Monthly Archives: September 2020
Coiled And Ready . . .
My Helicoil installation kit came in today, but it looks like my gaskets/bolts won’t be here until Saturday. So I probably won’t get to try it out this weekend.
As I’ve checked out Helicoils on Google and YouTube, I’ve seen a number of articles about how, because of the fact that the Helicoils are Stainless Steel and the way they lock into the base, they can be torqued down more than in the soft aluminum.
So rather than just redo the two holes that are stripped out, I’m going to do all four threads. That way I can torque the bolts down to 20-25 ft. lbs., rather than the original 17+ ft. lbs. That, coupled with the two new gaskets, will hopefully fix this once and for all.
Of course I’ve said that before.
So right now the plan is that as soon as this is done, Jan and I will take the rig out on a test drive, probably all the way out to Luling, about 175 miles away. We’ll stay overnight and then come back the next day.
The last time we tried this, we had no leakage when we got up to the Katy Buc-ee’s and thought we had it fixed. But then it started leaking again about halfway between Columbus and Luling. And leaking worse than before.
But we figure if we can do a 350 mile round trip with no leakage, then we can call it fixed. But if not, while we’re still configured for traveling, we take it up to the repair place in Channelview to let them fix it.
We figure we’ll just get a hotel room in the area, since they will need us to test any fix, since the leaking only occurs when we’re towing the truck.
But hopefully it won’t come to that.
A recent statistical analysis done by The Ohio Star, an Ohio newspaper, showed that virus cases INCREASED after masks were mandated.
And this is not a one-off case. The same thing showed up in Hawaii and Los Angeles County.
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Our 3rd Time in Canada
September 16, 2009
Canada, Oh, Canada…
Today we headed back into Canada for a few days on our way to Rome, NY and Niagara Falls.
We could have gone back by staying in the States, but going through Canada was only about 50 miles further.
So why not?
About 9:30 am we drove the truck down to have breakfast at our favorite Big Stop truck stop and then by 11:15 we were back there with the rig filling up with diesel. While we were in Canada last week I just put enough in to get us back to the States since diesel is about $1 more a gallon there.
We put in 102 gallons for $280 and by 11:30 we were on our way up US 1.
We were heading toward Quebec and the town of Notre Dame du Lac (Our Lady of the Lake) about 150 miles away.
One of the things we wanted to do was to drive to the end of US 1 in Fort Kent, ME, since we had been in Key West, FL at US 1’s Mile Marker 0, and although we didn’t travel all of US 1 between FL and ME, we did travel a lot of it.
Here is the photo I took of Mile Marker 0 in Key West.
And here is the other end in Fort Kent, ME.
And then about a block past the end of US 1 we took a right turn across the Rue Ferry bridge and we were back in New Brunswick, Canada.
Customs took about 10 minutes and we were on our way. And about 12 miles later we entered the province of Quebec for the first time. Then an hour later we pulled into our park in Notre Dame du Lac.
This may be the most beautiful site we’ve been in so far. We’re parked on a bluff overlooking a lake.
And Mister really enjoys the view too.
After we puttered for a while we headed to find a place to eat. We drove about 6 miles north to the town of Cabano and found a nice-looking restaurant called ‘Bistro du Duc’ or ‘Duke’s Bistro’.
Our waitress didn’t speak much English and I don’t speak much French. Spanish and German are more my thing. But we did get our order OK. We ordered the Spaghetti with Meat Sauce and it was really good.
One thing I’ve noticed is that in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, pretty much all signs, I.e. traffic signs, street signs, billboards, etc, are in both English and French. However that apparently doesn’t work both ways.
Here in Quebec, everything is in French, with no English at all. Even Stop Signs say ‘Arret’, and not ‘Stop’.
We saw this last year too, going through Canada to Alaska. All of the English TV channels had French subtitles and/or French audio subchannels.
But the French language channels had no English translations whatsoever. When I mentioned this to a waitress in Whitehorse, she just laughed and said “You’ve noticed that, have you”.
Getting back to the rig, I got the satellite set up and Jan and I enjoyed the view. By then it was starting to get a little chilly, so we went in for the night.
Tomorrow we will head for Quebec City about 150 miles away.
Thought For The Day:
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Back Home in Texas
September 16, 2010
Great Sunset . . .
Not much going on today.
