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Asparagus Pee Chris Buys a NEW Car!

Chris Benson in his new Asparagus-Pee Mobile

Well, after driving an 18-year-old ’89 Honda Accord for over 16 years, I broke down last month and bought a 2008 Toyota Matrix XR.

It’s not the perfect car I’ve been dreaming of, but it was the closest fit to some pretty tough criteria:

  1. List price under $20,000
  2. Largest cargo capacity for a small car
  3. Over 30 mpg highway
  4. Moonroof
  5. Silver with grey interior
  6. Not embarassingly ugly

Here it is with the seats down.

By the way, if you think Christmas is coming earlier every year, please be aware that the 2009 Toyotas are already here. They came out the end of January.

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Picture Post

We’re on vacation in Monterey, going to the aquarium tomorrow and whale-watching on Sunday. We had some excitement last night — our upstairs washing machine overflowed, and we drained about 20 gallons of water through some holes I drilled in the living room ceiling!

That lawnmower I’m posing with is my new rechargeable electric mower. It’s very quiet, works like a million bucks, and there’s no cord. I couldn’t find one anywhere locally, so I ordered it from Amazon, and the weekend after it came, I wired an outlet and an overhead light with a light switch in my garden shed so I wouldn’t have to keep it in the garage.

The picture of the pool shows some strange items floating about called Solar Sun Rings — they’re supposed to make the pool several degrees warmer, and I hope they work because I now own 14 of the things, and they are obscenely not cheap.

Rechargeble Mower
New Toy!		 Ceiling Pee
The Deluge		 Ceiling Pee Cont'd.
Ceiling Pee
Solar Sun Rings
Solar Sun Rings		 Up a Tree
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Photo Post

Here are a few pictures I took yesterday morning before I went to work:

Primroses
Primrose Steps		 Plum Tree
Flowering Plum Tree		 Daffydills
Daffydills
Flower Cascade
Fountain of Flowers		 Fresh Dirt!
My New Garden		 Brocs & Cauliflowers
Broccoli in the Wild
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We had snow last week.

Snow around pool.Last Thursday, we had our once a year every few years snowfall that actually amounted to enough to play in. I went out late in the evening and took this picture of our pool in the snow – it’s a little grainy looking because it’s a long exposure with available light. Click for a bigger version. (It was much prettier in real life.)

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Oh my gosh, he’s gonna blog some more…

If you’re an APG&ONS fan, thanks for sticking by me. I haven’t blogged for a little over three months, because we moved to a new house, with a cool inground pool and this really neat stained glass window. The new place also has a tree swing for Emily &#151 and if you look really closely, you might notice that I have a special splint on my left foot &#151 I broke it about 4 days before the big move.

Here’s a picture of Emily with a lizard.

If I were blogging, I’d say something like click on that image of the two hair ads &#151 it looks to me like if you have curly hair, you need to straighten it; if you have straight hair, you need to curl it; and whatever color your hair happens to be, it shouldn’t be, so do something that appears to be really painful, judging from the picture on the box.