October 22, 2011
We are getting ready to head south, back to San Blas, for
the winter.
This year we are going to drive down. We put new brake pads
on the rear wheels. I have been complaining for two years (or more) about the
screeching sound they have been making. He couldn’t hear it so he didn’t think
they needed replaced. There is no more screeching now that he has replaced
them. But we discovered that we need to replace the struts, which I have
ordered, they will be here Monday or Tuesday. Brake pads $34.00, struts $125.00.
We have ordered new eye glasses. We went to America’s Best
for the prescriptions. It was $69.95 for
the exams and two pair of glasses. We both decided to get one pare for normal
vision and one for reading. The first
frames I picked out needed $132.00 for the lenses. I picked out two different
frames so I wouldn’t have to pay the extra cost.
We were called and told our glasses were ready, but when we
got there to pick them up his was what he ordered and mine were the frames with
the extra cost. I told them this was not the pare I ordered. They said the ones
I ordered would be in the next day. Then when we got home they called me and
said that the ones that I tried one where the ones they wanted me to have and
they were going to wave the extra cost for the lenses as the was the updated
lenses that I needed.. They sent them to me fed-ex.
In the meantime I have ordered glasses on-line with all the
extras I need. My glasses are $55.00 and his is $35.00. The reading glasses I
got from America’s Best will be great for reading and using the computer.
We wanted to leave by the first of Nov but I don’t think his
glasses will be here until the 4th or the 11th.
Another thing we like to have done before we leave is to
have the rugs shampooed. I was shampooing them after we got home this year and
my old rug shampooer died. We did a lot of looking for a better one and found a
Hoover for $109.00. I have one more room to do. There are some areas on the
rugs that I have done that I want to do again, heavy traffic areas.
We have a new back porch out the utility room; it’s a great
place to watch the sunset. The cats also have a new door in the same room. They
now have two doors but only one of them has learned to use the new one.
We still have to get Mexican car insurance. He is still
looking into what all we need for that, but right now it looks like we will be
paying $11.00 a month for that. Again that’s what it looks like; we will learn
more about that later.
We also rocked our driveways this year which was $490.00,
for 3 loads of rock, less then we have paid before.
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