Monthly Archives: February 2017
Together Again . . .
Jan and I headed out about 11:30 to have one last meal at La Bella Tavola for their delicious Chicken Florentini.
With fresh spinach, fresh mushrooms, and fresh garlic in a smoky alfredo sauce, it’s probably the best pasta dish we’ve ever eaten.
And you can’t leave out their very tasty homemade yeast rolls.
We’re looking forward to coming back here again in September.
Then it was on to Wal-Mart to check out their somewhat meager cellphone selection. The Cuero Wal-Mart is one of the old ones, with the small grocery area in the center, so their phone area is small too. So we’ll have to look further.
Then it was on to the HEB gas station to fill up. We were still at 3/4 of a tank, but since we’ll be driving into Brandi and Lowell’s tomorrow evening, we won’t have to get gas on the way back.
Getting home about 2:30, I started working through my short list of things I wanted to get done before we leave tomorrow morning. The main one was to replace rig’s expired tags with the new ones I got back in November. I put the new ones on the truck when they came in, but put off replacing the ones on the rig. In fact I put it off so long that we drove over here last month from Kenedy to on the expired ones. But we’re legal now.
Part of me wants to take a nap since I only got about 5 hours sleep this morning. But I’m resisting the urge so I can go to bed at a decent time and get a full night’s sleep.
The park owner will be coming over tomorrow morning about 9 to settle up for our electric usage. Even though we paid for a month, we’ve only been here 25 days, but I doubt I’ll be getting a refund on that. Although we did get a refund when we left Lone Star RV Park in Kenedy 11 days early, so there’s always hope, I guess.
Speaking of money, my last shift yesterday was actually in the next pay period, but SiteWatch was nice enough to go ahead and include it in the check we will get next Monday. Very nice of them.
While we were at Wal-Mart this morning, Jan made a fantastic discovery in the candy aisle. M&M now makes COFFEE-flavored M&M’s.
Of course reading the label, they contain no actual coffee, but they taste good, and it’s the thought that counts, right.
Thought for the Day:
Grammar Pedantry Syndrome is a disorder where a person has an uncontrollable urge to correct grammar mistakes.
Or it could just be a mother who was an English teacher.
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Last Shift . . .
Tonight is my last shift for this time down here in south Texas. As it stands right now, we’ll probably be back down in this area again in late August/early September for another round of gate guarding.
But we’ve already decide it will be guard shacks only from now on. It pays twice as much, and it’s much more comfortable.
Jan and I are going out for one last meal at La Bella Tavola tomorrow, with a side trip to Wal-Mart to look at a new phone, and maybe a new plan, for Jan.
Right now she has a LG Revere flip phone from around 2011 that’s showing its age. So I would like to get her something a little more modern. But pretty much everything else is considered a ‘smartphone’ by Verizon and automagically bumps our bill up $30 a month, no matter how little she uses it.
Jan only makes or gets maybe 15 or 20 calls a month, no email, and until our gate guarding this year, no texts either.
Right now we have 3 devices on our Verizon plan, my Galaxy S5, Jan’s LG Revere, and our ‘unlimited’ 3G aircard. And I know that Verizon has come out with a bunch of new ‘unlimited’ data plans, but it may actually be cheaper to put Jan on a contract phone of some sort with monthly minutes, which is what we’re going to look for at Wal-Mart. There are a number of cell companies that also use the Verizon network so that shouldn’t change.
And that way she’ll be able to move up to a phone that has a screen larger than a postage stamp.
Another good thing about getting off a day early from gate guarding is that it will let us get an earlier start Wednesday morning when we head for Columbus and the Colorado River Thousand Trails. Our friend Barbara Spade who is a ranger there says the park is pretty full with only 10 of the 126 sites not reserved. So we want to get there early to try and have the best pick of what’s left.
Which could be a 30amp Water Only site.
Thought for the Day:
When male bees climax, their testicles explode and then they die.
Well, that would certainly put a crimp in your love life, now wouldn’t it.
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