more on the car

so yesterday Julie and I drive out to the new house so that we can jump start the car, then drive it to the auto store and have the battery tested. As I pull up to the house, I notice the car seems to be leaning to one side, sure enough, the front tire is very low, but not flat (yet). So I get it jump started and running and back it out, but then I stop to ask Julie (following in the van) if she has any quarters for air at the gas station, then I start to take off and the car doesn't want to move. So I get out and look and sure enought it's completely flat now. Ok, I take a minute to think of all the logistics, then decide that I will put the spare on, drive to the tire shop and drop off the tire, then head to auto store to figure out if it's the battery or alternator. So I dig out the spare from the trunk and guess what??? IT'S FLAT TOO!!!! No wonder I like to ride my bike all the time, it's much less maintenance and hassle!!! I'm guessing at this point that the Lord doesn't want me to drive this car today. Plus on top of all this we were supposed to get our van fixed today (inner tie rod is loose), so Julie was going to use the car to run Preston to school and run errands, so I had to cancel that appointment. We decide at this point to take the tire off and run it to the shop to get it fixed. I couldn't go back out to the house to fix it last night cause I lead a small group Bible study on Tues nights at 7pm. Anyways, the car is still out there at the house with the flat spare tire. I'm hoping to get out there tonight to at least get the tire back on. Won't have time to do anything else cause today is Kellyn's birthday (middle child), she's turning 4, and we are taking her out to dinner. Then after that we've got Preston's make-up basketball game at the YMCA at 6:30pm. My guess is at this point, I will not be able to get the car fixed til Friday night, I'm taking Julie out to dinner tomorrow night for a belated Valentine's dinner (much less wait time) and for the fact that we've got 2 functions tonight.

carry on