Awake: 5:13am Temp 56 Clear Overnight @ Nicktown, PA
1st thing this morning @ 7:00am, I start the brush mower & move it onto
the grassy area for washing & cleaning. After that cleaning, I try & start
the engine again & the start rope breaks! It can’t be started with the
rope broken; Whew! a lucky time for that to happen.
I make a quick call to Clymer Rental & leave a message about the starter
rope in the event they need to power the mower on ramps onto their truck.
K & I walk to 8:00am mass….then join the polished coffee club members for
a quick 45 min meeting. Kathy stays longer and exercises in the workout
room @ the community center. I have some special things to do so I hustle
back to our bus by 9:15.
No sooner do I get into the bus when my sister Corinne calls; she is
curious as to how the cousins’ reunion went this year. She normally is the
MC but this yr, she is out of town. I give her a good report but we all
missed her presence. We talk for 35 min.
Next, I drive to Krumenacker’s Hardward Store & purchase a new 60 amp
circuit breaker. We’ve had 3 power failures occur in our motorhome these
last 3 mornings. When I wake up, I usually turn on the AQUA HOT so the
coach water is hot enough for Kathy to wash her face. There is heavy
current draw to heat up our 17 gal alcohol tank that the water flows thru
to heat it up. Then I had to go outside @ 6:00am or earlier & reset the
circuit breaker in the main electrical box. I caught on eventually &
finally figured out that the breaker was hot, weak & needed to be
replaced. So now it’s done & the electrical system has returned to normal.
During my “replace the circuit breaker time,” Kathy returns from her
exercising accompanied by another man…our near neighbor, Myron. She is
giving him a tour of our camper which I had promised to do sometime this
week…Kathy does give people a good tour but she’s expensive!
I call Carol @ her business: “yes Monte, it’s OK to get your Lexus out of
storage!” “I’ll be right there,” I tell her. I drive our Suzuki over to
the storage facility….which Carol has opened, uncover the Lexus, turn on
their big compressor & pump up a flat tire, then jump the battery with the
Suzuki & the big V8 starts right up. I last drove our 1991 Lexus October
5th, 2004. Already we have 27,800 miles on this car. Then I drive the
Lexus over to our circular driveway, park it close to our motorhome & use
the coach engine batteries to bring the Lexus battery up to a good charge.
Then walk back to the storage facility & bring the Suzuki back to our
circular driveway.
About this time, a Mr. Lieb from Clymer Rental arrives in his truck to
pickup the brush mower. He did listen to my earlier recording & luckily
brought a come-along to pull that mower up the ramps for loading onto the
truck & returning the equipment back to Clymer.
Kathy spent most of the day in the kitchen; she made zucchini cranberry
cake and started on green tomato squares. She was trying to use up the
green tomatoes we had, but actually needed more. A short trip to our
neighbor, Malachi, and she returned with many more green tomatoes than she
needed! It looks like we’ll be having more fried green tomatoes. She
needed other ingredients though so this recipe will have to be finished
after a trip to the store tomorrow.
@ 5:10pm Gary & Rosemary stop in for a few minutes en route from Ohio to
St. Augustine after visiting Rosemary’s brother.
Tonight is boys’ night out: Kathy will be home alone….but she’s smiling?
7 of us meet @ the Old Farm Inn (10 min) for Pizza & Beer. Louie, Cyril,
Tony, my bro Don, Bill, Cliff & I talk about the ole times, the present &
the future + a few old girlfriend stories to help keep each other from
boredom. It was fun & we had some good bonding time.
High today=77 Lights out: 11:45pm
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