We are up quite early this morning, things seem so quiet after all the turmoil and dare we say excitement of Wednesday. The sky is overcast with a slight early morning mist hanging in the air. The birds are just as chirpy as ever though, just a reminder to us that summer is far from over, well at least not just yet. To go outside the building today, one wouldn’t suspect or detect a thing out of place from the norm. The episode of the guy upstairs is over, and finished as far as we the bystanders are concerned at least, although special service crews are still working with the aftermath. ~ Life goes on.
Today we are up and at it for different reasons, I give a slight grimace when I say that, for at this point in time I don’t know what the end of this day may bring.
For a short while now our ‘Baby’ the wife’s ‘pet’ has been acting just a little strange of late. So today’s the day we had to take her in and get things checked out, hoping of course not to hear the worst.
The ‘baby/pet in this family is of course not a child or an animal but our truck!
At this point you may smile, I had you thinking there for a while at least didn’t I? As I was saying the truck has been acting a little rough for at last a week so Dave, that’s our mechanic took her in to give her the once over. I’m biting my tongue for I’m obviously hoping the news isn’t so expensive, at least not this time around, she was ready for an oil change anyway.
Turns out so far, they did the oil and lube, and we had to have a brake job on the front end $250. As far as the original clunk noise/ hard shift, well we still have that and so tomorrow it’s off to the transmission shop on a wing and a prayer !
Don’t even want to think about the possibilities with that one tonight. Yelp!
C’ya
About Me
- Eric Valentine
- I have been a bit of a World traveler. I was born in England and at age 32 moved to Canada. More recently this last few years I have come down with a debilitating illness that although it has no cure it can be managed sensibly. My interests now are my lovely wife Elizabeth, nature and music. I love writing at which I am always working on improving.
I am a Proud Member of The Shameless Lions Writing Circle
Sangilak
He burst forth from the past to now
Fiercely proud, strong, erect.
His torso adorned and glowing still,
Remnants of the days of battle royal,
The figures, depicting scars from days of old.
I first saw him standing there -
Covered it seemed in a hue of snow?
On his chest emblazoned in red,
“Is that a red maple leaf I see,
Or some such facsimile ?”
I said astounded! ~ hesitantly, ~
“You are Canadian ~ aren’t you”
SangilakHe burst forth from the past to now
Fiercely proud, strong, erect.
His torso adorned and glowing still,
Remnants of the days of battle royal,
The figures, depicting scars from days of old.
I first saw him standing there -
Covered it seemed in a hue of snow?
On his chest emblazoned in red,
“Is that a red maple leaf I see,
Or some such facsimile ?”
I said astounded! ~ hesitantly, ~
“You are Canadian ~ aren’t you”
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10 comments:
Oh..my dear..poor you Eric...wish you have a pleasant dream tonight ...
I delay taking my truck in for service ... for the same reason...
Thanks for the visit Tim, yes it's enough to give you nightmares sometimes. Hopefully this will just be an adjustment that is needed.
Hope you are doing well with your painting and we see you back soon. :)
Oh, the memories of all those years when I felt like a slave to whatever vehicle I was driving at the time. Sometimes it seemed that no matter how good I was to it, it consumed most of my discretionary funds.
Good luck Eric. I wish the best for you and your baby. :-)
What a good post! I'm sorry to hear about the truck, but hey, it could have been much worse!
I took a short brake from blogging, but I'm back now! I tried out wordpress.com (another blogging site) but I felt I should come back to this one.
My new (and only hopefully) blog is about The Islamic Republic Of Iran. I've only just started but I want to show everyone what I see, because it's getting a lot of bad press lately, don't you agree?
Well do have a visit when you find time!
Thanks for the lovely blog post, as per usual.
Lajyseh.
good luck with the truck. Hope it's a cheap and simple fix :)
Hi Leon,
Yes gone are the good old days indeed. Now we are into the computer age even in vehicles... methinks that was supposed to make things easier? Certainly not cheaper. :)
Hello Lajyseh,
good to see you again in these parts. I will have to take a look at this new blog. :)
Hi Newnorth, didn't expect to see you for 3 days. :)
I guess you know about car fixing eh ? LOL
I hope it isn't too much moolah too, but these things are never cheap at best. :)
I know more about car breaking :p
LOL @ Newnorth.
My truck problems don't look very good so far :((
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