Meet Bessie

After a number of trips to the hardware store that ended with copper pipe and lumber sticking out of the back of our Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Matrix, we decided to get Bessie. Here she is!



Bessie is a 2004 Chevy Silverado with an extended cab, full-size bed, and towing package. She gets a whopping 17 miles to the gallon, but since neither of us use cars for our work commute, that's not a huge deal. We kept the Matrix, which you can kind of see behind Bessie in the photo above.

Look - Bessie mostly fits in our driveway!

On her first trip to Lowes, she brought home 4 12-foot planks of composite board, 3 full-size sheets of plywood, a glass block window, a shopping cart full of plumbing supplies, and a bag of mortar with loads of room to spare.