Monthly Archives: March 2014
Two Nights in a Row . . .
About 10 this morning we got together for a while with Don and Darlene Couvillion before they headed back down to Alvin. We’ve really enjoyed getting to know them and look forward to catching up with them either on the road, or when we’re back in this area.
Later in the morning I worked on a few chores around the rig. Then after lunch I took a look at my slide shear pin problem.
The hole in the big gear is where the new shear pin goes, but the first problem is to get the other half of the pin out. Since the gear has slipped on the shaft, the hole in the gear and the hole in the shaft no longer line up. Which means that I not only can’t put the new pin in, but I can’t even knock the old one out.
I first tried jogging the slide in and out.hoping to luck on lining up the holes, but had no luck whatsoever, even after about 45 minutes of playing with it.
Next I looked to see if I could disassemble the motor and the gearbox and get to it that way. But seeing how everything was put together, it became obvious that I would have to almost completely remove the slide mechanism itself, so no go there.
Then later tonight in reading back over some of the Power Gear docs I found buried in the text the fact that the hole in the shaft for the gear lines up with the shear pin hole above it in the picture.
So I’ll give this a try tomorrow and see how it works. IF I don’t get rained out, which is a distinct possibility. We’ll see.
About 4pm Gregg and Lynette McHenry picked up us to go eat. And after deciding we all wanted Mexican, we ended up back at last night’s (for us, anyway) El Bosque. It was so good last night that we had no problem going back again.
Jan had her same Pollo a la Parrilla.
I, on the other hand, tried the Mixed Fajitas.
Both really, really good.
Gregg had the Carne Asada, and I believe Lynette had the Beef Fajitas, and we all agreed how good it was.
Finally leaving El Bosque, we made a stop at the Kroger’s Marketplace in Willis before finally getting back to the rig about 7:30 pm.
Another great day with good friends. Just another advantage to our RV life.
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Thought for the Day:
“An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill
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Rockin’ Out . . .
I forgot to post this pic of Landon on yesterday’s blog. After all it’s not a real blog if it doesn’t have a Landon photo.
One of the packages we picked up at Brandi’s yesterday had this wine glass rack that I mounted over the sink.
Most of the ones I found were too long to fit, but I finally this one on Amazon that fit perfectly in the space.
Later in the afternoon, I drove over to the rock pile behind the Activity Center to get more rocks to fill in the muddy ruts in front of our rig.
I ended up with 3 kitty litter buckets full of rocks, each weighing about 60#.
This is what the ruts looked like after the two buckets that I did the other day.
And here it is after I dumped today’s 3 buckets in
We’re supposed to get more rain on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning before we leave here for the Colorado River Thousand Trails. So hopefully this will keep the ruts from filling up with water like they were when we got here two weeks ago.
About 5 pm we picked up Don and Darlene Couvillion and headed out for dinner.
Our first stop was the Sam’s Club in Conroe to pick up a prescription for Jan that they were out of yesterday down in Webster. Then it was right across the street to have dinner at El Bosque Mexican Restaurant. None of us had eaten there before, but it had 4-1/2 stars on Yelp, and it turned out to be really good.
Good chips, good salsa, and good iced tea, and it just got better from there. Don had a Chicken Stuffed Avocado, while Jan had the Pollo a la Parilla. I had a Combo plate with an enchilada, taco, taquito, and a chili poblano. All really good, especially the taquito.
Don and Darlene are leaving tomorrow morning so hopefully we’ll be able to catch up with them again.
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Thought for the Day:
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
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