Playing Catsup
1/19/07 - 4th Day - After Breakfast. Ok, we're still in a bit of the deep freeze here in Texas, but it has warmed up enough to thaw out the ice and snow and make everything a mucky mess. It makes me think of German tanks bogged down outside of Stalingrad.
I need to catch y'all up on some things. First, I posted a rant this morning. It is must reading.
We picked up the pig from the butcher on Tuesday. His kill weight was 230 lbs. which was about perfect. We filled our big freezer and had to plug in our small freezer to hold all of it. We have already tried the bacon and the hot sausage and they were both dynamite.
On Wednesday we (Mark, Chris and I) drove Mihai down to San Antonio to catch his plane Thursday morning. It just happened to be the first major freeze in San Antonio in many years, and most of the interstates, highways and overpasses were closed once we got within 38 miles of there. It was a white-knuckle joy-ride all the way down there. The 3 hour trip took 7 hours. We stopped in Fredericksburg to get a bite to eat, but virtually everything was closed down. We finally found a Chilli's that was open (but with a limited menu) and our choices were... a turkey sandwich and soup. So, after much consideration, we ordered the turkey sandwich and the soup. We finally made it down to SA at around dark thirty, so we got a hotel room across from the airport and hunkered down to stay warm for the night. We got Mihai off to the airport in the a.m. and the roads were much better, so we did a quick tour of downtown for Chris and then went to Half Price Books for an hour before heading home. The trip home took the regular 3 hours, and was quite pleasant until we got to the dirt roads, which were not dirt at all. They were solid muck, and got worse the closer we got to the cabin. The prognosticators are calling for more rain/freezing rain today, tonight and tomorrow. We could use the moisture, but we are getting very little work done. Looks like we will be playing catch up when it does dry out.
I hope all is well with you all.
Michael Bunker
I need to catch y'all up on some things. First, I posted a rant this morning. It is must reading.
We picked up the pig from the butcher on Tuesday. His kill weight was 230 lbs. which was about perfect. We filled our big freezer and had to plug in our small freezer to hold all of it. We have already tried the bacon and the hot sausage and they were both dynamite.
On Wednesday we (Mark, Chris and I) drove Mihai down to San Antonio to catch his plane Thursday morning. It just happened to be the first major freeze in San Antonio in many years, and most of the interstates, highways and overpasses were closed once we got within 38 miles of there. It was a white-knuckle joy-ride all the way down there. The 3 hour trip took 7 hours. We stopped in Fredericksburg to get a bite to eat, but virtually everything was closed down. We finally found a Chilli's that was open (but with a limited menu) and our choices were... a turkey sandwich and soup. So, after much consideration, we ordered the turkey sandwich and the soup. We finally made it down to SA at around dark thirty, so we got a hotel room across from the airport and hunkered down to stay warm for the night. We got Mihai off to the airport in the a.m. and the roads were much better, so we did a quick tour of downtown for Chris and then went to Half Price Books for an hour before heading home. The trip home took the regular 3 hours, and was quite pleasant until we got to the dirt roads, which were not dirt at all. They were solid muck, and got worse the closer we got to the cabin. The prognosticators are calling for more rain/freezing rain today, tonight and tomorrow. We could use the moisture, but we are getting very little work done. Looks like we will be playing catch up when it does dry out.
I hope all is well with you all.
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 1/19/2007 06:55:00 AM
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