Day 222...the trouble with cars

Aug 29

The alternator in my stupid car went out on the way home tonight. It was making an awful smell the whole way, and I thought I should leave the hood up and let it cool off before poking around in there, when I got home.

Mary Jane and I took Martyn down to the blue berry patch and picked some blue berries. That was fun. It's kind of the end of the season, so the bushes were pretty well picked over, but we found some good ones. When we came back up to the house, Eli was home. Mary Jane, who had taken care of Martyn all day yesterday, and fixed us dinner, and taken care of Martyn again all day today, and fixed us dinner again, whipped up some fantastic blueberry cobbler. She is so awesome!

Eli had decided he was going to go to the store, and take my car...but found it wouldn't start. I went out and tinkered with it, and determined I thought it was probably the alternator. I made the command decision that we would jump the car with his truck, and take it over to the shop where we got his truck fixed a couple weeks ago, right then...before it was too dark, although it was getting dark. We tried to jump the car, and it worked, but we had to do it again before I made it the whole 1.5 miles to the shop. By the time we did the second jump, it was dark enough for it to be kind of dangerous to be having to stop in the middle of the road, to jump one vehicle. Uhg, stupid cars.

We dropped the car off and came home in the truck. The next dilemma was how are we going to get us both to work, and Martyn to the baby sitter tomorrow? The conclusion we came to was that Eli would just ride in the back of the truck, and I would drive, with Martyn in the car seat. That was not the greatest idea. Then the next idea, was that Mary Jane would stay over another night, and keep Martyn home so we could just carpool the truck and not worry about trying to fit the three of us in the truck.

Much better idea.

Then, because she's just awesome, Mary Jane suggested that I just take her car to work. That way she could just head home when I got home. Hopefully my car would be fixed by the end of the day and that would be that.

That was the best idea.

What a wonderful mother in law I have.