The Change

 

The Silver Scion Feline Fleet!
Long May They Live and Carry Cats to be Fixed!!!

There's been a good change here that has me very happy.

A friend called me Wednesday night.  Said her friend is selling her car and she told her about me and to call her right away.

Ok.  I will.  My heart was beating wildly.   I know the car.  I used to park next to it at Gleaners.  It looks exactly like my car, right down to the color, but is a year older and well maintained.

It has half the miles.

I called, sealed the deal pretty much on the phone within 20 minutes.  My neighbor took me over yesterday morning.   I bought it.  It was too good a deal to pass on.  $1500.   I got help with it.  That's cheaper than the last repair job on the other one, including the repair required to fix the repair.

They're also cat ladies, older, in their 80's now, don't need the expense on insurance of two cars.  They feed a young stray female I'll help get fixed.

My mind numbed afterwards.  What to do with the car I've got.  The younger in miles one smells so nice, not like mine, of male cats and age.   The younger in miles one has no loud rattles, grinds and NO dash lights are on.  How will I drive a car that doesn't display at least four to six dash warning lights?  LOL, I will manage.

It's a manual transmission also and the clutch is twice as reactive as in mine.   Made me think I wonder if the clutch is starting to fail in the one I drive.  The seat in the one I just got isn't worn out and I sit higher up and comfortable in it.  

I began to think I need a back up car.   I began to think I don't want to smell up the latest with cat hauling.  I decided to sign the one I've been driving over to my nonprofit and use it alone for cat hauling, until its natural death of old age.  Then and only then will I use the latest one to haul cats.  For awhile at least, I will have a car to myself, one that doesn't smell of a zillion cats I've hauled to clinics.  When the one I've been driving dies, I'll donate it to the FCCO.  They have a car donation program.

I called the state's insurance help hotline and talked to an extremely helpful lady on the how's of a teensy nonprofit "owning" a car and what type of insurance I would need for that and what else I should do, like I have to change the title over to HCC.  She was so helpful.   I talked to my insurance company and quickly they seemed to understand what I needed and changed my current insurance to the latest car and signed me up for a nonprofit commercial liability for the old one.   It was a lot of calling and the like but really easy with the help I got from the state helpline lady and my insurance.

Today I will take the two titles in to the DMV to get new titles/registration.

I'm pretty excited to have a new old car.  Yup, a year older than the one I have but half the miles.

And now the nonprofit owns a cat hauler, for as long as it lasts.   

If you didn't look closely, you'd think they are the same car.

My neighbors were going to take their RV to River Bend county park today to camps five or six days.  They've had the reservations for awhile.   Then the RV decided to break down and dump transmission fluid out.   He tried to get it back to where they store it.   He got out though, to open the gate, and then the RV wouldn't go, so he was blocking the gate in and out.  Last I heard, when I went to bed, he'd been waiting on a tow truck for a long while and was told it was possible they couldn't get one there last night.   I wonder if he had to spend the night there, waiting.  

 I told her I was sorry about the camp trip, since to cancel she'd have to lose quite a lot, maybe all of what she already paid for the nights they reserved and she said maybe she'll go anyhow and sleep in her car.   I thought "good for her" as I'd planned to go up Saturday to visit her.  She wants to try out my kayak and I was eager for her to do that, at the reservoir.  I think she'd love kayaking and then I'd have someone to go with, if she does.  She's disabled, with neuropathy in her legs, but her arms are fine.  Kayaking is great that way.