ANOTHER TRIP TO MOYIE SPRINGS

SATURDAY
11-11-2017
VETERAN'S DAY (OFFICIAL)

Got up at 8AM this morning.

I actually slept for 8 hours last night and it was wonderful. But had to get up 2X to potty.

I made lattes; hubby had already fed the cats and made eggs.

Hubby called people that were selling 2WD SUV in Moyie Springs. They said that the son had over-nighted the Title for the car. So hubby got the trailer hooked up to the Excursion.

The Excursion was "missing" in the motor. So it was running rough. Hubby was upset about that.

He also could not find his tool sets that he had, he looked everywhere in the house & garage for the tool sets.

We finally got going at Noon. Left the dogs at home.

Drove to Sandpoint and parked the truck & trailer. Got lattes and food using Reward points at Starbucks.

Arrived in Moyie Springs around 2PM.

Could not find the address at first. Snow all over Old Highway 2; Had to turn around to find the mailbox. Road went straight up. A non-plowed two-track.

The people owned 2 black dogs. One dog only had 3 legs. It limped around.

Took forever to load SUV as it did not run; hubby and (Gene) had to run over to his dad's farm to pick up ramps to use on the trailer.

As we got into Bonners Ferry, the tire blew out on the trailer. So hubby pulled into Les Schwab to put a new tire on it.

We walked in the dark down to the Burger Express restaurant and had burgers to warm up and waste time.

Then we walked back to the Les Schwab dealership, paid and left.

The new tire blew out again in Sandpoint, so we pulled into Walmart to have a new tire put on it. They would not do truck tires on a trailer, so they sold hubby the tire and we put it on ourselves.

I went to the bathroom while we were there.

Then we drove home. On the way, a couple blocks away from Walmart, we smelled burning tire again. Hubby pulled over on the road and pulled the fender off. It was rubbing against the tire. So we surmised that was what had happened to the other tire.

Hubby took the fender off and put it in the back of the SUV. We drove home slowly.

At home, we unloaded everything and left the Excursion in the driveway hooked to the trailer.

One of the stripey kittys was missing all night. Hope he is OK.

The dogs were overjoyed to see us. I gave them Ham slices, which Ben promptly vomited on the hallway rug. Had to clean that up.

We watched Vera and Dirk Gently on tv. I went to bed at 11PM.