WE HELPED OUT A RACOON TODAY

A FEW PHOTOS FROM DEER PARK LODGE OVERLOOKING LAKE HURON THIS AFTERNOON

 

STILL ICE OUT ON LAKE HURON

Had us another beautiful Spring day & I took the opportunity to begin cleaning up one of our winter storage sheds that a Racoon had obviously got into & kinda trashed while we were away this winter.  It was maybe the same Racoon that in turn got into our neighbor Monica’s house while she was in Florida for 6 months & caused some damage to the ceiling above her bedroom.

<<< BIT OF A MESS IN OUR WOOD SHED

Monica has been home now for a few days but had to share her house with the Racoon in her ceiling until today.  A live trap was set by Ken the Park’s owner & this morning by golly there was a Racoon in it lured there of course my Monica’s tasty peanut butter & marshmallow snacks inside.  Monica couldn’t get a hold of Ken to take the Racoon away so Kelly & I without the Pheebs for obvious reasons went over & loaded up the cage with the rascally little Coon inside.  With our furry cargo in the back of the Jeep & Kelly nervously in the passenger seat we drove him/her out to a nice heavily wooded conservation area with a creek running through it.  Speaking softly I wished the little fellow well & when I opened the trap the Coon took off like a bullet.  I watched it scramble down a a slight embankment & then stop by a large tree & turn around to look back.  Thought I saw a little paw come up in a wave which I interpreted as as a ‘thank you’.  With that the little fellow turned & disappeared into the forest.   It was a good feeling inside to know we had been in a position to give this Racoon a second chance at life in a natural setting where it was truly meant to be.  Live long & prosper little one…………………….

 

AND THERE GOES ROCKY RACOON

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A preacher prepared for Sunday morning service, but only one person, a farmer, was there. He asked the farmer, "What do you think we should do?"
The farmer replied with a drawl, "Well, if only one cow came into the barn, I'd feed it."
So the preacher mounted the pulpit and began to preach ... and preach ... and preach. After about two hours, he concluded.  Then he stepped down and said to the farmer, "So, what did you think?"  The farmer replied, "Well, if only one cow came into the barn, I certainly wouldn't try to feed it all the hay."

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LONDON ONTARIO

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HAS A ‘TIM HORTON’ COFFEE SHOP RIGHT IN IT’S MAIN LOBBY…NICE:))

 

KELLY WAITS AT THE END OF A CHECK-IN LINE & SHE ALWAYS COMES PREPARED WITH A THICK FOLDER OF HER OWN MEDICAL FILES

A mighty fine Spring day for our drive to London’s University Hospital which fortunately for us is at London’s north end making it an easy ‘get to’ location from Bayfield.  Not a long wait & Kelly was in to see her liver specialist Doctor almost on time.  Perplexed by Kelly’s blood test numbers rising & falling he has arranged for to return to the hospital in a few weeks for a second liver biopsy.  Her first biopsy was botched in Stratford last summer.  They took 7 vials of blood from her before she left the hospital today.  London’s University Hospital is renowned for it’s high standard of excellence & expertise so we are confident these people will be able to get things done right & get to the bottom of Kelly’s on again/off again problems.

 

OUR WHITE 2004 PONTIAC SUNFIRE LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE SPORTS CAR TUCKED IN BETWEEN A COUPLE BEEFY SUV’S

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A minister, a priest and a rabbi were discussing when life begins.  "Those of my faith," said the minister, "believe that life starts when the heart begins to beat."  "We take a bit of a different view," said the priest, "in that we believe life starts at the moment of conception."  "Well," said the rabbi, "it is our belief that life starts when the kids move out and the dog dies."

SPENT A FEW RELAXING HOURS THIS AFTERNOON IN A STATE OF DOZE

Needing to take a break & shake up my daily yard clean-up routine Pheebs & I headed out this morning for a wee Jeep ride.  Split a Burrito & carrot muffin at McDonalds, grabbed a coffee, threw a bit of gas in Jeepers & headed out into the countryside to see what we could see.
 

