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Since today is the first day of our official 1 month stay here at Colorado River Thousand Trails, as soon as I got up I went outside and took a photo of my electric meter. Monthly and Annuals here have to pay their own electric and I like to have my own record..

I’m not expecting any problems with the meter reading, but it has happened at other parks, so I feel better having my own total.

A little after 1pm Jan and I headed into Columbus to have the Sunday Lunch Buffet at Schobel’s Restaurant. But before we left the park I stopped off at the office to pay the $375 for our month stay here, and also get the windshield card for the rig and the mirror hanger for the truck. One thing I like is that, unlike when we stay here for two weeks and are given three different gates to cover the time, they give you one code for the entire month.

Wonder if they have a yearly code for annuals?

While I was there I mentioned about recording the meter, and as it turned out, they hadn’t done it yet, so they wrote it down from my photo. Guess I missed a chance for a little creative photo editing and a really low electric bill for the month.

Then it was on into town for the buffet, and I guess it was the holiday because we’ve never seen it this busy. In fact we had a wait, ten minutes, for the first time ever.

A week or so ago, I mentioned that I gotten us a couple of pair of EMT scissors, or Trauma Shears from Amazon.

As I said, EMT’s and ER personnel use them to cut people out of their seat belts, coats, clothes, belts, shoes, etc. In fact, they will even cut metal.

So I wasn’t surprised to see a couple of EMT’s wearing them at breakfast this morning.

The buffet here was as delicious as usual, with Fried Chicken, Sausage Links, Ham Slices, Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans with Bacon, Corn, and Candied Yams. All this, along with a great salad bar and Carrot Cake for dessert.

And really really good.

And this just illustrates my point about Peter’s BBQ’s price increases. At $11.95, it’s only a dollar more than the much smaller buffet at Peter’s. A much better deal.

Game of Thrones recently wrapped up the 6th season on HBO, and although Jan and I have never watched it, we will probably check it out in a few years when it comes to regular TV.

I mean, with magic, intrigue, dragons, and nudity, what’s not to like? But it may be a while since it’s now been renewed for a 7th season.

But I recently came across this video showing the before and after of some of the special effects on the show. It’s really amazing what they can do with computers and video now.

But what caught my eye was in the last few seconds of the clip. Apparently the bear used in the show is real, and not a special effect. And it shows the trainer giving him a pan of whipped cream.

As I mentioned the other day, Miss Karma the cat loves whipped cream, and will come running when she sees the can. So when she got out the other day, I used whipping cream to lure her out and catch her. A Close Call

So I guess it works for bears too. I know I’d give the bear as much whipped cream as he wanted.

You can check it the entire video below.

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Thought for the Day:

Yes, sometimes I do talk to myself. Even I need expert advice occasionally.

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Well, the high here today was 95°, with a 97 forecast  for tomorrow. And then it’s 8 straight days of 99° or above.

More likely ‘above’, knowing Texas in the summertime.

One thing I’ve noticed here at the Colorado River TT this weekend is that it’s not nearly as full as I expected for a long holiday weekend. Of course I haven’t checked down along the river, but up here at the top of the hill, it’s not near as busy as I’ve seen it on a normal weekend during the last couple of months.

Of course, since we’re usually not here during this part of the summer, I don’t know what’s actually normal for now anyway.

Now that website stuff had slowed down due to the holiday weekend, I got back to posting the latest entry under Greg’s Favorite Apps.

This one is Internet Utilities, a compilation of my favorite online apps. I’ll try to get back to posting a new group every few days or so.

After yesterday’s post about the new The Momentum Machines Autonomous Grill Master that makes 400 burgers an hour, blog reader Richard Schell wondered if I thought this might be a solution to all my problems with our orders at the Whataburger up in Carthage while we were gate guarding last year.

I said it certainly came to mind especially since we’ve had mistakes at both the Whataburger in Columbus and La Grange. At some point you might begin to think that the common factor here might be us.

But when we’re in Conroe we eat at Culver’s a lot, and they’ve never messed up our order. Not once. So it’s not us.

Landon and his family  are up in OK spending the holiday weekend with Lowell’s parents, so Landon’s getting his fill of ‘Granny’ time, his name for Lowell’s mother. (Jan’s ‘Landon name’ is ‘Nana’)

So today Landon and Granny got to spend some time together at Chuck E. Cheese.

Looks like fun.

Thought for the Day:

Last year, sixteen people were killed by ostriches – twice the number killed by sharks. Maybe the Discovery Channel should be running Ostrich Week right now instead.

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