MB bid at $412,000

58 300SL ROADSTER Silver Blue/Burgandy, Black soft top

And it comes with matching luggage . . .

Please let this be a mistake . . . I can’t think of any car being worth this amount of money. A nice knock-off would be okay, though.

An extra thought: Yes, yes, I see there are a lot of cars that cost a lot more. I just think it’s ridiculous and if someone gave me a billion dollars, I just wouldn’t buy it . . . Go ahead, Bill Gates, test me on that statement. Even a quarter of a billion . . .

Saying so long to the little green car – 1976 MB 300D

Well, I went down to Vorderman’s to pay for the last bit of work on the little green car before they discovered the brakes would require more money than I could justify spending on what my husband called “little greenie”. They are checking to see if someone wants it for parts . . . or not. The engine is great, the body, problems. Maybe I should take the hood ornament if it goes to the scrap yard. Well, we’ll see . . .

Here are some pictures of the last of greenie and of the drive back from Fort Wayne.

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Solo straws are suckable

Is the Solo Company still making straws for sale in grocery stores? I haven’t seen then at Wal-Mart or Kroger’s lately. I have had to buy a different brand for a few months now and my family and I have decided these other straws are “sucky” – yes, they suck at sucking.

You can do it, put them in a beverage and pull it up into your mouth by suction, but the flow doesn’t seem optimal. We have noticed that the newer straws seem lighter and narrower. But what were we to do? Then a couple of days ago, we found a package of Solo straws behind something in a cabinet. And, yes, the Solo model is more rigid and wider. You can, and I will post a picture, slide one of the newer straws into a Solo straw quite easily. I suppose with the proper use of duct tape you could create a long pipeline by alternating Solo and the other (let’s call them Yucky) straws.

This morning, while using a Yucky straw, I had trouble getting a steady flow of Diet Coke to feed into the bottom of a straw nestled in ice. Other times, the liquid gives the feeling of being “stuck” in the straw – as if the little molecules are fighting to make it into the mainstream flow.

While I was in the Google pool, I found a youtube video of some little girls using Solo Straws, obviously being filmed by a mother.

What would these girls do without Solo Straws??