Monthly Archives: March 2014
Fans and Hawks . . .
One of the things I got yesterday at Harbor Freight Tools was a set of drill bits with 1/4 shanks.
This lets me use them in my regular drill, and also my WORX Power Screw Driver that I find myself using more and more. Small and still very powerful.
Around 11 am I put in a call to Fantastic Vent to order another motor/fan combination for our bathroom vent fan.
I really like the look of the clear plastic blades. They let a lot more light in, and supposedly, they’re made of tougher plastic than the old one. When I replaced the front one a couple of days ago, I notice the old blades were very brittle and could be easily snapped with your fingers.
The other thing I noticed was that the motor on the new one is much more powerful and moves a lot more air on HIGH.
Hopefully it will come in sometime next week.
When we arrived this past Monday, our neighbor pointed out a Red-tailed Hawk nest across the river from us. And there’s some activity going on in there. You can see a head sticking up.
Unfortunately it’s at the far end of my 72X lens so I doubt I’ll get much more. But I have seen one flying back to the nest.
The weather today was pretty cruddy. Solid overcast all day, with rain on and off, but it still made it up to 72°, which means it was just sticky all day. In fact after dark the humidity was so high that it kept triggering the rain sensor on our vent fans, making them open and close. So finally we just bit the bullet and turned the AC’s on.
Don’t know what’s on the agenda for tomorrow. We’ll have to see how the weather holds out.
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Thought for the Day:
Borrowed from Sherry, our son-in-law’s sister.
Never mistake my silence for weakness.
No one plans a murder out loud.
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A Asian Two’fer, for real this time . . .
Jan and I left the rig this morning about 9:45, heading down south to the Clear Lake area. Jan had one last doctor appointment to take care of, and I had some shopping to do.
But first it was lunch at King Food. We had intended to eat there last week, but at the last minute, Jan changed her mind and we ended up at Twin Peaks. But today there was no last minute change. And it was as delicious as usual. We’re really going to miss this place when we leave the area.
I dropped Jan off at the doctor’s and then headed down the road to spend some time perusing the aisles of the newly-opened Harbor Freight Tools, one of the places, that along with Fry’s Electronics, I can spend a lot of time just wandering up and down the rows.
And of course I found a few things I just had to have.
Next up, I stopped off to get the truck washed. And of course, within 15 minutes of that, it started to rain.
Then I drove over to Wal-Mart for a few things, then I stopped by an O’Reilly’s Auto Parts for a couple of light bulbs.
By now it was time to pick up Jan and head back up to the Katy area. We were hoping to have dinner with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon, but Brandi was still under the weather coming off her flu, so we just got together with Lowell and Landon. We all met right down the road from their house at our new favorite Vietnamese place, Little V’s Vietnamese Bistro. And as usual it was really, really good.
Little V’s is a family-owned place that really goes all out. Everything’s just a little different, and much better. They even make all their own sauces from scratch. And even their Spring Rolls are different. Rather than using the thicker, sticky, translucent wrapper, they use one that’s thinner and not as chewy. And they’re made fresh to order.
Even more, they’re so dedicated to their food, that a different family member sleeps in the restaurant every night so that at 2amthey can start making the stock used in their Pho dishes.
After getting our Landon and Lowell hugs, and after a quick stop for a going-home cappuccino, we got back to the rig a little after 7pm.
We’ve go more bad weather on the way so we’ll see how things go tomorrow.
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Thought for the Day:
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." – Lord George Byron
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