Brake Repair

Our top priority today was figuring out how to get our brakes diagnosed and repaired. First we talked with Ken U. at New Horizons. Of course he asked us to get someone to look at the brakes and call him. Not as easy as it sounds. We researched some possibilities on the web and called several repair places. No one would agree to come out and pull the wheels, and most places said they just couldn't handle the job even if we brought the trailer in.

We broadened the search and finally found a place in Whitehouse, about 12 miles south of Tyler, that agreed to do the work. We made an appointment for Monday, November 5. Now we're just hoping that these folks will be able to identify the cause of the problem so it won't recur again.

We got our absentee ballots in the mail we picked up at Dick and Carol's yesterday, so today we filled them out. Now we just have to put them in the mail. Given Texas politics, our votes won't actually change any outcomes, but we'll be part of the popular vote count in the presidential election anyhow. We've done our civic duty.


We watched two programs tonight about the Cuban missile crisis. It's very scary to know how close we came to a nuclear conflagration. We're very grateful that cooler heads prevailed.