Hiding at the Lake..

I didn't totally disappear, I am hiding out down at the Lake of the Ozarks...  I drove down here on Friday after spending most of the morning in the DMV...

Most of you have read my on going love for the Kansas DMV in Johnson county....  The office in Olathe is one of the worst offenders...  I only had to re license the utility trailer, but it comes due in February and I am in Arizona then....

So that causes me to resort to going in as the mail in time is expired....  Of course I had been putting this off because I knew how bad it always is...  And it didn't disappoint me this year either...  It was over a two hour wait..  When I checked in online they said 40 minutes so I messed around and went for a truck wash and errands....  But 40 minutes turned into an hour and 40 minutes...  For a $47 sticker to put on the license plate...

I then stopped by the Freightliner Shop to look into my worst fears....  As I mentioned before, my check engine light has come on intermittently giving an error for EGR valve....  I really don't care if I do a little polluting...  So I drive on....Its a diesel and has the fancy afterburner muffler, but that isn't enough...

And my worst fears have been realized... A new EGR valve is on order....  And will cost thousands to replace...  Rving has become a tad more expensive this month....

So hiding at the lake cabin seemed in order....  But then this place hasn't been used all winter, so today and several of the next few days will be spent in a domestic mode...  I'm still cleaning up after last Labor Day's holiday...  Normally we would have returned in September to catch up on house cleaning and the orderly closing of the cabin...  But with Loyce's unexpected passing, this place went to full stop..

I had to deal with the vacuum grave yard today..  It seems that every old or unused machine that we have had in the last 20 years has ended up down here.... And as I tried to resurrect  one of them into a working machine things went from bad to worse...  They were all worn out....  So a trip to Wal Mart was in order...

So Biscuit has another brand new Hoover upright machine of terror..  When I brought in the big box she came excitedly to see the new toy...  And it came out of the box in pieces, so she didn't recognize what it was right off....  But as I put on the handle and the cleaning canister, it became another noisy cleaning monster...  And no I didn't bring the Roomba down here...  We need serious cleaning, beyond Roomba's ability..  Biscuit hid in the bedroom for most of the afternoon to get away from the terror...

Maybe I can get started on the leaves outside tomorrow......  Oh Joy...

Retired Rod