Hey, it’s actually raining outside! Don’t see that very often around here. Been at least a few months. It cooled things down very nicely, at least for the time being. Supposed to get hot again soon, but we’ll enjoy the 80’s while they’re here.

One of our Major Events last week was car shopping. We’ve been kicking around the idea of selling all our vehicles and just getting one car. We were a one-car household when we moved out here, which worked fine, and then it all went bad. I don’t know what happened, but now we have 3 cars, the motorcycle, and the scooter. That’s a lot of registrations to keep track of, if nothing else. Anyway, for our single vehicle of choice, we decided on the Jeep Wrangler. Lots of reasons behind this. For one thing, you just can’t be rolling around our new neighborhood in the Benz’s. Likely to get profiled. We need to “fit in” a little better. It would also get us anywhere we needed during the occasional winter storm, which we are finding to be not-so-occasional the last few years. They’re also towable behind the motor home, which is a plus. We’d looked at them a few times already, and had become convinced we needed to wait for the 2024 models to arrive. Lots of cool new features on them. Well, they are here, with one big unexpected caveat. It seems Jeep has decided that even though the ill-thought-out gas vehicle ban in California doesn’t take effect for ten more years, they are just going to go ahead and quit shipping gas vehicles here now. I did NOT see that coming. It was a pretty short shopping trip, because I do not want an electric vehicle, and I do not want a 2023. Back to square one on the new car front.

Not much else happening. We drove out out to Sutter Creek yesterday, mostly just to enjoy the weather and eat lunch. The evenings were spent at home on the patio. Don’t want to waste these cool temps, need to take advantage of it! Oh, and I should mention, I’ve started my annual beard project. It’s a week old, and already driving me crazy. I’m just not cut out for facial hair. But again, I’m just trying to fit in around here. I am actually the only guy in a 37 mile radius without a beard of some sort. Plus, as Donette put it, I’ve been blessed with the ability to sport a sexy, handsome beard, and I should take advantage of it. OK, maybe I paraphrased her words a bit, but just a bit.