New 02 Nissan Altima - engine blew!

with the hard year we have faced, we had more spontaneous bad news. The new Nissan that we purchased last night had a rod that blew in the engine less than 12 hrs after we bought it. We were stranded in sardine canyon by Mantua.  We grabbed trash from the side of the road and walked down to the creek and filled up what we could to dump it in the car and in the radiator to help cool it down. We felt resourceful.😉

Bad news is that the poor new car of ours is totaled due to the engine.

We were fortunate to have puttered inch by inch through the hills of the canyon after cooling it down and it finally stopped in Wellsville. Tristan came to pick us up and we had a tow take the car to the nearest shop. We were so grateful for nice people. Hopefully we will be able to fix the engine soon. We are down to 1 car (with horrible gas mileage) again. At least we have the Aggie Rodeo. Life sometimes feels hopeless. For us, we'll, these last 9-10 months have been the lowest we've been in a long time. We have hope and faith that things will get better though.