OUR RURAL ROADS & FARMLANDS ARE STILL A BIT BLEAK LOOKING & THIS SNOWY ROADSIDE PATCH SURPRISED ME

IN ANOTHER MONTH THESE FERTILE LANDS WILL BE LOOKING MUCH GREENER
With no leaves on the trees & no greening crops in the fields our landscape is still looking a little on the bleak side.  Still nice to be outside on the country roads for a drive though.  With a gathering cloud cover & threats of rain we were home by noon. (we never did get any rain)

“LOOKS LIKE A SCREW NAIL STICKING UP HERE ELLIE”…”YA THERE’S ONE OVER HERE TOO JIM”
Tempted to put the battery in the motorcycle but I know it's still too early in the season.  Every year I always install the battery in April then have to keep re-charging it because it's too cold to comfortably ride the bike until sometime usually in May & the battery ends up losing it's charge.   I have no interest in riding in anything less than perfect weather anymore.  In fact I think if someone came along & offered me a fair price for my 2002 Honda Shadow Aero 1100 I would consider very seriously selling it.  Think I only put on about 500 miles last year.  Okay so maybe I wouldn’t………………………..

SPOTTED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A BUZZARD CONVENTION UP AHEAD

 

SURE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING TASTY DOWN IN THAT DITCH
Our Jeep Wrangler goes into the garage next week for it's pre-safety inspection prior to selling it.  Going to be tough to see little Jeepers go but it is time for us to move on.  Had a lot of fun Jeeping memories with her & she has sure served us well since June of 2010.  Some readers have suggested maybe keeping our Wrangler & leaving it in Congress but the sale of Jeepers will pay for our newer Jeep Liberty plus we've only ever needed 1 car in Congress anyway.  And having to pay insurance & maintenance on 3 vehicles is simply not cost effective either.   Well 4 vehicles if you include the Motorhome & 5 with the motorcycle thrown in.  Ya, I think it’s time to shed some wheels.

WELL I JUST HAD TO THROW THIS REFLECTED ‘SELFIE’ IN:))

HERE’S ONE OF PHEEBS PARK PALS HEADING OUT FOR A DRIVE WITH HIS DAD THIS MORNING

Spent a few relaxing hours in my recliner this afternoon with waves of favored ambient music from the 'Chill Lounge' washing over & lifting me through various stages of dream filled unconsciousness.  In other words a welcome state of doze.  Of course some may argue I am in a permanent state of doze.  Well they may be right of course & who am I to argue.

THIS IS ONE OF OUR PEANUT BILL BLUE JAYS
In the morning we will be off to London's University Hospital where Kelly has an appointment with her Doctor specialist to go over the results of her blood tests last week.  This appointment was set up last Fall.  We'll take our Pontiac Sunfire since it needs a good run after sitting in the carport all winter.  And me, well the Maitland Medical Center phoned a couple days ago with an appointment for me to see my Nurse Practitioner next Tuesday.  Seems she wants to talk to me about my high cholesterol levels again.  Oh Dear:((

“I DON’T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE DID WHAT WE JUST DID BERT”

 

EASY TO SEE WHY THEY ARE CALLED RED WING BLACKBIRDS
 

“DON’T GIVE ME NO SASS OVER THERE BILLY”

“HEY I LIKE THAT FANCY TWO STEP YOUR DOING OVER THERE”

Do you know those darned Arizona cactus stickers are still sticking me even though it's been nearly a month since we left Congress.  Once those prickly cactus barbs get into one's clothes they can hide out a long time despite many trips to the wash machine.  And they seem to like my socks & my work gloves most.  Can't see the darned little buggars but they sure make their presence known whenever they want to dig into some unsuspecting skin.  Sometimes I have to stop & turn a sock inside out just to stop the irritating barb from driving me bonkers.

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road: Part 1

Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was an historical inevitability.

