Monday, September 19/2011

There is a bit of a chill in the air this morning and I wonder if the kids were warm enough last night.  They slept in Jace's trailer and when I went to make  their bed yesterday noted that someone had been in there and had taken one of the big sleeping bags I had left on the bed.  Man that is rather maddening by I guess if you leave the door unlocked you should perhaps expect that to happen.
Tori was the first into the house and said  that she was warm all night.  Casey said that his nose was cold!!  Roxy apparently slept under the covers with them!!
It wasn't long before the sun was shining and the day was warming up nicely.  It should be a good day to fix the Sami.
John and Casey worked on the Sami for a while until they discovered that the brake shoes were probably not the proper ones.  Dave needed to replace the shoes on his Sami and Shirley has ordered them and they will be here on Thursday so they will compare those to the ones on the Sami and see what the issue is with ours.  Maybe they are the wrong ones all together.
The guys did get the rear axle back together so that is a good thing.
With the fixing at a standstill, Casey and Tori took the quad down to the "block" for a ride.  They were to be home in a couple of hours .....
John started a fire and Dave and Shirley came over.  It was long past the time for the kids to be back and we were starting to wonder where they were.  As the evening progressed and the light faded into darkness, the kids still had not arrived back home.  Eventually, they did arrive back at the bus but it was in a truck with the quad in the back!!  OMG - what the hell happened!!
Apparently the kids had just entered the trails when a rock became lodged in the inside of the rim and punched a hole through the aluminium wheel causing a flat that was impossible to fix.  This happened right beside "The Moose Caboose" (a hunting cabin at the start of the trails) and the kids waited there for help.  Someone was out hunting as his truck was parked at the cabin so the kids started a fire and waited.
The hunter came back to the cabin and the quad was loaded up and the wayward children were returned home.
We will think about the quad tomorrow.