Our RV Adventures

About 4:30 we pick up our neighbor, Barbara Spade, one of the Rangers here at Colorado River, and headed up to La Grange to meet up with friends,

Debi and Ed Hurlburt, for dinner at Sealand Seafood. We’ve eaten here a number of times and have never been disappointed.

Jan got the 1 Fish, 6 Shrimp Platter, and I got the 1 Fish, 6 Oysters one.

Then we traded 3 shrimp for 3 oysters, so we would both have some of each. Really good.

We haven’t seen Ed and Debi since this past March at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails, right before we left on our western journey, so it was good to be able to catch up.

We’ll certainly get together again over at Lake Conroe, since they’ll be coming over there the day after we do this coming Sunday. Looking forward to it.

Coming home we stopped off at the nearby Wal-Mart so Barbara could pick up a few things, finally getting home about 8:30. A really nice time.

Still waiting to hear back from Coleman on whether or no they still sell a ducted RV AC. Hopefully I’ll hear back from them soon. In the meantime I dug out my Cen-Tech Infrared Thermometer to check the AC temps.

The 15K BTU unit in the front of the rig was showing 70° at the grill input and 49° at the output vent. Just about perfect.

However the AC in the bedroom was showing 69° in and 59° at the output vent. So only a 10° drop, way below what it should be. And a real indicator of a low Freon problem.

So more and more I’m leaning toward just replacing the unit. If I pull the old unit out and take it into a service place, it could easily be a couple of hundred dollars. And I would still have an 18 year old unit that could burn out the compressor next week.

I can get a new unit for $500 or so, and can install it in an hour or less. So that may be the way I go, even if I can’t interface it into the rig’s duct system.

So now I’ll just wait to hear back from Coleman and then decide.

In other AC news, I thought I would pull the cover off the front AC for our trip back to Lake Conroe on Sunday to see if it made any difference to the weak cooling while we’re on the road. But now it looks like it may be raining on the Conroe end of things, so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get another check of the weather to see what I’m going to do.

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I spent the morning and most of the afternoon working on the knife website, trying to get things straightened out.

Just about the time I thought I had a handle on it, a lot of prices, photos, and products changed, so I got to start over on a  bunch of stuff. At least it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.

Well, maybe off the streets, anyway.

We’re starting to see promos for the new fall shows, and a couple have caught our eye. The first one is “Young Sheldon”.

So how did Sheldon Cooper of Big Bang Theory end up like he did? Well, this series tries to explain as it starts with him entering high school . . . at age 11.

Young Sheldon looks to be a really fun show and another winner for producer Chuck Lorre.

One thing interesting is that the actor who plays Sheldon’s father in YS has already appeared in Big Band Theory as a high school classmate of Leonard’s.

Actually Lorre is known for reusing actors he likes, swapping them back and forth between Two And A Half Men and Big Bang. And even within the same show.

Chelsea and Kandi, two long term characters on TAAHM, both appeared as other characters earlier in the show, and Kandi recently appeared in BBT.

I guess when you like someone, you keep using them.

The second is “Wisdom of the Crowd” where a Bill Gates type tech billionaire sets up a crowd-sourcing hub to find the killer of his daughter, and revolutionizes crime solving in the process.

The trailer below will explain it better. But it does look good.

Looks like I’ve got another repair job on the horizon. The water valve on our Sealand 510+ toilet slowly leaks, allowing the bowl to gradually fill with water. Based on the flow rate now, it would take a day or so to fill and overflow.

The first thing I’ll check is the adjustment on the valve plunger to be sure the pedal is not pushing down on the valve when it’s not supposed to.

Next is either dirt/crud in the valve itself, or it’s worn internally and needs to be replaced. Either way, the valve will have to be removed.

Since a new valve is only about $30, I’ll probably just get a new one and install it while I’ve got the toilet apart. Then I’ll check out the old one and either toss it or save it for a spare, depending on what I find.

But it’s all going to have to wait at least until we get back over to Lake Conroe on Sunday.

Abraham Lincoln might have been a cannibal!

The Donner Party, famous for their culinary tastes, left for California from Springfield, IL in 1846. James Reed, one of the organizers of the ill-fated group, was a close friend of Lincoln, and they had served together in the Black Hawk War.

Reed encouraged Lincoln to travel west with the group and Lincoln was inclined to make the journey, but his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, put her foot down.

So instead, he decided to stay and run for office. Probably for the best.

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