On January 17th, 4 years ago, my beautiful daughter Sharon was married To Rod....she was such a beautiful bride!
My daughter Sharon's wedding day 4 years ago......left to right: Meredith, Katharine, Sharon, Chris and Tim
Thursday dawned clear and cool, but the operative word is 'clear'....no heavy cloud cover for a change! In fact, it was quite sunny for most of the day! I had several maintenance projects on which to focus my attention Thursday: 1) Clean the solar panels, 2) Apply 'Rain-X' to the windshield, and to both of the side windows in the 'cockpit', and 3) Fill up our 5 gallon gas can for our Predator generator. 'Rain-X' helps rain run off your windshield more quickly, and also prevents fogging. I haven't applied it for some time, but with all the rain we have had lately it was time.
In between chores TLE and I walked for a mile along Northwest HWY, which borders the Elks Lodge here in Dallas. On our walk we checked out the local Kroger Fuel Station for easy ingress and egress (their diesel price is $2.39/gallon). Even though we have over half a tank of diesel, we cannot pass up this great price. Diesel only seems to be more costly the further west we progress.
Upon our return to the Elks Lodge we retrieved the VW and drove over to the Kroger supermarket to do some shopping....the pantry shelves are getting a little empty. After shopping we headed over to the Kroger station to fill up my 5 gallon gas can for the generator (Regular unleaded $1.79!).
A few months ago I was contacted on Facebook by a cousin I did not know I had. Her mother was a Hockwald. The father of her mother was Lewis Hockwald who was a brother to Lionel and Sigmund who founded Hockwald Chemical Company. Both brothers were chemical engineers, and graduated from Stanford. Together they developed formulas for household products still in wide use today such as 'Tide', Borax Soap, Lava Soap, Palmolive, and many others which do not come immediately to mind as I write. I had seen the name 'Hockwald Chemical Company' in the L.A. phone book for years, but had no idea we were related. At one time they were one of the largest landholders in the San Francisco area....amazing!
We knew we were coming through Dallas on our way west, and so I arranged with Cathy to meet for dinner Thursday night, which was our primary reason for stopping in Dallas for two days......
Cousins Harry and Cathy to my right
....we met at 6 pm at Mi Cocina, a TexMex restaurant, for dinner and were joined by Cathy, her husband Wayne, and Cathy's brother, Harry. We talked non-stop for over 2 hours about family history. It was an amazing evening! And the world gets smaller......by the by, the food was amazing....I had their brisket tacos.....yum!
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You get a discount of at least 3 cents IF you have a Kroger card. If you use your Kroger card in the store for groc, youll get more discount. It costs nothing for the card.
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Yup, we do have a Kroger's card, but forgot you get 3 cents off... my bad!
DeleteWow, I don't blame you for taking advantaqe of those gas prices. I can't even remember the last time I saw regular below $2.00 a gallon. Wow.....so awesome about your cousin and the history that goes with it, that is so amazing and cool. Great you guys were able to connect and catch up.
ReplyDeleteOh by the way......happy anniversary to your daughter and son in law.
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