Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Feb 1

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Sunday, February 1, 2015
Morning 58 Degrees, wind calm, humidity 97%, patchy dense fog.
Afternoon 74 Degrees, wind W 13 & gusting to 18, humidity 51%, partly sunny.
The forecast was for cool and rainy day that never showed up, thank you.

Super Bowl XLIX Sunday, I just wanted to Write Roman Numerals. Next year they will not use the Roman Numeral for the super bowl, a single digit, L I got to wondering about next years promotion of the super bowl with just the L for fifty and this is what I found on the internet;





from ESPN on line;
"The Roman Empire has fallen.

The NFL announced on Wednesday that Super Bowl 50 will be graphically represented using standard Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals, which the league has been using since Super Bowl V in 1971.

It's a one-year break, said Jaime Weston, the league's vice president of brand and creative, because the "L" isn't as pleasing to the eye.

The NFL will break from tradition and go without a Roman numeral on the Super Bowl 50 logo. However, order will be restored for Super Bowl LI in 2017.
"When we developed the Super Bowl XL logo, that was the first time we looked at the letter L," Weston said. "Up until that point, we had only worked with X's, V's and I's. And, at that moment, that's when we started to wonder: What will happen when we get to 50?"

Weston said her team has been working on the Super Bowl 50 logo since April 2013, having gone through 73 versions. At some point along the way, it was concluded that having the "L" stand alone didn't work.

The league has made two logos for the game, which will take place Feb. 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium, the new home of the San Francisco 49ers. Both the national and regional logo feature the "50" in gold, serving to call attention to the game's golden anniversary as well as the game's location in the "Golden State.""

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Jan 28 - 31

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Morning 41 Degrees, wind N 1, humidity 91%, mostly sunny.
Afternoon 82 Degrees, wind ESE 5, humidity 37%, sunny.

Just hanging loose

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Thursday, January 29, 2015

Morning 54 Degrees, wind calm, humidity 97%, patchy dense fog.

Afternoon 73 Degrees, wind E 4, humidity 38%, sunny. Not as warn today and cooler yet tomorrow.

Bonnie and I did go into Pleasanton later this afternoon for some propane gas for Buster and some grocery shopping at H E B. A zero day, did nothing other than the trip into Pleasanton but it was a beautiful day to do it, nothing. 

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Friday, January 30, 2015

Morning 50 Degrees, wind NNE 10 & gusting to 18 mph, humidity 60%, mostly sunny.

Afternoon 63 Degrees, wind NE 12 & gusting to 18 mph, humidity 44%, partly sunny.     

Tan Jan gets an engine oil change today

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Saturday, January 31, 2015

Morning 51 Degrees, wind ENE 8, humidity 87%, cloudy with rain showers.

Afternoon 63 Degrees, wind NE 6, humidity 91%, cloudy rain showers.

A do nothing day outside with the cool showers, Bonnie stayed inside Buster warm and dry today. But the first month of twenty-fifteen is closing today. Where has the first month gone. 

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Jan 25 - 27

Austin, TX - Sunday, January 25, 2015
Morning 41 Degrees, humidity 95%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 70 Degrees, wind N 1, humidity 65%, mostly sunny.    

Well the reason we are here in Austin is Carole is flying out this morning early on a  business trip and Jackie is visiting with some girlfriends this weekend. Bonnie and I are here to bridge the gap in time with Avery and the senior pets before Jackie comes home. But every chance to visit with them is important. Jackie was home about noon and we all went for a late lunch early dinner. We left for Buster from the restaurant after eating and ran into stop and go traffic trying to enter interstate thirty-five from US 290. Interstate thirty-five was slow for about three miles before getting up to highway speed. Continuing to San Antonio was also heavy traffic and we stopped at H E B for bread and milk on the way home. Nice to be back home to Buster even though we were only gone a little over a days time.

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Monday, January 26, 2015

Morning 39 Degrees, wind N 1, humidity 75%, mostly cloudy.

