The holidays are coming and one thing is sure – more than a few people will have to loosen their belts a little after enjoying those wonderful holiday meals. There’s Thanksgiving with the traditional turkey dinner, including all the fixings and topped off with pumpkin or apple pie. Then Christmas rolls in with anything from a crown roast, to a ham or even another turkey. Once again the sides

Want to help, too? (click here) Less than a month from now, on Saturday, Nov. 19, folks who know me know where they’ll find me; at the 10th Annual Shop With Cop party at the McHenry VFW, 3002 Hwy 120 east of the Fox River. The flyer for the event is above this. You can learn the basic information about the charity from the flyer but I’d like to tell you a little more since this is one of my

Joe has a nice two-and-a-half-car garage attached to his house in Wonder Lake. But, with projects and ‘stuff’ he hasn’t found a place for yet, instead of using the garage for his pickup truck, he has a set of sawhorses and materials on the floor where the pickup truck would go. His wife parks her car in the garage. That’s because she ‘insisted.’ “If you don’t want to clear room in

Oct. 12, 2016: what’s the significance of that date? For not a few Johnsburg residents, that is the first day of the coming winter season that they had to scrape frost off their car windows and windshields. This isn’t necessarily a happy thought but it is inevitable. Winter is coming and, unless you can move to another hemisphere, which isn’t a bad idea, you’ll have to deal with the effects

Imagine if cars didn’t have shock absorbers? Every time the car hit a pothole, your teeth would probably slap together painfully. Every bump in the road would announce itself jarringly. Chiropractor offices would have to expand their waiting rooms to accommodate the increased demand as driving gave more and more people bad backs. Shock absorbers help to make rides more comfortable. They even protect

That teenager of yours is so proud and there is a piece of plastic in their wallet that has given them this emotional boost. No, it’s not a credit card you’ve given them though, if you have given them a credit card, hopefully you’ve put some reasonable restraints on their use of the credit card. This piece of plastic gives your teenager the right to operate a vehicle on the roadways. That piece

One after another, a procession of Jeeps drove north on Route 47 in Woodstock Sunday. Judging by the mud splattered on the vehicles, this was a post-event parade of celebrants for folks who took their Jeeps off road. It seemed there were as many as 20 of them, all splattered with mud. One other similarity is that everyone in the Jeeps appeared to have a broad, satisfied smile on their face. Where

Auto insurance is another and substantial expense that adds to the cost of operating a vehicle. That makes the question, “How can you lower the cost of your auto insurance?” a poignant question indeed. According to AAA, the cost to operate a vehicle in America today is 60.8 cents per mile. That may not sound that bad but, when you consider how many miles we all drive, on average, it adds up. In

You may live in a community where you’re required to bring your car, truck or SUV in for an emissions test or you may live where that’s not required. Whatever the case, there is a device under your car that is designed to help your vehicle reduce emissions. It’s called a catalytic converter. The catalytic converter is part of your vehicle’s exhaust system. The exhaust system takes hot gasses

Whether you use your pickup truck for work or simply for transportation, the idea of saving on the cost of operating your pickup truck is a welcome thought. One way to save on the cost of operating your pickup truck is to improve your pickup truck fuel economy. If you operate a fleet of pickup trucks, pickup truck fuel economy is even more attractive. There are a few things you can do to improve