watching others you love going through want you did.

Well it has finally happened. another one of my kids is going through the family curse. Automobiles, they are a curse to the family. my daughter with 6 kids has a haunted S.U.V and a soldier for a husband who is far far away. and a father who used to do the wrenching on their S.U.V, who is almost far far away. so she with 6 kids(some sick ) is going through HE-- with her BMW(big mormon wagon) thank heavens for good friends who come to her aid. GO 1st CAV////// here i sit with 3 working vehicles and she's too darn far away to borrow one of them. not that i'd loan her one //////// but it's the thought that counts.

i remember when we had all 5 of our kids at home. we went through the curse for about 5+ years and 10 or so broken cars. i figured up once that between buying used junk and parts to keep the junk running that i spent close to $6500.00, so i got smart and took my bishops advice and bought a new car. now i will only have 1 junker at a time and 1 good running car to get me around in.

when my wife and i got married, the first 2 1/2 years of our marriage i owned about 15 different cars. each time i traded or bought someone else's trouble i would sink money into each junker and sell for less than what i had in it. my lovely bride wasn't impressed with my horse trading skills. i have now perfected my so called skills and i do pretty good. i have trained some of my kids in this fine art of horse trading.

some of the rides i had were nice, and if i had those same ones today i could make a fortune selling them. or at least i like to think so. my mom used to call me the family horse thief. i never stole a horse but i did make some pretty slick deals in my favor many times. well, now my kids need to hone their skills and come up with better transportation. i hope that she gets her S.U.V running so she can get to all the places a mother of 6 needs to go. you all have a great day and i'll see you in the funny papers.