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Good morning! A rainy Friday morning in this area. How is it where you are? The weekend looms ahead, any special things you'll be doing? Well now is a good time to relax around the Coffee Cart with friends, to converse, to offer and receive support, and to connect. This goes along with the coffee and tea, s well as the Wonderbaker's offerings. This morning there are churros, with several dips, some sweet and some savoury.
The tea water is at a boil, and the coffee is finished brewing. Churros are ready to eat, dips are nicely arranged. All is ready, everyone is welcome. Come in and join in!

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Thanks Red Baron.

I slept last night, whoop, whoop.

Think I may have turned the corner.

I know, quit whining....but sleep is such a gift

Plus, my bladder does not like me coughing. It needs time to recover too
 
Rainy here too. Great excuse to stay home and veg.
Glad you're feeling better and got some sleep Jayne. I did too! Five and a half *uninterrupted* hours. I even napped a bit yesterday. That's an improvement I'll take, although I wish it was more like seven hours. If I get up at fourish, I can't get back to sleep.
I see there is still some Nutella left to dip my churro in. Thank you RB.
 
Redbaron said:
Good morning! A rainy Friday morning in this area. How is it where you are? The weekend looms ahead, any special things you'll be doing? Well now is a good time to relax around the Coffee Cart with friends, to converse, to offer and receive support, and to connect. This goes along with the coffee and tea, s well as the Wonderbaker's offerings. This morning there are churros, with several dips, some sweet and some savoury.
The tea water is at a boil, and the coffee is finished brewing. Churros are ready to eat, dips are nicely arranged. All is ready, everyone is welcome. Come in and join in!

C(_)/ c\_/ c(_) c[_]
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The Wonderbaker needs to return to baking school. Churros aren't baked either
 
I am quite sure the Wonderbaker knows how to deep fry churros. I'll have a few and a big mug of hot chocolate to dip them in (how I had them in Spain years ago).

Good morning. Quite grey and grim here. Supposed to get colder as the day goes on, too.

So you ever had one of those moments where you realized something useful existed but you completely missed it? I had that yesterday. Found a very useful utility in our corporate accounting system that somehow had escaped my notice before. Doh.
 
chansen said:
Did I mention I'm looking at a new vehicle for my parents? This area gets plowed, but we're in a snowbelt (ski are after all) and streamers off Lake Huron can hit with little warning. Looking at a Subaru Forester or similar. Maybe an awd EV. We'll see. But it has to be able to clear a few inches of snow because my folks make the WORST decisions about when to go to the grocery store.
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Found the car in a 2026 model they want to clear out in Barrie, tried to do a deal Wednesday night but they lowballed the trade (expected) and needed my parents to come in, so I stopped the process. I can't drag them 1.5 hours each way for a couple of signatures.

Found that a Vaughan dealer had three in stock. Went there an hour before close. Gave the same lowball offer on the trade. I cut to the final, out the door number and took 12% or so off of it, figuring they could move about 15% on the trade and 5% on the car. This is where having a sense of what the vehicle can sell for and what the true wholesale value of your trade is can help. I want them to make money, but I don't want them to break out the Champagne when I walk out the door. So those numbers are different in every situation, but having a black book (wholesale) value of your trade in is important, as is information about what other people are paying for the new car.

So I took about 12% off their number and signed an offer and gave them my license so they could see I was legit. They signed back a round number that didn't quite meet me halfway. I went up a few hundred. They came back with a weird number that ended in 100 to make it look like they were sharpening their pencil to the bone and said that was their final number, but we were still $1100 apart. So I said I would think about it and asked for my driver's license back and maybe I would call tomorrow. Nobody ever calls tomorrow.

He came back with my driver's license and accepted my offer.

So, they make some money while clearing a car off their lot, and my parents get a car they can get into again and save a few thousand dollars.

The best was later when doing the paperwork, they asked me, "You've bought a lot of cars, haven't you?"

Not really. Five I think? I just do my homework and I know the tricks now.

If you're ever buying a car, you can do worse than the above advice. Or if you really suck at negotiating, there are purchasing services like the APA.

So now my parents have an EV. What the hell have I done?
 
chansen said:
So now my parents have an EV. What the hell have I done?
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Are they just charging off garage current or are you getting a level 2 put in? Just thinking of what we might do if we go EV (not likely though, given the CR-V is our long distance travel vehicle).
 
Mendalla said:
Are they just charging off garage current or are you getting a level 2 put in? Just thinking of what we might do if we go EV (not likely though, given the CR-V is our long distance travel vehicle).
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110V for now. Comes with one of those. Full charge could take 2 1/2 days. That's fine. Full charge at only off peak times could take a week, which may also not be a problem. We'll see.

Their case for an EV makes little sense, except they no longer have to stand in the cold to pump gas or get oil changes. I change the tires over and get minimal service done yearly. And at some point it's probably our car, but it gives them their independence back for a while. My mom couldn't even close the hatch on the 4runner anymore. My dad could barely climb in. This is much lower, but still has some extra ground clearance compared to a, say, Corolla.

A full charge is supposed to give you 450km but I assume sub-400km summer and closer to 300km winter. That's also fine. The longest runs will be about 250km with a potential charge stop in between, and that should be rare. We can't let go of the gas truck for many reasons, especially towing.

The charger deals really pushed it over the edge for us. Off peak rates in Ontario are 9.8 cents per kwh. You can get L2 chargers where you pay a deposit for the charger, pay an electrician to install, and after a few months you get the deposit back plus you're getting a 10 to 16 cent rebate on your kwh used. The companies are trading on carbon credits, so you're making money by charging. Not enough to justify fraud, but the energy component of your travel, after a payoff period of say a few months to a year, is essentially free. So I need to decide on one of those at some point, but may hold off for now. The deals keep getting better.
 
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I've only had churros once that i can remember.

It was at a food truck a few years ago

Perfect treat from the wonderbaker who seems to be able to pull magic in all forms of treat making.

Many thanks
 
I think, overall, you don't criticize the guy who greets you every morning, almost without fail, over a hypothetical baking infraction.
 
I've had churros a few times on travels. I think our ship even had a churros stand at breakfast on our last cruise but they charged extra for it so I didn't indulge. Disney had them when we were there years ago, too.
 
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