If One is Good, Two is Better and Three is Best

— Posted inHumor — 2 min read
New skillets

The bottom skillet in the photo is the one we use in Sophie, our travel RV. With space at a premium we only use one skillet and it has two short handles rather than one long one. It was used everyday over the 9 1/2 month trip we recently took and my wife worried that if something happened to it, a handle broke or the nonstick coating was scratched, we wouldn’t be able to find a replacement. She has repeatedly searched the internet in vain to find the same or a similar skillet.

skillet

Whenever we shop in the same store where we bought the original, I always make sure to check if see if they had any in stock. This time they did. I brought one over to where she was getting some deli cheese and showed her what I had found. She wanted to know where I found it, and then proceeded to the display and put two more in our grocery cart.

I questioned this and was told we needed them “just in case”. I knew from experience not to pursue that point any further. In the back of my mind I was wondering if just having one long handled skillet that would be easy to replace wouldn’t take up less space than taking three extra skillets along. Then I remembered the adage: Man will never understand the mind of a woman. With my luck she will decide that I take to many clothes along and use part of my clothes drawer to store them.

Someone Didn’t Do Their Job

— Posted inEclectic — 1 min read
Markings

Both our neighbors and we are getting fences installed to enclose the back of our lots. Before any digging is done the city sends out someone to mark where the water and electric lines are buried. Red lines are spray painted to mark them .

Digging a post hole

This hole is being dug on the west side of our property where that neighbor already has a fence installed.

First water line repair

Unfortunately for the fence contractor and the neighbor on the east side, the person doing the marking missed a water line, the main line from the street to their coach house and RV pedestal. This is certainly not the best repair job and the fact it kept on leaking confirmed that fact.

Better repair

A better repair that worked. The second I saw that first repair, due to my vast experience at repairing broken water lines, I knew what they did wrong. You have to dig back along the lines so you can get enough pipe into the fittings. PVC pipe will bend, but not if it buried in the soil. You can also see they moved the location of the hole. All this work just because someone didn’t mark all the lines.

The Readout Now Reads

— Posted inEclectic, Travel — 1 min read

A while ago I posted a similar photo under the title When a Readout Isn’t Reading. The replacement readout has arrived and it’s now installed and once again we can tell how full our tanks are. We have been back for 4 1/2 weeks and this is the black (toilet holding) tank reading. It’s unreal, it is only 2/3rds full. It looks like when one cuts down on their intake, their outflow also diminishes.

The backside of the old monitor with back cover removed. They say good things come in small packages. I can also attest that expensive things also come in small packages.

The Gin in Gin and Tonic

— Posted inEclectic, Food — 1 min read

Many years ago I introduced my wife to pleasures of a G&T. To say she has become a connoisseur of that simple yet complex drink is a major understatement. Some 10 years ago during a weeklong stay in Stockholm I laughed to myself as she taught a bartender how to make a G&T her way. Every night for a week we visited that bar at 5 o’clock and I once watched him tell another bartender how she liked her G&T when he was busy with a customer and couldn’t make hers. She’s always on the lookout for the perfect gin to go with her Fever Tree Tonic Water. Right now she is enjoying this Texas gin of all things. I often tease that her “taster” is off, but this time I admit she has stumbled on an excellent gin for G&T’s made her way, the secret of which I will not divulge.