Road warrior

Jill's back from the first leg of the 2nd half of her Lutheran Author Tour. I asked for some posters from her trip, and she happily obliged - along with some potatoes from a writer friend's garden, apples from an apple picking adventure, and homemade granola from another writer, and...


While Jill was gone, I traded in my convertible:


for something more practical:


A Volkswagen Jetta TDI. It's a turbo diesel, and it gets almost twice the mpg of the Porsche. On a recent trip around town (using both streets and highways), I averaged 44.1 miles per gallon. Not bad.