Daily Archives: March 10, 2014
Sometimes it’s good to be a Guinea Pig . . .
This morning Jan fixed us some of the Chocolate Croissants that our daughter Brandi gave us for Christmas. They’re shipped frozen and come from Williams-Sonoma. You set them out for about 9 to defrost and rise, and then they’re in the oven for about 15 minutes.
They also have them in Butter flavor. And they go great with our coffee.
We’ve got a really nice site here at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails. I was surprised to see how far apart the sites are. It’s nice to not be looking in our neighbor’s windows. Or them ours, I guess.
I called American Coach this morning and ordered two of the roll pins, coil pins, or shear pins, depending on what you call them. They were $2.45 each with $3 for First Class Postage. Not bad at all.
Of course getting them installed may be ‘fun’.
I also called Fantastic Vent about a new motor for our kitchen vent fan. The bearings are going out in it and you have to start it spinning by hand and then it rumbles and makes a lot of noise. And then it quits after about 30 minutes. The price turned out to be about $55 + $13 postage. Not as bad as I had imagined. The kit includes a new motor, a new fan blade, and mounting bracket. I’ll order it in the next couple of days.
About 1:30pm Jan and I headed over to Livingston, TX to visit Dennis and Carol Hill at their lot at the Escapees park there. He was looking for ‘guinea pigs’ to test out his new baby back ribs recipe. And having tasted his pulled pork, we were happy to volunteer.
Since we knew we wouldn’t be eating until after 5, we stopped at the Chick-Fil-A in Willis for a Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Jan’s blood sugar goes haywire if she goes too long without eating.
We arrived at Dennis and Carol’s about 3pm, and first off, got the full tour of their new Winnebago coach. The size of the basement bins and slideout trays was just amazing.
When we got there Dennis already had the smoker going for a couple of hours and the smell was fantastic. I’m surprised people weren’t showing up from all over the neighborhood.
And the finished product tasted even better than it smelled.
The babyback’s were moist and juicy, and didn’t even need sauce. And along with the beans, macaroni salad, and steamed asparagus, it made for a really great meal.
Sometimes it’s good to be a guinea pig. Or make pigs of ourselves.
One or the other.
Or both.
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Thought for the Day:
Short answer: No. Long answer: No.
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On to the Lake . . .
We were up about 7:30 to finish getting everything packed away to move this morning/ We’ve got a 120 mile drive over to the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails, and are hoping for a smooth trip since it’s mostly Interstate except for about 5 miles on either end.
Since the slide was already in, and the levelers were already up, we really didn’t have a lot to get ready. It was nice to take our time with coffee and breakfast sandwiches. So we were ready to pull out about 9:30, but there was a problem.
There was a big while SeeYa setting in the road right in front of us. The couple had pulled out of their site diagonally across from us about 9:20, and instead of going down to the area set aside for that purpose, proceeded to hook up their Jeep Liberty right there.
And very, very slowly.
They seem to be trying to get the pins locked on their tow bar. at least that’s all I can figure. After they were hitched up, one of them would get in the toad and back it up until it pulled tight against the tow bar and then let it roll forward again.
And they did that 5 or 6 times, and then stood and stared at it in between. Finally about 9:50 they both went inside the rig. Don’t know what they were doing in there, but it was another 10 minutes before they finally pulled out.
GGRRRRRR!
So we finally pulled out about 10am, got hitched up in the right area, and hit the road. Then about an hour down the road, we stopped off at the Camping World to see if they had any shear pins for our slide. They said they didn’t stock any shear pins, but could get some in about a week or 10 days.
Remind me never to take my slide repairs to Camping World when I’m in a hurry.
A few minutes after leaving there, we got off I-10 and on to the Sam Houston Tollway heading north. And another 30 miles or so put us on I-45N. About 1:15 we pulled up to the guard shack at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails and got checked in.
We were able to get a 50amp site out on the far end close to the lake. This area, the ‘E’ section, was recommended by Lynette and Gregg McHenry, and we were lucky enough to get the last 50amp site in the area.
Later, after we were set up, we headed back out to have dinner at an Applebee’s we had passed on the way in. Really good as usual, especially the Crispy Fried Green Beans appetizer.
Tomorrow, we’ve been invited to sample Dennis Hill’s new rib recipe and we’re really looking forward to it.
Seeing Dennis and Carol, too. Not just the ribs.
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Thought for the Day:
You have made me think. I’ll be wary of you in the future.
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