Monthly Archives: October 2015
I’m How Old?!
First off, Jan wants to thank everyone for the multitude of Birthday Wishes. It did much to relieve the shock when she figured out how old she is today.
Today actually ends the 20 day Sweet Spot where every year we’re the same age from my birthday on the 5th of October, to her birthday on the 25th. Then tomorrow she goes back being a cradle-robber once again.
Think she’d be offended if I got her a T-shirt like this.
I guess I’ll find out tomorrow morning when she reads this blog. If there’s no blog tomorrow night, then you’ll know what happened. She was offended.
We’re finishing up our 3rd full day of rain, and everything is just soggy and wet. We don’t have any roof leaks in the rig so that’s not a problem, but with the high humidity it’s all just damp.
As you can see by this radar screenshot we’ve pretty much stayed at the outer edge of the storm front all this time. We’re that little blue dot right in the center.
So we’re getting the slow, steady rain without a lot of wind, although it did kick up a bit this afternoon, but not in any canopy-threatening amount.
Luckily we’re still staying inside since we still don’t have anyone coming to our site, just the frack water guys running the pumps for the pad up the hill. And that totaled 3 trucks today. I don’t know if the Flowback crew just gave up or washed away.
The Weather Channel has tomorrow forecast as ‘AM Showers’, but they’ve pretty much turned out to be congenital liars through all this. So we’ll just have to wait and see. Of course they show more rain next weekend as the remnants of the Mexican hurricane come north, so it starts all over again.
Since it was her birthday, and we’ve had nobody come in today, I decided that Jan needed a Birthday Dinner out, so we headed into Carthage about 4:45 for another visit to The Jalapeno Tree. This was our third time here, so we knew what we wanted from the start.
But being Jan’s birthday, we started off with a drink, and not the wimpy White Sangria we had last time, which was really just Moscato wine diluted with several fruit juices. No, this time we tried a Tijuana Tea, made with Tequila, Rum, Vodka, Gin, Fruit Juices and Coke.
And based on the punch it had, I think it was only 3 or 4 drops of Coke.
But it was really, really good.
Since what we had last time was so good, we did a repeat with Jan’s Beef Chile Rellenos,
and my El Diablo Jack Beef and Chicken Fajitas.
Topped with Bacon, Sautéed Mushrooms, and Monterey Jack Cheese, it doesn’t get any better than this. And Jan said her Rellenos were some of the best she’s had.
Since we’re still in Wait and See mode, we don’t know what we’ll have tomorrow. But the longer it takes for Flowback, and then the Workover Rig to come in, the more likely we are to make it to our preferred leave-by date of November 22nd.
But you never know.
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Thought for the Day:
Five Rules of a Gun Fight:
1) gun beats no gun
2) fast beats slow
3) a hit beats a miss
4) bigger holes beat small holes
5) many holes beat one hole
dghdgh
