Frdge / North Terlingua News

I'd left the freezer door open inside the fridge last night and when I checked this morning the old probe thermometer I had in the fridge part read 66 degrees??? Everything in there felt a lot cooler than that so I brought that thermometer in here and put it next to the clock with the digital thermometer in it. I waited about 10 minutes and there was a 19 degree difference between the two. The thermometer I had in the fridge was way off. I just now checked again and there is about a 20 to 21 degree difference. I'd made a high speed trip to SB between the first reading and last one and went in the hardware store to see if they had a fridge/freezer thermometer and they didn't, but the Cottonwood Store did. I have it in the fridge now and will monitor it through out the day. Looks like the fridge is actually doing good so outside of adding more insulation to it I'll probably leave it as is.

And Now for the North Terlingua News. I ran in to Eva at the Study Butte store and she said Keith Chapman is planning on putting in a small store across from the Grub Shack. He is the owner of the storage buildings there and the store will likely be on the very corner of 118 and the Terlingua Ranch Road. This would be a very good thing for us out here because the drive for supplies would be much shorter. For me it would mean the difference between a 43 mile round trip and an 8 mile round trip. It would also mean an easy trip on the trike so that would save much more gas. I think its about time someone put a store out here. From what I hear he won't be selling gas, but the gas saved on the shorter trips would help a bunch!