After a lazy morning of coffee and conversation, we left about 12:30 to head over to Brand’s. Jan was going to Landon-sit while Brandi took a nap.
After dropping Jan off I headed out to check on new tires for the truck. (See Nick. I told you I’d get new tires when I got back to Houston.) I checked out three different places, and I’ll go back to NTB tomorrow to get them installed.
I told Jan I’d give her two hours of private Landon time before I came back, so to kill a little more time, I stopped off at Starbucks to get a Cinnamon Dolce Latte and catch up on some reading.
Getting back to Brandi’s about 3 pm, I got in some Landon bottle feeding time and even got a couple of good burps out of him.
About 3:30 pm we headed back to the rig, stopping off at La Brisa on SH 146 in Bacliff for dinner. I had their great Chicken Tortilla Soup and Jan had the Shrimp Nachos.
We got back to the rig about 5:30 and settled in for the night. A little later we got to enjoy this great sunset.
This shot in the other direction shows lights from the many refineries in Texas City.
Thought For The Day:
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
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More Gate Stuff in East Texas
September 16, 2014
It’s A Three Holer . . .
Got some interesting news today about our rig. Well, the rig right in front of us. We have another rig right down the road. And two more right up the road, for that matter. But those two are not ours, I.e. not behind our gate.
Anyway our rig is a 3 holer!
No, not like an outhouse. Well, maybe, kinda. In that 3 holes are involved.
No, what this means is that they’re going to drill 3 separate wells on the same pad here. And amazingly, they do it by dragging the drill rig 25 feet until it’s over the new drill hole. And in a couple of weeks they’re gonna do it again.
When the rig was first erected, it was done on big steel plates. And when the time comes to move it, they grease up the plates, hook up two big honkin’ cranes like this one,
and just drag the 100 ton rig to its new location, using the two cranes to both pull it and steer it.
When we were following a Marathon/H&P rig down in the Eagle Ford area in 2012, they did this on our rig. And the nice thing about it was we got a couple of days off while it was going on. But since we have multiple pads here, we won’t have that luxury this time.
A few days ago, I started working with the Gate Guard Logging program that I wrote last year while we were on our frac gate.
Right now I’m just using to set up a database of everyone who comes through our gate, I.e. name, company, and tag number. This is all the info we need, other than how many people are with him, and where he’s going, which can change with every visit. The program is capable of logging people in and out, but I’m not using that function right now. I’ll talk about that in a later blog.
Right now it’s running on my laptop, but it would be easy to convert to an Android tablet like a Samsung Galaxy Tab, and use it instead of paper logs. I know some companies are using iPads for this, so we’ll see how it works out.
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Thought for the Day:
Since 1965 the Federal Government has spent $22 Trillion fighting the “War on Poverty”. Adjusted for inflation, that’s three times what the US has spent on all ‘real’ wars, including the American Revolution. (note: this amount does not include Social Security, Medicare, or Unemployment.)
At that time 7% of children were born outside marriage. Now 42% are.
The Census Bureau says the Poverty Rate is presently at 14%, almost exactly the same as when the ‘War’ started.
So, maybe we would be better off if we just surrendered?
Of course, also according to the Census Bureau, poverty just isn’t what it use to be. Check out this chart.
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More From East Texas
September 16, 2016
Three Neats and Two Peeves . . .
First up, Piper had surgery on her recently-broken arm this morning, and everything went fine.
Don’t know yet how long she’ll have to have her cast on, but if it’s like it was when she broke it two years ago, she’s also looking at several months of physical therapy with it.
That hurts just looking at it.
I put in a call to Colaw RV Salvage outside Carthage, MO this morning trying to locate a new (used, but new to me) screen door latch for our rig. As I mentioned, American Coach no longer stocks them, so Colaw was my next bet.
The guy muttered for a few minutes and then said that he didn’t have them in stock. So I reminded him that out in his back lot, he has an American Eagle (like ours) and an American Dream, both of our vintage, and could he please have someone check to see if there is one still on the door jam of either coach.
He was kind of curious how I knew that they had those two, so I told we’d been there and bought parts off the Eagle, and that several body panels for our blowout repair last year came off it too. He said he’d have someone check it out and get back to me, but I haven’t heard anything yet.
My Plan B on this is to have my son Chris bend me one up out of aluminum stock and drill a couple of holes in it, but I’ll wait to hear from Colaw first.
