December has started off with on a roll as changes are coming at work, weather is cooling off, more repairs to the truck, and if we are going to try and move got to get the house ready. Came back from seeing the family over Thanksgiving and a morning call from the boss resinated changes. Work load will go up spread over fewer people and we’ll have to get more of the group involved in what my department is doing. Where typically December is slow it will be hoppin now.
With cooler weather means the dogs don’t get out as much but when they do it’s to run wild. I head down to a boat ramp at the lake and wander, nobody really goes there in the winter so the dogs get to run. Of course this year it is dogs plural as cooper was too little last year. The good thing is they get to run, the bad thing is now that there is two of them their is more trouble listening. Think I’m going to have to nip that in the butt with some training colars… but we’ll see.
Since it was cooling off figured I’d better have the truck looked at, after 148,000 miles might want to think about getting the fluids changed in the diffs and transfer case. At the same time a neighbor commented about his ZR2 and getting the tie rods replaced. After mentioning that I noticed grease under the control arms…. not good. Well the short version of the story is tie rods were fine but upper ball joints, axle boot (where the grease was coming from), and a idler arm needed replacing. Front end is much more solid now so I hope I’m primed for another 100,000 miles.
Moving has been a topic for a while now. Would like to get out of the subdivision and into more acreage.. when you don’t have any one could be pretty nice. But to do that we need to get some things done inside you know the nail holes, a little paint here and there, hardware, etc. We’re down to carpet cleaning and a few more touches of paint and we should be ready but I think we are about three months late. Winter is not the best time to put a house on the market not to mention start of the holiday season. Interest rates are moving up too so with the changes at work it puts an little more thought into the situation. So we will sit on that for a while I think, at least till the holidays are through.
