Our RV Adventures

Jan fixed a new appetizer / snack a couple of days ago and they’re so good I thought I’d pass on the recipe in Jan’s Favorite Recipes.

They’re called Alabama Fire Crackers, and you ought to give them a try.

 
About 1pm I put in a call to the Colorado River TT to see what their schedule is for reopening. Ideally we would like to move back there this coming Sunday, a week earlier than we had originally planned. That way we can split up the 300 mile trip back to Conroe on May 8th. Even if we can’t go back to Colorado River this weekend, we’ll try to go back at least a day or so early on the trip back to Lake Conroe.

i mentioned last week that I had found one of my old GPS modules for my Delorme Street Atlas program. Karma the Cat had chewed the USB connector off the one I had been using, and I was going to try to repair it, but then I found my old one.

But when I used it this past Sunday on our trip over here from Lake Conroe, I quickly found out why I had retired it. It takes between 3 to 5 minutes to lockup on the satellites, while the cat-chewed one only takes 15 to 30 seconds.

Maybe I’ll rethink repairing that one.

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About 4pm Jan and I drove into downtown Lakehills (downtown is 3 stores and  a gas station) to pick up a few things We stopped off at Dave and Lynn Cross’ to see if they needed anything before they leave tomorrow, but they were good.

Although not a lot larger than a regular convenience store, it is a full grocery store, and very well stocked, including produce and meats. Jan got some salad stuff and a loaf of wheat bread and a couple of French bread sticks, as well as a couple of potatoes and some carrots to flesh out the last of the other day’s Beef Stew. And they were giving away free Lemon Pepper Beef Jerky. What’s not to like?

These last couple of trips I’ve started dumping our tanks at a different time. Previously I have always dumped both tanks right before we left. We have no problem going 14 days between black tank dumps so that’s not a problem

But now I dump a scoop of cheap laundry powder in the toilet right before we leave, and let it slosh around on the trip. Then when we arrive and set up, I then dump the tanks, and use our rig’s built-in tank flush system to clean it all out.

Between the detergent and the flush, it really seems to clean things out.

Finishing up, now that our son-in-law Lowell has started up his own freight company at LowellsLogistics.com, it looks like Landon has decided to also get into the transportation business and start his own Uber company.

Thought for the Day:

My family is tempermental. Half Temper. Half Mental.

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My morning started really early this morning, around 4:40 am, when my Galaxy Tab 4 began screaming at me.

When I go to bed at night (actually early morning) I take my Tab with me. I’ll usually read for a bit before putting it on the charger and going to sleep. But what was screaming at me was my Simple Weather Alert app,

This app ties you in to the National Weather Service alerts for your area, and will be on Greg’s Favorite Apps when I start posting them again. Soon.

And when I silenced the app and checked the alert, it said there was a Severe Tornado Alert for the area. But a second glance told me it wasn’t for the Medina Lake area, but for Conroe,and the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails. Thing was, the free version of this app doesn’t auto-update its location, so you have to tell it manually where you are locate.

So maybe I need to spring for the $1.99 Pro version. At least it won’t wake me up at night unless it’s important.

And as far as Conroe and Willis, it looks like they did get some damage, but I’m not sure how much.

Yesterday was sheeting changing day on our bed, and this time we tried something different. Just about a year ago Jan and I installed a new 4” Memory Foam Gel-Filled mattress topper on our queen size bed, but a more comfortable sleep came with a new problem.

This new topper does not grip the bed underneath as well as the old one. So it tends to slide around and start to hang off over the end. We’d tried putting some of that no-slip plastic fabric between the topper and the mattress, and although it helped somewhat, it really didn’t fix the problem. But a little Googling gave me a couple of possible solutions. One cheap, the other more expensive. Guess which one I picked.

Some people had had good luck with a 4’ x 6’ piece of that heavy-duty Non-Slip rug pad. But that would run us about $30 at Home Depot.

The other solution was a $2 package of large safety pins. Our topper is in a heavy fabric bag, so the idea is to use a bunch of pins, in this case 20, to fasten the bag to the edge of the box springs underneath it. So that’s what we did. We’ll see how that works, and I’ll let you know.

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As we were finally changing the sheets, we noticed how well these have held up. We bought two sets of these a couple of years ago, and they still look like new. They haven’t faded, pilled, or snagged, and are still soft and comfortable.

Milani 1500 thread count sheets

And these 1500 thread count are only $25 a set, for a top and bottom sheet, and two standard pillow cases. And they come in a number of different colors.

I’ve mentioned before about saving and scanning your Wal-Mart receipts using the Wal-Mart app on your phone. Over the last months we’ve gotten about $60 in rebates, and just this past weekend before we left Conroe, Jan found a dropped receipt in the parking lot as we entered the store. And between that one we found, and ours, we got back a little over $5 back. Check it out.

This afternoon, about 4pm, we headed into San Antonio with Dave and Lynn Cross to have dinner at one of our favorite San Antonio restaurants, La Fonda on Main.

We’ve eaten here a number of times over the years, and it’s always great. And it should be, as the’ve had a lot of practice, being open since 1932.

And here’s what they say about their clientele.

It is fascinating to hear how popular La Fonda has been as a dining spot of history’s most celebrated people. Every famous officer in World War II seems to have eaten here, including Generals’ Eisenhower, MacArthur and Hill. Even American presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson enjoyed La Fonda’s fare. Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Yul Brenner, Veronica Lake, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, along with many other stars, have visited this historic restaurant.

We got there a little after 5pm, and got seated immediately, but it wasn’t long until the dining room was almost full. And it’s easy to taste why.

Jan and Lynn had the Beef Chile Relleno with a Green Chicken Enchilada,

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while Dave and I each had the La Fonda Special, with two Cheese Enchilidas, a Pork Tamale, and a Beef Taco.

After that delicious meal, Jan and I were too full for dessert, but we couldn’t pass up their wonderful Tres Leches Cake, so we got a piece to go.

And getting back to the park, we dropped off Dave and Lynn at their rig and called it a day. A very nice day.

Thought for the Day:

You know your wife is mad when she starts off a sentence with – “I just find it funny how . . . “ Because you know there’s a 99.9% chance she did not find it funny.

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