What a stupid mistake. I corrected yesterday’s entry but I neeeeed to call attention to it. We owned that jeep for *17* years, not 7. There is only one vee-hickle that we ever got rid of at seven years and that was our 1985 VW Jetta. It was a really nice car for a while but in the end it began $50 and $100 dollaring us to death, as my auto engineer brother once said about HIS VW Scirocco.

Of course he replaced vee-hickles left and right. He was on the General Motors (GM) discount. I guess apparently *I* could actually use his GM discount but I went sour on American-made cars a pretty long time ago Long complicated story but when I switched to Japanese cars it was on my GM engineer brother’s advice. It was a good switch.

My brother was always trading cars in for new ones. One time I was at the moomincabin and I was checking email. It was back in the days of dial-up internet and my messages were taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load. When they did, a message with the subject “Twuk” popped up from my brother, with a picture of a white pickup truck that he had just bought. I showed it to The Commander and she kind of gasped! He bought that? Yes, moom. This wasn’t a replacement vee-hickle, he had added it to the fleet. He bought it because it was languishing on some dealer’s lot and he felt sorry for it.

Alas, he didn’t get to enjoy Twuk for very long because he died less than a year later. As my sister-in-law and I were walking to our cars after that event, she turned to me and asked, “Wanna buy a Twuk?” Well, sorry, but no thanks. That was in the years when we had three or four cars if you counted the kids’ cars, NO GARAGE, and not a terribly long driveway. And I didn’t really want a pickup truck, not even a relatively small one, if I remember Twuk accurately. To tell the truth, I felt a bit sorry for Twuk too but our fleet just couldn’t absorb him.

We usually drive our cars for over 10 years. I would be happy to drive them until they fell apart (like the jeep more or less did at 17 years) but I don’t like the idea of them falling apart when I am traveling solo on a long freeway trip. We sold my beloved Ninja when she was 13. She was still beautiful (we’d had her re-painted a few years earlier) and ran like a top but I figured that sooner or later her time of reliability would be over. We sold her in ONE HOUR! The GG listed her on Craigs list and within seconds after she was posted, somebody called. He came over with his son (the intended driver). They test drove her and off she went. We picked up Cygnus the next day.

That’s yer fav-o-rite witch blahgger in the pic. Her broom is on the left and there is a hedgehog on the right. Which isn’t really a Halloween aminal but yesterday morning I turned on the porch light and there was a ‘possum on the porch! I could not get a pic but this kinda looks like the possum.

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