Finally after almost three weeks, I am driving legal again.  A couple of weeks ago I took my car into one of the garages in our area for it’s annual inspection.  Much to my dismay, it failed.  It need a couple of new parts and with the labour costs attached, it was going to cost me quite a bit of money to get it back on the road.  So, my husband bought the parts and I took it to a different garage to get the parts put on (a whole lot cheaper).  So this morning I headed back down the road to the original garage to have it re-inspected.  I am happy to report that this time it passed and at least for the next year I am legal again.  I did learn a valuable lesson this year and that is I will not be taking my car back to the first garage next year, but will take it to the second place I went to.  As the prices were a whole lot better and so was the service.

Over the years I have found that purchasing a gift for my father-in-law has become quite a challenge. As he gets older, it is become more difficult to purchase something that he doesn’t already have. Well I noticed last weekend that he wasn’t wearing his watch and when I asked him about it, he told me that last week his watch finally gave up on him. He doesn’t plan on purchasing another one until after Christmas when the sales start so I thought this would be a perfect gift for him. So I have been checking out the different prices and styles of ebel watches. Finally this year I will be able to purchase him a product that I know he will be sure to use.