Monthly Archives: January 2017
No Reprieve . . .
from the Governor. (Or Todd, anyway)
So as of right now (1:30pm) we’re still going into tonight’s gate, even now when they’re shutting down.
First up, a couple of corrections.
The photo of the waterbuck on last night’s blog was NOT taken by me. I just grabbed one from the Internet. I did try to get a shot with my phone, but the waterbuck passed me like I was standing still and was gone before I could get a shot. So all I got was a blurry picture with nothing in focus.
Waterbuck can run over 40 mph while vehicles are limited to 15 mph on that road, so it was gone in a flash. The only reason I even knew it was a waterbuck was the distinctive white ring on its rear end.
Second, a few days ago when I was talking about the new Scan & Go app for Wal-Mart, I said the only store it in use now was in Rogers, AZ. Blog reader Cathie Laurent corrected me saying it was probably Rogers, AR, which makes more sense. Thanks, Cathie.
Our lunch meal at Bella Sera was just as delicious as usual. Jan had her favorite Chicken Florentine,
while got mine, the Bella Sera Chicken with ripe olives, capers, and sundried tomatoes.
Plus of course their really great homemade bread knots.
We’ll miss Bella Sera no matter when we leave.
The pad gate where I work has a resident raccoon living in the area. I first saw him walking behind the potty trailers this past weekend. Then a couple of nights ago, he strolled right by my truck at the pad entrance, seeming to not pay any attention to all the bright lights and noise going on around him.
Since my window was down and he was only about 15 feet away, I called out, “Hey Raccoon, where ya going?” He stopped, stood up on his hind legs with his front paws together and just stared at me for about 30 seconds, and then continued on his way out the gate, having no problem with the cattle guard.
As of right now the rain is supposed to be gone for now, so we can only hope.
I don’t think my truck floorboard and mat will ever be the same.
Thought for the Day:
What if i can’t trust the voices in my head?
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Rigging Down?
We still don’t know exactly when yet, but they’re supposed to start wrapping this part of the pre-frack up tonight or tomorrow.
Maybe. You never know when they’ll break something, and then it’ll be a couple of extra days. But hey, more money for us.
This will probably be an even shorter blog than the recent short ones, since I’m typing it on the laptop sitting in the truck on the pad. So we’ll see how long the battery lasts.
Although we like the money with both of us working, this 2- 1/2 hour round trip out here from Kenedy is really eating into our sleep time. So before the actual frack starts in the next week or so, we’re definitely moving over here to Westhoff from Kenedy. This will make our commute time less than 10 minutes each way. That will be much nicer.
The only downside is that Jan and I will be working opposite shifts at the same gate, so the whole ‘two ships passing in the nigh’t thing. But it will only be for a couple of weeks or so before we leave here for the year on the 15th of February.
This morning on the way home a little after 5am, we stopped at The Donut Palace in Yorktown, one of a number in the area. Seems like every little town has one. Picked up hot, fresh breakfast kolaches for the trip home, and a couple of donuts for later. Plus a couple of breakfast biscuits for tonight’s dinner on the gate. All still warm from the oven.
Delicious.
After getting about 5 hours sleep we were up and out the door. Jan had prescriptions to pick up at Wal-Mart, and we wanted to have what might be our last meal at Bella Sera. Then after getting gas (driving 100 miles a day eats it up) we were back at the rig for about an hour nap before heading back out about 3:30pm.
After dropping Jan off at the front gate and driving into the pad which is almost 5 miles further in, I caught with a Waterbuck antelope just running down the side of the road along the fence line.
Waterbucks are always easy to identify by the white ring on their rear ends.
Asking around, I found out there’s a whole lot of game animals around here, zebras, other antelopes, and more.
Thought for the Day:
No thoughts today. Too sleepy.
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