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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Farewell POS...

Strangely enough, as long as Ashley's car (which we call "POS" because that is the letters on her license plate not because it is a POS haha wait which is it) sat in the lot next to the pickup, it didn't seem like she was really gone. But yesterday we drove it into town so that someone could drive it and see if they want to buy it. Coming home to the empty spot in the driveway just solidified it.
But on a lighter note the car left us with another funny rodent story about it. The first one being several years ago when Ashley came out to the house and said to her dad, "My fan makes so much noise when I turn it on. There is something wrong with it. It's probably all those stupid squirrels at our house storing nuts in there." Bryan says, "There's probably just a belt loose. There is no way the squirrels stored nuts in there." So...one hour later he walks into the house with her casing from around her fan and it is FULL of acorns. We laughed so hard. The squirrels had filled it up for winter. No loose belt after all. So fast forward to yesterday and Bryan is changing the spark plugs on her car because it just isn't starting. He opens the hood and all that is left of the spark plug wires is this little collection...
Now, I must warn you, if you are sensitive about nature and little animals read no further... 
Because...he realized that something rodent like was chewing the wires and began a search for it. No luck. So he shut the hood and moved the snow off the driveway, fed the horses, watered and fed the chickens, gathered the eggs and went back (because it was bugging him) to see if he could see where the rodent was getting into the engine. He opens the hood and there sitting in the engine is a bunny, just looking up at him. So...and here is where it gets gruesome...he takes a crowbar and tries to whack the bunny and only gets it on the back end. It falls down in the car so he calls Mae over to get it. She gets under the car and chases it out from there to under the little red trailer, Bryan chases it out from under the trailer (OH how I wish I knew all this was going on and had a video camera on the event) where Mae takes up the chase into the pasture. Bryan goes back to the car to close the hood and Mae comes trotting out from the pasture with the bunny (dead) in her mouth. He changed out the wires and plugs and that little POS started right up. 
Now to just get it sold for her.  

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