Feb 23rd - Cooler Weather On Its Way

Today was another nice day but we are heading into some cooler weather. Sure can't call it cold for February. Nothing drastic, in only 3 nights out of the next 10 will the overnight low slip just below freezing.

Yesterday's Men's Fellowship went well. As usual we enjoyed visiting during breakfast and we enjoyed our discussion during the lesson time. I was shooting the breeze with one of the guys, outside after the meeting. We were standing by his truck, Everyone else had left. We ended our discussions and he got in his truck and left as I walked over to my truck. The day took a downturn when I saw the passenger side rear tire was flat as a pancake. We have AAA road service but I thought I'd just change it myself, rather than wait on them. I popped the back seat up, where I had seen the jack previously. It was there but there was no lug wrench and the rod you have to use to lower the spare was also missing. I called AAA and told them I had a flat. Told them I had a spare but no lug wrench or tool to lower the spare. 45 minutes later the guy showed up to put the spare on. He asked where I kept the tool to lower the spare. Told him I didn't have one, neither did he. He ended up loading my truck on his and driving me over to Nathan's Tire Shop in California. No charge, AAA covered it.


He backed up to one of the overhead doors and when my truck rolled off the bed it was inside the building. The young man at Nathan's jacked it up and jerked the tire off in no time. He broke it down, they patch instead of plugging, and called me over. He said, "Looks like you have a railroad spike in your tire." I thought shoot, these are new tires that just cost me $900 and I'm going to have to pay to replace one since I didn't buy the optional road hazard warranty. When he looked inside the tire he said, "Good news, it just looks like a nail on the inside." This is what was in my tire. It is a square nut and part of a bolt. The head of the bolt is gone and the bolt itself is worn down to a point.

$10 at Nathans to have the tired taken off, patched and put back on. I gave the young guys who worked on it $5 to buy them a couple of Cokes.

I spent most of the afternoon yesterday and most of the morning today doing research for another Letter to the Editor. I enjoy it.

This afternoon I met Kathy in town for lunch and we went to Menard's. She bought some lights. We had 3 pendant lights that were part of our kitchen lighting. We had problems with the bulb socket in the center one previously and it recently quit working again. She bought 3 new ones and I installed them after we got back home. It isn't smokey in the kitchen. It's the glare from the ceiling light.

They are off in the photo above and on in the photo below. They give off a lot more light than the old ones, which is what she wanted.

The neighbors at the top of the driveway bought 2 kid goats a week ago. They are starting to wear on us with their near constant baa-hing. They were really bad the first few nights. Now they only do it when they see someone, then it is constant. They have 4-5 year old daughter. My guess is that they are going to get her in 4H.

God is good (especially when my major problem is kid goats making noise 😀) May He bless you and yours.