Daily Archives: November 2, 2015
Turkey Day’s Coming . . .
And Landon’s ready.
Well, today’s AM Cloudy / PM Sunny forecast started out right on schedule, but the PM Sunny part apparently took a wrong turn somewhere because it never showed up. Instead we got an afternoon of very overcast sky with no sun to be seen, more like it was trying to rain, but couldn’t quite get up the energy.
I started noticing this morning that our Mighty Mule Driveway Alarm that monitors vehicles coming into our gate, seemed to be missing a truck every now and then. And this was unusual since it’s never missed a beat since I installed it the first part of September. Then when I brought our coffee out at 11:30, Jan said it had done the same thing to her. She’d look up from her book and a truck would be pulling up in front of the gate.
At this point my first thought was batteries. Although the receiver here at the canopy has a ‘Low Bat’ light on it, I’ve never seen it on, and it wasn’t on now. But since these were the original set of ‘AA’s that I installed when I set up the Mule, I figured changing out the batteries was a good start to fixing the problem. And it turns out it did the trick.
Since the second Mule was replaced by Amazon, and since we’ve only got three weeks left here, the batteries in that unit will hopefully last.
About a half hour after I took over from Jan at 1pm, I hear the rig door open and a stern voice say, “Gregory White, get in here.”
Oh, Lord, what have I done now. At least she didn’t use my middle name.
Turns out that this woman, who stomps on scorpions while wearing sandals,
and watches tarantulas stroll by a foot from her chair,
she was terrified of a tiny, smaller than a dime, spider on the ceiling of the rig. So I performed my husbandly duty, one of them anyway, and removed the spider from the rig.
I mean, aren’t tarantulas big spiders? They’re OK, but little tiny ones are scary?
Who knew?
Late Friday afternoon I placed an Amazon order and was told that with free Prime 2 Day Shipping, it would be here Tuesday. Ok, no problem.
Then later that evening I got an email saying that the first of my three boxes had already been shipped. Then early Saturday morning, I was told the two remaining boxes had been shipped. WOW!
And with Amazon’s usual great service, everything showed up today, rather than tomorrow. And my friend Nick Russell, who’s out in CA land, actually had an Amazon order delivered by the USPS on SUNDAY!
With service like this, why do they need drones?
I’m sure readers will remember my Tale of Two Laces from a few days ago, Well I think I’ve found what I need, on Amazon of course. These 550 Paracord Steel Tip Boot Laces are made from 550 pound test Paracord, or parachute cord.
Anyway, they’ve certainly got to be better than the ones made from cheap Indian cow parts (as Lolita Gupta said, “Our kind of Indian, or the Come to Our Casino type of Indian). And at $11.50 for two pair, they’re actually cheaper, too.
Unfortunately I didn’t come across them until after I placed my order this past Friday, so I’ll wait until we’re at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails to order them.
BTW one of the 8 colors available for these laces is ‘Coyote’. Is that really a color, or just a made-up one, like mauve or fuchsia.
Our daughter Brandi sent over this latest piece of Landon’s artwork. She ask him to draw a turkey, and here’s what he came up with in about 10 minutes.
He even put the Pilgrim hat on top (note the gold buckle), as well as the flowers and the tree, all on his own.
In case you didn’t remember, he’s FIVE. And they’ve even made comments at school about his artwork. He must get this from his uncle, our son Chris, who also is a talented artist.
I must say though, with all the multi-colored tail feathers, I would suspect some hanky-panky with the NBC Peacock.
Just sayin’
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Thought for the Day:
I was reading the other day about a new, improved Bear Spray that’s come on the market in Alaska. You’ve gotta figure it’s a big improvement over the Bear Roll-On they sold in years past.
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