When I was 54, it was a very bad year....

I mentioned to Denny yesterday morning that the right front tire of the fifth wheel looked low, so after a nice breakfast buffet at the American Legion post shared with my mother, aunt and uncle, we returned to the campground and Denny fired up the air compressor. It turned out that the tire only had 30 pounds of pressure so it's a good thing I noticed it and nagged him told him suggested he might check the tire pressure.

This morning Denny rechecked the pressure on that tire and it again had lost half its pressure so he got the spare out and started to try to change the tire. Sounds of *(%#@)+%* wafted through the window shortly thereafter-it seems when we purchased the tires the installers used a lot of torque to tighten the lug nuts and Denny couldn't get them off the tire with our small pancake air compressor and impact wrench. Thank goodness for CoachNet, our emergency road service, as they sent someone out to change the tire for us. The gentleman who assisted us had 700+psi of air pressure to assist him compared to our 140psi, so we lost that psiing contest.

All in all, we lost an hour of time and now need to find a tire service business when we're out in the hills of southern Ohio. We couldn't see any obvious signs of a nail or screw in the tire so it may be a loose valve stem. Whatever it is, we're hoping it is something relatively inexpensive because Linda pulled a Denny after we arrived here.

Just what did Linda manage to do, you ask? Linda was in a hurry to use the facilities upon arrival, forgetting she had her cell phone in her rear pocket after grabbing it off the front seat of the truck. Thus I discovered that cell phones are not waterproof.

Fortunately, in spite of a large number of trees surrounding our site we were able to get both the DISH TV and DW Internet satellite dishes up and running so we can communicate by e-mail and watch the premiers of some of our favorite TV shows this week. Some good news is nice, because I know I'm going to have a hassle about replacing that cell phone while we're out of our home area. Sigh.

I'm really ready for some good things to happen this year. Any time now.