January 11, 2006

• Wow, Just wow.

  
  

  We are currently for all practical purposes a one car family, which living out here in the hinter lands has its frustrations.  LOL

  
  

  Anyhow this afternoon my mom was discussing when the retreat was etc, and I mentioned I would probably be taking the transit bus,  which would have been a MAJOR pain in the butt, but it left Rob with the driving vehicle that fits the kids.  The commute car is rather toast.  Its engine is on its last leg, it blows tons of blue smoke, and then only driving its been doing is up the hill and back down.  (2 miles round trip)    And everybody eyes it rather askant.  NEedless to say it wasn't going to make it 2 hours to my moms and back.   We really want to replace the engine as it gets fabulous gas mileage, and has been an extremely worthy little car, but that's $3,000 or more that we can't figure out how to swing yet.

  
  

  So that's the background.  We've been doing okay, except now we have Seattle runs coming up etc, and all of them meant leaving Rob stranded without a running vehicle with five kids which of course made us both shudder.  

  
  

  When I mentioned the transit bus my mom got quiet.  "You know we've been trying to sell our van, and nobody wants it, Dad just said he wanted to give it away, do you guys want it?  Its a wonderful 9 passenger van with extremely good tires on it etc.  It just something that most people around here aren't buying.   So a quick call to my dad to make sure he did want to give it away, and we have another vehicle, something we hadn't even really started praying about. 

  
  

  *grin*

  
  

  Just cool!

  • 3:48 pm
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