Daily Archives: December 16, 2015
Great Food and Good Friends . . .
Once again this morning Jan and I sat outside with our coffee and pumpkin bread. And we were happy to have Bonnie and Vance Clegg, our next door neighbors, show up to talk for a while.
We had a really good time getting acquainted, comparing our travels and adventures. But, like our last outside visit, this get-together was called on account of weather, but a chilly wind this time, rather than rain like the other day.
Now that my immediate plumbing problems have been taken care of, I’ve been looking over my chore list, trying to decide what to work on next. I’ve got a couiple of small projects already in the hopper, rewiring my patio lights to fix a problem that didn’t really get fixed after our blow-out repair in Prescott, AZ earlier this year, remounting an inside grab handle next to Jan’s chair, and emptying and pressure washing a couple of my basement storage bays.
But I think my next big (kind of) project will be to restring my day/night shades.
Again.
I restrung them once before, about three years ago, but a while back, they started breaking, one by one. From what I can tell, the cord, which is supposedly heavy-duty and made especially for day/night shades, just frayed until it broke. So this time, based on an online recommendation, I’m going to use 100# – 200# fishing line. So I’ll see how that goes.
You can check out my original blind repair here
A little before 4pm, Jan and I headed up to Ellinger to have dinner at Peter’s BBQ, our favorite local BBQ place. And to make it even better, we were meetin up with new friend’s Bonnie and Vance Clegg, and old friend’s Janice and Dave Evans. We had hoped our friend Randy would be able to meet up with us, but he needed to finish up his Christmas shopping over in Katy.
Since this wasn’t Friday night, there was no buffet, so we all just ordered BBQ plates and sandwiches. They did have the sides table with a number of veggies and a couple of desserts. And unlike a lot of places, they do great veggies.
As usual when RV’ers get together, we sat around talking for about 2 hours, which is actually not a long time for this kind of gathering. I think our record is about 3 1/2 hours.
Tomorrow we’ll probably make a run into Columbus to drop off some mail at the PO and see if I can get a new washer for my almost no longer leaking shower connector. And our friend Nick Russell told me there’s a model train store on the town square, so that’s a must-visit too.
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Thought for the Day:
Based on this, looks like we should ban either doctors or baseball bats., not guns.asdfasdf
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