There was an old lady who drove in a shoe

Blueberries are down to $2 a quart for pick your own, and the bushes are dripping with fruit, so I drove out to Northeast to get another three quarts this afternoon.

Look who stopped by just as I was finishing up.

On the drive home I saw a car shaped like an old leather shoe driving the other direction down the thruway. I couldn’t see if the driver was an old lady or not.

 

New car smell

We’re getting a new car. We’ve been a one-car household for almost four years and this year we’ve finally hit the point where it’s been interfering with both of our jobs and activities. We’ve been thinking about this for a while, never quite sure what the right path forward was, but this last week we finally got ourselves in gear. Monday we looked at the Subaru dealership, test drove four different models, and inquired about leasing. Wednesday we stopped by the Honda dealership to test drive an Accord and the updated model of our decade-old Fit. Got leasing and purchase info there. Thursday we stopped back at Subaru to check out a detail about the interior of the Legacy and to give it another drive. We got leasing info as well as purchase info – the dealership was taking enough off the sticker price to make purchasing the Legacy a good option. Yesterday on the way home from picking up Gill we stopped at the credit union and

And so that’s what we’re doing. I’m at work watching the Met Opera‘s broadcast of “Eugene Onegin” and Gill is at the dealer purchasing a brand new car. With care the Fit should last at least another six years, maybe eight to ten on the outside, at which point we’ll probably all have stopped using gasoline for fuel.

Current Mood: 😯anxious
Current Music: Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin