Longhorn Rendezvous . . .
First up, yes I know that there’s a problem with emailed blogs going out to every one. I’m working on it and hope to have fixed this weekend.
Since we had couple of stops to make Jan and I left out about 10, with our first stop only a few minutes later for ice at the Circle K in Santa Fe.
Jan was taking two thermal bags of food, some refrigerated and some frozen, with her, and since we probably wouldn’t get to Brandi’s until around 4pm, we stopped and I got two bags of ice to keep things nice and cold.
And yes, Brandi has plenty of food at their house, but Jan wanted ‘her’ food.
Our next stop was at the Flying J north of Houston for a potty break before we got to The Woodlands Longhorn Steakhouse about 11:30, a little early for our noon meet-up with Debi and Ed Hurlburt. But coming through downtown Houston, I always try to allow plenty of ‘fudge’ factor.
In fact I was monitoring Waze on my tablet for any problems, so we could detour via the Hardy Toll Road if necessary.
Jan and I both went a little off-track on the menu. Jan got the Parmesan Chicken with a Sweet Potato.
I started off with a bowl of their ‘surprisingly’ good, Chicken Tortilla Soup,
and then, not wanting a big heavy steak meal in the middle of the day, got steak. But as a salad. Their 7-Pepper Sirloin Steak Salad.
I later told our waitress (or is it ‘server’ now?) that I was kind of disappointed because I only tasted 6 Peppers, not 7. She just starred at me and then walked away. I don’t think she got the joke.
But everything was delicious.
As usual for us, we spent almost 3 hours eating and talking before Jan and I headed out. And we’re already planning for next month.
Coming back down to Brandi’s in Katy via the Grand Parkway Toll Road, our first stop was at the El Pollo Loco on Mason Rd.right off I-10. Before we left Longhorn I had used the El Pollo app to place our order to pickup at 3:45, and we got there at 3:44, just when our Garmin GPS said we would.
Isn’t modern technology wonderful?
We got to Brandi’s at little after 4pm, and after getting Jan unloaded, and her laptop and Alexa set up, I was back on the road to Santa Fe by 4:30, finally getting home about 5:45pm
This weekend I’ve got a few more tests to run on rig rig AC, trying narrow it down, especially since we’ve got temps in the low 80’s starting next week.
I’m just hoping it’s not a blown compressor, but I’ll know soon.
Thought For The Day:
So now we have Cut N Paste news stories?
