More heat and humidity inbound although maybe a little less of both. IDK what the high ended up being yesterday, but it was only 87F when I checked temps at my rent house around 4:30pm. Some people got rain (Sugar Land, I’m looking at you) but we didn’t get anything at my house.
I did get some stuff done. Rent house visit ate some time, but I got some nice media stuff at Goodwill afterward. I did a pickup of something for D2 that took me to a part of Houston with no good freeway access. The bad surface street traffic was one reason we didn’t move there when we were looking for a new home, and the cachet of the area dropped rapidly after the bad flooding. It went from being a premier area for suburban living in classic McMansions to vacant homes, hair braiding salons, and halal food joints. And in only a few years.
Today I’ve got pickups to do, and meeting with a new auction company, hopefully to start consigning with and to get some of my stuff S O L D sold.
Mechanic is working on the quote for the work on the Ranger. Is it worth it to spend money on a 23 yo truck? Where else am I going to find a body on frame small truck without a black box, display screen, built in tracking, and (soon) a remote kill switch? It has ABS and air bags and cruise control and that’s all the “features” I want or need. I can add a backup cam if I want one, ditto for TPMS, and for an android based entertainment system. That I haven’t done so already shows how little I really want that though.
The truck has no rust, only 180K miles, and runs great. I should be able to get another 50K miles (more than 10 years the way I drive) if I don’t give it to D2. The sale value of the truck might be close to what this round of mechanical restoration is going to cost, but not having all the extra cr@p that comes with a modern vehicle is looking very good to me. I’m even thinking of buying a Ranger that’s a couple of years newer for myself, and giving it to D2. Lots of nice Rangers on the road.
Older, sturdier, simpler. Tools, trucks, and wives all benefit from those.
Stack the things you need.
nick
Friday. Good morning!
Blue sky and sunshine. It’ll be hot again here. We’re going to visit a lake, so there might be some breeze. Dinner tonight with relatives whom we haven’t seen for a while, so that will be nice.
But first, breakfast. Perhaps a nap too. Hmm. Nap before or nap after breakfast? Holiday dilemmas. Why not both?
Enjoy!
I would suggest trying one litte tweak. If you can get dried ham in a block, rather than as slices, experiment with making little cubes of it. They will have to be small, because ham is very salty and chewy, but I think the right amount to chew would set off nicely against the lusciousness of the ripe melon and the slightly springy mozzarella texture.