Monte announced that now they have his work schedule settled, he gets four days off in a row sometimes. This week was one of them. During the rest of the week, he can take up shifts, covering for other people. Basically he can almost work as much as he wants.
He decided he was going to go to Vancouver for a few days. He has friends down there that will let him stay at their place. I wasn't too happy because sure as hell he will get half way there and something will happen to his car or whatever. And solving whatever the problem ends up being will surely involve me leaving my house. Something I only do reluctantly unless its to go visit one of MY friends or rellies.
So off he goes and sure as heck, I get a call from him, parked at a gas station in Merritt. His car engine is overheating, and not from lack of water but something to do with the oil. Dammit!!!
I text Cookie and ask for her brother in law Ken's number. He is a heavy equipment mechanic and they live in Merritt and he could maybe recommend someone. I eventually did talk with him and he did recommend someone. I passed the info on to Monte. That mechanic was busy til the end of next week. By now I was so ticked off I told Monte to use his phone and call around. It was nearly five o'clock so good luck with that I told him.
But he found some guy that actually came to Monte and looked at the car and had him drive it to the shop...even though they were closed. They ran a diagnostic and really couldn't find anything, The guy told him to just drive it slowly back to Kamloops. Which Monte did with no troubles. So I don't know what the heck that was all about.
But, that being all well and good, I suggested Monte look at getting a new vehicle. He has the money and he could trade the jeep in. The jeep needed a new alternator last week. We could see where this was going.
Long story short, he found a 2014 Grand Dodge Caravan with only 10,000 kilometres on it. And it was cheap, at the Nissan dealership. Not only that they gave him a fantastic price for the jeep. The van is basically new! And, now there is a vehicle that can haul stuff around back in the family. This will save a bunch on those hundred dollar deliveries from furniture stores. And he can haul his band equipment around. A win win all the way around. Its navy blue...old man colour. Oh well....
Well lots of picky little things to take care of today. (shovel list) For example: I have two credit cards in my life. One I use and one I just have in case. They are both renewable right now. So one has arrived, but no pin info, which was supposed to arrive separately. The other one the info arrived but the card didn't. Things like this drive me nuts.
Plus, at 11 this morning my dinette set arrives for the kitchen. And whilst the boys are here I shall have them fix my rocking chair they put together wrong. One good thing about getting it delivered is they put it together and take away the packaging. Finally, we will have proper chairs to sit on. At least we will have four of them.
I just took a tour around the house. I counted seven places Molly has peed and two where she has pooped. Thats it. I am done with this. She is never left home longer than maybe four hours and we let her out all the time. She is doing this when we are out. Plus she barks non stop when home alone.
I am going to go to the pet store today and buy a medium sized kennel. And that is where she is going to go every time we have to go anywhere. Plus I am going to put it in the laundry room with the door shut. There are no windows or outside walls. That way the neighbours won't be hearing her bark. I can put a radio in there to keep her company. I have babies on this floor. Constant crap and pee is not going to cut it. If anyone out there has a better idea please let me know. When it gets to a safe temp outdoors, she can come with me and wait in the car. Right now its too hot.
Well, I am going to go get at it. TTYL
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