May 2, 2010
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New Car
Here is Dan with his new car. Isn’t it a pretty color? We are now a two Hyundai family.
Don’t they look cute sitting in the garage together? Of course, mine is 8 years old and not nearly so fancy, but I like it.We are hoping to eventually need only 1 car, but we are not there yet. We sold Dan’s Subaru and have had only one vehicle for the past three weeks. To give you an example of why that is a problem, I will tell you about Wednesday of last week.
I was subbing in the senior high school, which is in Arlington, the town where we live. Dan is the advisor for the Leo Club in the junior high where he used to teach.. It is in Gaylord, a town about 8 miles away. Dan had a meeting with the Leos during the second hour of the school day.
I had to get up and take him over there early enough that I could get back in time to sub. Ordinarily, I could walk to school and would not need the car, but on Wednesdays, I work in the Targeted Services program in the junior high immediately after school, so I needed the car to get there at the end of the school day.
Because we were working with one car, Dan was three hours early for his meeting, so he had a lot of time to kill at the school. After the meeting, he had another couple of hours before he took the Leos out to clean ditches along the highway. The area they clean starts about halfway between Gaylord and Arlington. A school bus takes them to the starting point and they clean towards Arlington and then walk over to the high school to take a school bus back to Gaylord after school. Normally, Dan would take the bus back to Gaylord with the students, pick up his car, and head home. However, since I had to be at Targeted Services as quickly as possible after school, the car needed to be in Arlington at the end of the school day, so Dan met me at the car so he could drive me over to Gaylord for Targeted Services. He needed to drive me over because he needed the car to get back to Gaylord at 5:00 for our GED class.
Needless to say, we were tired of trying to juggle our lives with only one car!
By the way, Targeted Services is a program for kids who have the ability to succeed in school but are not doing well. I work with three other teachers. We help supervise them doing their homework and help them as needed. The students stay with us for two hours after school.
Comments (7)
nice car
It’s good to see you blogging again. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Ah that schedule made me dizzy.
The children are lucky to have you and your husband!! The cars do look cute…like sister and brother!!!
Beautiful car . Style , color . Dan can be happy and he is !
yes two cars often are a necessity as you show with your example .
We have a small car for the town center and another, larger, for the trips
You garage is wide and can be a shelter for two cars side to side . This is easier to get the cars in or out .
Love
Michel
Welcome back
you are still as busy as very 
@fauquet - Garages are very important in the United States. It is difficult to sell a house that only has a one care garage or a garage that requires parking one car behind another. Our garage holds 2 cars side by side. Most houses being built now have garages that accommodate 3 or 4 cars side by side. Not that people necessarily have that many cars, but they want the storage space. Many people here in Minnesota have boats that they store in their garages.