From UltimateBass Home Front (Belton, Texas) Nov 2023

[Bud Kennedy]

Mostly cloudy but warm start to the day.  Current temp is 75 and a calm breeze.  Bowling league this afternoon and then I have to stop by Walmart to pick up some prescriptions.  I haven't bowled this week like I usually do thanks to a bit of a strained right knee.  Sprain happened last week but all seems well but still putting a knee brace in my bowling bag just in case.  I usually like to bowl 2 or 3 times a week but not so this past week.  Have no idea what to expect today, the only thing I can do is the best I can. Hopefully the knee does not give out.

We are going out for Thanksgiving dinner this year so no need to buy a bunch of stuff at the grocery for a special meal.  No family visiting so just us two old folks planning a quiet holiday.

[Donald Garner]

Good morning to everyone,

Partly sunny skies are covering down across Central Texas this morning.  It's going to be a really pleasant day today.  Our forecasted temps are 53-69dgrs with 81%humidity with a N wind @ 8 mphs.

We're off to Fredericksburg for a day trip.  While there we're attending a Cher Tribute Band concert at the Rock Box Theater. The wife is going to be doing a little shopping while there also. 

Bud; Hope you had a good outing yesterday bowling.  Hope your knee gets to feeling better also.  The wife and I are having a very simple and quiet Thanksgiving meal here also. 

I hope everyone has a relaxing and pleasant Saturday.  Enjoy the family time together and be safe in your travels.

[Bud Kennedy]

Ultra nice day today here at the beach.   Current temp is 78 with bright sunny skies and a light breeze.  Limping around a bit today as I seemed to have re injured my knee yesterday while bowling.  Nothing bad but a little bit gimpy at this time.  I still have no idea how it happened. All I know is it just happened.  Not much pain just a little discomfort but I can tell you it really messed up my bowling yesterday.  I can blame my poor bowling on a bad knee.  Fact is I could not do anything right.  Hope it will be better the next time.  League play is cancelled for this next Friday due to the holiday weekend so I do have a little more time to rehab the knee. 

[Donald Garner]

Good afternoon to everyone,

We have overcast skies with scattered rain showers / possible thunderstorms moving across the area today.  Our forecasted temps are 65-68dgrs with 72%humidity with a SE wind @ 14mphs.

Not much happening here today at all.  I attended church on-line this morning.  Made a run to HEB Grocery store to pick up some items for the wife. 

Our trip to Fredericksburg was pleasant.  We had supper at our favorite Mexican Restaurant 'Mamacita'.  The Cher Tribute Band show was ok we got home around 9pm.  I think we're going to start spending the night there when we attend those late afternoon shows.  I was getting tired driving in the dark and it's a 2.5hr drive down there.

Bud; Sorry to hear the bowling didn't go as planned.  I hope you have a quick recovery from the injury.

It's a gloomy day here for sure so I'll be tinkering around on the computer and watching some football on the tv.  I hope everyone has a pleasant and relaxing Sunday. 

[Donald Garner]

Good afternoon to all,

Forecasted temps for across Central Texas today were 48-78dgrs with 41%humidity with a NE wind @ 16mphs.
We started the morning off with light drizzle and overcast skies.  By lunch time the skies were clearing and the sun shining.

I spent the morning at the VA Hospital attending my 2nd IV Infusion Treatment. This was the 2nd session of 2 sessions I was programed for.  The first one was 6months ago.  My treatment plan I was put on has been working slowly.  With my doctors monitoring me on a monthly basis things are looking positive so far me with my kidney issues.

There nothing but relaxation planned for the rest of the evening.  Tomorrow morning after my wife returns from her Pilates classes I'll go and pickup the diesel.  The service rep texted me letting me know its ready.

I hope everyone had a pleasant day today and that your evening will be a relaxing one.  Be safe in your travels.

[Oldfart9999]

Good morning!!! 29 headed to mid/upper 30s, cloudy, possible showers lat afternoon and evening. Our Church organist, a student from Sweden at the Eastman School of Music, gets around on a bike. Someone stole it. I offered him mine, I don't use it and haven't in several years. While I was cleaning it up, oiling the cables and airing up the tires, I popped my back, I'm down and out with muscle spasms. Such be life. My wife and I are celebrating our 53 anniversary. It'll be a quiet day. We'll order dinner out and eat here. My wife is off today, she'll be working to be ready for Thanksgiving. It'll be us and 2 of our kids, there is a kitchen full of apple pies, burp.
Hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving!!!
Rodney

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[Donald Garner]

Greetings to everyone,

Overcast and a little on the chilly side here today.  We got a cold front moving across the area here and we're getting another taste of Winter.  Forecasted temps for today are 38-58dgrs with 46%humidity with a NE wind @ 21mphs.  We're looking at mid 30's for the lows and low 60's for the highs the rest of this week.