If you haven’t been to Colaw’s, you need stop by if you’re in the neighborhood.
The rig’s out front are for sale, but in back are hundreds of wreck/burnt RV’s. They have golf carts for you to drive around back there, and maps to show you what rigs are where. Neat!
I’m really liking our new Samsung TV more and more, and I’m still discovering all the neat stuff it can do. I spent a while this morning playing around with it, trying different things, the first of which was the Screen Mirroring function.
Any it only took about 10 seconds to have my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 displaying on the TV screen.
Not exactly sure what I’ll use it for, but it is neat.
Another neat thing is that you can never lose the manual. It’s built right into the TV. Just hit the ‘E-Manual’ button on the remote and there it is on the screen. You can search through it, scroll through it, however you want. Another neat.
Of course, you can also download a computer copy if you want, which brings me to my first peeve. When you download the manual file, this is what you get.
ENG-US-NMATSCJ-1.104-0410.pdf
Why in the He . . . Heck can’t what it’s for be in the file name? Not only can’t you tell what model of TV it’s for, you can’t even tell it’s FOR a TV, period.
I see this all time when downloading manuals and such, and there’s no excuse for it. Depending on your directory path length, you’ve got a couple of hundred characters to play with.
Why can’t it be something like –
SAMSUNG_SMART_TV_5200_ENG-US-NMATSCJ-1.104-0410.pdf?
That’s got something for everyone, and I don’t have to rename it. Otherwise I won’t remember what the file is for next week, much less in six months.
Now on to peeve two. The remote is too small for the number of buttons it has.
Count-wise it has a few more buttons than our DirecTV remote, but it’s a good bit smaller. Plus the up, down, right, left arrow function needs to be separated out somewhat so that it’s easier to find in dim light.
The buttons are just too small and too jammed together, so it’s not a very ergonomic design. They should have taken a cue from the DirecTV one. It’s much more user-friendly.
After two fairly busy days on the gate, today we only had 42 vehicles come through. So that was nice, but of course to balance it out, at 95 degrees it was kind of hot. It’s looks like our Fall weather that was forecast last week, with highs in the low 80’s and lows in the high 60’s went back into hiding, since we’re now looking at low to mid 90’s for the next 10 days or so.
But on the plus side, tomorrow’s Blue Moon BBQ day, so that makes it all better.
Thought for the Day:
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. – Gore Vidal
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Birthday, Birthday, Birthday
September 16, 2017
Up Way Too Early . . .
But Well Worth It!
Today was the big birthday celebration down in Galveston. Our granddaughter Piper’s was on September 7th and our daughter Brandi’s was yesterday, the 15th. And also thrown in here was Landon’s 7th birthday last month.
His big party for all his friends got hurricane-cancelled, so he was in on this too.
So Jan and I were on the road by 6:30, more than 30 minutes before sunrise, way too early for anyone, especially me. The one positive thing to all this was there was no traffic, even through downtown Houston. It was just 70mph all the way.
We got to our son Chris’ about 8am where we were all rendezvousing. Brandi, Lowell, and Landon showed up a few minutes later, and in turn, we were all on the road with Jan and I riding with Chris and Linda, and Miss Piper riding with Brandi, et. al.
Our destination, the Sunflower Café, has been a favorite of ours for a number of years, since Brandi and Lowell introduced us to the place. It’s always been a great place for breakfast , brunch, and lunch, with a wide array of specialty dishes, like Fried Quail and Grits, Crab Cakes and Eggs, and Eggs Benedict Surf and Turf.
Of course, with all these wonderful selections, Jan got Eggs, Bacon, Potatoes, and Toast.
For me, I branched out a little with the Hatch Green Chile Omelet, stuffed full with Hatch Chiles, and Havarti Cheese, along with Potatoes and Jalapeno Toast.
The Hatch Chilies were very hot, and really good.
And it was all topped off with a large carafe of OJ and a bottle of Cook’s Champagne for breakfast mimosas.
It’s always hard to get this ragtag bunch to all smile at the same time. In fact a couple of them are downright surly.
But I get other photos when they’re not paying attention.
Leaving breakfast we all headed over to Moody Gardens to check out the newly-remodeled Aquarium Pyramid, and the da Vinci exhibit.
We started off with the penguins, always everyone’s favorite.
