The original plan for today was to take a fairly short drive in the old Jeeps with the whole family, but the Jeeps didn't want to cooperate! Scott and Janie's '59 CJ3B has been in Yuma waiting for the broken overdrive to get repaired and returned so that David could get it installed. David had it put back together and it was running just fine so Keri and Becca were going to bring it to Fort Collins on the car trailer the week before, but after starting once, it wouldn't start again to get on the car trailer! Since David couldn't diagnose the problem remotely, it stayed in Yuma. Drew and Tara's '46 2A was having problems starting (turned out that the battery had gone bad) and then overheated, so it stayed in the garage as there wasn't time to figure out it's issues to trust it on a dirt road. We started out with David and I in our '05 (which we've discovered needs a new seal on the front diff), the Rebmans' Jeep Liberty, Scott's Honda Pilot and the Chapman's '77 S10 Jeep pick-up. We had just hit the dirt road a couple of miles when Brian in the pick-up turned around as he realized that he had a gas leak and didn't want to take a chance of running out of gas! We all turned around, found a lovely park along the Cache la Poudre River, had a picnic lunch and watched the kids play. Although it wasn't the original plan, we had a lovely day and hope to try this again next year!
Here are many pictures of the grandkids!
David providing a "thigh pillow" as Drew tries to re-clamp the fuel line.
Yup, I'm definitely "chopped liver" when PaPa is around!
This tree made an amazing hiding spot for "hide and seek".
Rolling down the hill!
Cousin Love!
