Why is this Happening to Me?!

We were all packed up from the Grangeville fair and had to take off. Josh and Grandpa Frank left for Salem, OR about 815 a.m. I packed up the RV and headed over to the Lutz family house. The Lutz's are the family we bought the rock wall from. They are great family. The kids are great! Genny and Brad are the parents and they have four kids. They are awesome! Harrison is the oldest, then Addie, then Kate, then Zoie. They are pretty cool kids. Always a lot of fun. I went to their house because I had the wall parked there from after the fair and to visit of course. When I got there they were packing up to leave on a family reunion, so I helped them pack. Visited with them and ran some extra errands. Then I took off a little before noon.

Disregard all the bugs on the window. This is my view driving.

Rolling green hills everywhere! Amazing!

So I drove through a few cool towns. I drove through a town called Lewiston, which is pretty decent size, then next to Pullman, then Colfax, and then Spokane. And this is where I scream, cry, and say, "Why is this happening to me?!" My father called me to have me stop in Spokane to fix a few things for the Rock wall. I stopped at this store and they weren't able to do it so I ran some other errands to try and get it done. One of those errands was to stop at a Home Depot and a Wal-Mart. I missed the turn to the Home Depot, (wal-mart is right next door) and ended up pulling into a town store across the street. Well when I was turning into the parking lot to park I backed up to pull in a little better and realized there is a tire behind me. I thought, wow someone lost a tire, but it wasn't there when I pulled in, huh. Then, my parking job was terrible so I pulled out to make a u-turn to park better. That's when I realized that was MY tire! My tire came completely off the axel and my axel was grinding on the ground and it had blew the tire in front of it, same side on the rock wall trailer! Ahh!! Yeah, you bet I was crying! It was about 530 p.m. and everything was starting close down. I had no clue what to do. I called AAA and they couldn't help. I ran across the street to a Jiffy Lube to see if they could help somehow. They couldn't, but they took me back across the street to a town auto shop and he wasn't able to do it, so then he took me down the street to a place called Perfection Tire and they looked at it and said it could be done. Some relief there. I think the crying really helped me too, more sympathy. But they were real tears, I was scared. I was even more scared to call my father! But of course, I called him and he helped. It had happened to him before too and so he knew how to help. He helped calm me down and told me everything was going to be okay. I was even more stressed just because I have to be in Chewelah by Wednesday to set up and I still needed to find workers and so much more! Just hectic.

The tire that fell off. Drum broke and tire blown

    

So the guys here at the shop said that they would fix the blown tire and drive it down to the shop, very surprised it was capable to drive down there. They told me I could stay in the RV here at their shop over night and they would have it fixed in the morning/afternoon sometime. The guys who took a look at it said all the bearings were shot, and bushings, just everything was completely shot. They were shocked the other tire on the opposite side hadn't fallen off. Oh my! I was very blessed, in a way, that the tire fell off in a parking lot and not on a freeway! Oh my, again! And it was nice because I was so close to everything. Groceries, gas station, auto stores, food, everything.

It was a little scary staying in the RV overnight. I had no plug-ins, just the generator, which took forever to get going. I also had the inverter hooked up to the battery so I was able to use that for a few things. I walked to the Wal-Mart down the street and grabbed food and other supplies. It was a nice walk, just a calm stress relieving walk. Afterwards, I clean a little and filed/documented some things. Then went to bed! I was exhausted. A lot of things had happened all at once and I was definitely done for for the night.

Now, I'm just waiting for them to fix the trailer. They are going to replace two axels and three tires! So crazy! I am definitely being watched by the Lord. This all could have been a lot worse. The guys at the shop said the parts should be in in the afternoon and then the labor should only take about an hour. Then I can take off to Chewelah, set up the rock wall, and be ready to go for tomorrow! Wow! So crazy! I'm just glad next week is an easy fair and then I have a week off to get other maintenance done. Remember that first blog, yeah, this is one of those big bumps that require me to have a lot of patience! Glad it's all getting taken care of though! Whew!