Cars, cars, cars....

Great excitement for our boys this week. Eric bought a car, which I will post about after he's home in the daylight long enough for me to take a picture of him with it. That means the 93 Toyota Corolla, a bit worse for wear after being driven hard by Nick's two older brothers, is parked on the driveway, waiting for him to turn 16 in two short months.

Unlike those two older brothers, Nick feels great distress at the thought of driving a car with a damaged left front quarter panel for the next couple of years. (Craig came in close contact with a pole while backing up in a hurry.) Nick is busy trying to work out a deal with his parents to eventually obtain ownership of the car if he were to pay for repairs and improvements.

The first thing he did was replace a burnt out light bulb that lights up the gearshift. This project involved removing the whole center consul. During this procedure, he found two spoons, one cereal bowl, a buffalo nickel, two pennies and a small toy. The toy could either be a Mcdonald's Happy Meal toy or something left there when we purchased the vehicle from my neice Dawn four or five years ago! It's an ugly small plastic green critter.


Here's Nick with his tools, happy with the successful completion of his first Corolla project.

I took another picture from the front of the car when he was washing it but was too ashamed to post it. It showed five cars in our driveway/street. We didn't have company, and Eric wasn't even home. The Corolla, Will's pickup, Will's work car, my car, and a wonderful 1999 Durango that's for sale. Anybody want to buy a nice used Durango? We really don't have room for it here!