Afternoon 74 Degrees, wind WSW 7, humidity 23%, mostly sunny. 

Arriving back a Buster here at the RV park we noticed the two vacent sites have refilled with travel trailers, looks like workers as most here are workers for the oil industry. Lately the workers seem to be working shorter days as the “company work trucks” are spending more time in the park during the day. The breakneck pace of out early in the morning and home late after dark is relaxing to a more normal pace.

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Morning 46 Degrees, wind WNW 5, humidity 68%, mostly sunny.

Afternoon 80 Degrees, wind WNW 4, humidity 59%, sunny.     

While we were in Austin I saw a flyer in the paper for a air compressor on sale at Harbor Freight, best price I have seen, so today that was my plan. There is no use in checking Busters tire pressure if I have no way to correct low tire air pressure. Bonnie and I found Harbor Freight in San Antonio, we have driven past many time and not even noticed it was there. Now the real hard part comes, where to store the air compressor or what is removed from Buster to create space for the compressor to ride in storage.

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Jan 21 - 24

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Morning 52 Degrees, wind NE 12, humidity 91%, cloudy, early fog and overcast later. Back to the glume overcast days after a nice weekend and start of the week.
Afternoon 64 Degrees, wind  , humidity 41%, cloudy lite rain late this afternoon.

I completed my file draw purging job I was using Walmart bags and I lost count of how many bags of paper and books from the insurance plans from over the years, every year a new book is printed and distributed. I do need to get into a regular cycle of purging the file draw. There has been a couple of workers “rigs” trailers, move out of the park and one move in as most of the rigs here are workers some with young children families.


Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Thursday, January 22, 2015
Morning 63 Degrees, wind SSE 6, humidity 96%, cloudy rain showers. Rain showers last night after dark measurable just above a trace. by eight o’clock it was 52 Degrees with winds of 15 & gusting to 25 mph, the front came thru our area.
Afternoon 48 Degrees, wind N 7 & gusting to 22, humidity 80%, cloudy overcast.
Do nothing outside day with these rain showers and cold weather an old Televisions day.


Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Friday, January 23, 2015
Morning 42 Degrees, wind NW 9, humidity 91%, cloudy and rain showers most of the morning.
Afternoon 47 Degrees, wind NW 10, humidity 89%, mostly cloudy we had some peeks of sunshine late in the afternoon.   Another inside morning and early afternoon of hanging in Buster. This weekend Bonnie and I are going to Austin for a sleep over.


Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Saturday, January 24, 2015
Morning 33 Degrees, wind W 8, humidity 94%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 62 Degrees, wind NW 4, humidity 41%, mostly sunny.  

inside Bucee's

Austin, TX one hundred eleven miles with a stop at Bucee's for gasoline for Tan Jan and a toilet stop for Bonnie and I. A decent day for being out and about after four rainy cloudy days but not that warm. Carole and Avery are doing great and Jackie is visiting with childhood friends and will be here about noon tomorrow. We had a movie night as after dinner Avery put a movie disk in the DVD player and Carole made popcorn.

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Jan 19 - 20

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Monday, January 19, 2015
Morning 36 Degrees, wind N 1, humidity 94%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 75 Degrees, wind N 6, humidity 53%, mostly sunny.  

Today I thought would be a rest day, but more contacting the gate companies with the same result of every company being slow getting new gates. Any gates in progress are not needing relief people.

It was another nice day to be out and about. We did a drive into San Antonio getting our empty propane gas bottle exchanged for a full one. I would have stayed at Buster otherwise as this being a holiday the daytime traffic was a noticeable increase.

For the weekend it was a lot of traveling (driving) this weekend. South to visit with Bob & Jean then north to visit with Carole and family was almost three hundred-fifty miles so with the lower gasoline price we do not feel the pain at the pump as much. It is nice that every stop at the pump the price per gallon is down a penny or two.

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Morning 41 Degrees, wind N 1, humidity 95%, mostly sunny.
Afternoon 82 Degrees, wind S 5, humidity 41%,  sunny.  

