Okay, the title’s not so original, but it’s accurate! If you want to take these in order — FotoFeed having been updated from last Thursday — start here. The reason I sometimes post images in a series is to make it easier for viewers to know if they’ve missed a few days — so that one can always go back to the beginning of a series, in other words. FotoFeed is a labor of love. See if you can feel it.

Look, we can park in the driveway again!

That’s another sign of spring, the fact that the mud has dried enough to get the car down to the house. We still don’t leave it there most nights, however. There’s a nicer place to park up at the top of the hill. I’m still trying my damnedest to baby the new (2007 model) Vibe, considering the chassis-twisting rutted road between us and Vista del Valle, a dirt road that’s actually been graded, que milagro. I just hate to see it age at all, and of course there are already a few chips and scratches.

But boy do we like this car. Given our lifestyle and where we live, we’ve hardly had the thing in 5th gear at all. Even so, the last fill-up yielded 34.5 mpg, and that was all in-town driving. I can hardly wait to take a real road trip, like up to Iowa and back. I’ll bet we crack 40 mpg, easy.