Around GreenGate Grove

We spent our walks today looking at RV lots for sale and for rent. Along the way we saw a few park models and mobile homes too. We’re thinking about buying something, but for 2012-2013, we’ll be looking for something to rent. It seems to make sense to rent for a while before making a decision to buy in the park.

GreenGate Grove is a mixed use park, meaning that houses, mobile homes, park models, and RV spaces all have a place here. There’s a wide variety of living arrangements, from large two-lot brick homes to bare places to park, and everything in between. Steve and Jan have an RV lot with a Texas room and a shed with washer/dryer and workbench. They have a corner lot with trees, and they enjoy gardening. Long term, we think we might enjoy having something similar, though perhaps with a smaller Texas room (theirs is as big as our house).

Ken installed PdaNet 3.02 on my laptop. He has it on his too. The program allows us to share our Droid data connection by tethering the phone to the laptop. This is something that the service providers certainly oppose, but the program is supposed to mask the tethering from the company. It’s not something we’re likely to use a lot, but right now, it’s great, since we turned off our USB modem for three months in anticipation of having cable Internet at Bentsen Palm Village. That leaves us without a data connection until Venture is repaired and the cable modem is installed next Tuesday.



I picked up some cheap compact speakers to use to play the radio on my Droid. It turned out that they’re too cheap. The volume is very low, and the sound quality is actually no better than the Droid internal speaker. What I’d really like is a home theater system with an MP3 player jack.