The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

@getaclue, glad to hear you checked out V&B. They are good people there. The manager used to be our neighbor.

You won't be disappointed in their products. I can still close my eyes and hear the sound of the trip hammers in the forge. Working there in the summer was like being in Hell's Kitchen, but they produced a good Made in America product.

 

[ronott1]

I should have stood in bed....sigh.

Got ready this morning and drove to town for groceries, stopped at the bank, got out of the car, looked around to check a tire that DH had repaired a slow leak in a couple of weeks ago and crap, it's low again. Ran into the bank, back out, it looks the same so I think okay, I can limp it home it can do 7.5 miles if I go slow. So I'm limping it home at 25-30mph. Get half way and hear that ominous lub lub lub lub coming from the rear right tire when I pick up a bit of speed going down a hill. Heard that sound before and realize at that point in time that it wasn't the old slow leak but a new leak and a bad one. Make it the rest of the way home going 20. Longest 3 miles of my life. Pull up the drive way, stop, get out and look at my now flat tire. DH hears me, can't figure out how I got home so soon so I show him.

Needless to say neither one of us were happy campers at that point. The slow leak he had repaired two weeks ago was caused by a horse shoe nail....go figure. It was intact. This new hole is huge. About 3/4s an inch long and a half inch wide. What I hit is a mystery. Saw nothing in the road but there are several Amish businesses along the way on our gravel road and one is a machine shop so not unusual to find bolts and the like near the road.

So add a set of new tires to the 'get' list. Why does it always happen right before a holiday?Luckily the spare is good.....old but good. My car is a 1985 old school Mercedes turbo diesel. Seems as though the spare is the original that came with the car. OOPS! We just got antique license plates for it it. Didn't know the spare was an antique also.

Oh well, hope tomorrow is better. I did manage to get one of the coops mostly cleaned out and made plans to enlarge the roosters run space so the day wasn't a total loss. Oh, I did get groceries after switching vehicles.

Sometimes I think the Amish have a good idea. Horse shoes are cheaper than tires.

It is good that you were going slow when the tire deflated.Good too that it was a rear tire- Front tires can be brutal when they go.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I should have stood in bed....sigh.

Got ready this morning and drove to town for groceries, stopped at the bank, got out of the car, looked around to check a tire that DH had repaired a slow leak in a couple of weeks ago and crap, it's low again. Ran into the bank, back out, it looks the same so I think okay, I can limp it home it can do 7.5 miles if I go slow. So I'm limping it home at 25-30mph. Get half way and hear that ominous lub lub lub lub coming from the rear right tire when I pick up a bit of speed going down a hill. Heard that sound before and realize at that point in time that it wasn't the old slow leak but a new leak and a bad one. Make it the rest of the way home going 20. Longest 3 miles of my life. Pull up the drive way, stop, get out and look at my now flat tire. DH hears me, can't figure out how I got home so soon so I show him.

Needless to say neither one of us were happy campers at that point. The slow leak he had repaired two weeks ago was caused by a horse shoe nail....go figure. It was intact. This new hole is huge. About 3/4s an inch long and a half inch wide. What I hit is a mystery. Saw nothing in the road but there are several Amish businesses along the way on our gravel road and one is a machine shop so not unusual to find bolts and the like near the road.

So add a set of new tires to the 'get' list. Why does it always happen right before a holiday?Luckily the spare is good.....old but good. My car is a 1985 old school Mercedes turbo diesel. Seems as though the spare is the original that came with the car. OOPS! We just got antique license plates for it it. Didn't know the spare was an antique also.

Oh well, hope tomorrow is better. I did manage to get one of the coops mostly cleaned out and made plans to enlarge the roosters run space so the day wasn't a total loss. Oh, I did get groceries after switching vehicles.

Sometimes I think the Amish have a good idea. Horse shoes are cheaper than tires.

Plus no inspections on wagons, no computer parts to crap out on you. But slow compared to cars!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have given up on the day lying in bed had not had a good night's sleep in a week feeling drug down the road and back so finish news and call it a night here

 

[CapricornFarm]

Are you taking your ibuprofen and using ice? Nags the concerned friend.

 

[ronott1]

I have given up on the day lying in bed had not had a good night's sleep in a week feeling drug down the road and back so finish news and call it a night here

Good night! I hope you feel better tomorrow

 

[microchick]

Yeah but some of those buggy horses can trot along like pacers at the race track. It's particularly fun to watch the young teen age boys get into buggy races when their parents give them their first horse and buggy to 'go courtin' with.

I was lucky that it was a rear wheel. I just read an article on the news that said that this year's winter solstice is supposed to be a bad day due to the alignment of Saturn with the sun blah blah blah. It said that it would be a bad day to start new undertakings and nothing would 'turn out right' or something like that. I think if that's true the winter solstice is just getting a good running start with me.

 

[microchick]

Feel better, Penny. Sometimes a good night's sleep is worth its weight in Aspercream.

 

[chickadoodles]

Penny I hope you feel better today.

Micro glad you made it home ok.

 

[getaclue]

penny, I hope you get to feeling better.
micro, I'm glad you made it home safely. Tires cost a lot less than hospital, and doctor bills, so be thankful.
chicka, I'm partial to homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. They're my fav.