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It was total luck, Juice. Guy cancelled the day of delivery and I just took it. It is a great drive- very similar to the NC Miata but a little quicker and more rigid.
Would have been nice to have a convertible though, but for me with my kids it's still nice to have a back seat in a pinch.
tom
The mere mention of trading in the convertible for a hard top (sans roof) set off a revolution in my house. My kids stopped talking to me.
I think I'm going to pull the trigger on an '11 Fiesta today. I have everything lined up on it, so at this point it is just a matter of closing the deal. It's not the color I would have preferred (I would have gone with yellow blaze metallic), but I'm also saving several thousand over any other car I was considering (new)... and it has just under 14K on the odometer.
Thoughts? And, be candid - I know it's a crazy color, and I've already reconciled myself to that.
Still a nice looking little car!
Watch the trans if it's auto. A co-worker had to replace hers and it was even that same color.
And juice, the PPE was my '98 Grand Caravan; this one has to be something different.
I'm pretty sure salmonberries are more of an orangish-red, Steve. I need a name for it. The salesman said the previous owner, an older lady who traded it in on a Nissan Cube, called it "Ruby." It's not the right color for the name, though, and we already have a car (a Porsche, no less!) in the group with that name.
Overripe salmonberry. :P
Er, artificially colored salmon roe?
Pretty similar in color to my sister's '05 Forester.
Congrats on the new ride.
She is teaching 7/8 language arts (including some honors sections) at an intermediate school not far from us (or from her).
(Mom is so proud ....)
I like today's Fords. The Fiesta drive well and is even kinda fun. Hope it works out for you Wes.
tom
then on Saturday, the principal hired a 4th teacher so they could have four classes of 20. oddly, my son has already been moved from one class to another to balance the move of a boy with "several behavioral issues". they were vague, but I got the gist that the new teacher simply couldn't handle this boy, and my son's original teacher was a better fit.
well, yay. I went all the way through the public school system more than 30 years ago, and it was just fine. but this isn't a good start...
I can't believe your son is ready for school already! Heck, it didn't seem long ago at all when you were excited to be welcoming him into the world!
My daughter missed the public school's age cutoff by a month, so even though she is both academically and socially ready for kindergarten this year, she's not allowed to attend. I can't believe she'll be five in another month....!
We have her enrolled in a preschool with a kindergarten program, so I'm hoping that next year we can get her moved in to first grade rather than stagnating her with another year of K.
Sorry for the double post to everyone else.
You can click here to see the other two that I posted previously.
(Congrats Bren!)
I suspect it will take a four to six weeks before I get my first good windshield ding. It has a leg up on the Forester, though, in that it already has a few small chips in the windshield without cracking. My first small chip in the Forester sent a crack all the way through it. The next couple did the same thing. Basically, the glass on that Subaru is junk. As with many things, they don't make windshields like they used to!
Speaking of kids...
Son David will be switching jobs in mid October. He'll be moving to Frederick, MD, next month and will be an optometrist at a pretty big regional optometric practice. He'll be the chief eye doc at one of their Hagerstown locations.
Bob
Brenda, I'm sorry that I somehow missed your post (I even responded to a post Colin made that turns out to be in response to yours!). She's a brave soul working middle school! At this point in the game, though, it literally doesn't pay to be choosy.
Another school nearby has 3 classes of 31 each ... they WANT to split the classes and hire a 4th teacher but there are no empty classrooms in the building. They are trying to figure out if they can put up another wall somewhere to create a room ...
It used to be that you knew pretty closely what your school population would be early enough to plan, but now there are open enrollments within and across districts competing for the meager state education dollars - as well as the $$ being drained through the expanding voucher program.
31 kids in a class is crazy, though.
Around here the PTA is strong and 25+ is split, no doubt.
Then again around here they just add temporary trailers, usually for the oldest kids.
That seems to happen every year. One teacher decides they don't want the job a week before school begins and the districts start scrambling to get someone.
Around here the PTA is strong and 25+ is split, no doubt.
My town tries to keep it to 21 or so. Beyond that and it gets crazy.
Then again, we have great support for the schools here. We built a new elementary school last year and the middle school is undergoing a complete overhaul and addition. The high school got a new turf field and grandstands last year and the middle school will get a turf field in the spring as part of the renovation.
She texted today that one of the high schools (same school corporation) called her today to ask for an interview ... She would have preferred high school (and it is the same one her oldest attends), so she was a little disappointed they didn't ask a few days sooner. She is still happy to have the job and says so far all the staff has been very nice to help her get going ..
I am feeling very pleased to be living in Australia. Average class sizes here in Victoria for all primary is 21.6 kids and pupil teacher ration of 11.8. Prep to Grade Two has smaller classes.
I was president of a primary school for many years and we aimed for about 20-24 in senior classes and 16-18 for juniors.
It was very welcome after Britain where class sizes were much larger.
Cheers
Graham
Loved that little car! Unfortunately it all ended in a big crunch when an impaired driver with a vehicle weighing about 2x ran a light and turned our car into a compacted accordion.