Busy morning with lots of errands to take care of.  I had some early morning shopping at Walmart for the wife while she attended her class.  Stopped by the post office and picked up the mail.  On the way home I stopped by Jack and Jill's Donut shop for a breakfast sandwich.  The wife got home she dropped off a the Dodge dealership to pickup the diesel. I stopped by Kentucky Fried Chicken and got us Supper for later on   

The Check Engine Light Repairs came to $1634.39 dollars.  They cleaned the oxygen sensors and completed regen; Replaced Crankcase filter and breather for crankcase; Diesel EGR and Cooler service and replaced the KD25 EGR SRV Kit.   Total cost for labor alone was $640.45 dollars. 

I stopped by O'Reily's Auto Parts Store and picked up some much need floor mats and a set of those covers you put over the door windows.  I'm fixing to head out to the garage here shortly and vacuum the truck out and get those new items installed.  The rest of the evening will be spent relaxing and watching college football on TV.

Rodney; Sorry to hear that the back is giving ya trouble.  Hope you get to feeling better soon.  That was might nice of ya to give your bike to the student.  Congrats to your wife and you on the 53yr wedding anniversary.  My wife is in the kitchen now preparing some of the food items we're having for our Thanksgiving.  It's going to be just me and her and a small meal.  Nice and Quiet with very little mess to deal with afterwards.

To everyone y'all be safe in your travels.  I hope your day and evening ahead will be a pleasant and relaxing one.   

[topdsm0138]

Hope all of you and your families are doing well. One more month to go and I get my boat back. The Environmental Department rented it out from me for a job somewhere in GA. Apparently, they love how stable it is with 3 people and equipment compared to the old jon boat they had. Been a while since I've thrown a cast with work being busy and with my military contract coming to an end in 13 more duties. Going to be weird being "retired" at 45yrs old. But, I'm still going to keep working at my Engineering job for another 10yrs, just to pass time. Well, that and I actually love my job. Dinner is almost done and gotta run. But I wish all of you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving.

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[Donald Garner]

Good morning to all,

Beautiful bright sunny day here in Central Texas this morning     Our forecasted temps are 40-62dgrs with 31%humidity and with a N wind @ 10mphs.

I had a VA Medical Lab appointment with Team Vampire this morning.  I had to turn in a urine sample and give up 3 tubes of blood.  I have a 24hr urine sample to do tomorrow and return on Friday morning.  I stopped in and had breakfast at the hospital cafeteria while there.  The biscuits and gravy, potatoes, and fried eggs hit the spot this morning   

Made a stop a Academy Sports Store on the way home.  I broke my sun glasses so I decided to stop in and look around a little bit.  There's lots of stuff on sale I was checking out the Dobyn's Maverick Rods.  Those are some nice looking rods for the price.

There's nothing else planned for the rest of the day here.  I'm going to just tinker around on the computer and crash in the recliner later on this afternoon.   The wife is out getting her hair done.  She will finish up fixing our Thanksgiving meal when she get back home.  It's going to be real simple beings its just the two of us this year.

Top; Tks for stopping by and sharing the day with us.  Nothing wrong with being retired at 45yrs old.  I could've done that but I wasn't ready to retire then.  You and your family have a very pleasant Thanksgiving. 

To everyone be safe in your travels here this coming Thanksgiving Holiday.  Enjoy the family time together.

[Bud Kennedy]

Warm start to the day and a lot of rain giving way to a nice sunny day about an hour ago.  Temp this morning was 70 (it was warm all night)  and will drop off a bit this afternoon then a bit of a cool down for Thanksgiving.  Went to Walmart to pick up a prescription for the wife and a couple other grocery items while I was there.  Nothing else planned for the rest of the day except icing down the knee for a little bit before I put the brace back on for the rest of the day. Leg felt better yesterday but a little more painful today.  Must be the weather I guess.  I want to go bowling on Friday but it may not happen.  If I do go the brace will have to stay on.

Rodney good to see you stopped by the other day.  You are one fragile old dude to pop your back messing with a bicycle.  You will really have to be careful when you start to rig your boat.  If not you will wind up missing another fishing season.  At our age you don't want to miss too many more.

[Donald Garner]

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone,

We're starting the day off with cloudy skies and forecasted temps of 41-56dgrs.  We have 53%humidity with a S wind @ 7mphs.  There's no rain in the next 7 days forecast.

Nothing planned for today except enjoying the Thanksgiving Meal my wife has prepared.  We'll spend the day together just relaxing. 

