Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 11/01/18 > Well my string is broken… but not my spirit.

I knew it would...

I knew it would eventually happen that I would end up failing to post a Daily Dose, I had gone a total of 414 consecutive days without missing a day but that ended on Tuesday when I had to put the “Temporarily Closed Sign”.

The reasons for...

The reason for me missing a couple days is twofold, the hotel I was checked into up in Mesquite, TX had a problem with their internet service on Monday and Tuesday and secondly I just did not want to get out of my room that late at night to find some internet. For me to try and write something on my phone and post it is nearly impossible, it was all I could do to put up the closed sign.

Bad timing...

The hotel is upgrading their TV and internet and so it was just bad timing. Honestly, I am really surprised that I made it as long as I have without missing, since the internet here at the house has been known to only work when it is above 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

I believe that problem got corrected last winter though when the temperature dropped down into the teens and that lizard that was staying in the internet junction box froze to death. After that cold / freezing snap it never gave us any more issues.

The trip to Dallas...

The trip to the Dallas area ended up being cut short and I returned back to Spring, TX Wednesday afternoon. The work I am doing right now is very dependent on the weather and the heavy rains screwed us for the rest of the week.

In the last Daily Dose...

In the last Daily Dose on Monday I mentioned that I would be stopping at Sam’s for lunch, which I did, I also mentioned it is in Mexia, TX which it isn’t.

The exit for Sam’s is the Fairfield, TX exit. I remember now why I associated it with Mexia, because years ago when I would go to Cleburne from Houston I would cut across the country to get from I-45 over to I-35 and that road goes right through Mexia. You can also get to that same road by exiting at the exit where Sam’s is, it is just a little further north than you really need to go to catch that road when you come from the south.

It has been...

It has been about 3 or 4 years since I had eaten at Sam’s and nothing has changed. It still has the buffet that is about 30 feet long with salad stuff and about another 20 feet long with hot foods. The food, well I say food but I mean the BBQ, really wasn’t that great.

I don’t remember in the past that they had sauce on the meats but they did on Monday. I just had the buffet anyway, I was hungry. How many of you would like to take a guess on what was on my plate?

It was a pretty easy guess, mashed potatoes and meat, even though I don’t really like BBQ sauce on my meat but I did eat three plates full so I didn’t leave the slightest bit hungry. One thing I had forgotten about was the hot bread, homemade and fresh out of the oven and served warm.

Sam’s won’t make the “Will eat BBQ 4 U” Texas BBQ review, I am just not going to put BBQ cooked and served with sauce. Call me stubborn, but why even bother to smoke the meat if you are then going to try and hide the smoke flavor with some pasty sauce?

If you like veggies...

If you like veggies and salads though you will thoroughly enjoy eating at Sam’s Restaurant located at the Fairfield, Texas exit on I-45 between Houston and Dallas. They also make some great pies there too.

Tuesday was ...

Tuesday was a good day as far as work went, our company sells pump stations and so we spend Tuesday removing and old pump station for the golf course irrigation system at a Dallas golf course.

This was a tricky removal since the pump station was elevated about 15 feet in the air and we needed a big crane truck to lift the parts out the roof of the building and then lower them to the ground. These pumps on golf courses are usually a style of pump called a vertical turbine pump and the electric motor sits at the top and the vertical shaft spins the impellers to pump the water.

So the pump assemblies were about thirty feet in length each so that was the need for such a big crane. I have thrown a picture in here so you can see the crane as it was hoisting one of the three pumps out of its spot.

The rain moved in...

The rain moved in overnight and that made us have to postpone the installation of the new pump station for Wednesday. That golf course was barely dry enough to get the crane in to remove the old pump station so it might be another week before we can get the crane back across the fairway to set up installing the new pump station. Golf course greens keepers are pretty picky when it comes to their turf and they don’t take kindly to having vehicles put a bunch of ruts in their fairways so we will have to just wait until it is dry enough to do it.

So I left Dallas...

So I left the Dallas area on Wednesday morning and headed back home, rained the entire way and got home just in time for us to be put under a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning. That cold front blowing in from the north hit that warm moist air coming off the Gulf of Mexico right over the north part of the county where I live so the rain and storms were pretty intense.

It would figure...

It would figure that it would be Halloween night so there wasn’t any Trick of Treating for Shortie. The good news in that is that we also didn’t give out any candy so she and I have plenty; I just love the Snickers bars and the plain Hershey’s Chocolate bars. The only thing now is they make them so small you have to eat five of them to have the same amount of chocolate that one candy bar had when I was a kid.

Back in those days, that candy bar was a nickel, now you pay well over a dollar for it and I now it is smaller than when I was I kid. Those bars might be about the same length as back then, but I know they are nowhere near as thick.

I knew there was...

Damn. I knew there was something else I was forgetting, today is old cousin Lyle’s birthday today, if he had been born just a few hours earlier his birthday would have been on Halloween. I think he and his good buddy Robert Earl are touring right now, yes I just check his website.

Lyle is off today but playing in Florida for six days straight starting Friday and after that then Mobile AL. on the seventh day. I thought I waited later in life to raise kids but …

I am back...

Anyway, I am back and I appreciate the up votes and well wishes to me while I was gone. The string may have been broken but my spirit isn’t and I just cashed out $25 SBD from the poker site to buy some steem and keep the SBI Saturday going so we are good for at least a few weeks; if I don’t carried away and start naming a bunch of people in the Saturday Daily Doses.

As most of you know, I give away three shares of SBI(steem basic income) each Saturday to people I come across on here that I find deserving, but aside from those three, if your name is also mentioned in the Saturday Daily Dose but not featured you still receive a share of SBI. I think the most I ever gave away in one Saturday edition was eight shares.

So until next time,

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