Lithium batteries and other news

 We have decided to change to lithium batteries in our Texas golf cart.

1. They are less expensive

2. They last longer (perhaps 10 years)

3. They weigh less

4. Do not need charged as often

5. They are faster and I don't care about that one.

They are arriving today.

We are having a bit of a cold wave in South Texas. It was 59 degrees this morning and is not expected to get much warmer today. The cold waves are more frequent and colder than they used to be. I remember when we were first coming down here in the winter, I would bring one pair of jeans, just in case, and now I have several.

As interpreted these days a cold spell is in the low 70's in the day and low 50's at night and that would be a normal cold/cool spell. Once in a while there might be a bonafide wingding of a cold front but those still only happen once or twice per  season and then only for a day or two. When that happens Chili will be brewing in nearly every household!

I have new glasses, purchased at Costco. After shopping around, Costco was the place. 

Not much can be done at a certain age. Pretty is out of the question. So we are settling for pleasant. It seems my lips have disappeared completely. Inside I am in my prime.😊 Too much info... I know

Thanksgiving Day!

Boy oh Boy! My Thanksgiving day is starting off great. I have been trying off and on to get Alexa hooked up down here with difficulty! It seems she wanted to stay in Iowa where she knew how to connect to the internet. I tried to show her the way many times but no, she would not let it happen. We even took her to a T-Mobile spot and they assured me she was fixed but she wasn't when we brought her home. I had an inkling it was a setting issue somewhere in the system. I would fiddle a bit and then feel like I was closer many times and this morning my fiddling worked.

Fiddling has been my main system for taking care of tech problems for all my years of teching. It just takes longer now for things to click into place. It takes longer to do everything!!

We are staying home this Thanksgiving without plans to do anything in particular. I have several small tasks I would like to take off my todo list.

My gratitude list is extremely long and something I think of every day, not just on Thanksgiving.

I hope all of our friends and family are doing precisely what they want to do this Thanksgiving day and every other day as well.

Thanksgivings

 

You can never tell what important things you might find out at Happy Hour. A few days ago, a neighbor came and said, "I have a question I need to ask." I said, "You have come to the right place!" That was a few days ago, and for the life of me, I do not remember what she asked, but I am sure she was able to get an answer.

Yesterday at happy hour we got stuck on "Rhubarb"; where it grows and the many ways to use it. And then the recipes using it were bandied about followed by pineapple and mandarin orange territory. You can never tell what sorts of tidbits will come in handy and add to your personal book of knowledge.

A while back, Butch came home from happy hour and told me what deer hunters need to know about hunting and preparing the meat without ruining it for human consumption. It is a fact the path to making it tasty is in the very beginning.

It seems more than one kind of recipe is being shared at happy hour.

 

Rhubarb Pudding

3 C. Rhubarb, Coarsely Chopped

1 C. Sugar

1/4 t Cinnamon

Dabs Of Butter

1 Egg

1 C. Flour

1/2 C. Milk

1 t Baking Powder

1 C. Sugar

A very old family favorite.

Place the first 4 ingredients in an 8" x 8" pan. Mix together the remaining

ingredients and pour evenly over the rhubarb mix. Bake 45 min. at 350 deg.

Cover the first 30 minutes.

Barb B. ~I cut back on the sugar these days and mix some stevia in there.

Laura's Buck

 Jason and Laura were driving through The Ledges State Park near Boone when she got this great shot of a deer. Laura and I share a love of photography and this is a super duper shot on many levels.

Smoothly progressing

 I think things are progressing smoothly, and even as I type, I wonder what I have forgotten.

We played pool yesterday as partners and Butch and I did well considering our 2 losses were unavoidable. In the first loss, they broke and ran the table and in the second loss I broke but did not make a ball on the break so they then ran the table. Cannot feel bad about that kind of loss. If I am playing well I do not beat myself over any loss. Playing well is good enough for me.

We are in the midst of changing out our Golf cart batteries. It is an expensive process no matter how or when. We are transitioning from lead-acid batteries to lithium batteries. The reasons for doing so are longer life (10 years), charging less often, and increased speed. We do not need the last one, but it comes with the package. All this takes some time.

The time is whizzing by! The busier we are the faster it goes. We need to schedule a Mexico trip. Let's see...Thursdays are our clearest day but it is Thanksgiving this week. And that is how it goes!