Friday, September 6, 2013

Friday, September 6, 2013

0659, Fri, 090613.  Rocklin, CA.

 

Just another day of perfect weather.  This place has some perfect days, must be a nice place to live.  Last week we got a morning of rain.  I was laying in bed and could hear the drips landing at the bottom of the down spout outside.  What a surprise.  It poured pretty good in the early morning but then evened out for another beautiful day.

We were puttering around yesterday, I was getting some of my fixits done around the place, a little glue here and there.   We had a two o'clock appointment so about one thirty we hopped in the car to head out.  I turned the key and it was absolutely dead.  Earlier in the day as I opened the garage door I noticed I had left the back hatch open, it must have drained the battery.  Now here I was without a battery charger, hurumph.  We cancelled the appointment and called up the insurance company, USAA.  There is a roadside assistance as part of the program.  The guy showed up in about five minutes.  He was in the area on another service call just down the street and zipped over here.  He was driving a Toyota pickup and stopped to ask if I was the guy looking to get my car going.  Wow, in no time at all the car was running, now that is service.  I have waited long hours for AAA in the past, never this quick. 

With a car that needed some charging up we took off for a ride around.  We went past the property in town that has caught our interest and although only a block away from the railroad tracks we have become fond of this place.  Then we checked it out some more on line and found another spot listing this property with a "Not For Sale" tag on it.  More homework on this one.  I spent the afternoon trying to fit a modest 800 sq ft house with a shop/garage on the property and found it very tight without stacking the house and scrunching everything up into a box. 

Smoothie and a movie time:  Another BBC series, a little better than the last but not that good.  Sue hooked us up to Netflix and we watched Glee….more later..

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