Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Goodbye old truck


Followers of this blog know that I stopped driving my truck in November because it didn't pass inspection. It needed a minimum of a new windshield, muffler, and tires. I didn't have the money to fix it up, (we had to get tires, a radiator, and catalytic converter for the van in the last couple of months) and I have toyed with the idea of putting the truck into a demolition derby.

The demolition derby idea wasn't going to work for me this year. It's pretty expensive to get the thing ready for a derby, and from everything I read, the regulars target the newbies in a derby, you are pretty much guaranteed a broken thumb or two on your first demolition derby. Demolition derby forums kind of indicated that you should watch 8 or 9 of them first, and visit with people that have experience. I'm not willing to have a broken thumb right now, and the money to get it ready would have been about the same amount to get it on the road again.

Today I decided to post the thing online, and see if I got any nibbles to sell the truck. I posted the thing on the ksl.com classifieds, and accidentally put the wrong mileage in. I had four emails on the thing before I could even get the mileage corrected on the post. In the first hour, I had ten emails about the post.

Someone came over this afternoon, test drove it, and bought it for $800. Maybe I could have gotten $900. They paid cash, I sign`ed the title over, and the money is in my bank account already. I'm a little surprised it went down so fast. Maybe the market for 18 year old trucks with over 200K miles is a good one these days...

Either way, I can stop pretending at this point that we aren't a one car family. I made a key to the van for my keyring on Saturday, so I guess I had bought into the idea. (I went two years without a key to the van...) I guess I will have to stop being lazy, and really take up walking now.

I have some circuit breakers listed on ebay, if anyone out there is interested. Three days left, no bids yet.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Dr. Who scarf #3


Shortly after making Emma's scarf, I was walking to work, and it was cold. I started a scarf of my own. Then I hurt my hand, and took some time off from it, but it warmed up a little here. I got cold over the weekend, last night I came home to rain and slush, and it looked like the morning walk to church was going to be fairly cold, so I finished the scarf.


It's 15 feet long, which is just about right. The girls thought it was too long, but it's just long enough to wrap around all six of the kids...