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road," and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Jack Nicholson: 'cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Ronald Reagan: I forget.

John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.

Sappho: Due to the loveliness of the hen on the other side, more fair than all of Hellas' fine armies.

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Stephen Jay Gould: It is possible that there is a sociobiological explanation for it, but we have been deluged in recent years with sociobiological stories despite the fact that we have little direct evidence about the genetics of behavior, and we do not know how to obtain it for the specific behaviors that figure most prominently in sociobiological speculation.

Joseph Stalin: I don't care. Catch it. Crack its eggs to make my omelette.

Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.

An Andersen Consultant: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM) Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Andersen consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park like setting enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful. Finally, in case someone thinks this has a distinctly anti-Republican bias, the following has been added for balance:

Bill Clinton: No one has ever offered one shred of evidence that the chicken went anywhere near the road. Anyway, answering this question will not educate a single child or provide a single senior citizen with medical care.

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Wait a minute! Chickens? That's domestic policy! You promised that to me, Bill!

James Carville: To avoid being killed by evil Republican policies. Now, where's my chicken gumbo?

Al Gore: To get ... to the other ... side.

AND NEITHER ONE OF US WOKE UP WITH ANY ‘BUYERS REMORSE’:))

It's mid April & our Peeper Frogs are back.  How nice each night to hear sounds of tiny little frogs peeping up a storm out around our small front yard pond.   Buds beginning to appear at the ends of twigs & branches.  A few early Spring flowers struggling up through winter's left over residue.  It's always an encouraging time of year to see Nature's true beauty slowly returning to it's annual upcoming summertime glory.
 

WE STILL HAVE SOME SNOW ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF OUR HOUSE & I SPOTTED OUR FIRST SPRING CROCUS
Turned on our outside water again & hauled out the pressure washer.  A lot of Arizona desert dust & road grime on Jeepers engine needed to come off.  Have always liked a clean looking engine.  It was also a good day for getting the pressure water nozzle up & under the Big EEE's chassis to flush out all that corrosive road salt we had picked up on the last day of our homeward journey through Michigan 2 weeks ago.  Also hauled myself up onto the Motorhomes roof & hosed everything down up there as well, especially the solar panels. 

STILL MORE ROOM UP HERE FOR MORE SOLAR PANELS BUT I THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH TO SUIT US

 

WE HAVE A BUSY ROOF ON THIS RIG

I CALL THIS A ‘PART-TIME’’ POWER WASHER…SOMETIMES IT WORKS & SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T

A couple Park employees cleaned up that mess of logs I had a picture of in my post a couple days ago & today I finished cleaning up after the clean-up.  Another utility trailer load for Pheebs & I to haul away.  It’s not a long Jeep ride for Pheebs but she loves getting in that Jeep even if it’s to just drive across the driveway.  Such a totally nice Spring day to be outside puttering away at stuff plus Pheebs & I took the rig for a wee spin as well.  Looking ahead at our 10 day weather forecast I see they are predicting the possibility of snow one day next week.  Hope it’s not Wednesday.

JUST CRUISING ALONG WATCHING THE SCENERY GO BY

I was a bit worried we might wake up this morning with ‘buyers remorse’ but it never happened & we are both happy about our decision Tuesday to buy the Jeep Liberty.  It was within our price range, the color we wanted, & we still end up with a Jeep.  Now here’s something we didn’t know about the color.  When Kelly initially phoned Voisin Motors enquiring about that Liberty for sale she mentioned to Ray on the other end of the line how much we liked the tan color.  His response to Kelly was, “you must be older folks.”  He said that light tan color is preferred by older people.  I don’t know what color younger people like but I can tell you the majority of vehicles we looked at on-line were either silver, black, or white with silver being number 1 it seems.  Our Santa Fe was silver which was Okay but we were really wanting something more along the lines of earth tones.  The tan color reminds us of the southwest deserts & the beige khaki interior is reminiscent of our southern Ontario forests.  A nice relaxing combo of colors:))

