Monthly Archives: December 2015
Really Lucky . . .
Well, after it rained (and poured) all day, the cold front showed up right on time, with the temperature dropping from 74 degrees to 49 degrees between 5pm and 7pm with a drop to 39 degrees scheduled before the night is over.
The weather was bad enough that we didn’t even think about walking this morning. In fact we never even left the rig at all, but just hunkered down and goofed off with reading, computing, and napping. So actually, a very nice day.
But our rain and cold front is nothing compared to the bad weather that hit areas around Dallas, especially the River Plantation RV Park.
According to reports, no one was killed at the RV park, although 11 were reportedly killed in other areas of Texas.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those who lost family or friends in these storms
One of Jan’s favorite gifts this Christmas was a two’fer. First Landon gave her a sample of his latest artwork from school.
I’m constantly amazed by his use of color and composition.
And his school is so hi-tech that even his artwork is bar-coded on the back
But Jan’s real gift was that Brandi took that artwork and turned it into a notebook for her.
She probably won’t even want to write in it, just to keep it longer.
For more on the family front, we got this photo of our great-nieces, great-nephews. and a . . . great-fawn?
We never know what’s going to show up with them. The last pictures of Darby and Stahlie came from the Great Wall of China.
Only Stahlie could get photo-bombed by a Chinese Communist soldier.
If you want to read more about their China trip, you can follow it up here:
Tomorrow about 9:30 Jan and I are driving down to our daughter Brandi’s in Katy to spend the day with Lendel and Sonja, our son-in-law Lowell’s parents, so we can take Landon out for some fun stuff.
Really looking forward to it.
Thought for the Day:
“Drill for oil?’ You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.” –Driller who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
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Just in Time . . .
Jan and I did 1.03 miles today, staying just ahead of the rain. We’ll probably stay at this distance until we leave here and head back to Colorado River TT on Jan 3rd. Then we’ll bump it up, hopefully, to 2 miles or so over the next couple of months.
It was starting to mist when we headed out, but just as we getting back to the rig, it went from sprinkling to downright raining. So we timed that perfectly. Of course it only rained for about 10 minutes and then stopped.
It looks like the small heatwave we’ve been having the last few days is coming to a screeching halt. The high today was 77, and it’s going down to 71 tonight. But after a high of 73 tomorrow, the front comes through and it’s going down to 38 degrees tomorrow.
Then it’s low 50’s and low 30’s for the next 10 days or so. It’s going to be nice to actually have winter again.
Later, after our coffee and cranberry bread, I got back to work on re-installing Jan’s “Oh Sh$t Handle” right by her chair. If you missed the earlier posts. you can check it out here: Livingston Bound and BBQ
I first drilled pilot holes in each of the wooden dowel rods that I had glued in last week, but when I went to put the #14 x 2” wood screws in the handle so I could screw it in, I found a problem.
When I used a smaller screw to measure the length I would need, I apparently used the bottom hole in the handle. But as it turns out, the top hole in the handle doesn’t go into the wood as far as the bottom hole. So while the bottom screw extend out about 1”, the top screw only stuck out about 1/2”.
So while I went ahead and temporarily mounted the handle, I’m going to get a 2-1/2” screw to replace the 2” one.
When I get the larger screws, I’m also got to get a can of White Oak Pickling Stain to refinish all the handles.
But I was happy to see that the handle is now locked down very firmly with no movement at all. So once I replace the screw and re-stain the handle, I should be finished with this project and ready to move on to others.
There’s always others.
Before I finish this up, I thought I’d answer several inquiries where the handle’s name came from.
The actual name for the ‘Oh Sh$t Handle” came from a hilarious book called “Queen of the Road
It’s what she grabs when someone cuts us off, or pulls out in front of us and then stops. But over the years, after a lot of use, she finally broke it off completely. And when that happened, whatever held it in place fell down in the wall, so I had to come up with a new way of mounting it.
Wrapping up, regular readers will remember how in the past I’ve had trouble with multiple hacking attempts trying to log in to this blog. But in the last couple of months, the attempts had dwindled away to almost nothing.
And since most of the attempts came from Europe, and recently stopped, it may be that this is the reason why. – Botnet Attacking WordPress Sites
Hopefully this will eliminate the problem once and for all.
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Thought for the Day:
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