Cool Ride

I washed my car today and Norman took some pictures while it's clean. We had been considering selling it, and he thought it might make a good 16th birthday present for one of the up and coming drivers in our family. Nicole and Ron already nixed the idea for Ashley so we thought Wade might want to think about it for Emily -- didn't she say once she was a car buff? It could get her to school on time with the 400 HP LS2 Corvette motor . . . a good, practical car for a teenager, don't you think? LOL

We probably should keep it as it might be a collector's item some day since they only made them three years and ours is a 2006, the only year with this motor. They were made in Australia by GM and they came out around the same time gas went through the roof. Ours only has about 19,000 miles on it, most of which were accumulated in TX when I was still commuting. These day's it doesn't often leave the garage. I do wish we had gotten a stick instead of an automatic, though.

Note the 200 MPH on the speedometer . . . I have no idea if it will go that fast and I'm afraid to ask Norman if he knows. It actually gets pretty good fuel mileage except when he drives it!

Hope everyone is doing fine. Don't know about other parts of the country but MO is going to have a blast of winter again -- they said it could be 20 or below Monday and/or Tuesday night. We just hate to see damage to the trees that are now in bloom. Norman mowed the yard last week -- how things can change! Never saw such up and down temps like we've had this year, and windy. Seems every day we have gusts up to 25 or more and you have to nail everything down! We keep thinking it has to soon get warm and stay warm, then we will probably be complaining about the heat!

Norman talked to Hugh King today. He is 84 years old. Said he has macular degeneration of the retina (which my mother also had). There isn't much they can do for it but he can still see well enough to drive during the day and he's hoping to get a couple more years. Doris, he asked about you and Norman told him what you are going through -- he had no idea. He said he goes to the Rutters there by you and one day he might stop in to see you. We'll give him your phone number so that way he can call before he comes to make sure you are up to company.

Not much else new here in the Show Me state.

Love to all,

Kathy & Norman