Monthly Archives: April 2021
it’s A Box . . .
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday about our get-together at the El Palenque restaurant up in Spring is that like many other places here in Texas, masks were optional, even though they still had the signs up, and the staff was still wearing them.
It was interesting to watch people walk in the front door, look around, and then off came the masks.
Another thing I for got to mention about yesterday’s get-together is that our friend’s Janice and Dave Evans are the reason we’re here at the Petticoat Junction RV Park in Santa Fe. They’re good friends with the owners, Rob and Debra, the park owners, and so Janice and Dave recommended them when we were looking for an RV park down in this area.
And we’ve been here for about 3-1/2 years so far.
For the last year there’s been a new home going up about 3 houses down from our park entrance. Set on a large lot, it looked like it was being built by the owner since the progress was so slow. We drive by it almost every day, and it seemed like we wouldn’t see any real progress for days(weeks?) at a time.
Since there was usually a couple of boats, and a camper parked on the property, we figured it was just going to be something like a vacation cabin. I mean it was pretty plain, just a big rectangle with no real pizazz.
But then in the last month they really started sprucing it up, with shutters, trim, shrubbery, and an entrance path.
And;then one day a For Sale sign appeared out front.
Since it was so plain vanilla on the outside, just a big box, we wondered what it looked like on the inside, and what they were asking for it. So I Googled 5525 Ave L, Santa Fe, TX, and found this.
A very high-end build, that really looks nice. It’s a 1500 sq. ft, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, but the real surprise, to Jan and I at least, was the price.
$289,900
For a box. A nice box, but it’s a 30’ x 50’ box!
It will be interesting to see how long it stays on the market.
Thought For The Day:
Sometimes the amount of self-control it takes to not say what’s on my mind is so immense I need to take a nap afterwards. And I take a nap almost every day.
From Start To Finish . . .
Looking forward to our get-together, Jan and I were on our way up to the Spring Cypress area to the El Palenque Mexican Restaurant where we were meeting up with long-time friend’s Janice and Dave Evans, and Debi and Ed Hurlburt for lunch at noon.
Our Garmin GPS said it would take us about an hour, but with Houston traffic you never know. Normally I would check Waze to see if we needed to take the Hardy Tollroad bypass around downtown Houston, but today I decided to live dangerously and just wing it. And it all worked out.
This time.
It was really good to see everyone, especially Janice and Dave, since it’s been a couple of years since we’ve seen them. And of course it’s always good to see Debi and Ed too.
Everyone had something different I think, with Jan having their Rancho Grande, a grilled chicken breast with grilled shrimp all smothered in cheese.
And if you’ve got to be ‘smothered’, cheese is the way to go. Plus Jan said it was really good.
I decided to try the Garden Fajitas, with beef, chicken, shrimp, bacon, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, zucchini, also smothered in cheese.
Really, really delicious, and after I’d eaten all I could hold, I had even more left over for, well, leftovers.
We all had a great time catching up, so as usual lunch was over two hours long, but it seemed like a lot less since the company was so good.
So good, in fact, that we made a date for another get-together about a month from now. Already looking forward to it.
That’s Dave and Janice on the left, and Ed, my Jan, and Debi on the right.
As we were leaving the parking lot, we discovered that it seems that Batman has upgraded his Batmobile.
I wonder if he now just has Robin drive him from crime to crime, or maybe Alfred, I guess.
Coming home was also a smooth trip, with only a couple of slowdowns. and after a HEB and a Cowboy Coffee stop, we were home a little before 4pm.
A very nice day from start to finish.
Thought For The Day:
All men like to think they’re marrying nymphomaniacs. The problem is, after a few years the nympho leaves and the maniac stays.
