We Help Rose Move

Friday February 8th

I drove over to the Costco store in Rocklin and confirmed that they would have tires for the trailer when we get the trailer over there.  Apparently the trailer tires are something that they usually have on hand despite the fact that they are not listed on their web page.  The tire man at Costco told me that if there was not a specification plate on the trailer stating the torque requirements for tightening the lug-nuts, I would have to get the manufacturer to fax a spec sheet to Costco (I could not just print out a web page and take it to them) before they could mount the tires.  A liability issue, he said.  By the time I remembered to look for the plate and confirm that there were no torque values given there, I looked up Keystone Manufacturing on the Internet but it was too late to call them today.

At 2:30 I had an appointment to get the emergency brake fixed on the Suburban.  It broke several weeks ago when we were near Monterey.  Unfortunately it was not a simple fix; the cable had rusted through in the area of the middle of the truck.  They replaced the pedal and the cable assembly back to the point that it splits to go to the individual wheels in the back.  

The shop where I took it to be fixed was an interesting place; they had a two bay garage with all the equipment but a lot of work got done outside on the space between the garage and the street.  Kind of a "shade tree" establishment but thus far I don't have any complaints as to their work - if they didn't tighten something, I probably won't find out about it until we are many miles from here.  While the truck was getting worked on, I went across the street and had lunch; I stretched that out to about an hour but they still weren't done so I walked down the street to a barber shop and got a haircut.

Shortly after I got back to the trailer we were getting ready to go to the Walgreens in Rocklin to pickup a prescription, when we got a call from Rose saying that she was moving tonight.  Cathey decided that the move was more important than the pills so I unloaded all the junk from the back of the Suburban and put it into the trailer and we were off on a moving adventure!  The main job for the Suburban was getting the sectional couch moved.  Fortunately it came apart into four chair sized pieces.  With some high level space engineering and some young muscle power we were able to get all four pieces into the Suburban AND get the tailgate closed.  There was even a little room left for some boxes and bags.  By the time we got unloaded, and I could break Cathey away from Rose, it was 11pm.  We stopped and picked up a small pizza and went home.