Monthly Archives: October 2019
Sunday Mish-Mash . . .
I mentioned the other day that, based on a blog reader’s suggestion, we might consider doing a Mississippi River Cruise after our Alaskan Cruise next year, and our possible Yucatan Mayan Ruins tour the year after.
But when I checked them out I was surprised how expensive they were, especially compared to our Viking River Cruise and Holland America Alaska Cruises.
A 22 day Complete Mississippi River Cruise, 7 days longer than our Grand European Viking cruise, is $13,600 PER PERSON, over $17,000 more than our Viking cruise. That’s almost $2500 per day extra.
YIKES!
As I mentioned the other day, we’ve booked a Larger Inside Room on our Alaska cruise, but the size is relative, I guess. Because at 233 sqft, it’s 28 sqft LARGER than the largest room on our Viking cruise ship.
NICE!
As usual Brandi’s family goes all out on Halloween decorating in their yard. It looks really good in the daylight,
and even scarier at night.
BOO!
Jan and I will be puppy-sitting at Brandi’s while they’re out of town for Thanksgiving with friends up in Cleburne, TX. So when we were up at Brandi’s last weekend Jan started getting in some practice.
Looks like Jack and Baxter are already breaking her in.
Thought For The Day:
“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” – Voltaire
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A Big, Shiny New One . . .
Several of our readers suggested that I just chuck the old filter adapter and buy a new one. And after looking at it closer this morning, I agreed and put my order in with DieselPartsDirect this afternoon.
Hopefully it will be here by the end of next week so I can wrap this up.
I mentioned yesterday that I had noticed pitting in the gasket area which I thought was strange on a piece of steel like this. But then it sat outside last night and got rained on, and then this morning I noticed the white rust corrosion spotted over it.
So it wasn’t steel like I was told, but aluminum, which explains better the pitting on the surface. And since some of the pits are along the gasket edges, I don’t want to take any chances with any leakage under pressure.
So a shiny, new one it is.
Coming from Jan’s Birthday dinner last evening, we stopped and got gas at Costco, and the price dropped again, from $2.08 two weeks ago, $2.04 last week, to $1.98 yesterday.
Nice!
Also forgot to post this of the Birthday Girl yesterday.
Jan and I had dinner this afternoon at our favorite Los Ramirez Mexican Restaurant. Then we made a stop by our storeroom to pick up our two electric heaters. It’s been going down in the low 50’s the last few nights, and we’re looking at the 40’s next week. Of course knowing Texas weather, we’ll have some 90’s mixed back in there again.
Finishing up, Brandi sent over this photo of Landon’s 1st Prize Halloween costume.
Readers will remember this as his Mr. Pug persona from his Facebook page.
Great going, Landon!
Thought For The Day:
Caidyn’s No Bullying Rules
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