We've been here about a week and visiting Doug & Louise. They seem to be doing fine. We had a rainy travel day down to Stone Mountain last Friday and have had a beautiful week until this afternoon when the next cold front brought rain.
We've been able to do a couple of things for Doug & Louise. We've helped clean out some old clothes and made a few of trips to Goodwill dropping off some of our stuff as well as Doug & Louise's. Seems I've spent a lot of time waiting at the Snellville Ford dealer and Discounter Tire having the truck serviced, though.
First we go to a planned appointment on Tuesday to have the truck serviced and replace a leaky, numerously-patched, passenger-side, rear inner tire only to find out that the truck lifts are in use and won't be available until mid-afternoon. No problem. We wait for a phone call that finally comes late afternoon. Can we bring the truck back in on Tuesday? Sure. Go back Tuesday morning. Truck goes on the lift, oil is changed, a new tire put back on as a spare and...the lift breaks down. About an hour and a half passes and the lift is repaired. Truck's brought back down, released from being a hostage, and we go visiting to see Louise.
We spend about an hour a half with with Doug & Louise. Go back to the truck, start to pull out and I switched over to the tire pressure screen and lo & behold, the passenger-side, outer rear tire has lost about 6 psi while we were in with Doug and Louise. We run around a little bit, go out to eat with Doug, the tire continues to lose air pressure, but that seems to stop when we get to the trailer. Get up the next morning. Tire has stopped leaking, but we take the truck to Discount Tire to repair this second leaky tire. They find the leak, repair it, but tell me the tire monitor is reading "funky" and to drive it a day to let the tire pressures settle down, bring it back, and they'd set the tire pressures the way I want them. No problem.
Tires seem to be holding pressure just fine, but the air pressures are all over the place. We go back this morning to have the tire pressures adjusted. Should be easy as they have a parking spot set up for "express" tire pressure check. We pull into the spot, but there's a "situation" . They can't find an air tool that'll put air into the rear dual tires. (I understand the problem completely. I can't air up the rear dual tires, either. Best I can do is just let all the air out!) They apologize, and we leave. No problem. We'll go back to Snellville Ford. They should be able to air up the rear dual tires. Get there, and they're happy to help. What we're not told is that the techs can only air up the rear inner tires if they remove the outer tires. That means they need a lift and all lifts are full (apparently, only two lifts can handle dual wheel trucks, anyway.) There's an hour and a half wait for a lift. Finally it's all done. All tires are aired up. Now we get to see which tire goes down next! So far one afternoon has passed and all tires have stayed inflated. We're keeping our fingers crossed!
So that's how our week has passed. It's all good. Our plans, and it's just that - plans - are to move over to Birmingham Sunday and visit Dad and Anna for Thanksgiving - if we can keep the tires aired up! We plan to be at Gulf Shores by December 1st, too. Thanks for dropping by and checking up on us. Until next week, David
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