Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2019…… Rains came last night. We don’t get much, just
enough to make everything wet. I had an appointment for service for the
motorhome. Since I couldn’t move it, I was sure that the brakes were locked for
some reason. Plus, I have a sway on the passenger side so there is an air leak
somewhere that I needed to have looked at. The tech, TJ, got here about 1:30
and went to work. We tried everything
from the top, including shifting back from drive to reverse and couldn’t get
the brakes to release so he crawled under to try to disconnect and work them
loose. Long story short – the wheels have to come off so they can get to the
hubs and work them loose from the outside. He said that since the coach hasn’t
moved in months (remember – I start the motor up each week and run the systems
but didn’t think about moving it at all) that would cause them to rust over
even when stored inside. He ran out of time so he will be coming back tomorrow
with some more equipment to jack up the wheels and pull the tires.
Hopefully,
that will be that. We’ll see…
After he
left, I came in and moved clothes from the dryer for Lydia so she didn’t have
to get up on her bad heel. She had already gotten fish out so she fixed that
for dinner. We settled in and folded clothes and watched tv until we got tired
and went to bed.
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2019…... I was up early and had everything done before
TJ showed up. I was his first call but he didn’t get here until 9:30am. It took
all of the morning and into the afternoon before he had the wheels and the
drums off.
As he predicted, we discovered that because it had been sitting so
long, the shoes had been encrusted onto the drums. He actually had to chisel off the stuff on
the drum. He got everything operational and put back together and I moved the
coach forward and back to double check. I will need new brakes immediately and
will set that up for next week. Unfortunately, for now, because I had what they
call emergency road service (which is over twice the shop rate, plus mileage), I
had to shell out over $1800. for something I could have prevented all along. I go out to the garage every week and start
the coach and run the systems but I never thought about moving it at all, which
would have prevented all of this. With new brakes coming, it will be a pretty
expensive lesson! While I was doing all
of this, Lydia headed off to play bingo. She didn’t win but she said the lady
sitting in my chair did. Dam! They told
her they missed me. But we will be heading back tomorrow for their
pre-thanksgiving (free) turkey dinner.
Later, I
helped her fix tacos for dinner and, while we ate, we got caught up on some
Guys Grocery games before later watching The Masked Singer and Survivor. They
revealed one more identity - The Flower was Patti Labelle, which we had
guessed/figured out a few weeks ago.
Thursday, Nov 21st, 2019…… The weather turned again today! No rain, but
the chill is back! Yesterday, it was in the 40s in the morning but today it was
29º at 4:45am when I let Rylee out to pee/poop! There was frost on my trash
cans and the grass is all white from frost. It is supposed to get to 54º today
but we have to see if the grass dries out before we can mow.
Today was
Turkey day at the senior center. We had picked up our free tickets a couple of
weeks ago. Lydia said that when she was at bingo yesterday, she could smell the
roasters going throughout the center as they were pre-cooking the turkeys for
today. They started serving at noon, seating was 11:30am. We stopped by at
11:00am and picked up Janice because my sister was going to meet us there after
her morning Drs. appointment. We got in line and got in and seated. There were
over 250 people there for the meal. Sis joined us and we had a nice meal. Lois.
One of our bingo gals, joined us at our table. They served the full shebang - turkey,
with mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, corn, and a roll. Plus,
pumpkin pie for dessert. They had the Albany High School Choir there to serve
everyone. We only had to leave our seats for coffee and/or apple cider. Afterward,
they performed a few songs acapella. Pretty good. All in all, it was a fun day!
Once we
got back home, we didn’t want to do too much the rest of the day. I guess it
was the tryptophan! We did go out later to Walmart and did our grocery shopping.
We also added cold cuts from their deli for submarine sandwiches for dinner. I tried
to stay awake after dinner but I had an ache in my ankle and took a couple of Tylenol
pm around 8:30pm so I went to bed super early and didn’t even hear Lydia come
in later.
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