June 20 – The day didn’t go as planned, but what else is new? We didn’t get up early enough to ride before it got really hot. So after our Sunday on Monday breakfast and a nice walk for Xena, Bill got our groceries from the VIP fridge and I put them all back in our newly defrosted fridge. I have never heard back from the tire people about our faulty tires, so this time I called for the girl who I had been talking to’s supervisor and ended up with the President of the division. I explained that I spoke to her, emailed her photos and receipts and called again a week later and still had not heard back from her and that I need to get this matter resolved. He asked some questions and said he had been in China for 2 weeks (explains the crummy tires) and would get with her and I’d hear back from him today.
We showered and left about 11 and went to pick my computer up from the repair shop. The movie, Green Lantern, wasn’t until 1:30 so we stopped at Wendy’s for lunch before the movie. On the way there the President of Delta Tires called and said his employee had not called because she was waiting to run it by him, well as far as I’m concerned she could have let me know that. But, he insinuated that we were overloading our RV, which we are not, and that a steel belt would not do what we said it did but he could see an issue in one of the photos, so as a goodwill gesture he would refund half of the cost of that set of tires. I asked Bill what he thought and he thought we should take the money and run, so I agreed to $322 back. Not what I had hoped for but much better than a stick in the eye. That was pretty much the bright spot of the day.
The movie was OK. Bill really liked it and it was not as bad as some of the comic book movies we’ve seen. At least there was not much in the way of blood and gore.
Before heading home Bill dropped me at Target while he went by the ATT store to ask more questions about his new cell phone. Then he waited for me to go into Piggly Wiggly for lunchmeat and tripe for Xena. We fueled up and I thought we might be able to stop at the post office on Wilmington Island as it’s right by the Kroger, so I went in for stamps and to mail some cards while Bill filled our water jugs at Kroger.
Xena was glad to see us but apparently couldn’t wait for us to get home and peed on the carpet. Naughty, naughty dog!
After watching some TV Bill got the grill going and did some chicken, hamburgers and a salmon burger for me. I cut the giant zucchini I got yesterday at the flea market in thick slices and coated each side with olive oil, sprinkled with lemon pepper seasoning and he grilled those. They were delicious. Bill said it was the best squash he’d ever eaten. We didn’t eat half of it so will have enough to fix again. Now we have leftovers for 2 nights after work this week. We were going to ride our 5 mile ride on the Lazaretto Creek trail but by the time we walked Xena and pumped my tires again and left it was both hazy from the swamp fire still and it was getting dark. We ended up just going about 3 miles, but on a new trail for us. We rode around one of the dikes. We counted a record of 25 deer tonight. Sixteen were between us and the visitor center, and 9 were on the other side of the fort near the dike road. We were excited at 16 but then to see 9 more, awesome. When we walked earlier I took both the still and movie camera in case there was a ship come in and to get some of the deer, well, as our luck would have it, the movie camera is now malfunctioning. It kept saying to eject the tape and now that I got it home and tried a new tape, the tape is stuck in it. Guess we will check on a place to fix it next. So I did get some movie on the camera but it’s a pain to edit it into the rest of the movie. Well, who knows, they don’t make our kind of camera anymore so I don’t know if I’ll ever even be able to get the movies off the many tapes I already have. BUMMER!
Then to top off the evening, I set Dell up and was going to type my journal so I can go to the library tomorrow and post and it was right back doing the same thing as it was. I am so over this! So here I sit back on Toby once again.
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