Monthly Archives: November 2016
Oopsie . . .
This morning start off on a bad note and then got worse. But only for a while.
For some reason I woke up at 4am, apparently not remembering that I didn’t need to actually get up until 4:30. Then to top it all off, I went to the WRONG gate.
When I got the text from Todd about today’s gate, I saw the gate name Davila 5 and the time 5:30p and figured I knew where it was. I had been to Davila 3,4,5 three different times so I figured this was the one Todd was talking about so I didn’t look carefully at the directions. I should have.
So I ended up at the wrong gate and it took me about 30 minutes to get it all straightened out and get to the right gate. I’m still not sure how there can be a Davila 3,4,5 AND a Davila 5,6,7, miles apart.
And I guess it wasn’t just me since late this afternoon someone showed up at my gate looking for the other Davila, so now I don’t feel so bad.
The gate itself was very slow, with only 6 vehicles in and out all day. Nice and quiet.
Changing gears, Jan’s gotten the Genealogy bug again and we’ve been working through the labyrinth that is Family Search, the LDS free online family tree program. A lot of it is already done and on paper so it’s just a matter of entering it in.
Jan’s family on her mother’s side goes back to the late 1500’s with the Morgan family of Virginia. At one time the Morgan’s owned most of Virginia and what is now West Virginia. In fact Morgantown WV is named for her family.
On my side, my mother was a member of both the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy) so she has our lines going back to the Revolution and beyond, including a lot from early Virginia. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if Jan and I are actually related back there somewhere.
That might explain a lot.
And on my father’s side, his mother, Sarah Ann Parr, was born in England. We’ve got that line pretty much traced back, with only a few gaps, to Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII. Not from Henry, of course. He and Catherine never had any children. But she remarried after he died, and we come down from that line.
Wrapping up, tomorrow and Wednesday I’m on another gate, and I definitely know where this one is.
I hope.
Thought for the Day:
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” ― Niels Bohr
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Turkey and Pizza . . .
I’m actually doing this blog in the afternoon rather than the evening since I’m working starting tomorrow getting up at 4:30a to be on the gate by 5:30.
Jan and I headed out about 12:15 for more Turkey and Dressing at Barth’s on their Sunday Lunch Buffet.
It doesn’t have to be Thanksgiving or Christmas for Jan to want Turkey and Dressing. That’s why her favotite day at Cracker Barrel is Thursday’s, their day for Turkey and Dressing. But alas, it was not to be.
Barth’s was closed. In fact almost every place in Kenedy was closed. Talk about a long Thanksgiving weekend. The only two places that we found open were Polack’s Sausage (BBQ) and Bella Sera, our ‘goto’ Italian place here in Kenedy.
And both places were packed. I guess that’s like our trip back from Katy on Thanksgiving when the only places we saw open were two Whataburgers and they both had lines out into the street.
Deciding on Bella Sera, we once again went with the large Meat Lover’s Pizza with added mushrooms, large enough to have half to take home for leftovers.
In fact I’m taking a slice for lunch on the gate tomorrow. Yumm!
One thing we always check going into Katy in the sign showing the US Rig Count which as of Thursday was 593, up 5 from last week. When we last checked in about a month ago, it was at 490, a nice jump that bodes well for future gate guard employment.
A previous tenant here at the RV park left this HD Direct TV dish right behind our site. It’s fastened down to the ground and it looks in good shape so I’ve been thinking about calling Direct TV to see about turning on HD for the period of time we’re here.
Although our Direct TV DVR and our Samsung TV are both HD capable, our Winegard Traveler Dome is not. The reason we have this DVR is that is gives us more storage capacity than the standard one.
So I’ll see what Direct TV says about the cost, and if I can turn it off when we leave here.
Thought for the Day:
”No man is complete until he’s married. Then he’s finished” – George Bernard Shaw
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