Daily Archives: October 26, 2017
Who Doesn’t Have Bananas For Oatmeal?
For our move down to Santa Fe, we were up about 7:30 to start packing stuff away for the trip.
We were pretty much down by 9, so we headed out to the Conroe Cracker Barrel for our traditional travel day breakfast.
Jan had her usual eggs, bacon, and hash browns,
while I had their Oatmeal.
I really wanted bananas rather than the other fruity stuff, but Cracker Barrel doesn’t have bananas. I’m sorry but it’s not really oatmeal without bananas.
Back at the rig by 10:30, after saying our goodbyes to Dave and Janice Evans, we were hitched up and on the way by 11:30. and we weren’t out of our site for 5 minutes, when someone almost immediately grabbed our site while we still hitching up.
Even through downtown Houston our trip was pretty smooth with no problems at all. Our first stop was the La Marque Buc-ee’s about 1:15 to top off our rig’s diesel tank at $2.27 a gallon, the cheapest I’ve seen recently.
After traipsing through Santa Fe neighborhoods, we pulled into the Petticoat Junction RV Park about 1:45. Finding no one around, I put in a call to the park owners and was told to take site #7. Since it was right behind us I unhitched the truck and then backed us right in.
After resting up about an hour, we drove up to Clear Lake, first to my client’s to pick up Jan’s other birthday present. This:
Instant Pot 8 Qt., 6 in 1, Pressure Cooker.
So Jan’s the proud owner of an Instant Pot. Now to learn how to use it.
Then our next stop was Floyd’s Cajun Seafood, one of our long-time favorite places. We’ve been coming here since the mid-90’s when the place first opened as Thibodeaux’s. When it closed under mysterious circumstances, Floyd Landry, who had been a silent partner, and furnished all the recipes, took it over
Jan, as usual got her favorite Chicken Fried Chicken, with Fries.
while I went with the Seafood Gumbo and a side of Floyd’s Potatoes.
Every time I’ve been to a Floyd’s recently I’ve been alternating back and forth between the Seafood Gumbo,l which had Shrimp and Crab Meat, and the Shrimp Gumbo, which has, well, shrimp. I think I like the plain Shrimp Gumbo better. Actually I wish they offered Oysters with the Seafood Gumbo, but they don’t.
Years ago I tried to talk Floyd into making it that way , and he said it would make the gumbo too expensive. Told him he should just offer it as an extra cost option, then we could order it if we wanted to. But never could convince him.
Tomorrow it’s back to work, but with a much shorter drive. Nice.
The Word of the Day is: Vituperate
Thought for the Day:
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.” – G.K. Chesterton
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