A great family weekend

Originally, I had planned on trying out some new gas in a gas can this past weekend to try to get Big Red started, but other priorities took over, and I don't think I looked in the garage even once. After working most of the day Saturday, we had a great relaxing rest of the weekend enjoying time as a family, watching movies, working on my daughters music lessons, playing board games, and enjoying fall. I doubt that I'll get a chance to do much more in the garage before the weather takes a real turn for the wintery (by the end of the week, the "s" word makes its first appearance in the forecast and we'll have highs in the 40's), and that's fine by me. A few posts ago, I kind of summed up what had been accomplished in the short time I've had Big Red, and honestly, it's more than I expected to have done. Yeah, I planned on having the brakes fixed, and I had hoped to have the truck started at least once, but looking back, it's been a lot! Plus, the truck sat in a barn for 8 years before I got it - what's one more winter of waiting before getting fired up?

Tinkering under the hood