My goodness, this year is sort of like a repeat of last year. First lots of rain, then none, then rain every day or two. It sure makes it hard to work in the garden when it’s pouring and the ground is soppy. Ugh. The dratted weeds sure like it though, don’t they?
Yesterday was the day from hell for us. I bought a new-to-us electric golf cart on a local online auction, Do-Bid.com. It was located about an hour north of us. Yesterday went like this: First, Will hooked up our small trailer and we headed out about 10 o’clock. We stopped at the credit union in town to temporarily up our cap on my debit card as it’s set low to prevent fraud. We headed north in the rain. When we got there, Will went in to pay. The card was rejected. His card was rejected. I called the credit union and the girl “fixed” everything. Yep, fine. Then they couldn’t find the battery charger for the cart. (They cost between $370-$600 new!) After a long hunt, they loaded up the cart, minus a charger. Sh#@! We started home in the rain. We got about 20 miles and the trailer tire on the road side fell off! Will pulled off onto a side road, which, luckily, was right there. He walked back and couldn’t find the tire as it had rolled somewhere off into the wilderness.
Meanwhile, I got on my phone and located the nearest place we could buy a new trailer tire/rim. He unhooked the trailer in the ditch, and we drove 30 miles to International Falls, to Menard’s, where he bought the only tire they had, which was narrower than the original. But, hey, beggars can’t be choosers. Back we went. In the pouring rain again. When we got there, the rain had stopped, and he managed to change the tire with some new lug bolts he’d bought. Onward 20 miles. POW! The new tire blew out a sidewall. By then, we were closer to Cook, our hometown. While Will pulled the blown tire off, I called our guy, Gary, at The Tire Shop to see if he had a tire. He did. I explained our emergency and we drove 30 miles to Cook. Fortunately, as we’re customers that always say “Fix it when you can. We’re in no hurry.”, Gary immediately got on it and in ten minutes, a new, sturdier tire, was on the rim. (We’re grateful to live near a small town! In a city, we’d have had to wait our turn.) We drove back in the rain, but I prayed hard, and it quit before we got to the trailer. Long story short, Will put the tire on, and we got home. It was 5:30! What a long day.
Today, it’s just drizzling off and on and poor Will is trying to figure out the situation with the batteries on the golf cart as we knew the batteries weren’t good when we bought it. I hope today is better than yesterday!
— Jackie
Sounds like the drive hubs and I had made from a little town in California to Oklahoma. Four kids in varying stages of chicken pox, one who was an escape artist when it came to his car seat, and a trailer he had fixed that wound up blowing an axle in Barstow! Had to call family to borrow money for trailer rental and sold the one we had to the motel we stayed at, thankfully. That was a rough trip back. Hit snow in Arizona and decided to push on before we had to stay there. (That happened in another city on our way out there three years earlier)! If one thing happens it turns into fifteen things and you just have to keep on going.
Isn’t that just the truth. Boy, it sure feels like a black cloud is hovering over your head, doesn’t it? And stuff like that happens to everyone in life.
Cloud seeding, I tell you. Crazy weather everywhere because they think they can do it better then God and Mother Nature. Next time you’re in I Falls check out a new place called Tools and More. Super priced and quality surplus merch
Sorry but I don’t buy into the cloud seeding conspiracy. I know a lot of people do, but I’m not one of them. I truly believe it’s climate change but I don’t want to argue politics here.
Beautiful picture of Ava! You sure had a “Jonah Day ” (Anne of Green Gables) 😊
Wow, that sounds like some of our days here in SW Wisconsin!! Better days ahead, we hope!!!
Wow everything and anything that could go wrong-a nightmare for you. Also, those golf carts can be a huge pain in the keester. One of my son’s bought a used “bargain” and he an I spent too many hours getting that beast to work. He likes it now but I was ready at one time to haul it to the dump. Sometimes bargains are not bargains-I sure hope yours isn’t a headache. The golf cart did give me something else to “play” with last winter. Rain has been a beast here in Southern Wisconsin and yesterday a tornado touched down 9 miles north of us. Fortunately no lives lost only trees some structures and crops in that location. Today making pickles an enjoyable task. Take care. Good luck with the golf cart.
You are supposed to have extremely hot weather for the next two weeks. Please be careful and stay hydrated. I wish we could get some of that rain here in Idaho! I’m glad you finally got home!
My husband collects tires, just in case. We were hired to go 3 hrs away to pick up and deliver here a forklift. Assured there’d be no problem, then we had a problem. After a horrible time loading, found out it’s weight was double what our trailer could do. The trip home, 3 hrs, turned into a day and a half: the trailer had 10 flat tires. At one point we unhooked, went home to sleep, and picked up all our tires, and returned to the forklift on trailer. Welded piece on trailer broke. Sunday and in a strange tiny town, everything closed, but scrounged around on Main street and found a guy, barely open, who welded our piece, and off, again, we went! True story. Ten flats!
Oh! What a trip! Praise The Lord for small town business! Ava s photo is a blessing for post end. Prays for a bit of dryness your way and moisture here.
I guess the saying “When it rains it pours” had double meaning for you! Sorry for your troubles! Send some of that rain to Western Colorado, we have several large fires burning out here!