They’ve really got a great habitat here and they seem to be very happy.
Here’s Miss Piper and Landon trying to get a shot of a baby penguin who was very curious and kept coming right up to the glass.
And the many reef and coral displays are just beautiful.
One of my favorites, the Lionfish.
And they had a number of tanks filled with jellies.
Finishing up the Aquarium, we next headed over to the da Vinci exhibit in the Discovery Museum, but I’ll save that for tomorrow since this is running long.
Since we’d eaten early, by the time we got back to the Clear Lake area, we were all hungry for Floyd’s Cajun Seafood, one of our favorite places since the 90’s.
This is Jan and I finishing up a dozen raw oysters, with chile sauce and a lot of horseradish mixed in.
Jan got her favorite CFS, gravy on the side,
while I just had a bowl of their Shrimp Gumbo, chock full of shrimp.
All really good, and the perfect way to end a wonderful family get-together.
We finally got back to the rig about 5:45, and both immediately took naps. An even better way to end a really great day.
Finally I want to thank everyone for their many kind words about the blog. It’s much appreciated.
Thought for the Day:
The executive who works twelve hours every day will be successful, and be fondly remembered by his wife’s second husband.
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To Brandi, Our Favorite Daughter!
Now With More Photos!
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And On Back Into Canada
September 15, 2009
Back Home in the U.S.A….for now…
Today was a rest and recuperation day back in the US. But it’s our last full day in the US for about a week.
Tomorrow we leave for Canada again. This time we’re heading up north thru Quebec and Ontario and then down to Rome, NY and Niagara Falls.
So all we did today was eat lunch at a good Chinese buffet and then did the Walmart thing.
We’re beginning to see the leaves change up here. Two weeks ago when we were here, this tree was solid green.
Now look at it.
This is a real nice park and we’re back in the same space we were two weeks ago. Mister certainly likes the grass and trees.
We’ll go ahead and top off the diesel tomorrow before we leave since I didn’t fill up in Canada the other day.
Then we’ll head up to Notre Dame du Lac about 130 miles north for the night.
Thought For The Day:
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Getting To Know Landon
September 15, 2010
More Landon Time . . .
I spent this morning checking in with several clients, and catching up on things. Then on the way home I stopped by the bank. I love the new ATM deposit feature where you just stick your checks in and it does it all for you.
And, of course, here’s your obligatory Landon “Ahhhhh” moment.
About 4:30 pm we all (except for Chris’ wife, Linda, who had to work) met at Chuy’s, a Mexican restaurant we really like. We have eaten at the one down in the Galleria area a number of times, but they just opened a new one yesterday right here in the Clear Lake area. A lot more convenient.
And, of course, being all together, we all got some quality Landon time.
Landon started out sleeping peacefully in his carrier, but that didn’t last long.
Here’s “Nana” Jan
“Uncle” Chris
And here’s a great shot of our son Chris, and our granddaughter Piper.
Thought For The Day:
Those who refuse to learn from the past are forced to repeat it. Those who refuse to learn from the present are going to force the rest of us to learn Arabic.
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East Texas Gate Guarding
September 15, 2014
It’s a Yugo!
Well, we bumped up to 100 vehicles today, but not bad at all. Pretty much slow and steady, sometimes not seeing a vehicle for 30 minutes or so. But it’s still going to be interesting to see how we’re going to handle things when the fracks start. Not the logging, but physically getting all those trucks in and out of our one lane gate.
As it is now, trucks leaving, come around the curve about 100 yards away and head toward our gate. It’s only when they get here that they can now look down the road to see if anyone is coming in. If there is, the truck leaving has to back up into a pull-out just below us. This is because the incoming trucks have nowhere to pull off coming in.
So if there’s a line of trucks coming in and a line of trucks coming out, everyone’s stuck. But, who knows. It may work. And then again, “maybe the horse will sing.”
It made it up to 88 today, really pretty nice, with 90 expected tomorrow. Then it’s 80’s again for a while, with maybe some rain. Of course that could change. It always does.
Our drill rig is back to making a lot of funny noises again, and they don’t seem to be using the hanging drill pipe very fast. But maybe there’s a reason.
A couple of nights ago, I was talking to one of the contractor guys as he was leaving. We’d gotten friendly over the last few days, so I asked him about this rig, about why it was taking so long to set up and start drilling, and why it was making all these noises I hadn’t heard before. I then mentioned that, of course, my only experience was the Marathon/H&P rig we followed for 4 months in 2012.
