Friends left, tv guy didn't come -- overall crappy day!

May 18 – Well Tom and Betty left this morning.  They were not comfortable with the reliability of the cell service in the event one of their children called with an emergency and with how an emergency would be handled here.  We are 15 minutes or so from rescue and as we get older that is a viable concern.  It was sad to see them go and we hope they do some other travelling since they had planned to be gone for 2 months.  So, we’re on our own but we know another couple here and we’ve met 2 of our neighbors in our volunteer loop so we’re good. 

 

Our contact Natalie came by this morning and she gave us a key to everything and told us she wasn’t sure when we’d be starting in the VC.  It’s mostly a beach store and being run by Eastern National and they control the inventory and money and the rep for here has been ill.  So maybe tomorrow.  In the mean time I put out one bird feeder and will make some ‘juice’ for the hummers and hope to get my share of them!  I put the tire covers on and got the cable ready for the Directv guy so will hope for the best!

 

Later I received a call from the Directv tech and he was in FL.  Cripe!  They sent him to our house but my confirmation said for him to come here.  So I called in and rescheduled for Friday afternoon.  Our neighbor Randy came over and asked if we’d seen the guy yet and I told him the story.  He offered to put a splitter on his satellite and run it over.  So he got out a 50’ cable and attached to our cable and we had to run it in the window to bypass our satellite.  It runs right into one of the receivers and we could get some channels, so at least we have something for the time being. 

 

It was a bleak day and we never left the RV.  I did a couple of things outside and the rain seems to have finally faded.