Yesterday the wind blew and blew, it was suppose to be 45 mph gusts. We lucked out our motor home was parked at just the right angle that we did not have any troubles. It was parked where it blocked the wind from our bikes etc. too. Usually when the wind blows that hard we have to put slides in. Otherwise the wind rips our awning covers over the slides.
It finally let up a quite a bit and we went and dumped. It is suppose to get down into the low 30’s this week but not quite freezing. I thought it was a good day to load up on gas for generator, propane for heater and water where we don’t have to go out in it. We should be set for a week at least.
It really wasn’t that cold even with a slight drizzle, in fact quite nice to go for a walk in. My little dog Paco can keep up with Hank and out do the little spaniels of moms. Poor Freckles wants to do his thing then immediately go back to the motor-home. We have to literally drag him around. Good exercise for me. Then when we are tired and turn around he drags us all the way back. He is not an outdoor dog.
We talked to several people about setting up a booth for mom in January. Would you believe one of them is 900 a month to park your RV and sell with just electric and water, you still have to go dump which costs $15. The other one is $180 a month for a 16 by 26 booth. We don’t have a lot of pictures with us so we don’t know if it is worth it as we can’t fill a 16 b6 26. Might just rent an RV space and sell beside the RV. We have until Dec 31 to get our application in.
We are having some problems with our little pickup now. The clutch is going out and it has developed some other noises but just don’t’ know if I want to put out the money for another rig. Wish I was home where I could just take it to Cliff’s Repair and have him decide if it was worth fixing. It is 25 years old. I don’t trust mechanics as they have tried to many times to get me to buy something that I don’t need. Growing up on a farm I am not totally stupid.
I had a girlfriend that they talked into paying $10.00 a tire to change the air in her tires as it was getting old enough it was starting to rot her tires. $40.00 in the sixties was a lot of money. I wish I would have known about it at the time because that mechanic would have been looking for a new job.
Another one sold a friend of mine a battery because her car would not start 4 days in a row. She finally called me because she could not afford to buy another battery and wanted me to come jump her. They told her something was wrong with her engine and it was ruining the battery. All she needed was the battery cables cleaned. That mechanic was looking for a new job and the owner of the shop put on new battery cables and gave her a new battery free of charge.
Once when the noticed my out of state plates when I was getting gas, he checked the oil and asked where I was headed. I told him Coos Bay and he said. Oh I was hoping it was closer because you will never make it to Coos Bay with that air filter. I had just changed the air filter a month before that. I told him that I could take the air filter out and wrap it around his neck and still make it to Coos Bay with no filter. Again I contacted the owner and he got fired. They usually pocket the money and the owner doesn’t even know it happens so they steal from us and from the owner.
With the history of women from out of town I so worry about having to get any work done on my vehicle. I guess I could tell them that my pickup was making noises and let them drive it and check it and see who comes up with it needing a clutch and who says something different and choose the guy that was honest and said I needed a clutch. Then I might ask him if it was worth fixing…lol
Today is going to be another lazy day, overcast, slight drizzle once in a while and about 60 degrees. Great day for walking though and we are going to go again before to long but I think we will leave Freckles with mom.
Have a great day everyone.
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