To the Rescue

Well, Saturday didn't quite turn out how we planned, but that's okay. Not long after getting up, Richelle's dad called to say their truck had died as they were driving to Woodland to go snowmobiling. They said they were on the off-ramp of Exit 4 off of Highway 40, just east of Park City . . . it was up to Richelle and me to come to the rescue.

Their electrical system had gone dead, so we were all fairly certain that their alternator had gone out, so the make & model of the truck were called in to Napa, were we stopped by and picked up a new alternator on the way.

When we got there, we found that the alternator's mounting bolts didn't line-up with the mount, and that the electrical plug had rounded edges instead of square. But now that there was an extra vehicle on scene, several of us drove into Park City to see if we could find the right part. After aimlessly wandering for a bit, we found Part's Plus, told them what we needed, and they produced the same alternator - the one that Napa gave us that didn't fit. We spent a good twenty minutes going through every other similar one they had, but couldn't come up with a match.

So Richelle and Daniel hopped on their phones, and started to track down the right part. Eventually we found that the part we needed could be found in Heber City, so we drove the 15 miles to Heber, got the part, and came back, where it was installed in 30-minutes.


We then rushed home, since Michelle and Abe were coming by to watch the rest of the 2nd Season of Supernatural with us. We'd watched the 1st Season of Supernatural with Michelle last Spring, and were repeating the tradition with Season 2. The episodes terrify Richelle, but she loves them just the same . . . she just makes me go everywhere with her for awhile after she watches an episode or two.

So we finished out Season 2 and then drove up to Karl and Christi's in Layton to start up Season 3. He's been recording them all season, but hasn't been watching them until we could catch up and go watch the episodes with them. So we went up there and made dinner, and watched the first two episodes of Season 3. Yeah, we watched 6 episodes yesterday. That's a lot of TV - and having lost our morning to rescue missions, I closed out the day feeling like I really didn't get anything accomplished. Oh well.

The other exciting bit of news was that the local Dick's Marketplace was selling Girl Scout cookies. Richelle love, and I mean LOVES, their Samoa cookies . . . actually, I have a pretty sweet spot for them too . . . so we were able to pick some up. Yeah, I'm starting to feel like my life has mellowed out a lot when I can find myself getting exciting about Girl Scout cookies.