Car

Yesterday as I walked to the car from dropping Owen off I noticed something was hanging off of the bottom. Ugh. The Subaru has not had any problems until now, so I guess we are lucky (5.5 years trouble-free). It turned out the cover that fits across the bottom of the engine, called the air dam, had split in half - maybe got bumped if I ran over something, although I can't remember running over anything recently. The shop is ordering the part and will replace it Monday morning. Luckily we can still drive it around until then, so not such a huge deal.

Owen will be attending four birthday parties in the next two weeks. Every boy he knows was apparently born at the beginning of February.

Last night Douglas and I dropped by the school to attend a welcome family chili supper for the new families who will be coming to Birch Lane School thanks to the boundary changes. (Owen and Dan were at guitar.) Some families from our neighborhood who are currently at the other school were there, so it was nice to chat with them a bit. Mostly they seemed reasonably satisfied with the situation, although one is hoping the charter school will happen. We'll see.

Guitar continues to go very well. The past couple of weeks the teacher had given Owen the Star Wars theme songs (there are two; one main one and one for the "dark side") and he enjoyed playing those.

The SacBee has an entertaining story today about the musical choices of various presidential candidates at their rallies.