Woke up to 70F temperatures adn clear skies, the humidity of the last few days has gone.
Another lazy day, spent mostly playing with electronic gizmos, although we did do the weekly shopping. Also took the truck in for an oil change, and as usual there are always a couple of extra things that the service manager feels you should get done. One of these was a leaking front differential cover, it could be fixed for just under $600, but wasn’t urgent. Declined his offer and drove home. After parking the truck, I decided to look underneath and lo and behold there was oil on the concrete under the area of the front diff! This is the first time in a year that there has ever been any oil dripping from the truck —- Coincidence??
Got out some paper towel and ran it along an area just under the diff, there was a lot of oil there… and it was nowhere near where they would have been changing the engine oil. Cleaned it all up, and so far there has been no sign of further leaking. Don’t think I’ll be going back to that dealer.
Tonight we went out for a meal (no comment Hazel) to a local “must visit” restaurant. The place was full, but we managed to get in pretty quickly even though there were about 25 people ahead, out of those 25 there was a party of 19 so we jumped ahead them. The restaurant seating was wooden benches and tables, reasonably close together which made it fairly noisy. Once we were seated and drink orders were taken, a couple of guys came round with hot bread rolls. Seem that if you want one you put your hand up and a roll is thrown across the room at you! That was a first, even though I have been to many restaurants on many continents.
While we were waiting for the food to come, people were circling the rooms with various southern “delicacies”; Fried Okra ( deep fried zucchini), boiled cabbage, black eyed peas, apple butter with molasses (for the rolls) and macaroni with tomatoes.
All in all a different, but good experience.