In downloading pictures from the ipad from our trip to Carole’s I found some pictures on there of the refrigerator compartment with the Norcold refrigerator just removed. 

This is a picture of the removed Norcold refrigerator sitting on the floor inside Buster before going out the window. This is the back side showing the cooling coils.

The vent opening, in the ceiling inside Busters refrigerator compartment, needed for the propane gas operation of the refrigerator, before being closed off. 

Looking at the outside access and the propane gas tube that went to the refrigerator and hose for the brick heater. Also seen is the Norcold refrigerator floor.

Norcold refrigerator floor is removed showing wires and cables that go thru the compartment. On the left side there is a vent pipe that goes thru the left wall that is the height of the “new floor” for the Samsung refrigerator that will be installed.

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Jan 18

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Sunday, January 18, 2015
Morning 46 Degrees, wind NNW 7, humidity 56%, mostly sunny
Afternoon 74 Degrees, mostly sunny.  

Avery

Bonnie and I went out for a great dinner today. Bonnie was texting with Carole and we were invited for an early dinner this afternoon. It is only a one hundred-ten mile trip from here at Atascosa RV park to their house there in Austin. We left a few minutes early and stopped for gasoline at Bucee’s there north of New Braunfels, along the east side of Interstate thirty-five. That is an interesting gasoline stop, one hundred-twenty pumps and only a few were open when I pulled up to refuel Tan Jan. They cleared quickly as there were cars continuing to come and go. Inside clean modern restrooms and everything a convenience store should have plus more.

Lucy with Avery

We had a great time visiting along with a great dinner. Avery is eleven now and in a growth cycle so shoes and jeans are shrinking fast. Carole is scheduled for another trip to San Francisco soon but is also busy there in Austin. We will be going again soon unless we get a gate job.

Carole cooking with supervision Lucy & Chey

Been contacting the gate companies both ones we have worked for and ones we have not worked for looking for any available gate jobs but it is slow. Oil companies are “laying down” drill rigs and cutting their budget for drilling and completing well sites. These “budgets are investment” monies and while the oil price per barrel is in the mid forties now the return on the dollar invested is not what the companies need for their investment. There are gates with oil work continuing but new starts are not taking place. Budgets are being cut from twenty to ninety percent depending on the company. Production of oil from a well is an ongoing thing but can be “shut in”. I read a blog “fuelfix.com” that is news for the oil industry and stories reported there of the many companies slashing their investment budget for new oil and completion of wells.

Lucy & Bonnie

Lucy & Bonnie

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Jan17

Atascosa RV Park - Pleasanton, TX - Saturday, January 17, 2015
Morning 35 Degrees, wind N 1, humidity 93%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 70 degrees, wind W 3 , humidity 45%, mostly sunny.    

I am counting my “purging project” fifty percent complete, I have whittled thru most everything else, my label. Now there is “healthcare” pile to work thru. 2014 was a change year for us as our “company” retiree medical had a big change as that was terminated. We had to transfer to individual plans, no more “family” plans for retiree healthcare. Our RV life even presented additional challenges in the selection process. Bonnie and I have the same healthcare provider but our part D drug plans are different. So we each have a health plan and a drug plan so one provider is now four providers. All this means four books and other documents whereas there was only one in previous years, or more space needed in our file draw. I also have three folders from previous years that I will purge.

Bonnie and I went visiting today, gate guarding friends from The Ranch in Lakewood, New Mexico. They are west of Tilden parked at a busy gate, but a slower weekend day is a good time for visiting. Arriving later in the afternoon allowed Bob to have a days sleep as he is the overnight person. Jean does the day shift `

Jean & Bonnie

We have not seen them for a couple of years as they also have been gate guarding and in the summer returning to Michigan. Bonnie and I had a great time visiting and trading “gate” stories with Jean & Bob. Our trip returning to Buster was an after dark experience as we try to not drive after dark.

Bob, Jean & Bonnie