Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Gay Sept-23-13
6:27 AM | 
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Sharp's Travels
Cheri
had to cut her pool exercise short this morning as I needed the van to take
Grandma for her 9:30 am doctor’s appointment. We got a new prescription and
went over to CVS to get it filled and they didn’t have the medicine so we went
to Walgreens and they didn’t have it either. But they called the other
Walgreens in Zephyrhills and they didn’t have so they called Walgreens in Dade
City and they had it so Grandma and I headed to Dade City to get it filled.
They told me it wouldn’t be ready until 1:30 pm. It was after 11:00 am before I
got Grandma home. I made a quick stop at Norm and Marlene’s and then home for
lunch. Then it was time to go and pick up Grandma for her 1:10 pm doctor’s
appointment. After that we went back to the doctor where we were this morning
to get another prescription. Then we headed to Dade City to pick up the other
medicine. When we were driving into Walgreens the van didn’t have any power
steering. Of course it was really raining hard all afternoon. I got the
umbrella out and looked under the hood and see the serpentine belt was broken.
I went in and got the medicine and then called Norm to come and pick us up.
After we got Grandma home Norm took me back up to the van and found the belt
had just come off and wasn’t broken which was good news but didn’t have any
tools to put it back on. With the belt off you don’t have any power steering
and the alternator doesn’t work. So I decide to drive it home where I could
work on it and Norm followed me. Well I got within 1000 feet of home when the
engine died for lack of battery power. Yes it was still raining. Norm took me
over to Mike’s to see about having him pull me up to the house. But decided to
wait for it quit raining and about half an hour it let up so I took some tools
done and was putting the belt back on when Mike came. We got the belt on and
were going to jump the battery to get it started but sitting for a while
brought the battery back up enough to get it started. I drove home and put the
battery charger on. On the way to Dade City I went through some deep water in
Zephyrhills and that must have caused the belt to come off. Cheri spent the day
doing paper work, reading, and she made a wonderful supper of roast beef,
onions and potatoes in the crock pot. After supper I had to go back over to
Grandma’s to drop off her walker that was in the van. Then stopped by Norm and
Marlene’s to thank them for what they did for me today. I am looking forward to
a better day tomorrow. We watched Dancing with the Stars this evening and Judge
Cheri had a different person to be voted off.
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