Quo Vadis, Where are we going?: Swimming Reindeer!

Friday, December 19, 2014

Swimming Reindeer!

It was a maintenance day again! But first, THE BREAKFAST.

Pastor Ralph treated us, no holds barred, to a truly old fashioned American, Floridian, Breakfast. Bob Simcox, think Annies of Royersford! I even asked our server if they were owned by the same people. She laughed and said not.

But the 10” wide pancakes, the extra sausage, bacon, or egg beyond what you order, and the over the top fine service just wowed us with calories! It was breakfast and lunch combined for this well fed couple. TY Pastor, for introducing us to the Alva Diner!

We sat and talked for almost two hours till Ralph had to get to his ‘stuff’ and we had to get to ours. Ours was less spiritual but just as needful, to be sure. Mona has been waiting for a week to give me a haircut. Not driven by the length of my head hair so much as my ear hairs (spiders). In thirty minutes I was 10 years younger again.

Then it was maintenance time for TOAD. We’ve been spending a lot of time on FROG of late so its only fair that TOAD gets a turn at the shop, or shops, as it turned out.

Ralph and a couple of his parishioners told us that Walmart at Jones Loop, in Punta Gorda, would give us the best work and price, and we believe they were right. Oil & lube, filters and safety check all around and four rotated tires for $60.00 But the word on the brakes was what we’d expected. All four needed new pads.

Rueben, our service guy at Walmart, recommended Community Auto in Port Charlotte, about 15 minutes north so we called and they took us in. Two hours and $445.00 later our pads were new, our drums were sanded, the assemblies were oiled and TOAD was set to go.

On our driving about today we saw the horse and cattle ranch and citrus grove and honey bee country to the north of Alva. Beautiful. No pictures, though.

And we saw a most gorgeous sunset from the bridge over the fishing fleet docks of Punta Gorda. No pictures though.