Daily Archives: July 25, 2016

Simple, Quick and . . .

Delicious.

Just to keep an eye on things, I checked my electric meter yesterday to see where I stand at the 3 week point. So far I’ve used 1316 KWh’s which at $0.12 a KWh gives me a total of $158, a $50 increase over last week. So I guess I’m looking at about a $200 bill when we leave next Sunday.

About 2pm Jan and I drove into Columbus for a Whataburger lunch and then a few things at Brookshire Bros, as well as a lottery ticket for Wednesday’s nights Powerball drawing for $422 million. You can’t win if you don’t play.

Of course even if you do play, you probably won’t win.

Coming home I swung by the Colorado Oil Co Co-op to check the price of their diesel. Until recently it was always the cheapest place in the area, but not now. In fact now they are one of the highest. Don’t know what happened.

But maybe that’s why their diesel digital price sign no longer works. Which is why I was checking it out at the pump today. We want to top off our rig’s tank before we go too far so we don’t take a chance with our generator and AC’s quitting when we head to Gulf Shore this Sunday..

And once again, while Brookshire Bros. has diesel for $2.03, Colorado County was at $2.09. No wonder their sign doesn’t work.

Getting into the park, it started to rain, coming down fairly heavy for about 30 minutes. The really nice thing was that it lower the temperature all the way down to 82 degrees. Nice!

Then about 7:30 the bottom dropped out for a while, with a lot of wind and thunder. And then this knocked the temp down to the high 70’s. Nicer!

After we got home Jan whipped up one of her Pineapple Angel Food Cakes. Just combine a box of Angel Food Cake Mix and a 20 oz. can of Crushed Pineapple, juice and all. Mix it up and dump it into 9” x 13” ungreased cake pan. 350° and 30 to 40 minutes later you’ve got this.

Jan's Pineapple Cake

As I said, Simple, Quick, and Really Delicious! Especially with some whipped cream on top. YUM!

Give it a try.

Our daughter Brandi says this is her serious “I mean business” face. I guess she was psyching herself up for the 5K (3.1 miles) Blacklight Run 2016 that she did Saturday night. She did say she ditched the ears after about a mile.

Brandi's Business Face

She said she’s going to do a half-marathon (13.1 miles) sometime in November. I know she’ll do it.

And apparently she wasn’t too tired, since she, Lowell, and Landon spent Sunday afternoon at the nearby Typhoon Texas waterpark in Katy.

Brandi et all at Typhoon

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Thought for the Day:

The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years despite not having brains gives hope to many people.

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