Daily Archives: December 3, 2015
Called on Account of . . .
a 24 hour bug.
Jan and I headed out for Brandi’s down in Katy a little after 2pm. We were going there to have dinner, take a Christmas lights hayride, and then spend the night so we can take Landon to breakfast and then school tomorrow morning. Brandi is having day surgery for a sinus problem, and she and Lowell need to leave to house before it’s time to take Landon to school. So Nana and Papa are filling in.
We didn’t need to be at Brandi’s until 4:15, but we had left early for two reasons. We wanted to be sure that we would miss the going home traffic that seems to start up about 3, and we wanted to make a Camping World stop on the way. CW is just a couple of miles on out I-10 from Brandi’s exit so it was a perfect fit.
I wanted to pick up a new step mat for our rig. I really like this Clean Machine one, but only CW seems to sell them. Not even Amazon carries them.
These mats really do a good job cleaning dirt and mud off the bottom of my boots, which have a pretty deep tread.
The mat is made from really heavy AstroTurf so it’s much thicker than any other mat I’ve seen.
We had one on our rig before the big blow-out this past May, but when they installed our new step, our old mat apparently didn’t make the cut.
After getting our new mat, we were at Brandi’s about 4pm, only to find out there’d been a big change in plans.
Brandi had some sort of 24 hour bug and they had put off her surgery until next Friday.
Landon came home from school yesterday feeling bad, and a few hours later, Lowell had it too. Aches and pains, fever and diar . . . Well, you get the idea. But by this afternoon they were both feeling pretty much back to normal.
But then Brandi woke up with it this morning, so everything’s been pushed back. But since Landon was feeling better we still wanted to do the Christmas lights hayride that we already had tickets for.
Luckily, we still had time for dinner, so Lowell, Landon, and Jan and I headed over Little V’s Vietnamese Bistro for our usual delicious meal. And for Brandi, we brought back a big bowl of Chicken Pho.
Hey, chicken soup is chicken soup, no matter how you spell it.
The hayride wasn’t as much fun as we’d hoped. We were sitting on hay bales on an open flat bed trailer with nothing to hold on to. And the driver drove like he had a schedule to meet. He rolled just about every stop sign where he didn’t need to stop for traffic, and pretty much kept to the 25-30 mph speed limit all the way, at least according to my phone GPS. All this meant that none of the 30 or so pictures I took of the lights are anything more than just a blur. Plus he almost dumped me on my rear a couple of times with his jack-rabbit starts.
All in all, not a really fun time. But Landon enjoyed it, so there is that.
Finally, don’t forget about Landon’s Kindergarten Class Gingerbread Man project. A number of you have already sent in postcards and we greatly appreciate it.
To recap, Landon’s class needs picture postcards from around the country mailed to his class describing sightings of the missing Gingerbread Man. Note that the cards don’t have to be mailed from that location. You can just say something like, “We saw the missing Gingerbread Man here at Mt. Rushmore.”
You can mail them to:
Traci Blocker
Keiko Davidson Elementary
26906 Pine Mill Ranch Drive
Katy, Texas 77494
Thanks for your help.
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Thought for the Day:
“Gold cannot always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can always get you gold”– Niccolo Machiavelli
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