We drove to Colleyville this morning, through morning rush hour traffic, for Ken's 8:00 a.m. appointment with an endodontist. Fortunately, the advice was good. The doctor says the infection in the root canal has probably been there for years and could go on for years more without causing any serious problem.
Our next errand was to go to Target to pick up a couple of dual sensor smoke and fire alarms. We heard Mac the Fire Guy at the Sedalia Escapade, and he said that it was important to have both photoelectric and ionization sensors, especially in an RV, where most fires begin in the 12 v wiring, smoldering rather than open flames. The model we got is by First Alert, and it has a really convenient feature: if there's a false alarm when you're cooking or whatever, you can just point your TV remote at the detector and press the channel or volume button for 3 seconds to silence the alarm. Ken will be happy about that.
We walked around the park today, enjoying the views of the lake. We saw a couple of herons looking for dinner in the shallows. We saw lots of grackles and doves and flickers.
Tomorrow we'll leave and drive to Mount Pleasant. We have an appointment Thursday morning to take the truck to Morris Metal Works to talk with them about cutting down our truck bed. We called a nearby RV park, figuring that in October they would likely have lots of spaces, but not so. Oil field workers have taken all the available slots. We'll probably end up at Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, which is a bit further out and heavily wooded.
Ken spent more time today working on ways to get access to the inner dually valve stem. He had some metal valve extensions, but none of them worked out. At this point he can get a flexible inflator in, but the hand holes are so small that it's difficult to avoid scraping your hands up.
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