Stuck in the Snow! and some Pizza!

So like when do you ever get stuck in the snow driving a Jeep? Well it just happened to me. Kyle just got home tonight from Lethbridge and we had a real hankerin for a meat lovers pizza. Peggy made the call and we waited the allotted time of 20 minutes and then I figured that I had better get a move on and go pick up our pizza. I grabbed the Jeep keys from Kyle and headed out.

Now you have to understand we have had a ton of snow and the town still has not plowed our street.

So away I went...I backed up on the street thinking I would just back into the driveway and pull ahead and away down the street. Well that did not work, I got stuck and could not move forward or back. So after I got Kyle to come out to push and got the snow shoveled away from the wheels I tried to free the Jeep up from the snow, and well the back tires spin great...I spun em down to the pavement and started to do a smokin brake stand!

Well to make a long story short and cause I am sick of typing...2 neighbor guys came over and helped push me out! Oh by the way my 1989 Jeep Comanche truck is 2 wheel drive in case you were wondering why I just didn't slap it in 4 wheel drive to get unstuck.

Oh ya the pizza was good too!

Random stuff and pics of Jeeps

So like this blogging stuff is just crazy to me...it is so technologically trying for me, but I am figuring it out a bit at a time...so here is a picture or two or three or whatever I can figure out today...














So this was my 1957 Willys Jeep with a Chev 327 small block, 3 speed tranny, and 488 Diffs. Man could this jeep ever go. I used to race Camaros at JP High School and take them easily. I bought this for $800 and it had a 226 flathead 6 cyl which got changed pretty quick. Thanks to Dad who built me an adapter plate for the Jeep trans to a chev motor and for all the hours of putting it all together and making it run. I wish I had this truck today!










This was my 1964 Jeep Wagoneer 4x4 I bought in 1979 for $200 north of Edmonton. I sold it to Dad for a couple years then bought it back in 1982. It was a standard with a 6 cylinder engine, virtually no rust on it. It was a real gem. Peggy and I moved from Edmonton back to Nova Scotia just after Christmas 1983 and drove the Wagoneer 3000 miles through blizzards and bad roads with Andrea who was a baby. Were we crazy or what? I sold it to a couple brothers that ran an Esso station in Springhill N.S. Then it rusted out so bad from all the salt that they ended up scrapping it.













This 1974 Jeep Pioneer Truck I bought in Granum off a farmer for $600. The motor was no good so I bought a American Motors 258 from a friend for $100 and put it in it. It was an automatic transmission, and was 4 wheel drive. I sold it to Dad who took it up to Grande Prairie for a while, then I bought it back from him. I ended up selling it to a guy in Calgary that had big plans of making it into a monster truck for mud bogging...I wonder if he ever did?














I bought this 1973 Jeep J4000 AMC 304, 3 spd for $600 in Claresholm off a couple yahoos that were wannabe auto wreckers. They had 4 jeeps at the wrecker yard and I bought them all over a period of a few years. This one came with a 1980 Cherokee which had a good motor AMC 360 which I swapped out and put in the truck. Corey claimed this one and drove it while in grade 12. Then we sold it to a guy from Calgary who was gonna use it for construction work. Oh by the way the other two jeep I bought off these guys were a 1987 Cherokee, and a 1990 Cherokee. I put a trans and transfercase in the 90 and sold it. I put a 1991 4.0 ltr engine in the 87 and drove it for 5 years then sold it to a native guy in Fort Macleod who still drives it















Well I have had a few jeeps over the years, but this one is the best yet pricewise anyway...Although it is still sitting in Babb Montana since buying it in October 2006, I only paid $40 Canadian for it. This is a 1964 - 66? it has the original Hurricane 6 cyl 3 speed standard 4x4 warn hubs.
















And this is me and my moose that I shot this year...November 1, 2008 Grande Prairie Alberta.

Christmas

Well I have not written for some time. I guess I have just been to busy with the Christmas hustle and bustle. Christmas is so over the top with all the gifts and everyone in a big rush to get everything done. We have forgotten the real meaning, and have become so commercialized because of it. I know I even have got caught up in it at times, and after wish I hadn't. Any way enough said. I did have a good Christmas having all of the family home and seeing the grandkids even tho they did not stay long enough. We all had some quality time together. I have become softer in my grandpa-hood of my life. I really want to have my kids and my grandchildren around me!

Home Again!

So Vancouver was okay...nothing really great. Things were really expensive there, and I have decided that I hate flying and will never fly anywhere again! The work conference was kinda lame, but I persevered and came home with a scarf from the conference. Ha! Ha!

To Be or Not To Be that is the Question!

So there have been many plays and musicals done over the years...but none like Fiddler on the Roof! I was in Fiddler way back in 1976 in Edmonton and had a blast. Well tonight I did something that I would never have thought I would ever do. I auditioned for a part in Fiddler on the Roof at the Carriage House Theatre in Cardston. I was not really nervous, but I was a little unsure of myself as I have not done anything like this for many many years. I did okay and I am pretty sure I am in. It helps when Peggy is the stage manager and I knew the two people I auditioned for. Kyle also auditioned tonight. The director even asked if Andrea wanted to try out...so now she is thinking about it!

Vancouver Here I Come

So it is Wednesday November 12, 2008 and I am just getting ready to go to Vancouver for a work related employment conference. All expenses paid! I am not excited about flying...just cause I hate flying..I guess I have watched to many movies where planes crash etc. So I am gone once again for 4 days and will be back on Saturday. I have been off work since Oct 31st for a little vacation time hunting moose, so I am ready to get back to work next Monday.

It's all about Willys

Well here I am learning some new techy stuff...blogging. Hum this is all greek to me and I am not even greek! You are probably wondering what the heck this Willys thing is...well I have this infatuation with Willys Jeeps, and so hence the willys and stuff blog page. Pictures of Willys to follow.