Bud; I hope the knee gets to feeling better and you're able to get out on Friday and enjoy the day.


Happy Thanksgiving to everyone be safe in your travels and enjoy the family time together. 

[Donald Garner]

Good morning to all,

We have Blue Bird Skies covering down across the area this morning.  Forecasted temps today are 41-63dgrs with 75%humidity with a SE wind @ 3mphs.

Not real busy today I turned in my 24 hour urine sample to the VA Hospital Lab this morning.  I had my biscuits, gravy, potatoes and fried eggs with bacon while there also        We're off to the movies here shortly.  We're going to see the movie Napoleon.

I went out and checked on the boats yesterday afternoon.  The boat cover on the Stratos is trashed.  With the sun beating down on it and the wind it ripped right down the seam.  So sometime here this weekend after Black Friday calms down I'll go shopping for a new boat cover.

I hope everyone had a pleasant Thanksgiving Day yesterday.  Y'all continue to enjoy the family time together and be safe while out traveling during this weekend.

[Donald Garner]

Good morning to everyone,

We have partly sunny skies covering down across Central Texas this morning.  Forecasted temps for today are 48-59dgrs with 66%humidity with an E wind @ 7mphs.

Nothing really planned for today we're going over to Buckee's Travel Store.  We're looking for a couple Texas Hoodies to send the grandkids for Christmas.  We might take a trip up to Waco afterwards this has yet to be determined though.

I hope everyone is still enjoying the Thanksgiving Holidays with the families.  Y'all be safe in your travels over the weekend. 

[Donald Garner]

Good morning to all

Blue Bird Skies and a 17mph NE wind is making it feel like Winter again down here in Central Texas     Our forecasted temps for today are 35-52dgrs with 43%humidity with a NE wind @ 17mphs.

Not a real busy day planned here.  I attended church via on-line this morning.  We're off to do some shopping at Sam's Club this afternoon.  We'll be having lunch there after the shopping is over with.  I really like their pizzas they fix there     

I stopped by Academy to pickup a new boat cover and engine cover for the Stratos Friday.  They were completely sold out of both.  Beings it rained here yesterday and the cover is damaged I'm going to pull it off and let the carpet dry out now.  Hopefully Academy will get a restock in this week on the covers.

Y'all have a pleasant and relaxing day and evening ahead.  Again be safe in your return travels back home.

[Donald Garner]

Greetings to everyone   

Great Fall weather is upon us across Central Texas this morning.  Partly sunny skies with forecasted temps of 36-53dgrs with 54%humidity with a NE wind @ 7mphs.  Lots of sun but a little on the chilly side    

There is nothing planned for today here as of yet.  I stopped in Academy Sports down in Killeen yesterday afternoon checking for boat & engine covers.  They too were sold out of the size I need to cover the Stratos and the Yamaha 150 VMax engine.   Hopefully the local stores will be restocked here shortly.  I'm going on line later and see if the stores in Waco might have one.  IF they do they I'd make a Day Trip up there and get it.

All of the left over Thanksgiving food is now gone.  Whew it was great, my wife did amazing job once again in fixing that meal     I finished the last of it yesterday afternoon while watching football     

I hope everyone had a great time visiting with family and friends during the Thanksgiving Holiday.  Hopefully your day today will be a pleasant and relaxing one.  If you're out traveling be mindful of your surroundings and be safe.   

[Donald Garner]

Good afternoon to all,

Another beautiful day across Central Texas.  Lots of sun with forecasted temps of 38-61dgrs with 35%humidity with a SE wind @ 6mphs 

Busy and an early morning start to the day.  I had a medical appointment at the VA Hospital with my Kidney Doctor this morning.  The wife and I got to the hospital early and enjoyed breakfast there.  This was the first time my wife has eaten at the cafeteria there.  We had biscuits, gravy, hash browns, fried eggs and bacon       We killed a little time by shopping in the PX store they have in the hospital before my appointment. 

   My appointment went really well...There has been improvement in all areas that the doctor has been monitoring.  My next appointment with him will be at the end of Feb 24.  If the improvements continue he will start cutting back some of my medication which will be a good thing.  Progress has been slow but improvements are being seen which we all want to occur

I made a stop in Walmart and they just happened to have a boat cover that would fit my Stratos     If the weather holds up and stays warm I'm going to take the Stratos to the car wash and wash it tomorrow.  I was kinda shocked when I pulled the old damaged cover off yesterday.  The entire boat is really dirty.  Of course its been covered since last Aug due to me being sick and the weather situation.   When Spring gets here I'm going to take it somewhere and have a real good cleaning and detailing done on it.

