Breeding Time In The Marshes

 

Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Date: April 26, 2023

It was a busy day. We started the preparations for leaving for grandkid land. The first thing we are getting done is new brakes for Sierra. There is only 134K miles on Sierra but the brakes are worn and ready for replacement to stay safe while towing. The last 2500 Chevy truck had 299K miles on the brakes when we traded it in a few years ago. The brake job is scheduled for May 2.

Then next on the list is a Texas inspection on May 8 to have the paperwork all ready to pay for and order the other sticker we need for Sierra. Then we will be ready to roll in September when we think we will be leaving Alabama for unknown locations. Our current idea is to leave May 12 and roll gently to north Alabama and four months of fun.

As far as the sickness is concerned it is improving nearly every 6 hours or so. What ever got into the OFM digestive system is losing the battle it seems so we hope anyway. No more high fever was felt today but we did keep the ibuprofen flowing to help control the troubles.

During the storms a couple of days ago when lots of folks had serious water leaks, the Castle showed one small drip like near the front left of the roof line. You can see the near vertical white line along the corner of the siding joint where the OFM applied a care-fully pressured caulk layer into the small crack layer of caulk.

After another day of good sun and curing we will be be giving that new caulk a fresh coat of white sealing paint to help with the job at hand. That corner got a bad tree limb whack down in Big Bend NP about 14 years ago and has been our worst leak point since. Since the Castle is a 2005 model we think we are getting decent service out of it.

And last but far from least, the birds around here are definitely in breeding mode.

They are all gathered in clusters settling who is who to who and getting busy on the egg production. And maybe the mosquitoes will slow down on their production of the next bunches of blood suckers. Messing with mosquitoes never seems to be a good way of trying to have tooooo much fun.