Monthly Archives: June 2021
Sunday Morning . . .
Jan and I set outside on the patio this morning, our last time for a couple of weeks, just enjoying our time, and the view. And while we were out there, I manually filled the Hibiscus Watering Bucket, and then set the timer so that 1 week from today, it will fill the bucket again, and then again, the Sunday morning that we get back.
And just like yesterday, it was nice and sunny, but with grayish clouds off in the far distance. So with that, my next project was to finish putting up the last two solar screens, after adding a few more magnets for a little more grip. Then I cleaned out and vacuumed out the Jeep and checked the fluids.
About 1pm Jan and I headed out to have lunch at Los Ramirez one more time before we leave tomorrow. Got to have one last Tex-Mex fix with our usuals.
After lunch we made an HEB stop for travel snacks. I mean, you can’t travel without travel snacks, right?
We spent the rest of the afternoon getting packed and moving things out to the Jeep, so tomorrow morning we’ll have just a few things to load and go. I want to be on the way by at least 7am, but earlier would be nice.
Jan also went through the fridge and tossed out anything that might spoil in the next two weeks, and then I walked it all down to the dumpster.
About 6pm Jan and I took Karma over to our friend Jennifer’s. She’s the office manager where I do my IT stuff and has kept Karma several times before, including our month-long European trip back in 2019.
Hopefully tomorrow’s night blog will be from our half-way stop, Jackson, MS.
Thought For The Day:
“There is scarcely any public matter that does not arise from a tax or end in one.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
How Does It Know?
Though it was supposed to be raining this morning, it was bright and sunny when we got up, with temps in the high 70’s.
And it was still clear when headed out about 1pm for lunch at Gator’s. So we were wondering if Gator’s owner, our friend Margie, was regretting her decision to cancel her Grand Opening for this weekend due to the heavy rains in the forecast.
But though it was sunny and clear when we left the rig, the closer we go to Gator’s the darker it got. And by the time we got to the restaurant, it was all black clouds and pouring rain. So much so that I let Jan off as close to the door as possible before I went and parked..
But once inside the food was as delicious as always. Jan once again got her new fav, the Blackened Redfish, with a side salad and the Roasted Broccoli
And this time she got it without the Andouille Sausage Cream Sauce that normally comes on it. Last time she said it kind of overwhelmed the delicate taste of the Redfish, so no sauce this time.
I got my usual Blackened Chicken Breast Sandwich, adding Texas Toothpicks and Bacon as before, as well as the Sweet Potato Waffle Fries.
Finishing our great meal we headed up the Interstate to get our hair cut. It’s convenient that we both use the same young lady at the local CostCutter’s (nee TGF Haircutters), so it’s a one-shop stop.
Then it was on up to Clear Lake to pick up a form at the office that needed to be emailed to a customer in Australia, and also pick up an Amazon order that came in late yesterday afternoon.
Coming home we made our last Cowboy Coffee stop for a couple of weeks, getting cold Hazelnut Lattes, and then sitting out on the patio when we got home. We did notice how many buds Jan’s Hibiscus has.
Hopefully with my Rube Goldberg watering system it will still look as good when we get home.
One thing I’ve noticed when taking photos with my new S21 phone is that it seems to know what I’m taking pictures of. And it has a lot of different modes in doing this.
When I’m taking photos of our food, it knows, and flashes a little message on the screen saying it’s going into ‘Food Mode’. I thought maybe it was just basing this on the fact that I was focusing on something close, but when I move the camera over to the salt and pepper shakers right next the plate, it switched back to Normal Closeup. It also had Night Mode, Portrait Mode, Landscape Mode, Building Mode, etc.
But how does it know? Scary.
Tomorrow’s going to be a really busy day, since we’re going to try and be all packed, so we’re ready to roll Monday morning. I want to be on the road by 7am to avoid as much of the Going-To-Work traffic as we can. At least a large part of the time, we’ll be going against the traffic so hopefully it will work out.
Thought For The Day:
I try to be good, I really do. But it turns out I get bored really easily.