ALWAYS AMAZES ME HOW OUR BACKYARD PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS SURVIVES SUCH BRUTAL WINTERS…DESPITE THEIR WITHERED LOOK THEY WILL BE ABLOOM WITH BRIGHT YELLOW FLOWERS SOMETIME IN JUNE

Ivan made it back to Alberta a few weeks ago & has already got himself well up in the world.  He’s a bit isolated in his lofty perch & with supplies already running out had to convince a passing fire patrol helicopter to drop off some additional supplies for him & little four footed & famously furry Hailey.  And no the Cougar foot prints in the snow were definitely not Haileys.  And how many people get to take photos of deer from above.  Now Ivan either has a really long ‘selfie stick’ or he has himself ensconced high atop something to look down on those deer walking by below.  In fact they even stopped for a rest & laid down without seeing him.  So how is all this possible you ask.  Better just click on Ivan’s name & see what he & Hailey are up to again for the summer.  Might want to ask him what a frozen shower bag looks or feels like…………………………..

A QUIET PATH BESIDE OUR HOUSE WANDERS THROUGH A PATCH OF PERIWINKLE UNDER TOWERING PINE TREES

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Lucas was arrested for selling home-stilled whiskey. His lawyer put him on the stand and asked the jurors to look carefully at his client.  "Now, Ladies and Gentleman of the jury," concluded the lawyer, "you've looked carefully at the defendant. Can you sit there in the jury and honestly believe that if my client had ANY whiskey he would sell it?"  He was acquitted.

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"Have you seen this morning's paper?"
"Yes, I wrapped the garbage in it."
"But I hadn't seen it yet!"
"You didn't miss much. Just some coffee grounds and a few orange peels."

UNDECIDED ANTICIPATION, BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT, AND THEN………….

KELLY CHECKS OUT ONE OF THE JEEPS WE LOOKED AT THIS MORNING

Bright sunny cool morning just made for a totally excellent drive to Elmira this morning.  The heart of Mennonite country north of Kitchener/Waterloo Ontario.  Had been many years since I/we had traveled any roads up that way but the countryside looked the same as we remembered it.  Lots of farmland with horse & buggy tracks along the shoulders of the roads.  Took us the best part of a couple hours to get there as we cruised through half a dozen car lots in Listowel Ontario.  Our mission in Elmira this morning was to lay some hands on a 2007 Jeep Liberty, take it for a drive, & see what we thought.

BACK SEAT IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE WITH REAR DOORS >>>

We found the car in immaculate condition looking like the day it rolled off the assembly line.  No signs of wear or tear anywhere. This Liberty was bought new at Voisin Chrysler Elmira by a lady working in Waterloo as a legal secretary.  The Jeep spent it’s night’s in this family’s 2 car garage & day’s in an underground parking lot in Waterloo so it has been mainly protected from the environment over the years.  This Liberty was also serviced at Voisin Motors over the years so it’s entire history is on file there.  Only 48,000 miles on it.  We took it for a drive paying particular attention to roominess & found the front compartment fine.  My legs have always been to short for the rest of me so I found the driver’s area works for me.  And lots of room between the top of my hat & the roof.  We took turns driving it with each of us trying out the back seats which were fine as well & lots of room behind the back seat.  Big enough for groceries & Pheebs at the same time.  We did take a liking to the car but were not prepared to make a commitment until we had looked at the 04 Jeep Cherokee in Cambridge.  We liked the salesman we talked to who has been with Voisin Motors a long time.  Voisin Motors has been in Elmira for over 50 years & is lady owned.  Ray Frederick was not pushy with us & thankfully laid back & not at all phonely sappy like some characters I’ve met over the years.   We did work out a reasonable price just in case we decided on it but without a deposit the Jeep could not be held for us.  Decided not to make a decision or deposit until we had thought about it more & in a nail biter of a finish later this afternoon that non-decision & non deposit came back to bite us & bite us hard.

