29 October – 10 November 2024 Settling in for the winter

We settled in for the long winter stay. We got up to Livingston to vote early and pick up our accumulated mail and packages. Leslie joined Cynthia, Felix, and Lauren in taking the grand nieces’ trick or treating on Halloween evening. We took Keira over to get to know Cynthia and Felix’s three dogs. Fortunately, that all went well and the three dogs seem to get along well. We also got to go back to church and get back into the swing of the church schedule. Leslie’s foot was pretty sore after walking so much on Halloween but is getting better each week. David repaired the MaxxFan in the bathroom again. This time the lift transmission leaked out is lubricating oil and seized up causing the motor to overheat and draw so much current, the current limiting resister burned up on the motherboard. Almost $200 in parts to get it working again. We dropped Keira off at Cynthia and Felix’s on Sunday night in preparation for our travels Monday morning. She stared at the front door for hours waiting for us to return for her. On the fourth we dropped the truck off at Woodlands Body shop to get it repaired from the hitch failure and picked up a rental car. It’s going to take almost 2 weeks to complete with over $8K in damages.