn around, Terry had to back us out.
GPS’ just don’t like us today.
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Thought for the Day:
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. — Harry S Truman
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