For better or worse, I'm just as much a creature of habit as anyone. We're in the throes of the "seasonal change-over" when everyone has to remove the studded snow tires & go back to highway tread. We've traditionally done that at the Sam's Club nearest our home ... but we need to buy new tires for my wife's car.
We purchased it in November, and the original tires were bald. We put studded tires on it right away, so now we need the new summer tires - and Sam's Club doesn't have that size in stock. May 1st is the deadline ... so we called around and found plenty of that size at the other Sam's Club, on the other side of town.
So we got up early & drove all the way over there, at 7:00 this morning, and found that the service department doesn't open until 10 a.m. Fortunately, the lady at the customer service desk is an old acquaintance of mine, so she had a guy go get the tires for me. I paid for them, handed over the key, and my wife & I drove away in my truck.
So I fuss too much. At least the tires are available somewhere. The supply line can be tenuous, up here, so never mind.
Once the car is finished today, we'll need to take the truck to the other Sam's, to have those tires switched also. Then in October, we get to do it all over again.
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Other news, with less whining: The Chevron Oil platform & storage tanks at Drift River, near the volcano, may remain closed until fall - or until the vulcanologists are convinced that Redoubt has gone back to sleep.
Satellite imagery & even the web-cam, prior to sunrise, are showing incandescence at the lava dome. Additional explosive events are possible with little or no warning.
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Our weather: sunny for the third day in a row (yay!) and clear, with a high of 48 today - according to AccuHunch. They've been right, this week, so we're keeping our fingers crossed.
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For those who commented on the photos I posted, thank you for your input. For those who want to see summertime photos, here you go. Note that our average summer temps (July & August) are around 70 degrees, with nearly 22 hours of daylight.
3 comments:
Even more lovely! Beautiful picture indeed. You do have incredible scenery up there.
I am very much a creature of habit. When stuff happens to change my day it totally throws me off. LOL. I can well understand the feeling. I'm glad you found some tires that fit - that might have been a huge problem!
That would have been an issue ... the studs have to be off the road by May 1. The alternative is a ticket from a friendly APD officer.
i had a tough time finding replacement tires for my wife's Aveo two years ago. The size was unusual and few places had them in stock and they were asking a premium. With the downsizing of cars during the high price of fuel, the smaller cars became more numerous and a few used the same size tires. Now there are more manufactures of those tires and the price is nearly $50 less than they were then even for Cooper Tires. Call it supply and demand.
Lovely photo, by the way.
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