So the simple of all of this was start with the battery. Three times people held a diagnostic tool in their hands and told me that the battery was good. My neighbor told me "it's the battery"! But he was not able to tell me why he felt it was the battery when the diagnostics said it was a good battery. I had a shade tree mechanic tell me it was a dead cell and then when this weekend I smelled a sulfphur odor I was convinced - dead cell. So this morning I took it to the Ford dealer (the battery went out of warranty last week
) but they found a DEAD CELL! New battery installed and here we go - literally. KISS