Daily Archives: December 23, 2016
You Know You’re A Regular When . . .
After a somewhat busy time on the gate last night/this morning, I was back at the rig and in bed by 5:45am.
This gate is the Sand Truck Staging Pad for the frac gate right across the street, so we had a lot of sand trucks in and out, but we don’t have to log them at all. We’re really just a traffic cop because this is a one lane road, so we have to be sure another truck isn’t coming out before we let a new one in.
I was back up about 11 and about 11:45 Jan and I headed out to Barth’s for their Chicken Fried Steak Strips/Fried Catfish lunch buffet.
I guess we’re officially ‘Regulars” at Barth’s since the waitress now brings us our drink orders without me telling her what we want.
And when we left they had our Christmas dinner takeout meals of Turkey & Dressing with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Fresh Green Beans, Mac N Cheese, and Cranberry Sauce all ready for us.
Leaving Barth’s we made a swing by the bank to see if my checks had come in, but they’d closed at noon so it’s next week I guess.
This gate I’m on for the next 3 days is a 5pm gate, rather than a 5:30 one like yesterday’s, so I have to be on the road about 30 minutes earlier today. So when we got back to rig I went down for a couple of hours of nap.
When we came back from Beeville the other night we followed up on a tip Nancy Christian, our RV park owner, had given us about where to see Christmas lights in Kenedy.
And although there weren’t a lot of them, there were some really nice ones.
But this house was the best. On a corner lot it rivaled anything in the ‘small’ house category that we’ve ever seen.
I say ‘small’ because Jan and I have seen some mansions in the Houston area that looked this good, but never on a home this size.
Here’s a close-up.
Everything is so ‘right’ that I’ve got to think that this one is professionally done, or done by someone who does this for a living.
As I said, this is a corner lot so here’s the other side.
I guess Kenedy doesn’t have a Christmas Lights Competition because this one should have a big Blue Ribbon on it.
There’s been talk about some gates closing for Christmas, but so far nothing about this one. So I guess we’ll see.
Thought for the Day:
“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” ― H.L. Mencken
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