Monday August 26th 2024

After breakfast this morning I dug my air compressor out of its basement storage hiding place. It hides behind extra power cords and hoses. I needed one of those extra power cords to reach the drivers rear tire on my car. The pressure in the bad tire had only gone down another pound since yesterday afternoons display of warning messages on the dashboard. It only took a couple of minutes to top off the tire once I got the compressor out of the storage bin. Getting the compressor out and putting it away again is the longest and hardest part of the whole activity.

With an aired up tire, I headed for a tire store. There are several in one area a mile or so from my campsite. I ended up at the Firestone service center. An hour of time and fifty dollars in “change” got me a patched tire. I only have about ten thousand miles on these tires, so I didn’t want to buy new one. Getting tires repaired seemed to be a thing today. While I waited, two other people were in to get tires repaired.

Most of the afternoon was filled with thunderstorms. For a few I was out in traffic once again. Luckily, I was sitting in my RV home for the worst storm. The lightening show was impressive. After the storms, I walked down to the park retention ponds in search of the water birds. There weren’t any around this evening. Perhaps they fled before the storms to a new area.