Monthly Archives: August 2014
Last Day with Family . . .
Jan’s still under the weather with her sinus problems so we really didn’t do anything today. She slept and I worked on some things around the rig.
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve added a couple of new photos to the slide show at the top of the blog, The first one is a boat house on a pond near Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia.
And the second one is the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park.
What was really a coincidence is that a few minutes after I added these photos, I found a story online about a tourist flying a camera drone over the Spring and crashing the drone into it. Now they’re trying to figure out how to fish it out, and if they can get it out.
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When my family and I moved back from Colombia, South American, rather than go back to Gulf Shores, AL, we ended up here in Athens where my mother’s family lived. I attended the 10th grade here before I went off to Columbia Military Academy for my Junior and Senior years. So, while we were out driving around the other day, I took Jan by the house where one of my past girlfriends lived at the time.
We always called it the “The Parthenon House” because of all the columns, but I didn’t realize at the time how famous the house was. Designed by renowned architect Paul Rudolph, it made the cover of Life magazine, and was written up in House & Garden magazine.
And the inside is just as striking as the outside.
Here’s an interesting video compilation showing what happens when an 11 foot 8 inch train trestle meets 11 foot 8 inch plus vehicles. Several of the RV’s don’t even seem to know anything had happened.
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Today is our last day here in Athens, and we’ve had a great time getting to see a lot of family members, but we missed seeing others that we’ll have to catch next year.
Tomorrow we’ve got a 375 mile run down to the Gulf State Park at Gulf Shores for a 7 day stay, before we head on to Houston on the 16th. Really looking forward to it.
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Thought for the Day:
Tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup.
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Big Boooommm!
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As I had figured, this morning’s dueling breads was satisfied with a tie. We each had a piece of Miss Terry’s bread and a piece of my Aunt Virginia’s Banana Nut bread with our coffee for breakfast.
The Best of Both Worlds.
Later I went back out in the heat, 92° today, to take another look at my truck AC problem My first test was to use my ohmmeter to check the coil of the compressor clutch, and as I suspected, the coil was open. So that’s the problem. Now what to do about it?
I can replace, and have replaced, the AC clutch on other cars. It’s not really that hard. But I would need some tools I don’t have with me. The advantage is that I wouldn’t have to pull the compressor and replace the Freon.
But, do I want to spend ~ $100 for a new clutch to put on a 10 year old compressor, when for ~ $200 I can get a whole new compressor and clutch. Of course, then I would have to pump out the Freon, replace the compressor, then pull a vacuum on the system, and put Freon back in.
And it’s possible that if the compressor was already starting to fail and seize up, it could have caused the coil to burn out anyway.
Either way it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do anything about it until we’re back in Houston in a week or so.
Saw a mention today that a female gate guard was run over by a big truck a couple of days ago. Looks like stitches in her head and a broken arm are the lucky (for her) result. Apparently, after talking to the driver, she walked back around the front of the truck and stopped to get his tag number without telling the driver. They can’t see you down there over those big hoods.
I normally get the tag info on the way out to talk to the driver, and then coming back, hold the clipboard over my head until I’m clear.
Glad to hear she wasn’t more seriously injured.
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Came across an interesting website the other day.
Ever hear a voice on a commercial and you know it’s someone famous, but you just can’t place it?
Well, check out www.adwhois.com. And they probably know.
.A couple of days ago, I heard a new ad for Gold Peak Ice Tea. I knew the voice was familiar, but I just couldn’t place it.
And it turned out to be Opie Taylor, i.e. Rod Howard.
Check it out.
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Thought for the Day:
Thanks, Monica!
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