January 15, 2016 – Our RV Adventures

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Just Droning On . . .

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We did walk this morning, and Nick and Terry came with us. We did the bottom loop, a little over .6 miles, before we came back to the rig, A little later, Nick and Terry came for a while to take and also catch up on last week’s Mike & Molly that they didn’t get to record. And as usual we had a great time just talking and laughing.

Later, after they went home, Nick called to say he was down by the putt-putt course flying his DJI Phantom drone, and did I want come fly it too.

I think I was down there before he hung up.

Although I have a number of drones myself, this was my first time to fly a Phantom like this one.

DJI Phantom Quadcopter Drone

I’d heard about how stable it was in flight,

and the reports were true. Even in the gusty winds we were experiencing, the Phantom was pretty much rock steady. When I set it in a hover at a certain altitude, it would just stay here.

When the wind gusts moved it to the side, it would return to its previous position all on its own.

And although I had never flown one before, I had no trouble controlling this one, with only a bouncy landing to my credit.

Here’s a short video of with Nick at the controls.

Later, about 4:15 we all headed into the Katy area to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at one of our all-time favorite places, Little V’s Vietnamese Bistro. Nick and Terry had been jonsing for this place since they got to town, and we were all looking forward to going.

Landon decided we were laughing and talking so much that we were making too much noise, interrupting his game play. So he stayed underneath the table using the seat as a rest for his tablet.

After a great dinner, we all headed back to Brandi’s for a bit so I could pick up some mail, then it was on back to Colorado River.

And then tomorrow, believe it or not, we’re going to do it all again. Tomorrow is Nick and Terry’s Anniversary, and they want to go back again.

Yeah, like we have a problem with that. Back when our kids were small, we once ate at the same restaurant every night for a week So two nights in a row is no problem.

If it’s good once, it’s good twice, right? Or even seven times.

We saw online about a big frack site fire up in Oklahoma, near Chickasha. So far it seems that truck off to the side caught fire and then it quickly spread, finally consuming the entire site.

The site, owned by Continental Oil, and being fracked by FTS has been rated as a total loss, with 22 trucks, valued at over $1 million a piece, burned to a crisp.

Luckily, probably because it started as a fire and not as an explosion, everybody got out safely with no injuries.

Even though we’ve never been extremely close to our frack sites, glad this didn’t happen at one off our gates.

The story about one of the PowerBall winners that was going around the Net yesterday, about the California winner being given the 1/3 winning PowerBall by her boss, turned out to be a prank, one that apparently got out of hand. The boss did give all of his 9000 employees a PowerBall ticket. That part was true.. But the winner part of it came about when a son called his mother at work, and as a prank, told her she had won.

But things quickly got out of hand, the press was called, and the announcement went out nationwide, with TV and news reporters crowding into her workplace. I suspect that her son is now very sorry he did this.

If he’s still around.

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