the first hot weekend this summer - an update from the field

Today's trip to Sauvie Island was rudely interrupted by our normally reliable Subaru dying in the middle of I5 of a sudden cardiac arrest. Zio is waiting by the road for a tow truck, while Andrea and I wander back toward our house. Zio found a blackberry bush near the body of our vehicle. Meanwhile Andrea and I packed provisions of crackers, oranges and prunes for the long trip home.

(Edit) It was a very long trip home with melty popsicles and a goosegg on Androosh's head from slipping near the water fountain. And we think our alternator's gone out. Still, I'm happy that it got hot enough to finally turn on the fans in our house this evening instead of wearing my my fuzzy robe.



(Edit Edit) It was the alternator + a killed battery from being driven with a dead alternator. A trip to the mechanic and eight hundred bucks later Jimmy (the car) is home safe and sound.