We are back down in Vevay this weekend staying at my parents river house. The mechanic for the boat motor arrived Saturday morning. Roger wanted to be here to answer questions and help any way he could. It was a strange phenomena for us because Roger would normally be in the middle of the activity. This time he needed to take more of a sideline approach. Reason #1..this mechanic was the diesel motor expert...roger was the boat expert. And reason #2, Roger just didn't have the physical stamina. He needed to sit down and chill out a couple times. Once we saw the mechanic and his assistant had everything under control, we came back to the river house and Roger took a nap for a couple hours.
We returned late afternoon to see how they had progressed and to get them a hotel room since they planned to stay the nite. Roger was very happy to see how far they had progressed...much further than Roger ever expected. So, it was a nice surprise. We had another pleasant surprise that is reflective of a much slower...and arguably much nicer way of life. We needed to get some lumber for the mechanic to use when he lifted the motor. So we headed out only to realize it was 4:56pm...whats the big deal right? At least that's what I thought. So we drove into Warsaw Ky to the hardware store. Only to find it was closed! 5:00 on a Saturday!?! Yep closed. So we drove around the block to the firehouse to ask where the next closest lowes or homedepot was. The fire chief came up to our car and started with...."first off folks, look at your watch..its 5:00 pm in rural America. Its dinner time" Me, to myself "what? Its not dinner time" Roger patiently let the Chief school us and then circled back to the question. Then to our utter amazement the Chief set about getti ng the hardware store owners home phone number (he called dispatch to get the number), then he called the guy. No answer. Oh well, so where is the next place? Ohhhh no. The chief wasn't going to let us go that easily. Instead, he said, "just wait here. Im going to drive to his house. I will be right back." And so he left. Soon he returned to tell us Darrell the store owner was finishing dinner and would be over shortly. 15 min later...Darell drove up and unlocked his store for us...and sold us 8 pieces of wood!! it was such a nice, genuine good-human moment.
Today we will head over to the boat to check in and then will eventually head back up to Indy later this afternoon. Roger is committed to taking it easy this weekend...no over doing it. So we may also have an afternoon nap in store.
Hope the sun is shining where you are. Love a & r
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