Things sure don’t work out like you plan, do they??  We WERE able to get the truck earlier this week, but things are still held up with the Alpha.  Dang!!  We have the truck and went last night to fill it up with fuel.  It was on empty and we filled it with 30.074 gallons of diesel at $4.159 per gallon = $125.08.  We are keeping a little notebook in the truck to keep track of mileage and fuel costs.

The hold up with the Alpha now is like I said in the last entry, Mike was going to register the Alpha in our name and then put Southeast Financial as the lien holder, however; the problem is that Southeast Financial is NOT a finance company, they are a broker!  None of us knew this.  So, they have to have an American title to show to the banks that they represent.  The biggest problem is that we were only approved for a 30 day period and locked into the rate that made it so that we could afford both payments (Ford and Alpha).  I talked to Elizabeth at Southeast and she extended the 30 days to 60, but that was for the credit approval only.  If the finance rate goes up, we might not be able to afford the monthly payment and won’t be able to get the Alpha.  Needless to say, we are VERY disappointed!!  We had hoped to have the whole set up here at home this weekend before Tom goes to Nashville next week.  Oh well!  We’ll just have to be patient.  Ha!!  We’ll just have to keep our fingers crossed that it all comes through soon and that the rate doesn’t increase!

We are going to head out for a drive today and take Daisy for a ride in the truck.

It will be interesting to see how well (or not) Daisy gets up in to the big truck and then the Alpha.