Happy New Year. . .

Ahhh, yes. . .that first blog entry of the new year. Two thousand and seven rolled on in quite merrily and so far seems to be a pretty good year, at least from my own personal perspective. I have kinda wondered if anyone else has decided to call this the 'James Bond Year'. . .after all, it has been a lonnng time since we had a year containing the numbers double-oh seven. If that is the dumbest idea expressed by me this year I believe I will be on a roll.

 

I am sitting here at the moment enjoying a bottle of Pepsi and the feeling of accomplishment that comes when you accomplish something. The right front tire on the Buick has had a slow leak for a spell and I had grown weary of re inflating the thing every time I stopped at Meijer for fuel. So, I finally jacked that sucker up, brought the tire into the house, and made it stop leaking. This feels especially good as I had almost talked myself into going to Discount Tire and having them do it. I have no idea what having a flat repaired would cost these days, but I have no doubt at all my own labor costs less, and probably a lot less.

 

So, now I have my leak-free front tire sitting in my bathroom sink where I can walk past and admire it every so often. I am going to take our local weather forecaster at his word, which is that the rain currently falling will cease sometime this morning, and that our present warm spell will continue. As long as I already have the car up, if it actually does hit fifty degrees on Friday I am gonna go ahead and do the front brakes, as well. May as well get it out of the way now, instead of waiting 'til it has to be done. Sure as God makes green apples we would be ass deep in snow when that happened. I would rather not see that happen, as a quick tour around the yard today revealed to me that my crocuses are already on the rise, which is kind of an odd sight for the fourth day of January. What the heck, we may as well decide we are through with fall and get started with spring. Perhaps the boys and I can go for a bike ride through Riverfront Park this weekend.