Measuring Stick

One of the unexpected things that happened when I got married, was the loss of my own car. I married late, so I had many years of my own car. Now we share cars.
We have too many cars, so there's always something to drive, even if they are lined up under a long carport so I have to look out the window to see which keys I need to grab. And even though Eric refers to our Honda as your car, as in, "OK if I take your car tonight," it's not really my car. 
One hilarious and aggravating phase was when we mostly drove these three: a 1977, 5-speed Subaru; a 1970, 4-speed Saab; and a 1964, 4-speed Datsun pickup, not long after there was no longer a 1967, 3-speed Toyota. Got all that? Well, each of these vehicles has a different pattern for shifting - you know, the H, for those of you who actually drive/drove a manual shifting car? Every time I got in I had to stop and think about how to shift. There was nothing automatic (sorry, pun) about it, each had a unique shifting pattern. Luckily, when you begin to drive, you go fairly slowly, giving you time to remember to pull the shift towards you and then down, even if, in the next car in the line-up, you would pull the shift towards you and up. 
Then, by time time you'd get to Alma St and Saratoga St, it'd all be automatic, and you wouldn't think about it again until the next time you decided to drive, when you'd have to look out the window, grab the relevant keys and start all over again.
There are good things about me and cars: I haven't washed a car in years (one of Eric's fave things to do), I no longer keep track of any sort of maintenance, and I hardly ever have to put fuel into it. 
But, today I did fill up the Honda at the Freddie's fuel stop, just down the block from here. It was at 2 pm, and look how low the sun is; it occurred to me that the tall light pole would be a good measuring stick for the whole where-the-sun-is in the sky at any given time of day or year. Also, no need to use any filters or editing of any sort, because the top of the tinted windshield provides a nice shade of blue.