been awhile

[cjdeere]

It's been awhile since I've been here and I just wanted to stop in and say hey so...........Hey Everyone!!! :D

[Jimmyb]

Hows tricks been mate. Whats news your way? Few of us went wheeling on Australia day longweek, about 15 Jeeps, lotsa beer and wheeling, oh and carnage!

http://www.ausjeepoffroad.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24730&stc=1&d=1204871069
http://www.ausjeepoffroad.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24729&stc=1&d=1204871069
http://www.ausjeepoffroad.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24728&stc=1&d=1204871069
http://www.ausjeepoffroad.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24727&stc=1&d=1204871069

[cjdeere]

Looks like a bunch of fun to me :) And for me it's been the same old thing, well, I take that back, my wife was driving home on Feb. 13th and a car crossed the center line and hit her Grand in the door, down the side and then hit the rear tire and flipped her. It totaled the Jeep but Jill wasn't hurt that bad (nothing broken anyway) but she was and still is bruised-up. The good news is that she's doing better every day and our boy was home with me when she was hit. We did get her another Grand Cherokee, can't stray from a Jeep for any reason ;) I'll post some pics of our poor old ride tomorrow.........It's bed time for me, have a good day........:)

[cjdeere]

I showed my boy your pics (he's 6 yrs. old) and he can't get passed you all driving from the other side. I told him that in your country we're driving from the wrong side of the Jeep ;) I had a lot of explaining to do and even showed him on the map where you all are at. He thinks it's real cool that we can talk to people on the other side of the world that like and do the same stuff we do................... By the way it's snowy and cold here in Missouri......as my boy says..."poopy" :)

[Jeff]

Bloody hell, hope she's doing okay mate.

Did you tell your son about how the water spins counter clockwise when you flush the toilet? ;)

[hillsjeep]

Far out!! I'm glad Jill wasn't hurt too bad, but still that's no good at all!

[cjdeere]

Here's a few pics of our poor old Jeep. http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/cjdeere/Crashed%20Grand/100_2660.jpg
This one is where it landed, it pushed all the door handles in flush with the body
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/cjdeere/Crashed%20Grand/100_2676.jpg
This shows how hard she was hit, it broke the rear diff all to hell.
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/cjdeere/Crashed%20Grand/100_2666.jpg
It looks in better shape in the pics than it really is or I should say was. Anyway that one went bye-bye I'll post a pic of the replacement tomorrow, I thought I had some pics of the new one but I can't find 'em.

[ksk]

Holy Shyt..Thank God shes OK..

KSK

[Jimmyb]

Man thats jus insane. Its always the other people on the road you gotta be worried about hey. As said glad wifey is ok and lucky son wasnt in the car!!

Its about 19o in Brisbane today, some clouds, maybe rain haha.

[cjdeere]

Thanks for the kind words guys.......It's warming up here today so I'm goin' to start building a chicken coop for the chicks I just bought for laying hens, my boy talked me into this and now I'm doin' all the damn work :wall: oh well I like eggs too. Last year we got a couple of minni-nubian milk goats and now chickens, I think I really am loosing my mind ;) ....................

[hillsjeep]

Warming up!! I wish it would cool down here, we've just had out 10th day in a row above 35c (95 farenheit) with at least another 4 days to go. Most of these days have been over 100!!

[cjdeere]

Oh man...it's been very cold here. We have a yearly trail ride at Hannibal Rocks on New Years Day and this year it was -2 fahrenheit in the morning and by noon it was a balmy 10 degrees fahrenheit with a lovely breeze about 20-25 mph. My top had to stay on that day but some people had theirs off, hell some guys with buggy rigs don't even have heaters in 'em. It's getting close to garden planting time over here, I can't wait for that, I've got a bunch of stuff started in my seed starting room. My tomatoes are up but nothing else is yet. Wow...kinda got off track there didn't I??? Anyway I don't like the hot weather either but if I had to chose it would have to be hot over cold, you can only put on so many clothes.....

[tonkatruk]

That looks nasty mate, glad the wife is ok.. Lucky she had a good car underneath her to. You know that she would have been ok if you had bought a Jeep with the steering wheel on the correct side of the car.

Are there many good clubs over your way? I am heading over to the US in a few months with work. Wouldn't mind on my time off catching up with fellow Jeepers.

[cjdeere]

What part of the US? I'm about 1.5 hours North of St. Louis, Missouri. We have Hannibal Rocks (an Off-road Park) here and it's a lot of fun, it's got everything from stock trail to stuff I wouldn't dream of going through. There's all kinds of Jeep clubs around here too, Give me a yell if you come around here.................................