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SpknTC

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Posted: 03/27/14 08:54am

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sleepy wrote:

jamminalong wrote:

Happy Anniversary Chet & Janet!! Hope you two have a wonderful day! [emoticon]

Thank you... Our 51st Wedding Anniversary... Celebrated down in the Bayou at Pat's Fishermans Wharf in Henderson, LA.

Janet had a very nice Filet Mignon...

I had Crawfish Bisque and 2 pounds of boiled Mud Bugs (crawfish) with corn on the cob and a potato... all spiced up with the best cajun spice ever. It took a big glass of ice water and 2 beers to keep the heat from the spice to a tolerable level.

Then, it got cold in Lake Charles last night... 51 years and cuddling (don't tell Janet, I cut back on the PlatCat vented heater a little). We'll hang here for a couple of days... more Cajun food... it is the season, and I don't want to miss it.

We agree with our friend Silversand... we have to stay below I-10 for a while to stay out of the cold... the weather looks cool and wet all the way to Brownsville.

Thanks to all for the nice comments... and I'm glad that some of you had your memories tweeked... like those caused by Janets picture of the CCC program.

Sleepy

Janet's my kind of girl!! Now add a baked potato just butter, side of veggies and big strawberry daiquiri tops the meal.

Wow! We're 120 miles from the Canadian border and have beautiful 50º weather. Of course we have scattered rain showers every other day this week. Seriously though look up what showers mean...not what you would expect.

Did you just finish the same author you mentioned to me the other day?
Waiting for pics...

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sleepy

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Posted: 03/28/14 08:13pm

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jamminalong

When you read a book in a day or two.... a book started more than 3 days ago is finished... in the last week I finished Michael Connellys "Gods of Guilt", James Pattersons "Private LA" and I'm half way through Sandra Browns "Deadline"

Janet reads faster than I do... but I need far less sleep.

Today it got up to 90°F in the bayou country... down to 70°F now... 9:10 CST

We don't know for sure where we are going... the weather dictates...

... we hoped to watch the TN/Mich basketball game this evening but couldn't pick up the CBS TV station.

Tropical weather and lots of books will keep us parked along the waterways...

... and in the Cajun resturants.

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Happy 51st Chet and Janet! And what a great place to spend it! I'll never forget being there near the end of crawfish season on a thunderstorm night enjoying our drinks after a huge meal with a bunch of friends and their families. The power went out and complete darkness ensued. I opened my flip phone for a little light and others did the same and we all just continued on as if nothing really happened. Eventually power came back on. What a great scene with a lightning show all around. We hope to be back again soon, perhaps this late fall.

We are shooting to be living in our rig full time in the not too distant future, by fall at the latest so lookout, instead of some MH you'll see Lancezilla pulling in behind you guys somewhere out there on the road or at Pat's. If so we won't have to park in their lot (or god forbid the little CG just a ways past the bridge over the outlet of Lake Henderson to go to Butte La Rose [emoticon]

) but at our friends parents camp on the canal. I hope we finally catch up with you guys out there on the road sometime soon. If you are ever going to visit our house (so we can return the favor of staying at your place) you better make it this summer [emoticon]

Really enjoy your travelogue!

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sleepy

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Posted: 03/30/14 11:18am

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Hello Brian and LaDawn...

We were under tornado watch Friday night... had a hours long thunder storm... washed the pollen off the rig.

Mud bugs are still in season... the locals are moaning about the "bad crop" this year... I think that it's just to keep the price up.

We have one more favorite resturant at Lake Charles... Steamboat Bills, at the east end of the I-10 bridge. It's Janets favorite.

We parked along the Lake last night after being gone for a few days... to dozens of brides.... Oops... it was prom night... all seniords wear white by tradition here.

After wakeing up late to make up for the heavy traffic last night we found ourswlvws in the middle of somee high level bicycle races. (Better than watching paint dry)

It is 68°F at 12:15 pm CST.. sunny and bright... strong winds... it got down to 51° over night... every day is vastly different... some days 90°... some days 55°... but the wind blows constantly.

Come on down... it still beats the snow.

Chet and Janet

SpknTC

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Posted: 03/31/14 03:01pm

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Well the Arizona Wildcats are out! Bummer! Time to move on to MLB.

I took off in the TC to get out of the house and I'm down the street reading; enjoying every minute of it!! Just started book 9 (Davenport) and also sent you a link about Michael Connelly's Pilot for Bosch.

Got the front hitch on order and will be mounting the genny hopefully this weekend.

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Posted: 03/31/14 06:52pm

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This is how bleak it was at our house on the first day of spring... March 20th.

We got the house sitter situated and I walked around the yard with the guy thar does the grass. We hope that it looks better by the time we get home.

It was noon before we left but our goal was ... south and west.

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Posted: 03/31/14 06:58pm

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Our goal was to get as far as we cold... we made it to Tusccalossa, Al

Rain, remaining salt splashing up from the road... Bigger highway sins blown down from the recent bad wins storms...

I used about as much window wash as diesel... well it seems about as much

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Posted: 03/31/14 07:00pm

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Janet enjoyed the trees in bloom...

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Posted: 03/31/14 07:05pm

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Janet was trying to get the outside temperature and direction... I didn't realize that my face was that skinny... losing 52 pounds will do that I guess.

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