Reminiscing

Here's my last car purchase, on...

Saturday, January 7, 2017.

It's been 16 years since I bought my last car. (Purchased in 2000, a 1996 Toyota Corola)
I dearly loved the 100,000 miles I sat behind the wheel in it!

But a 20 year old Toyota Corolla, even with only 2 old women owners, sometimes needs to be replaced.

So now I'm going to be happily driving a 2004 Toyota Echo. And a friend and her mother were the only owners...if that helps in any way. My friend named it Grey Hawk, which seems appropriate.

And yesterday, August 25, 2022, I said good-bye to the little Grey Hawk, leaving her in an impound yard to be towed to some auction for parts. 

I didn't write down the mileage she had when I bought her, but she shows 158,608 when she stopped at that small accident a week ago. Apparently it was enough. (I wasn't hurt, and neither was the driver of the car I hit.) 

Over the years I'd decorated her with some of my favorite causes. I will miss those stickers, and wonder now if I'll do the same thing to my next car...

So I am feeling sad, but working on finding another car. One of my granddaughters has gone away from home to college, for the first time. She was feeling a bit home sick. But I bet when she starts classes on Mon. she may forget all about that feeling. Same hope for me...shop for my new vehicle!

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My Blog from 2016...ah the life I was living just 6 years ago! Anticipation

I don't post much over at Alchemy of Clay any more...since I retired the second time from making clay 2-1/2 years ago.

I did enjoy finding that post to share, and reminisce of course.

Oh, and here's a blog of the finished hummingbird platter. Hummingbird Platter out of kiln

Today's quote:

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (23 Dec 1881-1958)