Daily Archives: November 18, 2014
Lost Puppies . . .
Today started with hot coffee and a plea for help on Facebook. Donna Huffer and Bob Parker were having electrical problems with their Discovery so I went over about 12:30 to see if I could help.
At first we thought it was a problem with the transfer switch since everything worked OK with the inverter on, but on shore power, nothing was getting through to the coach from Line 2.
But tracing it out finally led us to the output relay board on the circuit breaker panel. Power was coming in to the panel, through the circuit breaker, going into what I think is the EMS (Electrical Management System) board, and then not coming out.
I tried to find a copy of the manual for this Intellitec Model 900 system Bob has, but every link I found online was dead. So no help there. I finally headed back to our rig about 2pm because I told Jan we’d go out shopping about then. Bob was going to follow up with the Intellitec people to see what they said.
Jan and I headed out a little after 2pm with our first stop right down the road at Omega Farm’s RV Park. We have to be out of here at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails on Friday before we head over to Escapee’s Park in Livingston on Saturday. We can only stay here for 5 days if we want to be able to come back here on the 26th for a two week stay. I had hoped to be able to ‘buy’ a day here, but found out that it still counts against your in/out days. And complicating things is the fact that we need to be down in the Clear Lake area for Jan’s oncologist appointment Friday afternoon. So it’ll be easier to just move a couple of miles down the road for one night.
Next up we stopped at the Love’s Truck Stop one exit up north on I-45 because I need another bottle of Diesel Biocide to prevent algae growth in our fuel tank with all the cold, wet weather we’re having. But no luck.
Nick reminded me that the last time we bought some, it was at an Academy Sporting Goods in their boating department. So I’ll try there tomorrow.
By this time Jan was getting hungry so we made another run at El Bosque, tracking down their new location. We had tried to eat there Sunday night but found they had moved to the new location, so we ended up at the Ryan’s across the street.
The food was just as good as we remembered it, the new location is very nice,
much larger and brighter with a lot of windows. But as one reviewer wrote on Yelp about the new location, the wait staff wandered around like ‘lost puppies’. We would ask our waiter for something and he would disappear for several minutes, then come back out of the kitchen, see us, and suddenly remember what he was supposed to do for us, and then scurry off to get it. Like he said, “Lost Puppies”.
Our last stop for the day was the really nice Kroger’s over in Willis for a few things before we finally headed home.
Thursday night we’re driving down to Katy to have dinner with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at Little V’s Vietnamese Bistro, one of our all time favorite places. And hopefully we’ll be able to have dinner Friday night with Chris, Linda, and Piper when we’re down in Clear Lake for Jan’s doctor’s appointment.
And even better, no bells.
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Thought for the Day:
Karma is often cruel, but it is righteous.
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