Monthly Archives: January 2015
Is it Wet and Cold, or Cold and Wet?
After another cold, wet morning, and another wet, cold afternoon (it never got out of the 30’s all day), about 4pm Jan and I headed up to Peter’s BBQ in Ellinger to have the Friday night BBQ buffet, always a favorite of ours. I mean how can you not like all the Beef Brisket, Sausage, Ribs, Fried Catfish, Fried Shrimp, Fried Chicken, Fried Froglegs, Hushpuppies, ten different vegetable sides, and eight different salads. and three or four different desserts, you can eat. Plus a soft ice cream machine.
And our total bill, with drinks, was only $22.07. Nice!
Finally waddling away from the buffet, we dropped a letter off at the Ellinger PO, and then drove up to La Grange to get a few things from the Wal-Mart there, finally getting home about 6:30.
Tomorrow we’ve got a round-about trip down to the Clear Lake area, leaving here about 9:30am. Along the way we’ll stop off in the Pasadena area to pick up a client’s dead computer, before finally heading down to Webster. Among the plans, lunch with our kids, make the last payment and close out our storeroom account, get a haircut (both of them), and check out a new RV park in the area. Then heading home later in the afternoon, we’ll stop off at Brandi and Lowell’s for dinner, and also to pick up the client’s new computer that should be delivered there tomorrow.
So all in all, a busy day.
We have had a little bit of encouraging news from Galveston Bay RV Park. It sounds like they’re actually making some progress on the electrical situation with the new sites, so maybe we’ll get down this year after all.
I’ve mentioned some of this before, but for you Photoshop aficionados, or you Photoshop newbies, or wantabes, I’ve come across some great tutorial sites for you to take a look at.
http://laughingsquid.com/you-suck-at-photoshop-by-donnie-hoyle/
http://www.photoshoponlinefree.com/
Don’t have a copy of Photoshop and think it’s too expensive? You can go here:
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689-adobe-photoshop-cs2.html
and download a free, licensed version of Photoshop CS2 for either Windows or Mac. It’s about 340 MB and took me less than 30 minutes to download on a 3G connection. Be sure and grab the License Serial Number further down the page.
As far as my ‘To Do’ list goes, it looks like Monday and Tuesday should be halfway decent with no rain, and temps in the 50’s, so hopefully I’ll be able to get some stuff done outside. But we’ll see.
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Thought for the Day:
You Ever Have One of Those Days?
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Gone, Gone, Gone . . .
Well, it made it down to 25 degrees this morning, and didn’t get back above freezing until almost 11am. Since this was expected, I didn’t even hook up water when we got here yesterday. But since it’s supposed to stay in the mid-30’s at night for the next week or so, I did connect us up this afternoon
I’ve got a lot of stuff I want to do outside around the rig, but the weather is either cold or rainy, or cold AND rainy, so that’s kind of on hold. I want to get up on the roof again and get the rest of the drilling mud off, now that I know that vinegar will cut it.
And I also want to try out the new toy that I bought myself for Christmas. When we stayed with Chris and Charles Yust for a few days on their lot at the Livingston Escapees Park, I borrowed Charles’ pressure washer trying to get drill mud of f. And although it didn’t help with that, I really liked the unit for washing and waxing the rig. So I bought me one.
It’s a Karcher K2.360, 1600 psi, with a built-in detergent tank and a lot of accessories. And even better it was really marked down at Wal-Mart right before Christmas
One of the other things I want to do outside is repair the AC in our truck, now that I know what’s wrong with it. It’s not like we need it right now, but with Texas weather you never can tell. I’ve seen it in the 20’s one day and in the 80’s a few days later.
Last up, thanks to our son Chris, and all his hard work, we are finally storeroomless, or the first time in 20 years. As I mentioned before, we rented a 10’ x 25’ storeroom in August of 1994 to store household furniture for a few months while we remodeled the house. And it just never went away, because it was just too convenient to stick stuff out of the way there.
But finally it’s gone, gone, gone.
Thanks again, Chis.
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Thought for the Day:
“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” – Marilyn Monroe
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