A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}

Scottiemom wrote:
Burch, our son Brandon said the lovebugs are gone now. He had to drive to Lakeland from Melbourne yesterday and said they were already gone. Hope that's true for your drive. Dale

I sure hope they are gone. They were still pretty thick in my area on Sunday. My truck got plastered coming home from church. I didn't see any yesterday on my way home from work but it was pouring rain. Our motorhome is 13' high and it's a real pain to get all the lovebugs off when it gets plastered. I had to deal with it last year when we drove to the panhandle. We will be driving from about 40 miles south of Tampa up to interstate 4 to Orlando. Usually that is a really bad area for lovebugs.

As far as my Jeep is concerned, I'm not sure what I am going to do yet. First off, I want to make sure that whatever critter was building the nest has moved on and won't try again. We are taking my wife's 4 door Jeep on our next trip since our niece is coming with us so I am going to put my Jeep in the motor home garage while we are gone. I will address the damage when I get back. I was rear-ended last year and had a claim on my insurance so I am hesitant to call the insurance company. I have a really good mechanic that is very reasonable so I am going to probably take it to him first to see how much it will cost to fix. If it's not a lot of money, I will let him fix it instead of dealing with the insurance company.

Burch