18 May, 2009

A few new items at West Jordan

It is quite some time from February until May. It must have gotten busy. It also may have something to do with issues uploading photographs, which kills enthusiasm to post somewhat.
Here are some highlights.....
March ..... We took one or two more showshoe trips and then got busy elsewhere.
April ..(14..)... Both of the ancient ones drove to Phoenix to see Joshua, Julie and the boys. G-Mom C. wanted to try out the Flagstaff route. Not too bad in spring, and shorter. The Phoenix folk mysteriously had pictures of G-Mom but GDadson actually was there briefly before heading back to SLC by air.

April ..(29)... there was a startling incident in downtown SLC in which the venerable Blue 96 GMC Safari van was suddenly rendered unusable. After 13 years of reliable transport, the owners were thrown abruptly into making other arrangements. Images of the crunched car would probably be too depressing, though I do have a profusion thereof, but I shall refrain for the time being.

May ...(3)... A suitable substitute was located at an interesting registered vendor near downtown SLC -- yet another instance of like model, so we are contentedly situated once again in a 2000 GMC Safari for the time being. I would post images of the new bird, but I am being lazy.
The seller is a sibling business of one of the local Airport shuttle franchises and they have operated the Astro/Safari platform for several years. It was interesting to deal with a fellow fleet operator - we just never thought of ourselves as "Fleet operators". Hmmm.

Official Vehicle Fleet color update: The official Clark fleet exterior color seems to have shifted from BLUE to SILVER ... and taken several other vehicles with it... to wit...
Melissa replaced her Blue 96 Tracker with a Silver (2005?)Tracker, following her recent total loss collision.
Only the 2002 Venture (LA family maintenance vehicle) remains Blue.

May ... (19) ... MomBeing recently brokered yet another arrangement for an updated (2003) Ford Windstar and it was, by coincidence also ..... Silver (or variant called Pewter)

May ...(18-22)... Dadson visited HK Systems Milwaukee WI office to get some pertinent technical info in preparation for an upcoming refit project at the brewery of yore at Columbus, OH, whence he is also headed on 18-22 June.

That's all for now unless I think of something else