Drew’s birthday present came a week early.\u00a0 He wanted an old beater pickup truck that he can tool around in until we can afford to buy him a brand spankin’ new vehicle.\u00a0 The car has been on it’s last legs for well over a year and it was well past retirement age.\u00a0 It was a good car that served us well over the years but it’s time has come and it’s headed to the kidney car foundation scrap-yard in the sky.<\/p>\n
After spending some time perusing used truck ads, last night he drove around and looked at a few.\u00a0 He quickly found one he figured he could nurse for a year or two<\/span> wanted.\u00a0 I don’t have my new garage up yet, but I now have a BRIGHT shiny blue 1\/2 tonne where the concrete is going to be poured.\u00a0 Due to it’s advanced age (1994), we’ll have to take it in to get a safety inspection done before we can insure it. I have a feeling that Drew might have used his day off (today) to get a lot of the necessary repairs completed.<\/p>\n Of course, the bonus of Drew having a new (to him) truck is that I get my baby truck back.\u00a0 No more sharing.\u00a0 No more Drew choosing my truck over the car and leaving me stranded at home.\u00a0 w00t!<\/p>\n It almost makes up for the dent in the pocket book and the fact that I have to spend the weekend locked in the basement working on two papers!<\/p>\n UPPERDATE:<\/strong> Yep, I was right. While I was at work he was busy as a beaver getting his truck all sorted out. Safety is done. Registration and insurance obtained. New plates installed and new parking sticker on the windshield. He filled the tank and picked me up at work in it.\u00a0 All in all he’s a pretty happy camper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drew’s birthday present came a week early.\u00a0 He wanted an old beater pickup truck that he can tool around in until we can afford to buy him a brand spankin’ new vehicle.\u00a0 The car has been on it’s last legs for well over a year and it was well past retirement age.\u00a0 It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}