A fairly gentle rain. Lots of storms around us, but we were spared. When we were on our way to Mankato for Walmart dirt with the pickup last week, Dennis pulled over to see what the red light was that had popped on. It was the ABS light; a brake situation. We pulled out the owners book and knew we would be making an appointment to get it checked out at Rod’s here in town. Today was the day of the appointment. Not knowing what it would all entail, Dennis took it out there this morning and I picked him up to give the repair fellows all the time they needed. Rod called this afternoon. The pickup was ready and the repair bill would be $127.37. I took Dennis out to get the vehicle out of Rod’s way. I was very curious when Dennis returned home as to what had been found. What was found was some short red hair around the area where a wire had been chewed on causing the red alert light to come on.
We had let the pickup sit out for several days when we were working on . . . whatever, and used the floor area of that part of the garage. We do not have any cats that have red fur. We do have many, many red headed squirrels. Rod mentioned that there would be no way a cat could get up as far as this wire was. All is good to go.
When I was coming back in to town I noticed one of the corn fields next to the repair shop had a field of corn that looks like it is about ready for harvesting. The stalks are totally brown; the ears are hanging down and the husks have split open. Yup . . . fall is right around the corner. These two older ones are well prepared.