A brand new car!

Well, not even close to brand new, but new for us. We purchased a '97 Subaru Legacy Outback this last week. I just grabbed this pic off of the internet, but this is how it looks. With our forthcoming new arrival we felt that we needed a little more cargo space; more passenger space is not yet necessary so we weren't in the market for a van or anything like that. And we found one that was affordable (amazingly). Anyway, so we've traded in the Bonneville. It was a somewhat painful procedure - "Bonnie" has been very good to us. It was quite an adventure to buy a car. Neither Dave nor I had actually done it before. I made Dave do all of the price haggling by himself. I didn't want to be there because the thought made me sick - I just feel like somebody must be getting cheated. :-) It's impossible to know if we really made a good deal until we see how "Ruby" handles long drives and how long she lasts. But we feel pretty good about it - everyone we talked to said Subaru's last forever!

Dietrich's favorite place

Usually we'll make one trip per day to this playground. Dietrich makes sure I get my exercise. I ride my bike there on the bike trail that's near to us. Just recently he's really started to enjoy the swings. He liked them before, but not until recently would he stay there longer than a minute or two. Now he'll let me swing him for at least ten minutes.

Food Storage?

We bought a few garbage cans to store our 200 lbs. of wheat that we bought recently. Dietrich thought the cans looked like a good place for him.

"Where's Dietrich?"

With a squeal and a laugh: "Pop goes the weasel!"

Isn't he too cute for his own good?