He laughed and said, “Them H&P rigs are nice. They’re compact, and made to tear down and put up quickly. And they run great. H&P rigs are the Cadillac of rigs.”
“These here rigs, these are Yugo’s”
Ah, well, that explains everything.
About 4:30 this morning I had the feeling that someone was watching me. And he was.
I looked up from my laptop, and about 6 feet away was a big black steer, just standing there, staring at me. He stood there for about 15 seconds and then turned away and starting walking across the road. By then I was finally able to get a photo of him as he moseyed away.
Our new GGS support guy, Scotty, came by today to top us off with diesel and water. We weren’t hurting for either one, with about 80 gallons of diesel left and 200 gallons of water. While he was here, he also did an oil change on our generator, which meant he had to shut it down for about 10 minutes or so. But no problem since it was still pretty cool. And not worth starting up our onboard generator for that time, as we’ve done when it was 100 degrees in past years.
I mentioned yesterday that today, the 15th, was our daughter Brandi’s birthday. What I didn’t know was that she’s in Atlanta for a business conference this week and Landon and Lowell are batching it. But Landon had to wish his Mommy a Happy Birthday anyway.
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Thought for the Day:
“On a hot summer’s night,
Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?”
“Will he offer me his mouth?”
“Yes.”
“Will he offer me his teeth?”
“Yes.”
“Will he offer me his jaws?”
“Yes.”
“Will he offer me his hunger?”
“Yes.”
“Again, will he offer me his hunger?”
“Yes.”
“And will he starve without me?”
“Yes.”
“And does he love me?”
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
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New And Bigger
September 15, 2016
Boy, that’s big!
Since I was not only getting groceries today, but also returning and then getting a new TV, I was out the door and on my way a little earlier this morning.
As usual Wal-Mart didn’t give me any problems returning the old one, giving me the money back on a gift card instead of cash. Cash didn’t make sense anyway since I was just going to give it right back to them.
Luckily the new one I wanted was right out on the shelf so I was in and out fairly quickly. I paid for it back in the TV department rather than taking up front, because then they have to put one of those ‘Spider Wraps’ (that’s what they call them) on the box. And in the past they’ve had problems getting them off up front.
Once again I anted up for the 3 year extended warranty, giving me a total of 4 years on the new one. Usually though, if electronics makes it past the “infant mortality’ stage, then it’s going to keep working. Of course there’s always just the luck of the draw, like the failure of our old one. You never know.
Finishing up with the groceries, I again headed across the parking lot to the Chick-fil-A for our lunch. One thing I sometimes wonder about is why people wait in long drive-thru lines?
I parked in the parking lot, and then was in and out in 8 minutes with my order. Meanwhile, a red Corvette had moved forward about 4 cars, and still had about 10 cars in front of him. I was probably halfway back to the rig.before he got his order.
So are people just that lazy that they won’t walk 25 feet or what?
Back at the rig, we again enjoyed our Chick-fil-A lunch. While I stayed with my Spicy Chicken Deluxe Sandwich with Bacon, Jan tried out their Spicy Southwest Chicken Salad, that our daughter Brandi had recommended earlier. Jan said it was delicious, and one of those ‘get again’ meals.
Unlike yesterday when Jan stayed outside longer and got too hot while I set the new TV up, this time I made her go on inside, and said that I would set it up tonight. I told her she could just stare at the box in Antici . . . . . Pation. (some of you may get that.)
When I got up at 10pm, it only took me about 30 minutes to get our new Samsung 40” TV up and running. Luckily this larger model comes with the pedestal base rather than the two widely spaced feet, so it’s much more stable in position.
Although mathematically it’s only 25% bigger, it looks a lot bigger than that. And the picture quality increase, with brighter colors and blacker blacks, is really noticeable.
And the new TV has Screen Mirroring, so our Samsung TV can connect with my Samsung Galaxy S5 phone and my Samsung Tab 4 tablet. Neat!
Now I just have to figure out how to dispose of our old one.
The rig completed their move to the next hole this afternoon, but as of midnight, they’re still not up and running yet.
Fine with us. The longer we’re here, the better.
Thought for the Day:
A watched pot never boils, but it does get paranoid.
