A few weeks ago I hunted high and low for this pic of my old POC (Piece Of Crap) minivan parked ON THE CURB. BY MEEEEE. I backed out of the driveway and this is how it turned out. I emailed this to my then college kid who responded appropriately. Yesterday I can’t even remember what I was looking for but I found the froggy playlet and THIS in the same search. Why? I do not know.

This is how we used to deal with our leaves. Rake them all into the street and the city came by on a schedule to scoop them up and put them into dump trucks.

It was fun but they don’t do that any more. They still pick up leaves but they have to be in compost carts or big paper bags. Some people hire services to come and deal with their leaves. We don’t. We put some in the compost carts and others in our own personal compost bin. I know there is a push for people to not rake leaves. I am not against that. But our neighborhood has tons of trees, many of them oaks, and there is no way our yard and compost bin could digest all of our leaves. Some of them have to be removed from the premises.

The POC was the last vee-hickle we bought from an American auto company. As my brother used to say, it 50 and 100 dollared us to death. And sometimes more than that. I think it was less than two years old the first time the serpentine belt went bangity bangity bang.

After both my brother (a GM automotive engineer) and my husband (Hamtramck assembly plant worker in college) suggested a Honda Accord as my next car, that is what we bought. I didn’t think either of them would buy Japanese but I’m just a girl… What did I know. We have never had a serious problem with a Japanese vee-hickle, at least not until it had umpteen bazillion miles on it and even that one, which was sold, was spotted a while later around town somewhere. And I have said this before but most of our Japanese vee-hickles were made in the USA. This totally predated MAGA.

Sorry, I’m not sure how coherent this entry was. I was stressed out today. Yes about the election. Sigh and love y’all.

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