There's nothing planned for the rest of the day here.  I'm really tired from having to get up at 5:30am this morning.  I'm fixing to fall into the recliner and take a mid afternoon nap.

I hope everyone has / is having a pleasant day and y'all have plans for a relaxing evening ahead.  Be safe in your travels and be mindful of your surroundings.   

[Bud Kennedy]

Cold start to the day with temps at 39 and a light north wind.  Sunny the rest of the day with temps reaching the mid 50s but tonight dropping down to below freezing with a forecast of 29.  Got the tender plants inside to spend the night.

Just a few errands today and then stopped by Burger King for o Whopper.  It has been a long long time since I had a whopper and I must say it hit the spot.  We both are still full from the burger and are going to have a large salad for supper tonight. 

The only thing to do now is to stay warm and maybe watch a little TV.  No bowling this week until Friday.  Knee appears to be doing well with no pain but I still plan on wearing a brace on Friday just to keep me from twisting my knee.  Hopefully everything will be ok and not cause any additional problems.  I need to make ammends for my super poor bowling a couple weeks ago.  It was really embarrassing.  Amazing how such a small knee injury can mess things up.

[Donald Garner]

Good morning to all,

We begin the day with overcast skies with the possible chance of some rain later on today.  Our forecasted temps for today are 43-62dgrs with 66%humidity with a S wind @ 5mphs.

Not anything pressing going on today.  I thought about taking the Stratos to the car wash and washing it off.  But with the possibility of rain in the forecast I'll just hold off on it.  Guess I just tinker around on the computer and hang out here at home.

Bud; Tks for stopping in and sharing the day.  I hope the knee gets to feeling better. 

To everyone I hope your day is a pleasant and safe one.   

[Oldfart9999]

Good morning!!! 35 headed to 40s, partly sunny, rain coming in tomorrow. We got a bit of snow, maybe 2 inches on the ground. The driveway, being on the ground, was warmer, so it cleared itself. Altmar, in the Tug Hill Plateau, got the most in the state, a couple of feet. The folks who could get their boats to the Salmon River were out trout and salmon fishing. There were a few wading also.
My back is starting to get worse, I'm only the bike at the gym. My pain med Doctor changed offices, I have to my records over to the new office. I was supposed, the new office was supposed to mail the paperwork to me to authorize giving my records to the new office. I've been waiting for a week and a half, I'm going to have to call them today if I don't get them. According to the Hippa laws I can't get them and drop drop them off at the new office. My back is slowly getting worse, I'll change Doctors if I don't get them soon.
Have a great day, be well!!!
Rodney


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[Donald Garner]

Good morning to all,

It's been raining most of the night and is forecasted to continue all day today.  This is one of those slow steady drizzling types of rain     Our forecasted temps for today are 48-70dgrs with 96%humidity with a SE wind @ 9mphs.

Today is the Bell County Master Gardeners Annual Christmas Party.  We'll be attending this event today beings my wife is a Master Gardner.  They always have a great gathering at this event.  They will present awards to the Master Gardeners that have earned them from this years hard work.  The food and entertainment is catered in and has been pretty good these past few years.

There is nothing else planned for the rest of the day after this event.  Rest and relaxation will be in order after eating all that food etc. 

Rodney; My good man sure sorry to hear that your back is giving you trouble.  I got you added to my daily prayers buddy.  Hope your doctors can get things squared away for ya soon.

To everyone hope your day is a pleasant one as well as the evening ahead.  Be safe in your travels if you have to be out and about.   

[Bud Kennedy]

Another month is about to end meaning the Christmas holidays are soon to be upon us.  As per usual the wife and myself don't do presents for each other.  We tend to get what we want or need through the year and keep  Christmas as it is intended. 

A bright sunny start to today but now the clouds are rolling in with a forecast of rain for the next three days or so.  Most rain is forecasted for Saturday but each day will have some rain to deal with.  This will be the third straight weekend with rain.  Along with the rain will be some warmer temps with highs near 70 on Saturday.

Just a quick errand today to go pay the Real Estate taxes for the year.  Our taxes here are reasonable compared to what I hear about around the country.  This is our highest tax bill in the past 30 years for a grand amount of $567.00.  I wish our Insurance was just as affordable.  It seems all the insurance policies are going up yet again another 20% or so.  Since we live in a hurricane zone our house insurance is significant but what else are you gonna do.  Most insurance companies will not take new policies here and many just outright cancel policies as part of their risk management assessment.  In our area if you live east of the Intracoastal Waterway your insurance bill will be high.

I am ready for bowling tomorrow afternoon.  The knee is feeling much better and I sure hope it stays that way but I am still gonna wear a brace just in case.