A quiet day in the Houston hood

Freshly watched car with rain all over it

Today started out with a brisk walk for my brother-in-law Denny and me. Brisk for a couple reasons, the temperatures were in the low 50s and the wind was blowing about 15 mph which was fine when it was at our backs, no so fine when we were walking straight into it.

Diane connected with a high school friend from Buffalo and we made arrangements, which  turned out to be a little more complicated than they sounded on the phone, to drop off Denny and Diane so they could spend a good part of the day with Diane’s friend Karen who now lives in Houston.

It took about 15 minutes to make the rendezvous, but we finally made it. Joan stayed home at the trailer while I did this.

Karen and Diane

On the way back I ran into a really long freeway funeral procession which brought traffic to a near standstill for about 15 minutes. Eventually, the procession got off the freeway and the traffic cleared up very quickly.

After yesterday’s fiasco in getting the car wash I took a different route home and found a u-wash place along another road that leads to our campground. After $5 in quarters the car looked pretty good again.

Within an hour after I arrived back at the trailer and after I washed all the windows – it rained. So much for the car wash.

Joan spent the afternoon reading and preparing our dinner because we picked Diane and Denny up at 5:30 p.m. at the same place I dropped them off this morning.

Dinner was a really good chicken and noodle dish Joan found somewhere, but which is really, really good. If you want the recipe, let us know. We spent the evening in the trailer catching up again.

Tomorrow we head back to San Antonio for an overnight with Diane and Denny who would like to see the River Walk and the Alamo.