Decency Is Alive And Well

When fulltimers are sitting still it seems strange to write about the daily routine. Mostly the days are about the same with minor exceptions. We are still in Cedar Ridge near Temple, TX riding out the ridiculous heat wave that is showing its ugly self all around the country. This is our first summer in heat in three years...yes, makes me miss those beautiful Colorado mountains. I've asked myself several times..."what were we thinking" when we bravely announced we would spend this summer in Texas!!! Oh, that's right...we accepted a volunteer position which proved to not be our cup of tea, but it did bring us back to this part of the country. As it has turned out, we needed to be here to be able to take care of stuff back home. I've said many times that we don't always understand why things are going the way they are going until later, when we see how the puzzle is coming together. Then we understand. That's God's way of putting us where we need to be, doing what we need to be doing.

As of my last post, KD was in recovery stages from surgery and an injury to her eye. I was taking her to the vet every three days. A couple of years ago the same clinic referred us to the Austin Animal Eye Clinic. I gave them a call and took her in the same day. That's the place to go if you are ever in central Texas and your pet needs eye care. The doc showed me the problem..the end of a suture had worked out of the incision and was sticking into KD's eye, also an eyelash had turned into her eye. The doc had to sedate KD to work on the culprit. She wore the cone for a couple more days for eye protection. I'm happy to report she is out of the cone, the color is returning to her eye. The doc said she should make a full recovery. I brought KD home and the next morning I took my report and receipt to the operating vet, wanted them to have a record of what was done. First, the vet was happy I took her in, she knows the eye doc and his work. Then she announced she would take care of this. I looked at her, not sure what that meant, then she said she would issue a credit to our account. That credit paid for the eye doc and part of the original surgery. We still have a credit for future use. Decency!!!!

One day I had errands to run and as I started home I found myself in traffic waiting for a funeral procession to exit a church parking lot. There were police cars leading and following the procession. The procession moved along very slowly and those of us not in the procession followed far behind. I've seen many folks pull over and wait for the hearse to pass then proceed on. For the entire part of that journey until the procession exited that highway, folks pulled over and waited...they waited for the entire procession to pass. Some folks are in too much of a hurry these days so to see that made me so aware of the fact there is still honor and decency in this day and time. It just did my heart good.

One last example of decency goes to the RV tech who came to our rescue a couple of days ago. We got up to a water leak and didn't know where it was coming from. We knew it was in the area of the washing machine or the water heater. Mr. Brown has worked on this rig before and is in the process of fixing those little things that need attention. He is waiting on some parts to arrive and is retrieving infomation on other stuff so he knows how to proceed with his work. Dan called him that morning to inform him of our water leak. He came right over and spent most of the day, in the extreme heat.....one of those days with the heat index hovering around 105, outside working on the water heater. Turns out the leak was around the heating element. Mr. Brown fixed the problem. That fix it required a trip into town to get parts, he also picked up new switches for the interior sconces that decided to quit working. He is use to being outside but I still admire a person who comes to the rescue of folks in need of help. Decency!!!!!

There really are good people in this world and I think all too often we don't read about them and the good they do. We need more good news. Until we get that good news we can rest assure that decency is alive and well. I'm so proud to have experienced this first hand.