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Although it did rain for a short time this morning, the afternoon was clear and not too hot. In fact the forecast is for high 80’s to 90 for the next 10 days or so, and that sounds nice, especially for August in Texas.

Early in the afternoon, I started making gate guarding calls. I left a message with Jamie of Gate Guard Services, and hopefully he’ll call back tomorrow.

Guard 1 took my name and email address and said they’d email me some paper work to fill out. She also wanted to know when we’d be available, and seemed pleased when I told her next week. But as of tonight I still haven’t received any email from them.

As far as the wind farm thing, the girl at Sitewatch said she’d email Buster and he would call me as soon as he was free. But so far I haven’t  heard from him either.

If I don’t hear anything in the next day or so, I’ll start calling down my list of gate guarding companies and see what I can stir up.

Later I spent some time working on new web stuff, getting things set up for a new company’s website.

A little after 4pm Jan and I headed up to Ellinger to have the Catfish Buffet at Peter’s BBQ . It was as good as usual, and at $10.95, at least they didn’t raise the price again.

Besides the Fried Catfish and Fried Shrimp which are both delicious, I really enjoy all the veggies and salads almost as much. Corn on the cob, boiled red potatoes, pinto beans, green beans with bacon and onions, boiled cabbage, cooked carrots, mac and cheese, and sweet rice. The salad selection is good too, with potato salad, fresh pea salad, Cole slaw, Jell-0 salad, and macaroni salad.

As for desserts, they’ve got banana pudding, peach cobbler, blackberry cobbler, and soft ice cream.

All in all, a very good buffet, especially if they don’t raise the price for the 3rd time.

I was surprised by the sweet rice. It looked like mashed potatoes, but the texture was different and it was sweet. I’d never had it before, so I had to ask what it was. It was good, but the sweetness was a surprise when I first tasted it.

We spent a few minutes talking to one of the ladies working there who confirmed my thought that all the vegetables were fresh, and the meats, like brisket, ribs, chicken, steak for chicken fried steak and hamburger, etc., are all bought fresh every morning.

And it certainly shows . . .  and tastes.

Brandi’s been off this week so she and Landon spent the day at the Typhoon Texas Waterpark right down the road from them.

Then later the entire family all headed out to the Katy Food Truck Park to have dinner. Lendel and Sonja, Landon’s other grandparents are down from OK for Landon’s 6th birthday party tomorrow. Jan and I thought about going in to Katy for it, but Jan’s on the 3rd day coming off a migraine, so we begged off until we see them tomorrow.

We’ll head into Brandi’s tomorrow about 11:30 and then on to the Main Event Entertainment complex for Landon’s birthday party. until around 4pm.

Really looking forward to it, and also seeing Lendel and Sonja again.

Thought for the Day:

“The right to buy weapons the right to be free.” – A. E. van Vogt

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A number of you gave me gate guarding leads, and I really appreciate it. I’m going to start calling tomorrow, starting of course, with Jamie of Gate Guard Services fame.

And you never know. When I called him about this time last year, he didn’t have anything for us. But then he called us back two days later with our gate near Carthage.

Since not much happened today, I thought I’d update you on some of my recent repairs/upgrades.

Back in June, I replaced our dying/leaking water pump with this new Shurflo model I got from Amazon.

It replaced one I installed in 2008, soon after we bought our coach. And this one is quieter, more powerful, and cheaper than the old one. In fact it puts out a better shower than a lot of park’s shore water.

Next is our new Zero G RV and Marine Hose that we got a few months back. I’d been waiting for someone to come out with a flexible hose that was drinking water safe, and the Zero G fills the bill.

However, unlike those ‘Pocket Hoses’ on TV, the Zero G doesn’t expand. It just gets soft and very flexible. So much so, that you can just wad it up in a ball.

It seems very heavy-duty, with a canvas feel, almost like a fire hose. I really look forward to traveling this winter and not having to wrestle with a regular hose when it’s 40 degrees.

I’m a really lucky guy.  I married a girl who likes military airshows, science fiction movies, and makes me take her to Hooters. And if that wasn’t enough, she also likes Battlebots.

We’ve really been enjoying the recent episodes on Thursday nights, amazed at some of the ideas that the contestants come up with, and enjoying seeing one of the robots coming apart in pieces and flying across the arena, or even catching fire and blowing up.

Wrapping up, I want to introduce you to blog reader Mary Klinger and her new website, Dietitian Delivers that I recently put online.

Mary is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Diabetes Educator, with a Masters in Nutritional Sciences. Through her personalized counseling sessions, Mary specializes in creating a custom diet plan for you, whether just for better general nutrition, or helping to get your diabetes under control.

She has a couple of free downloads online, plus several inexpensive diet plans.

Check out her site.

Mary contacted me because she saw my ad on the right hand column of this blog.

So if you need any kind of web design services, give me a call.

“Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals” – Sam Adams

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