What a difference!
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Some good things, some pretty things, some WTF? vehicle things
The last couple of days have been… trying.
But also beautiful.
We warmed up enough for the trees to be covered in frost that is still there. Then we got a gentle snowfall. Today was bright and sunny, the trees looked like picture postcards, and everything was sparkling.
It all looked quite lovely.
The girls and I also arranged a surprise for my husband, after he had gone to bed.
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Vehicle Update: the saga continues
Today has been a busy day on the phone, dealing with my mother’s car.
The mechanic called me (the first time) about the tires and the noise in the back.
Note that I said “tires” – plural.
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Vehicle update
Today I stayed in town for my daughter’s short shift, which meant I got to check on my mother’s car, too.
The thing looked so forlorn in there. LOL
I have some good, unexpected, news, though!
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Again?!?
Found the spot
It’s been a busy couple of days, and any time I’ve gone to town during daylight, I’ve been trying to spot where I went through the ditch. I only had a vague idea of where it was, since I was a little too distracted to notice landmarks or anything. ;-)
It was the only area with tire tracks through the ditch, so when I did spot some, I knew it had to be ours.
I found more things to be thankful for and surprised about.
One was the location. It was farther away than I thought it was. I was able to drive quite far before that tire went completely flat!
The other was the ditch itself. I was heading towards a marshier area, and the ditch on that side of the road became wider and shallower, instead of being the deep V earlier in my drive, or farther down the road, past the marshy area. Another reason I was able to get out of the ditch at all!
Also, what I had thought was fence posts in my headlights, wasn’t.
They were trees.
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Fantastic news! also… what?
First things first, I got fantastic news this morning!
I came in from doing my morning rounds to find my husband on the phone; the garage had called about my mom’s car.
There is no damage.
None.
Not even the flat tire!
They pumped it up and checked it, and there’s not even a leak. It looks like the seal got broken at the rim and the air just leaked out. The tire and rim are just fine.
He did suggest an alignment, considering what happened, which I was planning to ask for already. They were already putting the tire back while he was talking to me, so the alignment is all that will need to get done.
Now I have to figure out when I can come pick it up with a second driver. :-/ He said there was no hurry on that. They’ll have it ready and waiting for me whenever I can.
So that is a HUGE relief!
Then there was the weird thing.
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Thank you, Jesus!!
Okay, so the adrenaline rush is over, and my hands are no longer shaking.
What a rush!
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What. A. Day.
So… things did not turn out as planned, today.
Not by a long shot!!
The plan for the day was, go into town and drop the cats off to get snipped when the vet opened at 9am, then head to the town our garage is in to start the process of getting winter tires through the insurance company’s loan program, then head home until it was time to pick the cats up at 4.
The first hitch in our plans happened before we even left.
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