Unbelievable...2 TVs

 I loaded Dilly up and we went to the downtown farmers market a few weeks ago. 

He was not impressed, not even with the live music....

But he did enjoy the cookies we bought!

And he visited with the firefighters who were there, they gave him a hat!

He was just as happy to get home and have old gramma pull him around in his wagon! That spray bottle of water is his favorite thing these days.

Meanwhile.....look at this! I had ANOTHER flat tire over the labor day holiday. I filled it with air and hoped it would hold until I could get to Discount Tires on Tuesday! IT did!

And you'll never believe what Dilly did AGAIN!

Yup, he banged a toy right into the TV again. 2 down. I tried to stop him, but he's got a faster swing than me!

Chicago and Tires

 So, I had my visit to Chicago to check in with the PPMI (Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative) team. I flew in on Thursday afternoon for my Friday morning appointment. Remember I am a subject in the research for a cure for Parkinson's-I don't have Parkinson's but I have some markers they want to follow. 

That gave me enough time to walk over to Ed Debevic's.  It's just a few blocks from my hotel. 

It's famous for it's quirky staff that uses humorous rudeness to serve you.

I had the sliders-I have to fast for the scan on Friday, so I better eat up! I'll have a shake too! 

It was pretty good, more about the diner atmosphere than anything.  Kids that were with the grown ups had a blast. The server would tell them sassy things, like go get it yourself! 

Very fun! 
On Friday afternoon, I had a little time between procedures, so I walked over to Michigan Avenue. Kayla told me there was a special event for Easter at the Harry Potter Store. Look at this picture.....

The line went down the block and back again!

I chose to pass on that idea! I didn't have that much time! Instead I went here!

Chicago 360! It's the John Hancock building. 

You get to go up to the top and see the view, and if you pay more-

I wasn't paying more-you can stand in a window that tilts out 30degrees so you hang over the city.

It was a beautiful view!

Over Lake Michigan, and over downtown.

You can see the TILT windows over on the right side of this picture. If it wasn't so expensive I might do that! 

It was a nice way to spend the little time I had. THe building is across the street from the American Girl Doll store, so there were A LOT of little girls (and big girls too) with their dolls in back packs.

All those red bags containing hundreds of DOLLars of doll stuff!

This is the view out of one of the windows in the Galter Pavilion on the Northwestern University campus. They are a teaching hospital , just like the U of Iowa, but they are very vertical, not spread out so much, tall buildings instead. Anyway, 

I flew home and got to the airport and found I had a low tire on my car!

I stopped at the gas station near the airport and aired it up, it was around 10pm and prayed I'd get home ok-I did. I got new tires on Saturday, there was a screw in my tire and it was too close to the sidewall to repair. 

OOOO, look at these beauties! Discount Tires came through for me in a great way!

Cleaning Weather!

It was such a nice day yesterday I went and cleaned out Wellie.  She had had a lot of use in the last few months and was due for a good cleaning. And she had her tires rotated too! Remember I blogged about her new tires from Discount Tires awhile back?

 

 Shiny bright almost like when she was new just a "few" miles ago!

I may need to touch up her exterior again soon...

Tires For Wellie from Discount Tires

So our old pick up Wellie,  needs tires. Deep sigh! Have you looked for tires lately? YIKES! SO I called around to the local guys and clicked around to the internet guys and then I checked the newest guys in Coralville, Iowa- Discount Tire. 

I checked their on line tire selection and for the size our pick up needed, I found prices better than anywhere else I had looked. I called to confirm that they had what it said on the internet, and that I could get an appointment, and WOW! I got all 4 tires, and the spare changed out for less than $350

 

 Not only that, but the folks who work at Discount Tire were really great. They were polite, not greasy, showed me a couple of options and didn't make me feel like I was bad because I wanted to pay the lowest price. And they didn't come tell me that they had to charge me more, because "you need to replace this" or" that thing is bad" or some such crap like a lot of other tire places I've been to.  The price I saw on the internet was the price I paid at Discount Tire-how awesome is that!? And on top of all of that, they have a nice clean store with a comfortable waiting are-but we didn't have to wait long, less than half an hour later we were outta there!

And I can drive into Discount Tire anytime and they'll check my air pressure-for free and I get free lifetime tire rotation too! Looks good right? These tires have an 85000 mile warranty, with almost 200000 miles on her, I don't know if  Wellie will last that much longer, but she's got the tires to do it!

Deep Sigh....

So Wednesday morning when I got off work I had a really low tire on my car. I hurried over to the nearest gas staion and put air in it and came home OK. SO I checked the tire again when I got up and sure enough it was low. SO I called around to try to get my tire fixed and NO ONE could get me in to fix it until Thursday! Grrrrr. SO I air that tire up again and go off to work and go out at break time and air it up again and then go and wait at the tire place until 7am when they open. THursday wasn't shaping up to be the greatest day-a late go-to-bed time and had to be up at noon to go to the dentist. Deep Sigh..... Anyways Look at this...just look. OH MAN!! Deep Sigh!!!!

So I had to dust off the ol' plastic-I thank God I was able to drive without dying.