Homeward Bound

After spending almost two weeks in Christiansburg VA. working on our Subaru, Judah and I drove home yesterday. Judah was a trooper. He is such a well weathered traveler. Of course having a portable DVD player doesn’t hurt either. =) I have spent the last two weeks bent over the engine. I had to swap our old engine for a used one. In this process I faced a few obstacles that delayed our journey home a few days. After I only had the intake left to put back on the new engine I discovered that the water pump on the new engine didn’t match the old one. So I had to take everything back off. then I also had to take off the timing belt to get to the pump (the engine came with the timing belt so this was just extra work). When I tried putting the other pump on I found that it didn’t fit. As a result to that I had to swap out even more of the old block to make sure the new pump would work. then I had to put it all back together with new belts of course in the mean time I also switched out the timing belt cover. Once I had everything else back on the engine (which is quite a lot of work by the way, especially the timing belt since it can not be off at all). I decided that now would be a good time to replace the clutch as well. After all this hard work, of which nothing just went smoothly, I put the engine back in the car. I thought I was finally done, only to find out that I had a leaky radiator on my hands. So After a long engine saga I finally was able to drive the car home. (only 4.5 months after it all began with a never delivered engine)

Harvest Fest

O what a great exercise to be a little odd. Halloween, the day that you can be or do whatever you want to (to a certain extent anyway). Judah and I haven’t made it home yet. Yes I am still not finished with the Subaru I keep running into little obstacles. Anyway I left his costume in Chicago. So Oma Shanks went out and bought him one. When I asked him what they had gotten he said that he was going to be a nightmare. Confused I left the engine for a while and went inside to see what a nightmare would look like. I could not believe that she would have bought him something scary. Once I was inside she said that she thought it would be kind of biblical. Now I was really confused. But when I saw what it was I understood exactly what hat happened. My son had bought Knight ware. He was going to be a knight, dressed according to Ephesians 6. =) How funny can miscommunication be. He was dressed as a black night with a lion as his code of arms.

I dressed up in JD’s clowns outfit. Which after unrolling the sleeves and pants fit me just right. With out make up or a wig but with a red cowboy hat I walked out into the farmers market where New Horizons was having their annual Harvest Festival. People asked me if I was uncle Sam. And I got to admit that I probably looked a whole lot like him without my sleeves rolled up and a whole lot taller that JD (for whom the suit was tailored). Sadly I forgot to take pictures so I cant show you. Once I get one I will I looked pretty funny.