Taking the Scenic Route

Our 4th of July plans got canceled.  Our car sounds funny and isn’t riding quite right, and Dad is helping my uncle harvest today, and it isn’t fair to them for us to take the chance of interrupting harvest with a car breakdown. 

Not only are we missing going out to the farm, but I was really hoping to give Zane his first experience riding in the combine at harvest time. 

I can not wait until we are able to replace this car with something more reliable.  I hate being limited by our car so often.  We already know that we can’t go to the downtown fireworks because of our car…we tried it a few years back, two years in a row, and each time our car stalled out in the middle of the traffic jam.  That is something I don’t wish to EVER repeat again.  Talk about nerve-wracking.  Plus, our car is a few years older and now regularly stalls out at simple traffic lights, which it wasn’t doing as much back then.  We are sort of considering going to Park City’s fireworks, but I think we are resigned to just sticking around here.  It looks like it might rain anyway.  In a way, I hope it does rain and the fireworks are delayed so we can have a chance of seeing if there is a solution to our car sounding weird.  It could be as simple as transmission fluid…one can hope, right? lol.

It has, however, been a fairly productive day.  We have done quite a bit of cleaning and my last load of laundry is about ready for the dryer now.  We are making a casserole with leftover noodles, tomato sauce, some meatballs and cheese.  Not very “4th of July”-like, but it should be good.  And, you can’t forget the Monk marthon on tv.  It will still be a nice evening, just not the planned one.