This morning I went to Larry's Barber Shop for a haircut. It is located in downtown Jefferson City, a few blocks from the capitol and a few blocks from the governors mansion. Basically its right in the heart of power. Larry has been a barber for 58 years. He is a really interesting guy. He lives not to far from where we are parked in the RV. He was living here when the park started and actually was able to watch the construction of the dam that caused the 180 acre Binder Lake to form.
After the haircut I came back home and Kathy and I met Kelsey and Lydia for lunch at Dudley's. Kathy and I are really getting hooked on the place. The food is just good old plain food, which is what I like. Kelsey got a hot beef sandwich, Kathy had the chicken fried steak again and I had pork chops. All were good.
After lunch Kelsey, Lydia and Kathy went shopping and I came back to the RV to try and figure out why our water softener had quit working. I had emailed the place we purchased it from and told them about the problem. The guy told me the resin was probably bad. He wanted $75 for replacement resin. I didn't think there was any way that the resin could have gone bad in just a year so I took the softener apart, its design is MUCH simpler than a home softener, to see if I could find something that was broken. In order to take it apart I had to remove the resin. Removing it isn't bad but putting it back in is a real pain. I didn't see anything obvious but thought maybe a tube had been pulled loose. I put it back together, recharged it and found out that it still didn't work. Took me about 3 hours.
I then called the local Culligan place and asked if they would sell me some resin. The guy was nice and said sure. I told him how much I needed, I actually got a little more than I needed, and he said he would have it ready when I got there. The place is on the other side of Jefferson City, maybe 12 miles from here. When I got there the bag was by the front door ready to go. It cost me $54 including sales tax.
I stopped at Walmart to buy more salt for regenning and also bought a funnel to help get the resin in the softener. Putting the resin in was still a pain but by a little after 6 I had it back together, regenned and ready to go. So far so good, it seems to be working fine.
Kathy had went out to Kelsey's after shopping. I went out after getting the softener hooked back up and we had supper with Andy, Kelsey & Lydia. Lydia was asleep most of the time I was there. After supper it was back home.
Doug and Anthony are coming out here. They are supposed to leave either late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
It was hot here again today. The high was 93 and at 11:30 PM it is still 84. I was outside, putzing with the softener most of the day. It didn't feel all that horrible. I think the humidity probably was reasonably low and that coupled with the fact that I was in the shade most of the time and that there was a nice breeze, made it tolerable. The highs the next two days are supposed to be about the same.
Time to get to bed. Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.
PS. Did I forget to mention that my great-granddaughter is really cute, like her Mom.
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