“Paul” is reassigned and other Good News

Tuesday  February 21, 2012

 

Things have been looking up
since the end of the hiccup saga.

On Sunday David was  really hoping to get out
in the  kayaks but it was rainy and windy.
Not a good day for being on the water. 
He  felt fine and thought it was a shame
to waste feeling great and not being able to DO something.

 

Monday was treatment day # 3. 
We left here at noon.
Got to the office where they took more
blood and put him in the treatment chair.
I went off to try to run some errands.
I needed to pick up some really exciting items like
a bottle of tank cleaner, Purr water filter cartridges,
and a copy of Turbo Tax.
OH Boy!

Everything went well and we were home
by 5:00 waiting to see if the hiccup shoe
would drop tomorrow.

 
Tuesday was a lovely day, high about 76.  

I went running first thing in the morning.
The campground has really cleared out now that the “holiday” is over. 

There were only 10 folks still camped  when I ran by all 40 sites this morning.

 

  

Winnona looks all alone.  I LOVE it this way!!

But that will change as the week goes on.

 

 

 

 

David got up, while I was gone,
got himself some breakfast, got dressed
and went out for a walk. 

 

He spotted the resident Heron hanging out by the spring run
which is where the spring begins its trip to the Alafia River.

 

 

 

A pair of Ibis were feeding along the shore

 

 

 

After enjoying the spring run activity,

 

 

he walked on around the shoreline to the Lifeguard house

 

 

 

 

At the Lifeguard station, he found
the second BIG news of the day.

 

Due to the previous astute observations by former Agent
Paul Dahl, lifeguard “Paul” and his ball capped drinking buddy
have been reassigned to Wall Duty.
Well done Agent Dahl!!

 

Lots of excitement with that big news this morning
but the afternoon didn’t turn out to be quite
as much fun.

 

The kayak idea got pushed back again
since we really had to take advantage of this
feeling well time to try to get the car repair set up.
We’ve had a “temporary fix” on our
fuel return line for nearly a month now.
Today, David was able to finally figure out what the
part needed is, order it through a Honda Dealer
and get someone who charges less than $100 an
hour and doesn’t “charge by the book” in terms of
how they bill you to put it on.

For those not in the know (like me), “charge by the book”
(aka flat rate), means a shop charges the number of hours
this job is “supposed” to take according to their book.
Whose book?  Who does the book?
No idea.
But for this repair, the dealer quoted 4.5 hours.
At $100 an hour that’s $450 to put on a
$37.95 part.

 

SO

We chose to have a local well reviewed shop,
Precision Auto in Brandon Florida,
(thank you Car Talk Mechanic ratings)
do it rather than the dealer because they charge by the hours it
actually takes them to do this. 
In this case probably really one or two.

Crossing our fingers this can happen on Thursday.

 

And for those of you waiting and wondering…….

 

The most fun today and the number one
BIG news is no hiccups!! 

 Feels like we won a prize.
On with paddling tomorrow for sure!!