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Jan and I hit the walking trail again this morning, extending our distance to 0.92 according to the RunKeeper app on my phone. When we come back here in two weeks I’ve mapped out another trail that will push us up to about 1.25 miles.

Looking at the site map it doesn’t look like Lake Conroe TT has any discreet walking/hiking trails. Instead it seems they have a path marked out along the park roads, I guess hoping you don’t get run over by a golf cart or an RV. But if the weather holds, we’ll keep walking while we’re at Lake Conroe, and then back here at Colorado River.

For our post-walk coffee and English muffins, we sat outside for a while enjoying the warm sun, and watching the deer down in the field.

We really hope we’re lucky enough to get this site when we come back in two weeks.

Finally coming inside, Jan started putting together a batch of her Famous King Ranch Chicken in the slow-cooker, and I made some phone calls setting up some food for our Christmas dinner.

First up was the Fish Pond Restaurant in Willis so we can pick up one of their great Coconut Cream pies for Christmas dessert, and then I called the Cracker Barrel up in Conroe to order some of their delicious Cornbread Dressing and Giblet Gravy that we’ll pick up Thursday on the way to our Christmas Eve get-together.

With everyone scattered around between Conroe, Friendswood, and Katy, and Lowell’s parents coming in from Oklahoma, we’re trying to keep the whole ‘cooking’ thing as simple as possible.

Next up I went back outside to get a jump on our move to Lake Conroe TT tomorrow morning. First thing, I checked my tire pressures and found them all OK. These Ironman tires that we got after our blow-out in Arizona this past summer, really hold air well. Except for adding or releasing air to allow for summer/fall temperature changes, I’ve never had add any air since we bought these tires in Prescott, AZ this past summer.

Next up I packed away the chairs and other stuff into the toad, and then dumped the waste tanks. When that was done, I went ahead and disconnected us from shore water and stowed all the hoses. This means that tomorrow morning I will only have to stow the satellite dome and unplug shore power, and we’ll be ready to roll. Finally, having walked almost a mile this morning, and then accomplished so much around the rig, I rewarded myself with a nice little nap.

While I was asleeep, our friend Janice Evans dropped by to visit with Jan for a while, and then my friend Nick Russell called. but oblivious to everything, I slept through it all. Nice!

When I got up, I called Nick back to see what was going on. He said he had just published his new book, “Black Friday”, on Amazon, and that it should be live sometime this evening. I’ve been checking, and as of a little before 10pm, it still wasn’t available yet. I’ll keep checking.

After that I remember that I had bought some hooks at the hardware store to use on my truck floor mats. While we were on the gate, I had used my grommet kit to install some grommets on my floor mats.

They keep sliding forward and scrunching up under the pedals, so I wanted to fix that. I looked around for the right hooks, but they were all either too small, or too weak. Finally I found some coat hooks that look like they’d do the job.

It was quick work to screw them into the floor board and get them ready to use. I had already checked with a Dodge dealer to be sure there were no wires or hoses running underneath that I might puncture, so i was OK there.

And here’s what it looks like with the mats in place.

Although they are kind of ‘white’, they’re actually up under the seat so they’re really not easily visible. We’ll see how they’ll hold up.

Folowing up with my shower leak repair, it looks like whatever leak I had is gone. Here’s what leaked out after four showers.

Absolutely nothing.

I’ll keep the foam bowl in place for a while, especially to see what happens after we travel tomorrow.

We’ll plan on heading out to Lake Conroe TT, 120 miles away, tomorrow morning around 10am. Being Sunday, we shouldn’t have much trouble in the way of traffic, but you never know with Houston traffic.

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Thought for the Day:

Never judge a book by its movie. — J. W. Eagan

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Jan and I walked again this morning, this time doing one of the walking paths that circle the park, upping our distance to 0.88 miles from yesterday’s 0.80. We did come across a lot of deer today, as the warm sun made it nice, even though it was only in the 50’s.

We’ll try to bump it up a little more tomorrow,  which will be the last day we’ll walk here, since we leave here for Lake Conroe Thousand Trails on Sunday.

I had started our coffee brewing before we left, so all I had to do when we got back was to pour it into our mugs, and start the pumpkin bread toasting. Then we sat outside for a while, just in time for Janice and Dave Evans to walk by. Taking a break, they sat down for a while as we talked over our past and upcoming travels, but finally Dave’s chores beckoned too strongly, and they headed back to their rig.

After working for while on some computer stuff, about 1pm I walked next door to Bonnie and Vance Clegg’s to see if they wanted to meet us at Los Cabos this evening, but they’d just finished up with lunch, and said they wouldn’t be hungry by 4. But we did start talking before Jan wondered what happened to me and came over too. By the time we headed home, it was about 3pm. Time flies when RV’er get together.

About 4pm Jan and I drove around the circle to pick up our friend Randy to have dinner in Columbus at Los Cabos Mexican Restaurant, our favorite local Mexican place, actually our only local Mexican place. But we’ve never had a bad meal here.

They have all the basics, good chips and salsa, good iced tea, and good service. Oh, and the food’s really good too.

Jan had the Stuffed Avocado, stuffed with fajita beef and cheese, and also a beef fajita taco, and a cup of tortilla soup.

I had the Grilled Fajita Chicken Salad, with their homemade Ranch dressing.

Both really good!

I spent some time going over ideas about boondocking with Randy. He’s planning on boondocking for about 5 days the first part of next year, but he hasn’t done it before, so he wanted to get some tips.

Heading home I stopped off the hardware store to pick up a rotary file or hasp. I need to open up a hole in the inside metal wall of the coach. I was looking for one 5/8” in diameter, but the only thing they stocked were the Dremel size ones, which would be too small. So it’s off to Lowe’s when we get to Conroe.

Getting back to the park, we stopped off at the rig for a couple of minutes before we headed down to the C loop to visit with Janice and Dave Evans.

And as usual, several hours went by before we realized it, and it was after 8pm before we got back to the rig.

Finishing up, I want to again thank everyone that sent in Gingerbread Man postcards to Landon’s class. Brandi sent over this email from Landon’s teacher.

Hello Parents!
It was so nice getting to know and teach your little ones. The time went by so quickly.  They are so AMAZING and  I will miss them dearly.  Thank you for all the support that you have shown me during this time. The kids absolutely loved getting the postcards from our run away Gingerbread man.  He has returned  (smile) but the cards are still flooding in.  I just tell the kids that he ran around the world so fast he beat the mailman!  They love getting it. Please tell your family members thank you for sending them it.  It would not have worked with out them.  We got postcards from all over the United States even Italy and Germany!  They are posted up by the state they came from on a big map we have in the classroom.  Mrs. Vasquez will be back when your kiddo’s return from Winter break and she is so excited to see the kids again.  Please have a great break!  Until next time.
Mrs. Blocker  

Once again, thanks to everyone who participated.

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Thought for the Day:

If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.

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