8-30 A Wonderful Day

What a wonderful day

We started the day out by taking Flo to Rogers Park for a morning swim. It's Tuesday so there were only a few vehicles in the parking lot so no fighting for a parking spot, we were there for a half hour. Flo swam, explored and met a guy that was taking his kayak out of the lake, we have talked to him before but he always takes time to say hi to Flo. After she swam we were headed back toward the car when she saw a couple of guys fishing on the dock and she had to go say hi to them. I really didn't want to take her to the dock considering there are a few steps and she had trouble getting up and down them the last time. But I'm a softy so we went to the dock. As we were walking down to the dock another guy parked his truck and started talking to us. When we finally got to the dock to say hi. The fishermen became her favorite friends considering they had hot dogs for their bait. There was a piece laying on the dock that she promptly ate, I apologized to them but they said it was ok. Then she decided that she wanted to stay with the fishermen. Larry was watching us and finally came to the dock and took the leash, he had no problem, Flo started to walk back to the car but I had to help her up each step. Once we got back to the car I dried her off and Larry put her in the car.

We don't drive our truck very often, we use it to pull the boat to the lake or if we are picking up something large from the Home Depot, other than that we have to remember to take it for a drive every once in awhile otherwise the battery goes dead. Larry mentioned that the air conditioner didn't seem to be getting as cold as it should be, using a thermometer he found that the air coming out of the vents ranged between 50 and 60 degrees, 50 when you were driving and 60 if you were idling at a stop light. He figured it was low on refrigerant so he bought a kit from Walmart to recharge it. It didn't take him very long, I was getting a cake ready to put in the oven and by the time I came out to take a picture he was already done. The A/C now blows very cold while driving and while sitting at a light. The truck is 12 years old and has 130,000 miles on it. This is the first repair we have had to do on it in years so we certainly are not complaining.

Reusable Refrigerant Kit

Larry working on the truck's air conditioner

The temperature after the project was done

The German Chocolate cake I baked

My Mixer

After lunch I took a nap, when I woke up I vacuumed and mopped the floors. Flo was trying to recuperate from her swim this morning. In the evening we watched YouTube videos and a documentary on Amazon called The Lost World of Mr. Hardy. This was a great documentary about the Hardy Brothers family fishing tackle business in the UK. It talked about the Hardy brothers, the history of the company, workmanship of the products, the loyalty of the employees and the changing of the times. After the documentary I worked on my puzzle and played my daily challenges of the Microsoft Solitary games. We had a wonderful day.