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Our temp made it down to 28 degrees last night, but didn’t cause us any problems since I had disconnected our shore power earlier. I also turned on the lights in our basement compartments to add some extra heat to our water bay just in case.

We don’t use heaters in our bedroom on cold night, instead relying on our Touch of Class heated mattress pad that we bought at Sam’s Club in 2010, and it’s worth great ever since.

With its dual controls, we turn it on an hour or so before bedtime so it’s warm and toasty when slip under the covers. And Karma has discovered that the bed is warm, so she’s already waiting us on the bed and then snuggles up at our feet, or lays on our feet sometimes.

About 1:30 Jan and I headed out for the afternoon. Our first stop was at Lone Star Real Estate to pick up our Amazon orders and also drop off a plate of Jan’s Christmas cookies for Nancy Christian, who also owns our RV park. A really nice lady.

Then it was on to Bella Sera, our favorite local Italian, or ‘EyeTalian’ place as they say here in Kenedy, TX. Besides having another delicious pizza,

we also dropped off a plate of Jan’s cookies for Candace, our favorite local waitress.

After our usual great meal, and leftovers for later, our next stop was right up the road at Great Clips for my quadannual haircut, which obviously didn’t take long at all.

After my clip job it was off to the nearby HEB to retrieve a lost package of Hawaiian Savory Butter Rolls. We purchased a package of them yesterday but they never followed us home. So I went back today to see if maybe they didn’t even make it into our cart.

As it turned out they hadn’t, and had been turned in. So we got our missing rolls as well as a second package for our trouble. Nice!

Then after gas and a car wash, our last stop was at the PO to send off the last of our Christmas Priority Mail envelopes. Finally getting home, we delivered the last of the cookies to our fellow gate guards on either side of us, and we were done.

A couple of things that came in our Amazon orders this afternoon were upgrades to our Ozark Trail Mug.

I got a tighter-fitting lid that also seals the drinking spout,

Ozark Trail Mug Lid

and a nice handle too.

Ozark Trail Mug Handle

Tomorrow and Wednesday we’ll probably just stay around the rig and goof off until I’m back on a gate Thursday night.

Thought for the Day:

“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.” ― Mae West

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Please remember, Our RV Adventures is an Amazon affiliate. When you do your Christmas shopping through any of the Amazon links here, including the Search Amazon box in the right sidebar, it won’t cost you any more, but we’ll get a small commission on everything you buy. Just click on the Amazon link, then shop as usual. Thanks.

Plus, many of you are sharing our blog with others using the “Share this:” buttons at the bottom of each blog. Again, Thanks.

Christmas in the ‘Patch’ . . .

or that’s what’s scheduled right now anyway.

Todd texted us this morning with four days (or nights, really) of gates for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so it’s Christmas in the ‘Patch’ for us this year.

Looks like Santa will have to track up down here in Kenedy this year.

As the cold front rolled in starting last night, the winds really picked up, rocking the coach and flapping the awnings. And sometime around 1:30am it also upended our Winegard Satellite dish and the stand it sits on.

But luckily, when I set it back up and told it to rescan, the signal came right up.

Whew!

About 12:30 Jan and I drove into Kenedy to have the Turkey & Dressing/Fried Chicken Buffet at Barth’s, one of our favorite meals there.

If we weren’t scheduled to work on Christmas Day, we had planned to drive into Katy to spent the day with Brandi and her family, and maybe Chris and Linda. Miss Piper will be working a double at UTMB in Galveston.

But since we’ll be here in Kenedy for Christmas Day we arranged to pick up Christmas dinner from Barth’s. But we’ll have to do that on Friday before 2pm since they close for the holiday then.

So since I’ll be working nights we’ll have lunch there on Friday (Chicken Fried Steak Strips/Fried Catfish) and pick up our Christmas dinners then.

According to my outside thermometer here at the rig, the temp topped out at 39° today, never making it up the forecasted 42. And the scheduled low temp for tonight, originally 29°, has been slipping all day and now is at 26°.

So I did the prudent thing and disconnected and drained our Zero G water hose, switching us over to our rig’s fresh water tank for the night. We’ve been down to 21° a few years ago down at Galveston Bay RV Park in Dickinson, and 6° in Garrison, MT in 2008, so I don’t expect any problems. But we’ll see.

We finished up the last of our Christmas shopping after lunch, and will get them off by Priority Mail tomorrow. They all be there by Thursday, but if not, we’ve still got a few extra days leeway.

A few days ago Corpus Christi had to shut down their city water system because of the release of less than 25 gallons of Indoline from a Valero asphalt plant in the industrial area. Apparently a 3rd party contractor opened the wrong valve.

What’s interesting about all this is that at the Valero plant Indoline is used as an asphalt ‘emulsifier’, in other words, to make it creamy. Strangely enough it’s also in common use in women’s cosmetics and anti-aging products for the same reason.

So it’s bad for your stomach, but OK to rub on your face.

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