HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

WE  HAVE HIGH HOPES  FOR  2015. WE WILL BE MARRIED 50 YEARS ON JULY 8 AND WE ARE RETIRING AGAIN,  AT LEAST FOR THE YEAR. WE ARE PLANNING ON TRAVELING TO THE EAST COAST THIS  SPRING/SUMMER.
WE WENT OVER AND SOAKED IN THE MORNING AND THEN CAME HOME AND MADE NOODLE SOUP. IT WAS VERY GOOD!
IN THE AFTERNOON WE WENT TO THE MOVIE HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY AT THE  PICKFORD THEATRE.

WE HAD DECIDED WE WOULD WAIT UNTIL NOON ON FRIDAY,  IF WE HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THE TRUCK,  WE WERE GOING  TO DODGE. WE DIDN'T HEAR FROM FERNANDO SO, AT 12:30 WE HEADED TO DODGE.  DARRELL WENT TO FIND FERNANDO. I WENT TO THE CUSTOMER WAITING ROOM. I COULD SEE DARRELL THROUGH THE WINDOW TALKING TO FERNANDO, WAVING HIS ARMS, I KNEW THERE WAS TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY. DARRELL CAME INTO THE WAITING ROOM   AND TELLS ME, FERNANDO SAID THE DIESEL MECHANIC DIDN'T COME TO WORK BECAUSE HE HAD A FAMILY EMERGENCY. DARRELL WAS A LITTLE UPSET. DARRELL TOLD FERNANDO TO GET OUR TRUCK, WE COULDN'T WAIT ANY LONGER. I POINTED OUT  THIS SIGN I NOTICED IN THE WAITING ROOM.

DARRELL WENT OVER TO THE SERVICE COUNTER AND ASKED WHERE STEVE BUSS'S OFFICE WAS.  DARRELL WENT LOOKING FOR STEVE. HE WAS GONE ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR, CAME BACK AND SAID THEY WERE WORKING ON THE TRUCK.  STEVE TOLD US HE WOULD CALL US IN TWO HOURS WITH AN UPDATE ON THE TRUCK. WE WENT TO WALMART AND WHILE WE WERE THERE, STEVE CALLED AND SAID THE TRUCK WAS FIXED. IT TOOK LESS THAN AN HOUR AND WE HAD WAITED ALL WEEK. IT WAS A LOOSE HOSE, BUT WAY TO THE BACK AND VERY HARD TO GET TO.  WHEN TEXAS INSTALLED THE TURBO, THE HOSE WAS NEVER TIGHT. STEVE SAID THE MECHANIC HAD TAKEN IT APART, CLEANED IT AND PUT IT BACK ON. THEY HAD DRIVEN IT AND THE NOISE WAS GONE. WE WERE RELIEVED THAT IT WASN'T A DEFECTIVE TURBO! STEVE WAS VERY NICE, NO CHARGE TO FIX IT AND HE WASHED OUR  TRUCK AND PAID HALF THE CAR RENTAL. HE ALSO APOLOGIZED. WE WERE IMPRESSED!  DARRELL HAD CALLED THE DODGE DEALER IN TEXAS BEFORE WE LEFT THERE, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE NOISE, THEY TOLD US  THE TURBO NEEDED LUBRICATING, IT WOULD PROBABLY TAKE A COUPLE OF THOUSAND MILES. THAT WAS AN OUTRIGHT LIE, JUST TO GET RID OF US!

WE HAD RESERVATIONS AT PICACHO PEAK RV RESORT IN ARIZONA  ON THE FIRST, I CALLED AND TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED, THEY SAID THEY WOULD HOLD OUR SPOT UNLESS I CALLED AND CANCELLED. SATURDAY WE GOT READY TO LEAVE SUNDAY MORNING. WE LEFT AT 9:15, WE WERE GLAD TO BE ON OUR WAY AND GLAD OUR TRUCK WAS FIXED!

SUSAN HAVERTY HAD RECOMMENDED PICACHO RV RESORT TO US, IT'S IN BETWEEN PHOENIX AND TUCSON, NEAR CASA GRANDE. WE GOT THERE AT 5:00 AND RIGHT AWAY WE LIKED IT!