Monthly Archives: May 2016
Landon Sitting . . .
Landon Sitting . . .After our coffee this morning we headed into Katy about 1pm to meet up with Brandi so she and Jan could go get mani-pedis (pedi only in Jan’s case). Lowell was doing some trucking stuff, so I was going to be Landon-sitting.
The hour trip was smooth, but there was a lot more traffic than I expected. Hopefully there won’t this much tomorrow when we move to Lake Conroe, since it will be earlier, but then it is Mother’s Day, so you never can tell.
Jan and Brandi headed out a little after 2pm leaving me on guard duty. Landon was playing with his friend Junior who lives diagonally across the street. Luckily I was backed up by Lowell’s sister Sherry, who came home right after Jan and Brandi left.
At least now I’m not outnumbered.
When we got there, Landon and Junior were in the backyard playing on Landon’s waterslide, but then came in and played doing artwork at the table.
Then later, around 4 they were outside playing in the cul-de-sac in front of the house.
About this time Jan and Brandi showed up with pretty toes, so we headed out for dinner, along with Aunt Sherry, to La Finca, a nearby Mexican place that we ate at once before, and really liked.
Lowell was still at his show and wouldn’t be home until late, so he lost out.
Jan had a Beef Chile Relleno, along with a Chicken Enchilada,
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while I had the Fajitas Poblanos.
Brandi got the Beef Fajitas, with enough to take home to Lowell, and Sherry, who eaten earlier, only had an ‘Italian Margarita’.
I’m sorry. But that’s just wrong.
After a really great meal, and getting our good-bye hugs, Jan and I headed home, finally getting back about a little before 7pm.
I then spent some time prepping for our departure tomorrow morning. Since we’ll be doing our normal breakfast at Schobel’s before we leave here, I always try to get as much done as possible before then.
Yesterday, on our way back from Peter’s BBQ, we drove down to the recently flooded C and D sections here at Colorado River.
It was really strange to see all these spaces completely empty, when normally they would be really full right now.
Supposedly the problem now with getting sites back open is with the sewer system. So we’ll just have to wait and see.
Thought for the Day:
Think you’re really special because you’ve got a GoPro camera on your drone? Check out what you can see when you put GoPros on a rocket.
The video is just spectacular.
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Power Problems?
Well, our friend Nick Russell down in Florida may have infected us by remote control with his electrical problems.
Sunday afternoon, a little while after we got here, Jan was fixing supper in the microwave, and when the a/c camer on, the shore power went off. But in about 30 seconds, it popped back on. Then a few minutes later, it did it again. So I turned off the a/c for a few minutes until Jan had finishing fixing dinner.
Now, since I knew the pedestal breaker didn’t pop and reset itself, my first thought was a problem with my Progressive EMS (Electrical Management System). If it senses a problem it will shut down and reset itself, but when it does, it will display an error code.
But no code.
So since we were on 50 amps, and this shouldn’t have happened, what was causing the problem? Maybe it was the park power itself? But when I checked with the people in the rig two sites over, they said no problem. And since the problem didn’t reappear, i left it at that.
But the real kicker is that this same problem ocurred two months ago when we were here, and on the same inner circle of ‘A’ section.
Two weeks, after the first time, when we returned to Colorado River, we were parked across the street, on the outside of one of the ‘A’ ring circles. And unlike the previous visit, we had no problem at all there.
Yesterday, in the middle of cooking Jan’s Cupboard Casserole in the convection oven, we had the same problem again. Twice, in fact. So now we’ve got the same problem, only in one park, and only in the same small section.
So this afternoon, I called the park office and they sent the electric guy out. My thought was this – since the pedestal breaker wasn’t the problem, and Progressive EMS wasn’t the problem, the problem must be external.
And the only thing that makes sense with that is that there are auto-reset breakers upstream from the pedestal. I’ve seen this at other parks, and I suspect it might be the case here.
But when I mentioned this possibility to the electrical guy, he said they didn’t have any auto-reset breakers here at Colorado River. But then he stopped and thought for a minute, and then said, “Well, this inside circle was upgraded to 50 amps about 6 months ago so we could put cottages here, and they installed a entirely new panel. And he didn’t have any idea what was in it.
And then the kicker. I wasn’t the first person to report a problem here in the inner circle.
I told the guy that I suspected that one side of the auto-reset breaker was weak and pops at too low an amperage. But I think it’s only one side of the breaker, since it doesn’t pop when both a/c’s are running. But that’s split across both breakers.
And according to my nifty-keen Kill-A-Watt meter, the a/c draws more than the convection oven.
So I think that one side of the breaker is popping and of course taking the other side with it, since they’re ganged together. But since we leaving here Sunday, hopefully we won’t have any more problems.
About 4:30 Jan and I headed up to Ellinger to have the Friday night buffet at Peter’s BBQ. We do this at least once while we’re here and it’s always delicious.
I posted yesterday’s Cupboard Casserole in the Jan’s Favorite Recipes area, so check it out, and add your own ideas.
Tomorrow we’re heading into Katy about 1pm so I can Landon-sit. Lowell has a trucking show to go to, and Brandi and Jan are going to get mani-pedi’s. So this will leave Landon and I to get into trouble all on our own.
Really looking forward to it.
Thought for the Day:
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own.
Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles — Jeff Cooper (1920-2006)
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