I ordered a Katzskins leather interior kit for the Mazda and this week I installed it. Man what a job, my hands are cut to bits the edges on those damn seats are sharp as razors.these are not covers that go on over the existing upholstery, the existing stuff has to be removed and the new leather installed with hog rings.
It turned out super, the worst part of the whole process was getting the leather covers on the headrests, and getting the centre armrest reinstalled in the back seat.
The inserts still have to installed on the door panels, but I am seriously considering taking the inserts off the panels and entrusting those to a professional upholsterer, but we will see, maybe when I get them off I will give it a go. I got perforated leather so hopefully it will be good in the hotter weather.
Cheers Pat.
Do you even have the heat/steam machines to shrink and soften the materials?
That's no joke! Pics please!
Thursday morning I hadn't been up too long when I noticed my feet and ankles were swollen and the left a bit more than the right ... so ... being the person I am who leaps to the most dire conclusion possible ... I called to make an appt to see a dr right away (and I've only been to this doctor about twice in 12 years so I'm not a 'frequent flyer' lol). They had an appt at 11:10, principal agreed to allow me to go at that time and off I went ...
the surprise ... my blood pressure was quite a bit higher than normal ... (150 over 92) I TAKE my blood pressure pretty regularly because high BP does run in the family on both sides, but I've never had a reading that high before ... Well, the bottom line is ... don't think it's anything terribly serious (like a blood clot), but they did prescribe a mild diuretic to try to control the blood pressure ... took the first pill yesterday morning and so far I've lost 5+ pounds since Thur morning! (easiest weight loss I've ever had lol)
I'll go back in a month to be checked again and I'll take my BP cuff to check against the one in the dr's office just to be sure it's reading correctly ...
guess it's really time to lose that extra weight I'm carrying around ... ....
Only diet I've ever been on that worked was to not eat, and that's no good for you either. So just after Thanksgiving 2010 I joined a local gym and dropped about 60# in 9 months and have maintained that so far. I probably eat a little less, but I haven't changed what I eat.
It's really pretty basic. Burn off more than you take in. But it does take effort, either to eat less or burn more or some combination of both.
The biggest obstacle/motivation I got was when I said to people that I was going to join the gym, their general response was something like "That will work IF you go". Took about 3 weeks before it became a habit and I'd feel bad if I didn't go. And with the shower and steam room and sauna at the gym, I've hardly showered at home so I'm saving on hot water at home as well.
You can do it, but YOU gotta do it.
This was also our first week with students. We have a week of pre-planning before. At the end of last year, I was told I'm doing sixth grade world history again; that was a huge disappointment as I've been doing it for six years already. Two days before pre planning, I get a call from my principal telling me he decided to give me eighth grade American History, what I've wanted for years.
So far, I'm happy with them...three classes of advanced students and two at-level, all good kids so far; classes are 21, 21, 23, 22, and 22. Florida has a class size amendment of 22 in middle school that districts either follow or pay fines. We have a new textbook and a new AP from high school who seems to be obsessed with discipline and statistics; we all feel she won't last long in middle school, she's clueless.
On the Subie front, Lil Blue just keeps on going, 110k miles on her and strong, but I recently had to put a new cv boot and tranny flush. Her mileage is terrible and I'm frustrated about that. The Porsche gets better mileage and I'm tempted to make it my dd. any suggestions on the mileage problem, fuel filter, plugs, etc? Let me know.
Brenda, have a great year with the kids.
Serge
Thanks for the Katzskins report Pat. I like messing with stuff like that but it's been decades since I owned some hog ring pliers. There's just something fun about taking car seats out and dragging them inside your living room. :shades:
Yeah, I'll keep an eye on the BP ... I had already been trying to eat 'less sugar', 'more fiber', 'more vegetables', 'less sodium', and 'less processed food' ... but I know it's not quite enough ...
Exercise regularly, eat healthy and lose a little weight and your BP should improve a lot.
The last thing you want to be on his BP medications. They can make you feel 'energy- less' and tired.
Although the absolutely INSANE idea of finishing a marathon is scratching at my skull
It was fairly comfortable and we managed to get 38.06 combined fuel economy over 811.5 miles. That's twelve miles per gallon better than we would have done with the Forester. And, at $3.80 a gallon, we saved a solid $40 or more having taken the Fiesta. If it can do that with four passengers and loaded with gear... check please!
Another bonus is that the little sucker is just a blast to drive; especially through the twisty stuff. There are a few curves that cause me to slow down in the Forester. In contrast, the Fiesta handles the entire length of the Parks Highway so well with the cruise set at 70, that I am sometimes tempted into tacking on another 10 or more mph just to enjoy a particular set of curves now and again.
Sorry your Fiesta days ended in such an unenjoyable fashion, but at least you made it out in one piece!
The kids still had fun (at least when they were able to go on a ride or two), but aside from that it was just crowds and
beggarsvendors.Primarily, we visited my grandparents and a couple friends who live in the area.
I didn't see your purchase story shared on the CCB thread, did I miss that?