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After dodging north and south of us the last few days, last night/this morning found us right in the bullseye of some really heavy thunderstorms coming through the area. In fact, they were heavy enough and loud enough that they really freaked Karma out. She would run up and down the coach, meowing and looking at the ceiling.
It stayed mostly overcast all day, but not much more in the way of rain. And the front dropped our temps back down to the 70’s and 50’s, which is nice. The Weather Channel says we’ve got another week or so of rain and nice temps, so that’s nice too.
After a nice, quiet afternoon, Jan and I headed out about 5pm on our way to Culver’s. But on the way we made a stop at a TrueValue Hardware for some rubber washers to try and repair my leaky hose splitter.
I really like these, but after a year or so, the washers start leaking up in the hose extensions.
The hose extensions actually screw into the splitter body with standard hose couplings, but smaller. So the washers are smaller than standard hose washers too. The replacement ones are neoprene rubber so hopefully they’ll last longer than the original ones.
Then it was on the Conroe Culver’s, which for us is right up there with Whataburger. Really love their Butterburgers.
Then it was right across the street to the Wal-Mart for some groceries, and not a very nice time. As usual I started Runkeeper as we left the truck to keep track of our walking in the store.
The shopping part of things went just fine, but ground to a halt during checkout. Literally. There were only two lanes open, and one of them was 20 items or less. So that was out for me.
The self-checkout was available, but I’ve found it doesn’t work very well with a full basket. The bagging area is not big enough to hold everything as you scan them and bag them. And if you try to take bags off and put them in your basket before you pay, the system starts yelling at you that “An item has been removed from the bagging area.†and shuts down until you replace the item. So that was out. 
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So I got in the line and waited . . . and waited . . . . and waited. There were two customers ahead of me. Only two. But the first one had three carts stacked high, and the lady had an inch-thick stack of coupons, and was apparently contesting every price she disagreed with. And that was a lot., believe me.
In fact, it took them almost 25 minutes to checkout, and it was 35 minutes until I was done. Turns out that they had a number of people out sick, and were short-handed on cashiers. And it was almost 8pm before we got home.
But we did walk almost a mile, so that was good.
Thought for the Day:
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” – Albert Einstein
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Bearteeth and Landstars . . .
After our coffee and cereal this morning, it was back to the ole grind, as in reading and watching TV for Jan, and playing on the Internet for me. Isn’t retirement great?
But of course I did do some actual work, adding more stuff to son-in-law Lowell’s new website, Lowell’s Logistics. Got his twitter account online and the quote forms up and working. I also posted a neat video that describes what Landstar does.
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Later in the afternoon Jan took all my shirts out of the closet and got me to go through them, throwing out ones I didn’t want any more. Of course I know it was all just an artful ruse to give her more room in the closet at my expense.
For dinner tonight Jan fixed chips and onion dip, and DiGiorno Pizza. This is the first time we’ve tried the cheese-in-the-crust version, and it was really good. Of course, Jan spices it up by adding sliced mushrooms for some extra oomph.
A few days ago someone posted a photo of the snowed-in Beartooth Highway.
The article said that they’ve finally started clearing the snow pack from the Beartooth.
We drove the Beartooth with our friends Al and Adrienne Cox in July of 2011. But in the summer it’s a little greener.
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And if you look very carefully, you can pick out the name-sake peak in the distance.
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And zooming in, gives you a better look. Looks like a bear tooth to me.
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You can read more about our day’s adventure here. The Last Time I Was At 11,000 Feet, I Was In A Plane
We even visited Red Lodge and checked out a bank where on September 18, 1897, the Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, and others of the Wild Bunch attempted “to make an unauthorized withdrawal from the Carbon County Bank.â€
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Thought for the Day:
“Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
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