10-11-12

That's today, 10-11-12. Thanks to Hardy for announcing this special day.

We are back at Lake Park in Lewisville. This is not quite what we expected when we left yesterday morning and headed to Mt. Pleasant. We had a 10:00 a.m. appointment with Morris Metal Works. We dropped our trailer last night in order to level it, and we left it in the parking lot while we went to our appointment.

We met with Bob Morris and went over the work we want done and listened to what he had to say. The decision was made to have him cut down the pickup bed by around four inches, to provide more clearance between the truck bed rails and the trailer overhang.

We plan to return to Mt. Pleasant when our square dance weekend in Paris, TX, ends. They will begin work on Monday morning, 10/29. That day they will remove the truck bed and put in a temporary wood deck. They expect the work to take two weeks. We are looking forward to being able to drive without the constant threat of hitting the truck bed rails. That happened again today when we tried to pull into a parking lot in Greenville to eat lunch. The margin between the road bed and the parking lot had too much height difference, and we had to back out onto the highway, blocking traffic. Not our favorite situation.

Ken has made all the arrangements for his visit to Michigan for Gord's services. He'll be flying out Sunday morning and returning Tuesday evening. He's using some of our American frequent flyer miles. Once upon a time, these award tickets were actually free. Then American started charging a small processing fee. Now that fee is up to $75 plus $5 tax, so it's hardly a "free" ticket, but still better than a last minute fare.