Daily Archives: December 12, 2015
Squalls and Scones . . .
Since I didn’t get to bed until almost 4am this morning, due to not getting home until after midnight and then having to do the blog, I really slept in, not getting up until about 11:30.
But when I finally did get up and got the coffee going, Jan and I sat outside for a while, drinking our coffee and eating some really good Blueberry Scones Jan found in the Kroger bakery department. Our next door neighbor, Bonnie, came by for a while so we could get acquainted. They’ve been full-timing for 15 years, and have run into our friend’s Nick and Terry Russell a few times on the road.
But our visit was cut short by a rain squall moving in, with it raining on and off the rest of the afternoon and evening. But as we ran for our respective rigs, we said we’d get together soon for dinner.
The rest of the afternoon was interspersed with light and heavy rains, which made it really nice to just hunker down in the rig, with our time divided between reading, computing, and TV’ing.
Really nice on a dreary December afternoon.
I forgot to mention that Wednesday, while I was working on the toilet, our friend Randy came by to say “Hi”. He had just pulled into the park a couple of hours earlier and noticed our coach parked across the circle from him.
Readers of our blog just about a year ago may remember my adventures with Randy’s new-to-him Monaco Diplomat. He had bought it from PPL here in Houston a few days earlier, and ended up parked right next to us here at the Colorado River Thousand Trails. He saw me outside working on my rig, and asked for some help with his rig’s electrical system.
After he’d been parked here several days, both his coach and engine batteries had run down. You can follow the story of what I found wrong with his coach, and how I fixed it. How it ever got off the dealer lot that way is a mystery.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2014/12/charge-2/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2014/12/batteries-and-balls/
https://ourrvadventures.com/2014/12/wiring-and-re-wiring/
Tomorrow morning we’re heading out to Galveston, about two hours away to have lunch with an old friend and ex-coworker of Jan’s. A while before we started RV’ing, Linda got bored with the Houston/Galveston area and up and moved to Billings, MT. Quite a change from Houston.
We’ve visited her there first in 2008 on our way to Alaska, and later on our way coming back. On the way up, at the end of March, it looked like this,
and coming back in the middle of October, it looked like this.
Like I said, quite a change from Houston.
Finally, congratulations are in order to our good friend Nick Russell. If you go to Amazon and search for ‘most popular books of 2015’, and then count down 12 books, you will find “Big Lake Burning”, one of his Big Lake series books.
Way To Go, Nick!
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Thought for the Day:
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra
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