Back and forth to the garage...

Deliver the motorhome to the Freightliner garage, and pick up the youngest grandchild at her school...  That was the order of the morning...  We were up and at it fairly early, but time seemed to slip away as we found that we were almost late to go to the school...

But we did manage to get there before Abby's teacher brought her out of the school...  And she must be enjoying that school because she was talking and talking about it as we headed for the motorhome.

It was overcast from about 10 AM on today, and as I was pulling into the garage parking fence, it seemed to be sprinkling....  The service writer was inside waiting for my keys....  But we were early for that appointment...

By this time Biscuit was in the back seat trying to sit with Abby in her car seat...  She loves the grandkids but is too forward with them, sometimes almost frightening them with her enthusiasm..  But Abby takes it in her stride saying "Biscuit get down!"

We came home for Abby's lunch and I was busy on the computer....  Answering emails and paying bills....  The rain never seemed to come...  But it was warm in the low 70's.  So I slipped out on the scooter, when Abby went down for a nap...

I went to several auto parts stores looking for a certain type of door ding protector that I had seen on the internet, but didn't find it in real life... And to Wal Mart for a prescription...... and of course Wendy's..  Still no rain...  So that was how our day went here...

Tonight after 5 PM I was back over to the Freightliner place paying my bill... $275 for a 17 quart oil change and three filters...  The oil filter, and two diesel fuel filters that are bigger than the oil filter...  Each of them are about $30, again with the oil filter being the cheaper one.

I have reconciled that this service is going to cost about this much each year and that it is a good thing, because they keep track of the recalls on the chassis and perform them each time we are there..  Today it was inspect the brakes.

Seems that as these chassis have aged and sat around as much as motorhomes do, the calipers have deteriorated and leak and get mushy when the brakes are applied....  Ours passed the inspection, and the fellow thought that since we spend the winters in the desert, moisture while sitting wasn't nearly as much of an issue....  But he did say this is an ongoing program to inspect and see how bad the fleet really is...  They could still formulate an across the board repair or replacement of the calipers.....  Just hang in there, and we will all know more in the future.

The engine seemed soooo smoooooth as I was driving back to the storage lot.  I always like how new oil feels for a little while anyway..

So our grandchild went home, and we came back to watch the debate again tonight...  The talking heads were spinning and spinning afterwards, until I had to turn it off...  Again one fellow didn't watch the same event that the other fellow did...

Its amazing how these days can go by so fast, but we do have fresh oil and are that much closer to an Arizona departure...  But I never did get back to the house with the coach to do that generator oil change...  Maybe tomorrow.....!

Retired Rod