IS THERE ENOUGH ROOM FOR US IN THE FRONT SEAT AREA OF THIS JEEP LIBERTY…IT’S COZY BUT BETTER THAN THE WRANGLER

From Elmira Ontario later this morning we made our way down into & through Waterloo & Kitchener.  Had been many years since we had traveled this neck of the woods & it was a trip down memory lane.  I lived in Kitchener back in the late 60’s & early 70’s & new the whole area like the back of my hand.  A lot has changed over 40 years but I still have a slight sense of home there.  Many great memories & a whole boat load of bad ones.  Our travels on Kitchener’s expressway lead us out to Canada’s notorious 401 where the memories really came flooding back.  This had been my work area back in the late 80’s & all of the 90’s.  Many endless heavy traffic miles back & forth in all kinds of nasty weather between Goderich, Stratford, Kitchener, & Toronto.  Hadn’t driven this stretch of highway since August of 2000 but felt right at home in the 6 lane traffic again & just wanted to strap on my Airports van & hustle people off to the airport.   But of course I’m getting myself way off track again here.

ALWAYS NICE TO SEE A CLEAN LOOKING ENGINE & THIS ONE HAPPENS TO BE A V-6

Rolled off the 401 heading into Cambridge on the heavy trafficked number 24 highway slipping through a couple car dealerships along the way.  This whole stretch of 6 lane highway & busy like nuts traffic brought back a ton of memories for Kelly & I.  We worked together in this heavily congested mayhem back in 93/94 delivering mobile signs to various business’s.  When I met Kelly she was managing a sign company in Cambridge & it wasn’t long & I was working for her by day & driving my Airports van out of Stratford Ontario at night.  That’s when I had my motorcycle accident while hurriedly traveling between jobs & towns.  But I digress……………….

TRYING OUT THE 60/40 BACK SEAT CONFIGURATION WITH ONE SIDE DOWN FOR EXTRA SPACE

We found the car dealership where the 2004 Grand Cherokee was parked & wheeled in for a looky see.  Right away soon as I saw it I knew it was too heavy for our gas Motorhome.  Had we had a diesel, no problem.  Nice looking Cherokee with leather seats & oh were those seats ever comfortable.  Super sound system, sun roof plus all the bells & whistles.  But it was showing it’s age & we both new it was not the vehicle for us.   Not that it wasn’t nice because it was.  Maybe just a tad too big & cushy for the type off roading we like to do.  We didn’t take it for a test drive because I just knew it was too heavy for the Big EEE.

<<< RAY BACKS THE LIBERTY INTO IT’S SPACE & FLASHES US THE ‘V’ FOR VICTORY SIGN THIS MORNING & HEY THIS LIBERTY STILL HAS THE DISTINCTIVE STYLING OF A REAL JEEP:))

We rolled out of the southwest corner of Cambridge reminiscing about all the old familiar spots along the way.  Kelly was especially familiar with Cambridge having lived there for many years before I met her.  Our conversation heading home soon centered back on the Jeep Liberty we had seen in Elmira earlier.  The Liberty had a chip in the windshield so the windshield was going to be replaced & it was slated for new front brakes.  Back & forth we went trying to make a decision.  Price was right because we had verbally agreed on $1,000 under the asking price.  The Liberty weighed in only a few hundred pounds more than our Wrangler so the weight was totally acceptable.  Basically the same type transfer case as our Wrangler as well.  No push buttons & I liked that.  The more we thought & talked about it the more we agreed it was the right deal & the right vehicle for us but we were dragging our feet on a final decision.  We were just about 5 miles south of Stratford heading north when an oncoming vehicle looked familiar to us & we recognized the unmistakable grill of another Jeep Liberty & as it passed we noticed it was a tan color just like the Elmira Liberty.  We took that passing Liberty as a good sign & ‘presto’ the decision was made right there & then.  Kelly said maybe she should call Ray in Elmira & let him know we had decided to take the 07 Liberty.  And that’s when the bottom fell right out of the Elmira Jeep Liberty deal:(( 

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I immediately heard the disappointment in Kelly’s voice when Ray on the other end of the phone told her another salesman was at that very moment in his office talking to another couple who had just had that same Liberty out for a drive.  We knew right then & there we had just missed out on a great opportunity for an exceptionally well maintained vehicle in superb condition with low mileage.  For sure this other couple would grab it.  If only we hadn’t been so indecisive.  Our hearts just sank right out through the bottom of our shoes & the disappointment & discouragement we felt was huge.

