Had a long and expensive weekend at home. The trip back Friday was a bit rough due to the holiday traffic so I had to detour through Maggie Valley and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With the warmer weather, the Miata has had a rough time keeping cool.

Friday afternoon was interesting. Teran was thrilled to see me, but Roxy was more thrilled to show me her trophy. I'll let the pictures do all the talking.

Saturday morning I went to the gun show and picked up a Springfield Armory XD-45LE. I hope to head to the range with it sometime this week.










Sunday I decided to flush and refill the cooling system in the Miata and see if it would help it's cooling issues at all. I had a difficult time removing the stripped drain plug and an even harder time finding a replacement for it (which I didn't). I decided to go with about 25/75 coolant/distilled water ratio along with a bottle of Redline Water Wetter. The car seemed to run much cooler on the trip back down Monday night.

Monday, Katrinda and I decided to rundown to the Ford dealership to check out a diesel excursion they had. Unfortunately it sold before we got there. On the way home we decided to stop and get something to eat. Just by chance we passed by another dealership and I spotted another Excursion. We pulled in to check it out, and long story short, we traded in her Maxima on a 2000 2Wd diesel Excursion.

I took it down to the gas station and filled it up for her. The tank was about empty, so it was a very expensive fill up. Luckily this thing gets about 20 mpg, so this tank will last a while.