My new grown up car

I finally bought a new car! I actually paid big bucks for it too. I generally don't believe that cars are worth paying for, but I decided that I may as well get something that I like, and is gonna last a while and isn't falling apart. It wasn't easy to find a car that I actually liked, because......I don't like cars, but I do believe I found it, Subaru forester. I got it used from the sweetest retired couple in Wenatchee, they have ten grand kids, and now, as you can see, so do I.

It looks like I have my future kids' names already picked out! All ten of them, looks like I better get to work.

Our first expedition with the car. Me, Sarah, Nina nathan and Benny, we went up to the mountains to get some Christmas trees. We fit three big trees on the roof, and a little one in the trunk. They weren't all for us. You have to love the license plate.

So good bye, old cultlass. He served me well! With 215,000 miles (give or take a few thousand... the odometer stopped working at 200,000) it was his time. I was with him until his dying day. His transmission finally went out between Kennewick and Sunnyside. It wasn't a surprise. Almost two years ago, I took the car in for repairs, and my mechanic told me it was all over, and that he wasn't good for much more than around town. So that gave me full permission to run it into the ground! That is what I did, I ignored all the warning lights as they one by one lit up my dash. The engine gradually became more and more sluggish and the transmission more and more jerky. The heating and AC went out, pieces of the interior and exterior where just falling off, on a weekly basis, but the icing on the cake was my fritzed out dash board. It was all digital, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. Half the time I didn't even know how fast I was going, and the rest of the time, it would flash on and off like disco club lights. I still took it all over the northwest despite my mechanic's warnings (I did put towing on my insurance though) I must say this car was valiant to the end, kicking the whole way. It was very satisfying running it into the ground. Now I'm putting it out to pasture. My gosh I am so relieved to have a car that works, but I miss the more stress free days of the cutlass. Anything could have happened to my car, and it would not have bothered me at all, but now, I would actually care if I got in a car wreck. I have to maintain my car too now. Well, ya win some, ya loose some.