Tuesday the park had a ladies lawn bocce tournement. Mike (my brother) is now on the Board of Directors for the lawn bocce group. When they were putting the teams together the board realized they were one lady short of having 8 teams. Mike ask me if I would play to even up the teams. I agreed, even thought I had not played a lot of games. So Tuesday morning I reported to the bocce field and was delighted to find I was on a pretty good team. In fact, my team came in second and we each received $10.00 as are gift!
A nature bonus was during one of the games there was a wood stork down by the little pond here at the resort. One more bird checked off in my bird book.
The four or five days before the trounement and even the last couple of days have been pretty hetic. Larry started seriously looking for full tone dually truck. We visited three of four dealers and many deals and contacts going on. In fact, Larry was so ate up shopping and dealing his head was spinning by Sunday. He told me we were just going to take the day off from truck shopping, But, after church, we went out for brunch with some friends, Max and Lois. Max knew that Larry was shopping for trucks and someone had told him of one they had seen by the road for sale, but they though it was a gas and we needed a desil. So on our way back from the restraunt, Max suggested we go check it out just to be sure. Well, when we gt to the truck it was exactly what Larry had been looking for and the price was reasonable! Larry and Max looked it over and we all took it for a test drive. Now remember we have been looking at trucks for days and were about $1000.00 apart on one and had been made a good offer on another, so Larry knew a bargain when he saw one. So right on the spot he made an offer and the guy accecpted.
So now we had to get our truck out there on the market. Larry spent most of the rest of the day cleaning it up and making signs. Monday we had to call the bank. I also called the IN DMV and the FL DMV, which was no easy task! We had an offer on our truck Tuesday and the guy paid a deposit, but he told Larry his wife might object, so Larry being Larry told him if that happened he would give the deposit back. Well, we did not hear anything that evening and not until the next morning about 9 he called and said his wife did not approve of the deal. We were so bummed! I reminded Larry that another man had called late in the day and Larry had told him the truck was sold. We knew around what time he had called, so Larry looked on his phone and called the number. He left a message that the truck was back on the market. Well, by golly, the second guy came by and drove the truck and ended up buying the truck. In between these events we were on the phone and emailing our insurance company. The we had to go to the bank and get a cashier check to buy are new truck. Lots of hassles, but in the end we sold our old truck and have a 2007 Chevy full ton dually.
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