Through the kitchen door to the utility room, no problems on width. The front wheel can be locked straight for jogging. Like that's going to happen.
From the utility room to the garage, a slight step down poses no problem for the Bob's big wheels.
Again, no problems getting through garage door to the side of the house.
Trying to work out the best way to approach the car door...
Testing the canopies. We haven't quite worked this out yet, as we seem to have more canopy than needed, but we're not expecting to take the perambulator out in heavy rain anyway. There's a viewport in the rear canopy.
The base ready to receive the seat/baby combo. We're going to get this checked out by the Fire Department, but I don't think it can get any more secure.
Left hand pulls the release trigger, right hand lifts. I'd probably put the wheelbrake on for this, you can see the red tab attached to a bar between the rear wheels.
Passing quickly over the grunting and heaving required to locate the seat in its base, here it is in place.
The stroller sans carseat, but with attachment.
The attachment detached. That was simple...
...and the stroller ready to hold the baby, when it can hold its head upright and look around. The canopy makes more sense now as a sunshade. There is an optional rain cover for the legs, but we haven't got that, it's around $60-70 and we won't be using the stroller in heavy rain season.
To represent the 8+ lbs of babyweight we substituted 6lbs of flour, plus 2 lbs of sugar and some allspice to represent a girl, and sour worms and Peeps to represent a boy. Ghost has been trying to help by bringing us a mouse, sometimes live and sometimes dead, almost every night for the last week between 3 and 4am, as a replacement for slugs and snails, but last night's mouse he neglected to kill and I put it outside (suffering a mouse bite in the process).
No sour worms were harmed during the production of this blog post.
I was wondering what all the flotsam in the carseat was in the earlier pics. Thanks for illuminating. Left alone, the peeps may eat the worms.
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What a cool wheelie design. My kids only had the dorkiest of strollers, and they were still all bent on climbing out. Maybe they'd have stayed in a hot rod strollambulator.
Happy to see you have leashes for walking the cats hanging handy by the utility room door.
The longer leash was given to us the last time we brought a stray dog into the vet to get scanned. Much easier than trying to hook a finger through the collar of a dog which is two feet from the ground.
ReplyDeleteThe shorter red leash did indeed go with a cat harness which we got for Elbie before we moved to Eugene, for his supervised walks. He quickly let us know that supervision was no longer necessary and he trusted us to find our way home without him.
I see you figured out the sunshade function. Darkness is good for getting things done whilst baby sleeps. Also, a locked front wheel is best on uneven ground... or walking fast enough for it to find its resonant frequency.
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