Our RV Adventures

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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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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