Friday, June 1, 2018

Another St Joseph Trip

We had a pretty good Memorial Weekend. It was a bit hectic getting ready, though. We had to take Allan's trailer down to Michael's to pick up Stephen's dinning set Michael had been keeping for Stephen for several years. Stephen's new home finally has room for his dining set, so we're making another trip to St Joseph and picking up the dining set was the kickoff for the weekend.

Just before the trip, I had to make a quick trip to the Branson VA Clinic.  On my return, it was raining pretty hard and Pumpkin misfired briefly which seemed to have triggered an ABS fault. I tried clearing the error codes, but the error comes back. The biggest inconvenience is that now the cruise control doesn't work. So, we wound up making our trip to St Joseph without cruise control.  I'm going to have to make an appointment at the Mercedes dealer in St Louis to have it fixed since it may be still under warranty (fingers crossed).

But, before a trip to St Louis, I've got to get the generator fixed. I have an appointment with Cummins locally to work on the generator. I hate getting old. In my younger days, I'd crawl under there and fix it myself (sigh).

One good thing, my new mattress is pretty comfortable and well worth the cost - finally.

While at Stephen's, Joyce helped him strip wallpaper and I helped him check out his underground sprinkler system and a cranky sump pump. The sprinkler system checked out pretty good except 2 or 3 sprinkler heads may need replacing and one of Stephen's neighbors built a privacy fence across the property line and sunk a post right through the sprinkler underground line. So, he is going to get to meet that neighbor soon.