When we pick up our van from the dealership tomorrow, we'll be at least $700 poorer. You may remember that I've posted that we live in a very, very cool & cloudy climate (ok, it's downright damp & cold, but did I say that?

), so our pups can safely travel with us a lot of the time.
Well, we just found a big downside to that habit, besides vacuuming off tons of dog hair off of the seats & carpet. Seems that when we turn on either heat or a/c, that dog hair gets sucked into our van's HVAC system and has caused a hard packed mass of dog hair to plug up the system. We took the van into the dealership to get the coolant recharged (for when we do see the sun), we thought! Nope, much more expensive than that!
So on Monday when we pick up the van from the dealership, we'll be adding some fancy (ha!) retrofitted thinga-ma-jig that my husband is creating out of a small HVAC filter & probably duct tape (gadzooks) to the spot in the car where it sucks in the air to be heated or cooled. Hopefully, that will filter out the dog hair
before it clogs the system again. Who knew?

Still, it's all worth it.