Toad --and I -- Get Presents!

Forry took Toad back to Barton Jeep today and got him more presents.  Last week he got new tires all around and his front end aligned.  Today he got a new set of keys (Forry had dropped his key somewhere last winter and we never did find it -- we've been using mine.).  The key has to be specially registered to the car and the electronics in it programmed so that the door can be opened with the fob.  We have a key that opens the door, but will not start the car -- all this pricey anti-theft stuff you know. (Though now we have two plain keys, it's kind of funny, the guys at the Jeep place locked my key in the car while they were programming the new one -- they had to cut a new plain key so that they could open the door...)

Forry had also ordered a set of cross-bars to go on top of Toad so that we can carry our ladder up there. Up until now, we have been putting it in the back seat stretching into the rear.  It makes if very hard to take anyone with us or to carry groceries or anything else in the rig. It should make life a bit easier all the way around.

I stayed home with Auntie Violet and did laundry while the boys were off getting new toys.  Forry actually came back with something for me as well.  He had stopped at the office where UPS had delivered my new ASUS laptop.  I've gotten it all unpacked and the back-up recovery disks made, but that's about all so far. We had been planning to take my computer in to have it worked on, but then decided it was old enough that it would be better to get a new one...!