Boring.........

As of last Thursday we have been on this site one month. They finished and turned the well over to production about a week ago. Marathon said they would get back to us as to our status......so far we have not heard anything.

Yesterday the land owners stopped by to say HI. They said as far as they were concerned we could stay as long as we wanted....yes, but we need to get paid also. I told them that it was kind of sad as Friday was our 38th wedding anniversary and we could not go out to celebrate. They were going into Kenedy to visit Walmart and see their parents. Richard asked me if I knew anything about the well and I told him that I had heard some time back that it was flowing about 25 barrels an hour. He seemed happy with that. Later in the afternoon Richard came over with a cake his wife had baked for us for our aniversary.

From what we can find out the landowners get about 20 percent of the oil from the well. This after all the bills are paid to bring it in. 20 percent of 25 barrels an hour is $500 an hour at $100 a barrel. That's $12000 a day and $360000 a month. They will be drilling 4 more wells on this property..

  The latest of the storm damage now includes the satellite dish and the home theater receiver. The parts I ordered to repair the dish did not fix all of the problem and Weinguard says that they will not warranty or offer technical assistance if I order the rest of the parts needed as they are very difficult to install. So we are returning the other parts and ordering a new dish thru our rv repair guy. We also started a claim with the insurance company. We were reluctant to do this at first as we figured that with the big roof repair last year and this storm  damage our rates would go up. But the costs are too great now.

Ordered the home theater system and a new tv for the bedroom thru Walmart and are having them shipped to the office in Whitsett. There is very little available from the Walmart in Kenedy as it is a small store....plus all of the oil workers have cleaned out the audio/visual area of small tv's.
Hopefully by this time next week we should be back in full operation. The fridge was fixed on Thursday afternoon and we  put things back in on Friday. We are watching tv using the bedroom Directv standard definition receiver and the portable satellite dish.

Last day of work will be May 17th. We will spend the 18th in San Antonio visiting with our niece Ally (and Paige). Than on to Tunica, MS for two nights before heading to Illinois to meet the kids and grandkids at a campground for the Memorial day weekend. That Monday we drive to South Bend and spend some time in my brothers driveway, while Linda, our grandson Jordan, and Linda's mom drive to Washington DC to visit her brother and sisten-in-law for a week.  We had taken our oldest grandson, Jamie, two years ago to Washington and promised Jordan that we would also take him to see the sites.

Hope you have had a great Easter weekend
love to all of ya
Jim and Linda