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Told You
September 15, 2017
I Could Have Told You That . . .
With another Clear Lake work day on tap, I was on the way south about 9:45, getting there about 11pm
I spent most of the day catching up on long-missed product/price corrections to the paper catalog and online website that had been neglected for months. Then I got back searching through the computer’s folders one at a time, cataloging and renaming them. For some reason the ex-guy just stashed critical files all over, in folders called Temp, New Folder, Stuff, etc. So one folder at a time, I’m gradually finding what I need.
I was on my way back home by 3:45, hoping to get ahead of the traffic, but today the traffic got ahead of me. Don’t know if there had been an earlier wreck, or it was just Friday, but it was bumper-to-bumper, stop and start, from Fuqua all the way into the I-69/US59 split. But after taking 59, it was full speed around to the Hardy Toll Road and on up to I-45. Even with speedup, the 1:15 trip took me 2 hours.
But it did have a nice ending, because our friends Debi and Ed Hurlburt had picked Jan up at our rig, and then we all met up at El Bosque Mexican Restaurant for dinner about 5:45pm.
Jan tried something new this time, the Pollo Mar, a chicken breast topped with shrimp, mushrooms tomatoes, cilantro, and jalapeno cheese.
She said it was really good and she’ll definitely have it again.
I went back with my favorite Beef Fajitas Poblanos.
It’s Beef Fajitas with bacon-grilled onions, poblano peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, and two white cheeses. Again really good, as usual.
We always have a great time with Debi and Ed, and it’s amazing how much we all have in common. Just really great friends.
Tomorrow we’ve got another day-trip in store, first down to our son Chris’ in Friendswood, and then on down to Galveston to have breakfast at the Sunflower Café before heading over to Moody Gardens to check out their new Aquarium Pyramid and their da Vinci exhibit.. This is actually a dual birthday celebration, for our granddaughter Piper’s 24th birthday on September 7th, and our daughter Brandi’s . . . well,she’s one year older today, the 15th.
The only downside to all this is that we have to be on the road by 6:30am, way too early.
Finally, under the heading I Could Have Told You That.
The University of Pennsylvania just released the results of a study showing bald really is beautiful. The UP study was composed of three major tests given to students on campus. Male and female students were asked to rate photos of men according to attractiveness, confidence, and dominance.
And bald men won out in all categories. What else were you expecting?
For my part, very soon after Jan and I got serious, I told her I was almost certainly going to be bald by the time I was 25. And the reason I knew this can be seen in this photo of three of my mother’s four brothers. And the fourth one was bald too.
They say the baldness gene comes down the mother’s side. And it did.
Luckily for me, it turns out that Jan liked bald guys.
Thought for the Day:
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The Boy King
September 15, 2019
Random Thoughts and Various Musings
Jan and I were watching a History Channel show about King Tutankhamen this morning, and the phrase ‘The Boy King”, was used. And that made us think of Steve Martin’s King Tut, first shown on Saturday Night Live.
So I went to YouTube and played it back.
But as I was reading over some of the accompanying articles, I found that in the last couple of years Steve Martin has come under severe criticism because of the ‘racism’ and ‘cultural appropriation’ found in the song.
It even seems like the saxophone player who comes out of the sarcophagus painted in gold, is the equivalent to being in ‘blackface’. Or maybe ‘goldface’, I guess.
Who knows these days?
See I told you it was good for you.
A recently uncovered study, dating from the late 60’s, seems to show that animal fats are no worse, (or no better) for you than vegetable fats. Yes, the vegetable fats did lower cholesterol slightly, but did not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease or death.
So have that Double Bacon Cheeseburger and enjoy it.
Regular reader know that I like trains and model trains, so I was really disappointed that our recent Viking River cruise through Europe didn’t go through Hamburg, Germany. Otherwise this place would have definitely been on my list.
It’s billed as the largest model railroad in the world, with airliners taking off and landing, Space Shuttle’s taking off , and pretty much everything else you can imagine.
Check it out.
And I also came across this one Large Scale Layout too. You can see it here.
Looks like the first hints of Fall are moving into our area, with temps in the mid-80’s by Wednesday. Of course we’ll see how long it lasts.
Summer around here digs in and hangs on tenaciously. Sometimes even into December.
Thought For The Day:
Morning is such a wonderful thing. It’s just a shame they put it at such an inconvenient time.
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