Well finally, we made it home! I forgot to set my clocks forward Saturday night and woke up to an email from Doug about the time, calling, some crazy nonsense! ummm well that was my snafu, that pesky DST! The whole idea is get up early, get up there around 1200 and get on the road to be home before nightfall.
So I miraculously got up, coffee brewing, showered, dressed, Seth up (sorta) and out the door by 0710, at this point we are only 10 minutes behind schedule... but alas, I need fuel for the car.
0730, fueled up and ready to roll to Quanah, almost 6 hours away. At this point I am really missing Doug, I mean really, where is my driver!!!
So I get on the North side of Waco and notice white smoke from my car, hummm was that me driving over an overpass, the beautiful sun just hitting and warming up the interstate?? Chalk it up to that till I see it again, now I am concerned.
My car is fairly new, 2009 so I am thinking... what can this be? I just had the oil changed on Saturday for the 800 mile round trip, and now I am really worried, is that oil causing the smoke? I call the company that changed my oil. (**I will leave their name out as long as they do not wrong me and make this all correct... Keep posted for that!**) So I called and talked to the manager and tell him what is going on and he reassures me it is not the oil. What do I know, I drive cars, put gas in them, wash them... that is my extent of knowledge. I trust the "expert". Well it keeps happening, and after another call he tells me the gas must have had some water in it... uh okay??? sure, again I don't know...
A light bulb comes on and I think... call cousin Mark - he knows everything!!!! After telling him the whole story he tells me "that is not your gas, it is the oil filter or they spilled oil and it can take a while to burn off" as well as, "Sadie if it it leaking when you leave it parked at the breeders you have a problem".
Well we picked out beautiful lil Gracie girl, and as we were walking towards the car, I saw the "oil spill". Uggghhhh now I am freaking out again! I had the play with puppy moment and forgot all about it.
So Frank Hines goes into action, my savior for the day! I called the dealer and told them what was happening, and now the general manager is at the "office". Frank jacks my car up, and the oil plug is secure, must be the filter! So he heads 20 miles out to Childress, TX to get me my oil, 5W30, synthetic. He only had 10W30. I also asked him to get an oil filter, just in case. In the meantime the company that did my oil change was finding the location he was headed to, called in advance to pay for the oil and filter he would be picking up. He came back, checked the filter, and the O ring was not sitting in its groove, but was in the threaded part, allowing oil to come out. The dipstick was dry of any oil... UGH! Frank got me taken care of, and we were off -- 4 hours later than planned! So we got home at 2300 tonight, OH MY! The car is okay but I will be taking it in tomorrow for detailing, courtesy of the company who did my oil change. That's not all I am asking for...
Gracie is home with us know and what a doll!!! She is not the dog we thought we were taking home, she is the one that picked us :)
The breeder planned on keeping her but she agreed to let us keep her.
She is beautiful and perfect and we love her.
Long day, huge headache, but the puppy is worth it all.
Good night y'all!
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