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Sunshine Kitty

Sometimes the fates just decide to gang up on you. The best thing you can do at a time like this is to go with the flow and follow the kitty above, sit in the sunshine and wait it out!

Yesterday we decided to take a mini family trip to Moncton which is only about 90 minutes away. I like shopping there, it is different than home in that they are a bit more European in their clothing tastes and if they swear at you it is usually in French and you can choose to pretend that they are being friendly. Also they have lower taxes there.

That is a big one so as we began our travels David looks at the gas gauge which has been finicky lately, dancing like a child with an urgent need to visit a restroom, and decided that it looked like it would be sufficient to get us to the New Brunswick border.

Any parent with children knows what happens when you push a toddler beyond their urinary tract capabilities.

So about 45 minutes into our journey the truck sputters once and proceeds ever so nicely to stop running. The momentum of our trip over the Cobequid Highlands now coming to a complete and shocking halt. David coaxed it into starting again and we quickly realized our error in judgement and made a quick u turn and headed for home.

Alas, it was not to be. Several 100 metres later we are sitting quietly in our truck allowing gravity to propel us down one Easterly side of the Cobequid Pass until inertia could now longer aid us and we pull over silently to the shoulder.

It is amazing to watch a grown man in the throes of disbelief as he continually attempts to start the truck. Each time the ignition fails to turn over the level of hysteria that my children exhibit increases exponentially. It was as if someone remove their reason for living.

Stuck on the side of the highway on a gorgeous sunny day with the view of the Bay of Fundy below us and they panic.

Had I been a cat I am quite sure I would have curled up in the back, let the sunshine warm my body and had a well deserved snooze. That is if I could have drowned out the persistent tap tap tap of David as he tried frantically to call someone.

Surprise surprise...no one is in their homes on the first stunningly gorgeous day of the year!

Eventually a friend of ours that we buy hay from came to our rescue and we were soon on our way to New Brunswick, where Dave wasted no time splurging and filling the gas guzzling tank of our petroleum sucking transportation device.

Yes it was a great day!!!