I am hopeful that today we begin to figure out the issue with my shocks so we can get a plan together to get my Jeep back on the road.  Waiting all weekend to hear something was tough.  I'm ready for this crap to get resolved. 

We went to a fundraiser yesterday with our Jeepers and they had a raffle for some nice prizes.  I won a metal Jeep sign and a 30% off gift certificate on a Powertank.  Guess I'm getting a Powertank!  We had a good time and the rain held off long enough to enjoy a few hours of friends, music and food.

Today's photo shoot is being rescheduled due to the rain.  This is the worst month to have rainouts in. The weather is going to start turning really cool and we still have something like 17 sessions to get it.   At least the forecast starts to look better next week.  We need to get in the three sessions we still have scheduled this week.  Fingers crossed. 

What a total cluster my coilover conversion has been.  I talked with my shop yesterday and they said when they put it on the ground, the rear was about 4" higher than the front.  Even after adjusting it some, it was still higher.  They think I have the wrong coil pack so they are now dealing with Rebel trying to get this figured out.  Either Rebel ordered the wrong setup or King goofed (again).  Needless to say, I'm not going to be driving my Jeep for awhile until they get this worked out.  Not only that, it's costing me money.  It's always something.

I got home yesterday from my photo shoot and Jodi advises me that the garage door only goes up a few inches and then stops.  Great.  Now what's wrong?  I looked at the drive belt and it's under some kind of strain when the door is trying to open.  I tried pulling the release so I could open the door manually and I couldn't lift the door.  I then noticed that the torsion spring was broken.  Great!  It'll be fixed Monday.  So it was a great Friday around our house!

My shoot today will likely be rained out as we are suppose to get 3"-7" of rain this weekend.  We have a sales session later this morning and then tomorrow we have a Jeep event to attend.

I can only assume that since I didn't hear anything about my Jeep yesterday that all is well and progressing as it should be.  We have a social event on Sunday and I really hope I have it back by then because there will be an RTI ramp there and I'd like to flex it out.

We had a good sales session last night and money aside, it filled our hearts with joy, which to me was much more valuable.  Our client is legally blind and sees peripherally.  I had some trepidation about being able to capture her looking directly at the camera and creating images that she and her family would love.  We had to put a bench about 1 foot in front of the 65" TV for her to sit on for her to see the slideshow.  She was giddy with excitement as each image came up on the screen commenting about how much she loved each one.  Her parents and sister were practically shouting with excitement.  I had a smile on my face the whole slideshow, which was about 4 minutes long.  We are enriched this morning with much more than just some money.  Today we cheer her on as she competes in a track event for blind and sight impaired athletes. 

King overnighted the parts we needed to repair the shock.....to my house, instead of the shop.  Morons.  So, I got to drive an hour and fifteen minutes to Topeka to deliver the parts.  The upside to this was I got to see the progress on my Jeep and so far, it's looking pretty good.  Hopefully the shock is now repaired and installed.  They still were waiting for delivery of the extended brake lines that are needed and those will be here tomorrow they said so at the earliest, I will get my Jeep back late Friday or Saturday morning. 

I ran a sales session last night while Jodi went to a fellow Jeepers send off party who is moving out of the area.  Fortunately, I wrapped things up quickly and was able to join everyone.  Afterward, we went to get some ice cream with our good friends before returning home. 

Today I have two pre-session consultations and a sales session.  We have a session scheduled for Friday and Saturday also but rain this weekend will probably force us to reschedule the Saturday one. 

My shop said they would be willing to repair my leaking shock if King would send them the parts.  It's an o-ring that isn't seated properly, possibly pinched.  I told my supplier to have King overnight the repair parts to the shop.  Did it happen?  Won't know until later today.  King better come through.  

Knocked out another session last night and it was a fun one.  Today we have winds gusting up to 40 mph so I don't think we will be doing the session.

   

 

5 photo sessions this week are keeping me busy, if the weather cooperates.  I don;t need a rainy month with a record number of sessions on the calendar.  Lots of thunderstorm activity in the next 10 days it looks like.  Not good!

In the category of "It's always something", one of my new shocks is leaking right out of the box.  GEEEEZ!!!  Now I have to make phone calls later this morning.  The shop said it looks like they pinched an o-ring when they tightened the shock down.  Hopefully they will send another right out and they can get back on the install.  They have some other work to do on it while it's there so they will get busy on that until they hear back from me.

Another weekend has passed us by and it's back to the grind.  We have 5 photo shoots lined up this week and the weather doesn't look great for a few of them.  Not what we need in our busiest month.  Hopefully we manage to get them all in.  Jodi and I are looking forward to our long break coming up next month.  ABout 7 more weeks of busy and then we should see some rest.

My Jeep is at the shop and work begins today.  I hope to have it back by the weekend and give it a test on the street prior to getting out on the trails later this month at Kansas Rocks.  It will be a one of a kind around here.

We had dinner with friends last night and spent a couple hours talking.  It was good to catch up with them as we hadn't seen them in a while.  Dinner was very good and so was the company.