Continuation of last night.....new batteries

Ya see, what happen was I had a visitor on "da porch" while I was writ'n. Pooshed publish and that was it.

I found out a while back that us old folk screw up a lot more than youngsters do. It ain't that we do it intentionally or anything like that. It just happens.....poooof, just like that.

What I'm lead'n up to this morn'n is them damn batteries. Not only the 4 house batteries, but the "that jeep" battery too. Ya see, I was gonna go to town to get a price to replace the house batteries in "Sally". Jeep won't start. Ok, I'm get'n ahead of myself. Back to the testing of the house batteries. For those ask'n "what the hell is a house battery", an RV has a set of batteries to operate all the stuff...lights, control circuits for the  refrigerator, heater, monitoring systems....little 12 volt wires go'n everwheres.

Up till yesterday, all the tests on the batteries has been go'n pretty good.....very low battery voltage every morning before the solar panels kick in. Well, yesterday I thought I would be a wise guy and I push that little button to "equalize" (pulsating high voltage to the battery bank). This removes the sulfate build up on the plates. Like I said, old folks screw up. The voltage did not go up in the batteries, but it went down. By the time the sun went down, I had 12.27 volts.

Well anyhows, I have decided a new set of house batteries are the order of the day. When I finally got "that jeep" started yesterday, I cruised down to Tinnley Tire for some prices. Holy jump'n Jesus, $138 each....and I need 4. Look'n online, yes battery prices have increased again. But I ain't finished shop'n though. There's 2 more places in town that carry golf cart batteries.

On top of all that, "Sally da house" is got a problem. Ya see, when ya turn the key to start the engine, it don't do nuttin....starter don't engage. But, if'n ya turn the key off and then back to start, the engine fire right up. How comes that??? Well, here what I'm think'n. Maybe there's a fuel pressure switch what won't let the starter engage until the pressure is high enough to run the engine. Just a thought ya know. So, I'm gonna replace the fuel filter....if'n I can find the damn thing. If that don't work, to the shop she goes. Sleep out in the park'n lot till it's fixed.

About golf ball swak'n. Old "pesky neighbor" Wayne ain't been feel'n too good for a couple days. Low oxygen or something like that. He been snort'n up them oxygen bottles right an' left. I don't think he would make it around the course driv'n the cart, much less try'n to swak a ball. Probly fall down an' there ain't no way Billy Bob gonna pick his big ass back up.

Ok, got things to do. Fuel filter, battery prices, pick up meds.....yeah, that would be a good day.
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Recap of a successful day.
Got the fuel filter.
Picked up my meds.
Purchased and installed 4 brand spank new Interstate 6 volt golf cart batteries.

Ya cain't beat that with a stik.
Ok, so now I'm broke. This was a $750 day whether I liked it or not.