... and it's only Monday!
Actually the trouble started yesterday on the way home from church. Mom was hearing the van making a strange noise while we were still up on the mountain road. I didn't hear it until we were off the mountain and nearing the golf course. THEN I heard - and felt - the scraping.
Mom pulled into the nearest driveway, she and I got out to check the two front tires - because that's where it felt like the scraping was coming from. But we couldn't figure it out. Just a minute later the man who lived there pulled into his driveway. Mom explained our situation to him and he checked the tires himself. Mom thought it might have been the brakes or the wheel bearing on the right side; we've had problems with the wheel bearing once before. The guy checked and thought it might be the brakes. But he checked only the right side - since that's the side that mom said it felt like where the problem lay. But later, after Granny picked us up and took us home, that evening one of the men from church came to pick up his son who'd been staying the afternoon with us and asked for the key to the van so he could check it out himself.
He called us less than an hour later to say that he'd discovered that it was actually both wheel bearings on the driver's front wheel. Both he and the man who's driveway we parked in said that it was good that we stopped the van where we did. I don't know the full story, really, but I don't doubt they're right.
But with the freezing rain that has come today *big pout* there was no way anybody was getting anywhere. Thankfully the men were able to move our van over to the golf course (which has been shut down for several months) so our van's not stuck on the man's property. Who knows when this icy slush will clear up? We've got places to go and things to do, so we'll just have to ask others to help us get to wherever we need to go.
I'm going to be praying for help tonight.
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