A fond farewell to an old friend....

The neighbors are jumping for joy, but Art is still having a hard time accepting that his old blue car has gone on to a better place - the junkyard. The fact that it was 19 yrs old, (he got it BEFORE we were married!) and had well over 200,000 miles on it proved it was well loved and well used. Gina took several photos of it before it was towed away on a flatbed. I think we are the only ones left in America (well, maybe besides Paul and Christine) that actually drive a car until it just can't go another mile. We like to get our money's worth, that's all!

Wow! Harrison Ford looks GREAT for his age!

Forgive the red eyes- I corrected them once, but now they're red again! Apparently Indiana Jones has has some rough nights! Vincent LOVED cracking that whip, and I must have taken about 30 shots trying to get a decent one of him. He was making a grimace when he would crack the whip, and every picture but this one has a really goofy look. This one just has crazy eyes! :)

He loves action movies, and we didn't understand why he didn't want to see the new Indy movie at the theater. But as soon as it was out on video, we headed to the redbox to get it. After watching it with him at home, we figured it out - it is not as SCARY at home, because the lights are on, and there is other activity in the house. And it was a kind of scary movie at times!

Oh, and here is my commercial for Redbox - have you seen a big red box outside of McDonald's, Walmart, and many other places? This is the best deal ever. DVD's rent for ONE DOLLAR. And you can return them at ANY Redbox. So if you are traveling, pick one up on the way out of town, and drop it off at the McDonalds 300 miles away at your destination. Then get another one for your trip home. We love Redbox! (no, we do not get paid to say that!)

Indiana Jones and Penny Pingleton went Trick or Treating around Keith Drive! Being the thrifty mom, we waited until everything was on sale before purchasing anything. We found an Indiana Jones hat and whip set - missing the whip! Well, I couldn't get the sales clerk to give me more than 20% off (my reasoning was that 50% of the product was missing!) so we left the store with nothing but a $2.50 bag of raffia - which I braided into a pretty cool whip. We're pretty sure it was sturdier than the whip in the kit. A friend loaned us her son's "real" hat, and another friend loaned us a coat - so we were set! Gina decided to be Penny - her favorite character from our favorite movie, "Hairspray". A trip to the thrift store got a skirt and shirt for $2.50! So for $5 we had two homemade costumes. Art of course was the happiest of all...

Art, Vincent and I went to Library Park in Miamisburg - next door to Vincent's old school - to see the Moving Wall. It is a traveling model of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in D.C. The number of names of those killed in Vietnam is staggering. It was an awe-inspiring and prayer inspiring day. We met and talked with Matt Maupin's father. Matt is a local soldier who was MIA in Iraq for several years, and just this spring his remains were found and brought home. Vincent talked to a few other vets as well, and also did some rubbings of the names of local servicemen listed on the wall.