Water Pump Installed

We were pretty much held hostage yesterday AM while waiting for the Tech to come to install our new water pump. When he called on Saturday to tell us he would be here on Monday, he only indicated it would be around mid-day. At 11:40 I called him to get an idea about his arrival. He said he was 10 minutes away and was coming right away. Talk about timing.

The pump was installed in about 10 minutes and it only cost me the $80 to swap out the pumps. The thing that baffles me is the way ShurFlo is now handling their warranties. The new pump has a 3 year warranty, but the start of the warranty goes back to 2/25/2011, when we had the failed pump installed. It seems that they replaced it under a parts warranty instead of a pump warranty. Geez, this is a different model altogether - how could it be considered a part? The company must be attempting to eliminate all their warranties on these pumps as quickly as possible. Anyway, we are back in business with a new water pump - for the fifth time.

We stopped at the Town Center to pick up our mail and then we went to Red Robin down Bell Rd for some lunch. It has been a few years since we last ate there and we really enjoyed our meal. That is another fine place among the many in Surprise to have a good meal at a decent price.

It was then back to the rig where I started - or should say, continued - to sort through the clutter for putting my new files to use. Josie clipped coupons while I filled up the fifth wheel with boxes and bags of files and papers that we have been carrying around for at least the last couple years and had stuffed in our closets and under the sofa. She baked a cake late in the day and, although it's very good, it's something that we don't need if we are serious about our diets. Oh well.

Our plan this AM is to go to the Town Center to vote. It's the first election that we can remember where we had to actually go to the polling place to cast our vote. It's always been an early ballot for us, but this is the first presidential election that we've been gone from a physical address in AZ. I contacted the Maricopa County Recorder's office and they instructed us to vote right here using a "provisional ballot", and the woman I spoke with said that would be OK, as long as we brought the proper identification with us. Here goes...