#flat tire

[5xby5]

The calm before the storm I had to buy a new tire today 😫🤷🏻‍♀️ can I just retire ? Marry a rich man? Get my child support deposited in time ? Open an Only Fans ?

[kurapikapikachuu]

thats it, I'm warding my name

[deebrisbyfish]

I continue to hold to a firmly held... and repeatedly reinforced... belief that the universe really enjoys watching me hover precisely on the line between success and failure, and delights in poking me in one direction, then the other, with regularity. It was a MAJOR bit of stress on the way home from an otherwise awesome weekend, but it's just the sort of thing that happens in my life. Heidi USED to have the attitude she has here in the strip, but in the years we've been together, she's seen this sort of thing happen WAY too often to attribute it to me just being paranoid. lol

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Changing a Tire, 1956

[sportsandlaughs]

[maccantdrive]

just got a flat tire. if only i watched more macgyver, then i might know how to fix it with what i have in my car 😔

[ahedderick]

Broken

I realized a while back that we have, uh, waaaay too many broken things around here. There are a few valid (and some not-valid) reasons for that. My husband and I did a whole LOT of reno around here in the time between getting married and having kids. That means we have a bunch of things that are getting older, now. Also, things of my father's (like farm equipment) that we inherited but weren't kept in good condition. Just, reasons.

My husband was out of commission from late winter into May because of a) being sick and b) having surgery on a tendon in his right elbow. "Don't use the arm or grip anything" they told him, and he tried to obey that. Now he's done with rehab, and trying to get back into the swing of things. Last week he got a spare tire for the elderly Toyota (previously my father's) that we kept around as a beater. It got a flat last year and he never got around to fixing it. Fixing the tire turned into tire, battery recharge, and draining the trunk, which was full of rainwater because a whole bunch of sycamore seeds/fluff got packed tightly in the channel above the trunk that's supposed to funnel rainwater away. And then there was the snake, but he gets his own post, later.

He also fixed the flat tire on the small tractor (there is also a flat on the big tractor, as yet unaddressed. Why so many flats???). That was a reasonably simple process, EXCEPT he didn't listen when K told him to let her know he was using the barn. She would have taken care of the goats for him! However. He left the barn door open, started working on the tire issues, and then. Goats. GOATS everywhere! Bouncing on the tractor, off the walls, trying to pry open the feed can. Goatdemonium! He called the house; I overheard her side of the conversation. She had a I-Told-You-So-Tone. I was trying not to wet myself laughing.

Goats were wrangled (the stall door also got fixed two weeks ago, and so they can be successfully confined, now). The tractor is fixed, and then the potholes in the lane got fixed because the tractor was fixed. Good times.

Making progress, right? So on Monday morning the back bumper of the truck immediately just fell completely off. I. Hmm.

Over the weekend I got a package. Replacement struts for the back hatch of my Subaru. Mine died months ago; we've been propping the hatch up with a small, elderly shovel when we need it open. My son came over in the afternoon on Monday and put the new ones on for me. It was a relatively simple process, other than the fact the the new ones have a somewhat different configuration than the old, which caused us minor confusion. No goats were involved. He only bonked his head hard twice. I was able to hold the darned thing up long enough for him to do the work and my shoulder didn't give me any trouble. The hatch opens normally again, now! Husband fired the grill up and Son got paid in Burger.

[comicdiaries]

Kind of put a damper on the end of our trip :/