Yesterday did not turn out quite like I had planned. Early morning I was driving Gary to the hotel in town where he is to be in meetings and the car died on the way–it never does that! And I couldn’t get it restarted. So–glad I had a cell phone–I called a friend who came and picked Gary up and rushed him to the meeting so he wouldn’t be late. I also called the garage, and got the number for a towing company. Then, about 10 minutes later, the car started! I drove to the garage, turned it off, and turned it back on with no problem. So, I left the garage.
Went to work, then went out to lunch at Ton’s for my birthday. Yes, my birthday was 3 months ago, but hey–better late than never, eh? I dropped Carol off at the center and drove home. As I turned into our driveway, this happened:
I let the engine cool off. While waiting, our expected visitor, Stan, showed up. I immediately pressed him into service to drive with me to the garage. He filled the radiator with water, then off we went, for my SECOND visit of the day to the garage. Stan gave me a ride home.
I got my car back this morning–a broken heater control valve, or something like that. Thankfully, not too expensive.
In the mean time, our house phone isn’t working due to excessive amounts of rain, I left my cell phone at Rachel’s house and it ran out of battery, and Gary had a panicked morning trying to get ready for his speech this afternoon. I made him a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast while he took a 2-minute shower so he wouldn’t be late for his ride. In fact, I think he has his speech in just a few minutes.
Tonight should be fun. We’ve been included in the group of Important People to go to a restaurant tonight to say farewell to a colleague. Yay, no cooking tonight. Gary will miss choir practice, but he brought the music home to learn on his own.
Stan is leaving to visit other friends, but will be back Saturday morning, and we’ll spend some time with him next week.
