Tacoma reaches 100% tomorrow, Dogs might not live to see it

Options Installed Tomorrow
When we got the truck, we had specified a certain set of additional options. Since the trucks don’t come with them, they were ordered and are to be installed tomorrow, actually. Front skid plate, roof rack, & running boards, oh my!

Oh, and Perma-Plate. ? It’s an additional option that struck our fancy. It’s basically a factory-applied protectant that they cover the exterior & interior with. Prevents stains, cost us an additional $600. Thing is, it also includes an annual interior & exterior detail job for 5 years. That itself typically goes for $200-$300 a pop, so after 2 years it’s paid for in its entirety. We felt it was worth it, since an annual detail job is something we budget for anyway.



Dogs might be dead before end of month
Last night I get home and they had eaten a couple of the speaker wires run to our back speakers. This includes the subwoofer. I am understandably pissed.

I should have seen it coming. Two days before, they had pulled up the wire cover that goes across the floor. Didn’t touch the wires at that time, just pulled up the cover. It was clearly a warning; a sign of what was to come.

Little bastards -- no one takes my bass away and lives.



Eating a whole lot more than we had figured initially
They’re hungry little guys! We had assumed that they’d cost us about 2x as much as the current two we have. We figured incorrectly. We figured, multiply our current food intake by two and then put an equals sign and look at the number, done. Doesn’t quite work that way. See our old food intake schedule was based off of one hungry lab and a mutt that hardly eats. Now we have 3 have three hungry labs and the same ol’ mutt that hardly eats. So it’s closer to 3x the rate of food intake.

I bought a 50lb bag of dog food for the labs (they eat different food than Zoey as she as skin issues) on August 12th. As of today (the 20th), I figure I have a week left. That puts a 50lb bag at two weeks. That’s 100lbs a month just for the labs, not considering the amounts zoey eats. Though that’s not much, as I said.

I just wish they’d sh!t less. Especially on the sidewalk at night. Bastards.