Today just didn’t go the way we had planned.

Audrey is home sick, Errol hasn’t been sleeping well.

Today was dance day.  I took Olivia and Clara down there, then Errol and I ran some errands.  We went to the mailbox and then the Coop to get peanut butter, or “Pee-te-ta” in Errol-speak.

We went back up to the dance place and Errol went to play with the trains.  I went to round up the girls and I heard Errol start crying.  I picked him up, having no idea what happened and in a few seconds I took him away from my shoulder and he was covered in blood!  He had a bloody nose.  I used some bathroom towels to staunch the flow and it stopped fairly quickly.

Stephanie was surprised, that’s for sure.  I think he fell against the train table there.

Then on the way home I turned onto the dirt road to take Clara home and my exhaust pipe fell apart!  Right at the back end of the catalytic converter.  So the weight of it was all hanging on the manifold.  I turned around and drove home slowly, if I went too fast I could hear the catalyst hitting the road.

And I just got a new oil filter and this very day, a set of rear brake pads.  I need to get two new tires, one snow and one summer.  But the 850 has an oil leak, rust issues and 256000 miles, and I feel I got my $500 worth out of this car in the last year.  So maybe it’s not worth putting any money into it.   There was a 1998 VX70 (all-wheel drive) for $1200…