Tonight we'll probably test drive a Toyota Tacoma. Sounds like they're good quality vehicles. Ford has let me down though. The Ranger doesn't come with the full-size back seats, 4-door cab we need. The Explorer SportTrac does, but the bed is a teensy bit short, and worse, it's still based on the older Explorer base. I don't think it's going to be updated till maybe 2007. The newer Explorer base has better rear-wheel suspension for a better ride, the bed might be bigger in the updated SportTrac, things like that. I don't know that I want to wait that long for Ford to develop the new SportTrac. I don't like Chevy trucks. The Dodge Dakota is nice, but's it's almost gotten to be as big as a full-sized truck. So, we may have no choice but to fall into Toyota's hands.

School day tomorrow. I'll be home tonight, so will play with the kiddies. We haven't gone swimming yet this week, maybe they'll want to go tomorrow. I don't like swimming in the winter though, I always get chilled. John got chilled last weekend when we had to swim in the colder pool. I wonder if that contributed to him getting the coughing sniffles this week. Hanna has been coughing a bit this week too.

Julia was sick today, so I took the kids to Jessica's house this morning. I need to shovel off the driveway. I got behind after an icy snow we got a couple weeks ago, and now the driveway has a pretty good layer of ice and compacted snow on it that probably won't come up till we get a good stretch of warmer weather. Which may not be too far away, March is just around the corner.