Monthly Archives: July 2014
Making Some RV Converts . . .
For our breakfast this morning, we had some more of Miss Terry’s great homemade bread. Buttered, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, and toasted until the edges are crunchy, it just can’t be beat.
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Both yesterday and today, I had to make support calls to GoDaddy concerning the new blog. And on both days, when the support techs (a young lady yesterday, a young man today) looked at the blog, and then ask if this was us, and if this was, what we did.
My tech support problem only took a couple of minutes to resolve and then they spent the next 20-30 minutes quizzing me about RV’ing. I guess these guys aren’t rated on the time they spend with each caller like some companies do.
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About 3pm I walked over to Nick and Terry’s to work on some blog stuff for Nick. And as usual, what started out to be a 5 minute job, turned into an hour or so, because we spend so much time talking.
A little before 6pm, we got a call from Orlyn, one of our fellow gate guards from last year. He and his wife were gate guarding a railroad crossing on the same ranch we were at for 3 months. He called to check in and tell me that they just left their gate, and that the couple that relieved them only stayed a few hours before they left. They were upset at how busy the gate was.
Based on what Orlyn said, they did about 200 sheets during the month which, depending on which sheets they were using, would be about 5000 vehicles, or about 165 vehicles per day.
We’ve heard of much busier gates, but that’s still pretty busy. Hopefully, whatever we get in August won’t be quite that busy.
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My three more sets of the LED strips should be in tomorrow so I can finish replacing the other fluorescents.
We had a lot of storms move through today, but most of the heavy rain passed us by. All of this is getting us ready for the front coming through tomorrow, with a high in the low 70’s and lows in the low 50’s, and this should last for several days.
Nice.
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Thought for the Day:
There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.
I Dare You!
Well, the change-over to the new blog site went pretty smoothly, with only a couple of problems. As I said yesterday, you will have re-subscribe if you want to receive the blog via email.
Let me know if you have any problems.
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If you were a Calvin & Hobbes fan, or maybe even if you weren’t, I dare you to read this without tearing up, or even bawling out loud like someone who shall remain nameless.
Calvin’s Last Visit From Hobbes
If you’re aware where the name’s Calvin and Hobbes came from, you should be able to figure out where the name of the grandson came from. Thanks to David Cross for this.
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Regular blog readers will remember my great-niece’s Stahlie and Darby, who recently traveled to China. Well, I just found out that Darby has had an online business for a few years. Called The Elegance of Time, Darby does custom sewing making one of a kind dresses and costumes. This one is the Ice Princess dress from ‘Frozen’
And this one is from ‘Lord of the Rings’.
Check out her site on Etsy.
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The weather, it is a changin’.
You’ve probably heard about the Polar Vortex sweeping though the Mid-West over the next few days. The temps here are going from the mid-80’s to the high 60’s in the daytime, and into the low 50’s at night.
And in other news, Brisbane, Australia just recorded their lowest temperature in 103 years. And in the Antarctic, they’ve just recorded the most ice ever seen there.
Isn’t Global Warming wonderful?
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About 5:30 we headed over to Nick and Terry’s for big bowls of Terry’s Pork Green Chile Stew, really good on this rainy evening.
And after all the good food, we had a dessert of Jan’s Cranberry Christmas Cake, with Terry furnishing the real whipped cream. Jan made this for this past Christmas, and it was just as good this time.
Jan and I finally headed home about 8:30, making a run for it in between thunderstorms. And it looks like more of the same tomorrow.
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Thought for the Day:
I’ve developed a new philosophy . . . I only dread one day at a time. – Charlie Brown
