Monthly Archives: January 2019
A Wild and Crazy Night . . .
Or Morning, Actually.
I knew there was a front coming through last night, what with the high on Friday at 72° and 53 forecast for today. But what was strange was that as the night went on, the temp went up, starting at about 64° around 6pm up to 69 when I went to bed around 11.
But by around 3am the temps plummeted and the wind picked up. And by ‘picked up’, my LaCrosse Weather Station showed gusts in excess of 40mph. The rig was rocking and rolling, and the window awning on Jan’s side of the bed came unhooked and rolled up with a loud bang.
Karma got so upset that she abandoned the bottom of the bed and was huddling in the bathroom. The wind gusts meant that the accompanying rain was slashing against the RV, making even more noise. But by about 5am it had all settled down to a dull roar. And temps in the low 40’s.
When I went outside this morning, it was because the DirecTV was down, and this is what I saw first
And as I suspected, this was the problem with our Winegard Traveler Dome.
Luckily, after setting it back upright and rebooting it, the system came right back up. The last time this happened was in October 2015 when we were gate guarding, and there was a cow was involved.
Tomorrow we’re heading up to the Sugarland area to watch Landon play hockey and then have lunch at the nearby Floyd’s Cajun BBQ.
Looking forward to both.
Thought for the Day:
To err is human, to admit it is divine.
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Jan’s A Happy Camper . . .
We arrived at the Alvin office of Jan’s ophthalmologist about 7:15am for her 7:35 checkup on yesterday’s cataract surgery.
Only to find the parking lot empty and the office dark. Which was completely unlike her last visit the day after the surgery on her left eye, when the parking lot was more than half full and the place was bustling.
But at 7:30 people pulled into the parking lot and the lights came on.
The doctor checking her was someone we haven’t seen before, but we both really liked him. He said Jan was doing fine, and to come back in a week for another checkup. Then in a month, she’ll come back for her final visit and her new eyeglass prescription. At that point she should be done and done.
For her part Jan’s much happier with the short-term results on her right eye than her left one. She says that right off the bat she’s seeing much better with her right eye that she did after a week or so after her left one. The doctor said that this is not unusual at all.
Jan got a pair of readers a week or so, and so far, they’re working great for her, letting her read her Kindles, laptop, and the desktop.
Last Sunday I crawled under the rig to take another look at my oil leak problem. I had planned to use my Wyze camera on the end of a rod to get a look. But, like when I tried this same thing from under the bed, I just could get it into position.
But I could get my cellphone up in there and got this.
That’s the oil filter on the right and the coolant filter on the left. The long hose on the right side is the slobber tube. The small metal tube in the center seems to be part of the coolant system.
What you can’t see in the photos is that everything right above this area is tan-colored and dry. So I guess my next move is to drop the filter myself and see what I can see. I wish I could come up with some sort of plug to cap off the filter location and then run the engine for a while to see what happens.
Just a reminder to any new readers. The filter;gasket has already been changed out without fixing the problem. But I’ll keep after it.
Most of you are probably aware of my friend Nick Russell’s latest entry in his Big Lake series, Big Lake Wedding.
But you may not know that he’s also released two new boxed sets, consisting of the first three books in the Big Lake saga,
and the first three in his newer Florida-based series, John Lee Quarrels.
They’re the perfect gifts to introduce someone to these two great series.
Check’em out.
Thought for the Day:
Some people are so ungrateful. No one ever thanks me for having the patience not to make them disappear.
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