New Red Car

It looks like Christmas in our garage tonight. Richard traded in the black truck for a new red car. It is parked next to my green car. The new red car is a Scion XD, loaded with what most people would consider standard equipment these days...electric locks, USB port, automatic transmission, cruise control. The truck was 10 years old this month, and did not have electric locks or cruise control or USB ports. It served us well. It carried college girl furniture all over Ohio and across the country to Colorado. It took us camping to Gratefulfest in Akron, twice. We used it to haul my craft tent and totes of crafts up and down the highway, setting up in distant towns to sell my handmade wares. It carried radio controlled airplanes, bags of dirt, birdseed, lumber. It made a 50 mile round trip daily for 7 years when Rich worked in Oxford. He took me to work one snowy night in it, because it did have 4 wheel drive, but had a flat tire on the way home and somehow made it all the way back from Cincinnati in a Level 3 storm without a repair. One thing is couldn't do is hold carseats. That is one reason why it is Christmas in our garage, the grandkids are coming for a visit. Goodbye, old friend...hello new friend. We will tell your story someday, when you have over 125,000 miles of them to tell. And listen to the green car tonight, there are 200,000 miles of happy tales tucked under that hood.