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Price of oil
Posted By: Vic Roy
Date: Sunday, 20 March 2005, at 3:15 p.m.
Picked up the usual 9 gal. of Shell Rotella T 15w40 for the Cummins and 3 qts. of Mobil One for the genset. Last year about $60, this week Pep Boys clipped my butt for $90. Ouch.
So me & Snow went over to the camp early Friday with a truck load of stuff. Pumped oil. Ran into a little problem with the stb. filter, would not come off, so after an hour of busted knuckles (and one dislocated knuckle) we figured out why - Dhhhhhhhhh - we were turning it the wrong way. Bonehead, I plead guilty.
Anyway, Snowman went back to town and the Bride came over and we had a nice party weekend. Shorts & T shirts, Yankees. Painted the engines yesterday, checked all the chafing gear on cables, hoses, etc and replaced a few. Shot Corrosion X liberally.
Noticed the dinette table was sort of wobbly and got to looking and the three oval head bolts that hold the side panel to the fiberglass coaming were all borken. After some head scratching, took the broken heads out and they were corroded in half just behind the head. Turns out they were ALUMINUM. Damn, who did that? No, as boneheaded as I can be 'twas not ole UV. An aluminum bolt in a stainless finishing washer with a stainless nut. Anyway, all nice & fixed with all stainless and some Tef Gel for good measure.
Bride made some crawfish & corn soup, cream based, yesterday while I went sac a lait fishing. Did good, but did all C&R so they still there. Went to a new produce outlet in Hammond, LA near the camp and fresh LA strawberries are down to $10 a flat, which is a helluva lot of berries. Some heavy cream and an assortment of their homemade picked stuff, from garlic (eat that by yourself of make sure everyone does) to pickled asparagus - lot better than it sounds.
So we had the neighbors on both sides over last nite for a good ole fashioned coonass feast. One neighbor brought a coconut creme pie and some "hat" bread from an Italian bakery. I never heard of 'hat' bread, but it is about 14" in diameter and open in the middle. Best stuff I ever ate. So the crawfish & corn soup was a hit, all of it was good, topped off with the pie and some fresh strawberries and cream.
We woke up this morning to heavy rain and just sat on the porch drinking coffee and munching cajun bacon til about noon, watching the blue herons, etc. do their thing. Bride commented "this is why we bought this place", and she sure is right.
UV
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