Daily Archives: December 17, 2015
No More Choo Choo . . .
When I got up about 11 this morning, I found that Jan had already been out for a walk about 8am, and she wanted to know if I wanted to do another with her. So I started our coffee and got our pumpkin bread ready to toast, and off we went.
It’s been a good while since we walked so we only did a little over .80 miles, around the loops, and then down to the bridge and back to the rig. By then the coffee was done, so we sat outside with it while we waited for the pumpkin bread to toast.
About this time a gentleman walked across the road toward us, and wanted to know if we were ‘Jan and Greg White’?
Our visitor turned out to be Frank Dillon, a blog reader for about the last year and a half. He recoginized us from the blog and came over to say Hi.
Now a solo in a BT Cruiser, he and his late wife used to gate guard, and he wanted to know if we wanted his old Mighty Mule Driveway Alarm. Since he’s not gate guarding any more he was passing it on to us
We all set around outside for a good while, talking about all the things that RV’ers talk about when they get together for the first time. Somewhere in here our friend Randy dropped by and we set up a date to have dinner at Los Cabos Mexican Restaurant in Columbus tomorrow afternoon.
Unfortunately Frank is leaving tomorrow so he won’t be able to join us.
Later, about 3:15, Jan and I headed into Columbus to drop off some stuff at the P.O, before heading into downtown Columbus to make a stop at the hardware store. I was looking for a new connector to replace the still slightly-leaking one in my shower, as well as some large hooks to use to hold down my truck floor mats. I think I found something to take care of both problems, but we’ll see in the next several days.
Our next stop was around on the town square to visit the A-Train toy train store that my friend Nick Russell had told me about.
Unfortunately the Choo Choo had left the station and not returned. All that was left inside was a lot of empty counters and trash.
Bummer!
We did drive around the square to check out the beautiful courthouse. Seems almost like every little Texas town has a neat courthouse square.
Getting back to the rig, I got out the last of the Chicken Tortilla Soup to heat up for dinner. To add a little more ‘body’ I added a can of Chili Beans, and chopped up another Serrano chili pepper to add a little more bite.
Still just as good as the first time. Then after we’d finished up, I dropped another package of chicken breast strips into the remaining broth and used this to poach the chicken so Jan will have it ready to fix her King Ranch Chicken while we’re at Lake Conroe next week.
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Thought for the Day:
“We don’t seem to be able to stop crime, so why not legalize it and put a heavy tax on it. We have taxed other industries out of business; it might work here.” –Will Rogers, March 20, 1931
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