REAR SEAT FOLDS FLAT DOWN IN THIS JEEP LIBERTY SO LOTS OF ROOM FOR HAULING STUFF & PHEEBS COULD COME ALONG FOR GROCERIES IF WE HAD DECIDED ON IT…WE COULD MAYBE EVEN GET A BABY RHINOSAUCEROUS IN HERE

We rolled on into Stratford to grab ourselves a bite to eat at McDonalds although both of us had pretty much lost our appetites.  Heading in Erie Street we saw Strickland’s Auto Sales which we were both familiar with.  This is one huge auto sales place & probably the largest one in the whole area.  Although we didn’t feel like pulling in we knew we would have to begin our search all over again & we might as well start here & at least take a drive through  & see what they had.  Spotted an 05 Jeep Liberty but I was too discouraged to even get out & look at it.  We did stop though & Kelly walked over & said she would go ask a salesman about the price.  I did finally get out & walk over to the brown Liberty but it was nowhere in the condition the 07 Elmira Jeep was.  Not even close.  Kelly did come back with a key & when I checked the mileage it had about 263 million miles on it & it was just downright grubby.  Walking back to our Jeep Kelly’s phone rang…………………….

BACKSEAT COFFEE CUP HOLDERS ARE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE DOORS

With Ray’s words on the other end of the phone saying to Kelly, “it’s a funny long story Kelly but the car is yours.” Big Cheshire grins instantly spread across our faces & our Spirits immediately soared through the roof.  We had just gone from a decision making high to a brutally crushing low & then right back into the Stratosphere in less than 15 minutes.  We both agreed our legs felt shaky.  Until we talk to Ray next week about the ‘funny long story’ we can only assume the other couple decided to not buy the Liberty or Ray pulled a few strings with the other salesman or something.  Anyway to make this already long post short let me just say our long vehicle search is finally over & we will return to Elmira next Wednesday morning to bring Libby the Liberty home.

WE ARE SITTING IN STRICKLAND’S AUTO SALES PARKING LOT WHILE ON THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE RAY FROM VOISIN MOTORS IN ELMIRA ONTARIO IS TELLING KELLY THE JEEP LIBERTY IS OURS…HAD YOU SEEN KELLY’S FACE 20 SECONDS BEFORE I TOOK THIS PHOTO YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN OUR DISAPPOINTMENT VERY PLAINLY

Now I know there will be readers who will disagree with our vehicle choice today but whether it be right or wrong, good or bad, upside down or downside up it’s our decision & we shall see if this Jeep Liberty turns out to be the best vehicle of ever or a problematic child.  I’m going to bed now……………..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:))

YEP, I THINK THIS MID SIZE JEEP IS GOING TO WORK OUT JUST FINE FOR US

GROANER’S CORNER:((  My aunt's neighbor in New York had a beautiful black cat, Felix, who spent his days outside and came indoors at night. One cool October evening, he disappeared. The neighbor searched for him in vain. The following spring, however, Felix reappeared, looking healthy and clean. She figured he'd been sowing his wild oats. Everything was back to normal until that autumn, when Felix disappeared again.
The next spring, he returned. Perplexed, my aunt's friend began asking neighbors for clues. Finally, she rang the bell of an older couple. "A black cat?" the woman said. "Oh, yes. My husband and I hated to see him out in the cold, so we bought a cat carrier. We take him to Florida every winter."