Beastly strong kids!

Don't remember if I told you about this and am too lazy to go back and check...  But the week before Christmas, during the BLIZZARD of 2012, my husband got his car stuck in a drift on his way and in taking our son to work.  So it sat in the drift until a day or so later when the tow truck guy was able to make his way to our small burg. 

Funny story on how the car got out the drift... but I won't get into that much here.  Let's just say it was pulled into the gas pump area nearby and left.  It wouldn't start because the engine was jam packed with snow.  I've never seen anything like it!  Like a huge full cooler.  I guess that what happens when you drive into a drift and then the blizzard blows snow underneath and then the plow dumps snow over the top out on the highway.  Anyway, it was a no go.   So it sat until some burly bros-in-laws & nephews came at Christmas time and used a tow chain to pull it  back the mile to our house and push it up into our lane.  So they worked on it the entire time they were here.  Melting snow with water and brushing snow out of that engine.  On Christmas eve I'm in Walmart around 6pm looking for a battery for them.  The only one there, I was skeptical about and didn't want to make the wrong decision so I left it there.  Robb went down later that night and there was no battery that would fit...  Great.  I should have bought it!  It was probably the one.  Oh well.

Anyway, a battery was purchased the day after Christmas and then exchanged the day after the day after Christmas, because it wasn't exactly a good fit.  I've gone with batteries that didn't fit quite right before.  It's not good.  Usually some train tracks will make it fuse to the hood.  It happens!

So anyway, got a good battery that fits finally.  It won't start.  The lights are on, but no one's home, if you will...But when you turn the key, it clicks.  So the car has sat in the cold.  We have a heated 3 car garage...  with no cars in it.  That's another story for another time... when I've drunk too much. 

So anyway, I called the local service guy yesterday who has saved our butts more than once with car issues.  He didn't have time to get us in until probably next week, but said that if we can thaw the car out, chances are... the starter got some moisture in there and it's frozen.  So...  I made the decision that the garage needed an overhaul.  I spent my lunch break yesterday and some time after work moving some things around to make room for a car.  Have you ever played those little tile slide games that you can only move something here, if you move this first.  But in order to move that, you need to move something else?  Yeah.  That's my garage. 

I have no pictures of it, nor would I show you if I did!  But here is a picture of a cutie with a bow on his head instead.  That's a good substitute, isn't it?

Made room just before Bible study last night and Robb and Ryan tried to push the car in with me steering a very stiff steering wheel.  We got 6 inches.  Had to call in the power and get the girls out to help us. 

I had my husband and kids pushing this car.  We got a few more inches, but ran up against snow and ice little drifts that were frozen solid.  Meri grabbed a scoop shovel and Ryan grabbed a sledgehammer.  I didn't want to see what he was going to do with it, but it turns out it was to break up some of the frozen chunks.  Then Meri scooped it out of the way.  They make quite the team!

But my little family unit was still unable to push this car in.  So Robb got my car.  It has a broken bumper anyway, and gave me some pushes from behind.  After a few more moments with a sledgehammer, we got it into the garage!!!  It had a few more inches to go before being able to close the garage door, so they pushed it in the rest of the way.  Accidentally scooted the deep freeze over...


My family is stronger than they know!

So today, I couldn't take my usual way to work...  I had to actually go outside and come into the garage to get there.

Um yeah...  I'm late because of car trouble...  Telecommuting traffic is a BEAST!!!