Our RV Adventures

After two days, and three hours on the the phone with Godaddy, and 28 emails back and forth to Indonesia, I (we) finally figured out what the website problem was. And as is usual in these things, it was something very simple

One folder full of files, buried inside of a bunch of other folders, did not have the correct permissions set. The folder was apparently ‘glitched’ somehow, so that you could write a file into that folder, but you could not then later delete that file.

Normally if you have write permission in a folder, you also have delete permission. But this folder was broken. So we ended up copying all the files out of it into a new folder, deleting the old one, and then renaming the new one to the correct name. And that fixed it.

After that was done, I called Moen about my continuing kitchen faucet problem. And they once again stepped up and are sending me an entire new spray nozzle. This should fix the problem since there’s nothing left to replace. And according to the tracking number they sent me, the part shipped out today.

I spent the afternoon working on a few other projects, before our friend Randy came by and picked us up about 5:30 and we headed up to La Grange to the Fayette County Country Music Opry. Randy had seen a flyer about it at the park office and was going, so we tagged along.

This Opry is held on the 3rd Monday of every month at the local Knights of Columbus Hall, which from the size of it could fit just about everyone in La Grange.

They had chairs set out for about 500, and as you can see, it didn’t come close to filling the place up. And there was even more room behind me.

The show starts at 7:30 but they open the doors at 5:30. One reason for this is that they have hamburgers and drinks available and a lot of tables set up around the sides, so people show up early and sit around to eat and talk. Which is what we did.

And as you can see, the place was pretty full by the time they started.

The show kicked off right on time, with a couple of numbers from the band, before they brought out Keith Magel, known as The Texas Piano Man. We seen Keith several times in the past at the Alvin Opry, so it was good to see a familiar face.

Keith puts on a funny show with a lot of Floyd Cramer, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many others, and with a lot of honky-tonk and boogie-woogie piano thrown in.

The show format is very similar to the Alvin Opry, with the performers doing 3 or 4 songs for the first set and then an intermission. Then on the second set, everyone does 2 or 3 numbers, with everything wrapping up about 10pm.

The second performer up on stage was a real show stopper, 17 year old Sierra Cecil.

And man, what a voice. One of her idols is Patsy Cline, who had a 4 octave vocal range. An online article about Sierra said she can match that note for note.

And based on one song she sang, Blue Bayou, I can believe it.

When Jan and I hear someone singing Blue Bayou, we always compare them to Linda Ronstadt’s version with the high note at the end.

But when Sierra started off, and not knowing then about her range, I thought she was too low to be able to hit it. But after the first verse, she jumped an octave and kept on going up, and then nailed the high note at the end.

WOW!

The next performer was also new to us, Pat Schlesinger.

Pat, who does Western Swing, also put on a very good show, with a lot of humor, and is another one who can really belt out a tune.

One thing I found interesting is that the sound man sits in the audience and runs the sound board from his iPad. I wish I could have gotten a look at his setup.

The show wrapped up about 10pm, and we got home a little after 10:30, after a very nice time. Hopefully we’ll be able to do it again some time.

Tomorrow is our last day here, and as it stands now, we’ll head back over to Lake Conroe on Wednesday. But maybe we’ll get a last minute reprieve from Galveston Bay RV Resort.

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Thought for the Day:

“I’m so tired of people that can’t drive and talk on the phone at the same time. They just mess it up for those of us that can.”

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Another beautiful day today, sunny with a high of 69, and a low of 39 tonight. Pretty much perfect weather to us.

I spent most of the early afternoon working on a website problem with Godaddy and the maker of a software package I’m using, going back and forth between the two, trying to figure out why I’m getting an error message instead of being redirected to the Thank You page.

Part of the problem is the time lag going back and forth between the two. But we’ll get it fixed eventually.

While I was waiting to hear back from anybody, I got back working on installing the new Moen kitchen faucet hose that just came in yesterday. It actually turned out to be pretty easy since the connection under the sink was a quick-disconnect. It was the ‘getting’ under the sink part that was the problem.

But I got it hooked up and then tested it. And Gosh Darn It (insert your own words here) the new hose leaks exactly like the old one did.

At the faucet end of the hose there is a ball-joint where the hose screws into the spray nozzle. Water is leaking from out around the ball-joint in the connector.

So I guess the trouble must be with the spray nozzle, but I sure can’t see any problem with it. The screw ring tightens down on the threaded end of the nozzle  just fine. So it’s back on the phone to Moen tomorrow.

About 4:30 Jan and I drove around the circle, picked up our friend Randy at his RV, and then headed up to La Grange to introduce him to Sealand Seafood. You wouldn’t think that a place like this would have great seafood, but it does.

And lucky for us, Randy agreed.

Jan and I had our usual 2 Fish, 6 Shrimp, 6 Oysters platter, while Randy had the Blacken Tilapia with Crawfish Etouffee. Ours was as delicious as usual, and Randy said his was the best he’d ever eaten. And the servings were big enough that we all had leftovers for another meal.

It looks like things are maybe getting closer with Galveston Bay RV Resort. They posted a photo this afternoon and said the new sites were very close to being done.

Hope so. It would be really nice if when we leave here Wednesday morning, we could go down to Galveston Bay, instead of back to the Conroe Thousand Trails.

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Thought for the Day:

“Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields

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