Both Ron and I have been fighting the crud for the last 10 days . First me then I guess I gave it to Ron. A lot of chest congestion, achy, coughing, sneezing ...you get the picture. We finally broke our low grade fevers and feel a little better.
Our coach went in for repairs on Monday- April 01. We arrived at the service bay at 6:45 am and were back at our site by 10:30 pm. They were able to get all the repairs completed including the washing machine. The last thing I felt like doing was laundry, but I had to test out the repair before we left, so that is what I did all morning.
We have one more service that was scheduled for sometime Thursday, but we never got a call. We walked over to the scheduler and made an inquiry. Not the friendliest guy on earth, but I guess he has to deal with a lot of people who really don't want to be here. We were originally number 6 on the list and as of Thursday we were number 5....huh....they only got to one coach in 3 days and they are using 4 bays for this repair????
I'm not the brightest light bulb in the box but something doesn't add up here. I was told that once they take the cap rails off of some of the coaches and see damage to the roof they have to make further repairs which can take up to 1.5 days longer. Still doesn't make sense to me....if you have 4 bays and 4 coaches in each bay on Tuesday and even if all 4 needed more repairs that take 1.5 days all 4 should have been finished in 3days????
It's one of those situation that if you don't squeak you may not get serviced and if you squeak too loud they get pissed and may keep moving you to the bottom of the list. I'll send Ron over next time....he is much more diplomatic....my Italian temper flares up.
On the bright side the delay gave us time to get over our illness, gave STL time to get rid of their snow and gave us time to complete more Find-A-Grave requests. After we responded to the first Find-A-Grave request we have now received 8 more. Apparently this area does not have a volunteer.
Today is St. Louis Baseball Cardinals opening day with ceremonies starting late morning for a 3:10 pm game. I'm glad we don't have tickets...boy would I really be upset if we missed it. Instead we will probably pull up our chairs and watch the game outside...the high today is 74 degrees, mostly sunny.
Go Cards!
Hope all is well!
Monday, April 8, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
You gotta love small towns!
What is there to do in Red Bay, AL (pop. 3177 ) after you have visited the Coon Dog Cemetery, Elvis' homestead in Tupelo, MS, walked the downtown area of Russellville & Florence AL and Belmont, Golden and Dennis MS and eaten at all 5 of their restaurants?
Well we can always entertain ourselves geocaching but we have now found another activity. We have signed up with Find-a Grave to be volunteer photographers. If your are not familiar with this organization they put genealogy enthusiast in touch with volunteers in areas where they may have family buried. As a volunteer photographer we receive a request via email with the name of the person and cemetery and go out and take a picture of the grave and headstone. Sounds easy huh? Sometimes it is but quite often we feel like Lewis and Clark.
The hardest ones are private, family plots dating back to the 1800's. They are usually set back off the road without any signage. You have to be a local to know where they are. We got a request for one in Belmont, MS. We got as close as we could using our GPS then stopped a gentleman working in his yard and asked him if he knew where Byram Family Cemetery was located. He lived here his entire life and use to play as a boy in the cemetery. Of course he couldn't give us directions but got in his car and lead us to the spot. We had to park on the road and go through a chained gate onto private property. But since he knew the owner, he walked up, unchained it and in we went. We never would have found it if it weren't for him....and only in a small, friendly town would someone stop what they were doing to help a stranger with a very strange request.
Most have not seen any upkeep for years and the headstones are turned over, faded or gone.
Below is the path leading to the grave sites.
Not only did Mr. Williams lead us to the spot, he helped in locating different headstones, turning them over and brushing them off.
We didn't find the one we were looking for, but will send pictures of the area to the person who made the request.
This is another interesting family plot we visited while in Brunswick GA a couple of months ago.
This is the road leading to the cemetery in GA. To find this "road" we had to go to the county administration building and get a map. The lady there made it very clear that we were traveling this road at our own risk. In other words..."don't sue us if something goes wrong"!
Ron wonders where I come up with these activities , but he is very good natured about it and always comes with me.
Hope all is well!
Well we can always entertain ourselves geocaching but we have now found another activity. We have signed up with Find-a Grave to be volunteer photographers. If your are not familiar with this organization they put genealogy enthusiast in touch with volunteers in areas where they may have family buried. As a volunteer photographer we receive a request via email with the name of the person and cemetery and go out and take a picture of the grave and headstone. Sounds easy huh? Sometimes it is but quite often we feel like Lewis and Clark.
The hardest ones are private, family plots dating back to the 1800's. They are usually set back off the road without any signage. You have to be a local to know where they are. We got a request for one in Belmont, MS. We got as close as we could using our GPS then stopped a gentleman working in his yard and asked him if he knew where Byram Family Cemetery was located. He lived here his entire life and use to play as a boy in the cemetery. Of course he couldn't give us directions but got in his car and lead us to the spot. We had to park on the road and go through a chained gate onto private property. But since he knew the owner, he walked up, unchained it and in we went. We never would have found it if it weren't for him....and only in a small, friendly town would someone stop what they were doing to help a stranger with a very strange request.
Most have not seen any upkeep for years and the headstones are turned over, faded or gone.
Below is the path leading to the grave sites.
We didn't find the one we were looking for, but will send pictures of the area to the person who made the request.
This is another interesting family plot we visited while in Brunswick GA a couple of months ago.
This is the road leading to the cemetery in GA. To find this "road" we had to go to the county administration building and get a map. The lady there made it very clear that we were traveling this road at our own risk. In other words..."don't sue us if something goes wrong"!
Ron wonders where I come up with these activities , but he is very good natured about it and always comes with me.
Hope all is well!
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