Handy Toyota

I recently wrote a semi-satirical blog about my four-month mark at Handy Toyota, and how I’ve made some significant progress within that time period.  I recently put together my third monthly report, something I am to do every month, however did not during the April to May period due to my vigorously thorough training (truth be told it was far superior to any half-way training I’ve received anywhere else).

Again, here we are four-month through my lifelong sentence, or hopefully lifelong, should things continue on this route, and I”m amazed at what I’ve accomplished at Handy Toyota and HandyToyota.com.  It’s odd, really, after so many years of feeling completely unappreciated to finally land a job that I excel at and enjoy in equal quantities, not to mention the sensation that I am my own man.  Obviously I have a couple of people I answer to, and I in no way mean to imply that I’m some high-ranking official around this joint, but I do get to make my own schedule, work at my own pace, and essentially do what I want, assuming what I wish is within the realm of my duties.  Since I have a lot of them, it leaves a great deal of freedom.

So anyway, each month I report to my superior the results of the previous month, and all I can say is WOW.  We have done extremely well, and the better I get at my job the better I understand both how good the groundwork was laid before my arrival and how well I am taking that excellent work into the future.  I don’t mean to build myself up to be some absurdly excellent Internet Manager, but I am quite proud of what’s occurred thus far.  Furthermore, I would love to divulge to the world exactly what kind of growth I’ve encountered and what kind of work has been done, but unfortunately in this business there’s a lot of poaching, and I feel like divulging specifics might cause more detriment than the slight ego boost that would accompany some such.

I can say, however, that we’ve experienced growth just about across the board.  High quantities of unique content, i.e. content that is special to Handy Toyota, and large increases in traffic in just about all areas are some things I’m very proud of.  I put together a list in my free time a couple of days ago, just to get a solid sense of what I’ve done whilst at Handy’s, and again, the information was simply astounding.

I remember at an old job I had a lifetime ago I was treated as inferior by anyone willing to even lay eyes on you.  Heck, I couldn’t even get the owner of the last company for which I worked to say hello to me.  When I’d say “hello [for anonymous reasons we'll call him] Mr. B,” he would literally look at me and look away; I guess you don’t know how infuriating that is until it happens, significantly since someone else,  not himself, had built the entire framework for his success, not to mention my intelligence quotient is 131 (and, now I’ll brag a bit, I didn’t answer anything if I knew I didn’t know the answer, that way I wouldn’t “accidentally” boost my score–I’m pretty proud of that).

Anyway, four months are down, and there are plenty more to come.  Hopefully I can sustain this level of enthusiasm and effort, although hopefully is quite unfair to me because I know I can.  I hope that things continue as they’ve been around here with great support, good people, and the one thing that stinks is the parting of our high-school kid turned college student Matt.  He’s great, a good worker, and very, very helpful.  His replacement just showed up, and seems like a good kid as well, so hopefully I’ll continue to get the support I need to make my job as excellent as possible.

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan

Handy Toyota

cdugan@handycars.com

Over the last few months, there has obviously been a lot said about Toyota vehicles and whether or not they have lost their touch. I’ve retorted several times that no, they have not lost their touch, and it shocks me that 12 months ago we all praised Toyota as the safest of the safe, the most reliable, and all the rest of that jazz (I do not mean us as a Toyota dealer mind you; I mean us as a populace, because 12 months ago not only did I not work for anything Toyota-related, I really never had it in my mind that I would).

So a story comes up on Google, and one of the three to four blogs I write about Toyota’s per week get reamed for having said something not to my liking. But this week it’s different. I just read a story on USA Today regarding the recent National Investigation that yielded the result of “no electrical malfunction yet found.” The USA Today story went on to explain that while people have been told for the last 90 days to remove doubled-floor mats, the issue is still a problem. Sounds good right? Well the beginning of the story claimed “Toyota is sticking with the ‘it’s the driver’s fault’ explanation.”

Now, I don’t know much about the technical side of the automotive business, at least technical in the sense of how cars work. I’m knowledgeable enough to change my own oil, replace an air filter, and other such things that most people pay for (perhaps because I’m more mechanically inclined then I’d like to think, or more likely because my Irish decent causes a great deal of tight-wad-ism), but this just bugs me right to death. It seems like no matter how many sorry’s are said, no matter how much money is spend per hour on safety, and no matter any other tactic Toyota employs to ensure it’s customers of their intent to not only rectify the situation but ensure this never happens again (whether it’s their fault or not!), the media powers that be have resolved to constant mudraking in the vein of a Presidential election.

What about BP? How come I only hear a story every couple of days regarding these folks and their total disregard for the damage they’ve caused? The outsider could easily say that I don’t pay as much attention to them as I would Toyota, but the opposite is true; I’m on the computer every day of the week, and my boss demands that I take a 10 minute break a few times a day to read up on current events. After 90 days, there isn’t much I’ve missed. There are only so many issues one can read on Google news before it’s the same ol’ same ol’.

So I digress, what is it that causes this media frenzy and straight out blackballing of the Toyota brand? Again, 100 days ago Toyota was lauded as THE car for the everyman. Naysayers deemed the Toyota a non-American brand, but recently it’s been released that the Toyota Camry is in fact the “Most American” Car on the market by way of part composition, assembly, and sheer number of sedans driven in the country. My Mother would not let me drive anything BUT a Toyota when I was 16, because as a young-and-dumb kid, she knew I was apt for a few fender benders. But she wanted me to be safe, so she put me in the ’91 Camry that had passed through her, my two stepsisters and my own sister, only to come to me with ridiculous miles, unparalleled gas mileage (even then it got 37 mpg!), and again–safety!

I’m here to say enough is enough. The United States Highway Safety Commission has deemed that, thus far, there is no electrical malfunction in any Toyota and that it is Driver error. The ABC “Death Ride” was also debunked, as an professor that wasn’t paid by the lawyers suing Toyota, as the “Death Ride’s” so-called “professor” was, proved that with the same electrical manipulation, a 12 other vehicles of non-Toyota make can also go haywire. Where does it end? This likens to the TV lawyers that say “do you have x, y, and z? Maybe you THINK you have it? Or maybe you don’t know it yet? Well call me and I’ll make your rich off some ill-gotten gains.” It’s just sad, and it makes me wonder what happened to the honesty we used to root for in this country.

I hope by next week something has changed and an apology has been issued (just as Mr. Toyoda issued an apology when this all started, whether he needed to or not). And I certainly hope an end is in sight to this horrible mud-slinging that has become so common place in the American business realm.

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan
Handy Toyota
cdugan@handycars.com

Meteorologists have been on the black list for so long, it?s almost cliched at this point.  Whatever they say, we all know it will be the opposite.  In Vermont, it usually plays to the tune of ?there won?t be any snow tonight, folks!??then we get a four-foot dumping and everything gets shut down for the day.  Otherwise, such as when I was in grade school and looked forward to those snow days, it was ?get your kids ready!  Tomorrow schools could very well be closed!??in this case, not a flake of snow fell from the sky.

As I said, we?ve grown accustomed to this ridiculous ineptitude regarding the forecast, and it?s really become something of a running joke.  I remember when I was a young boy and my mother?s husband would say ?the weatherman says it?s going to be sunny this weekend; the camping trips canceled.?

So it should come as no surprise that when we were told the cold front would be moving in yesterday, Friday, and that rain would pound down in the afternoon that it didn?t happen.  Well, it rained, but it was around midnight, so I?m not going to count that in the Weatherperson?s favor.  Regardless of the fault that is the weather forecast, it was so nice to get some rain and cooler weather.  That rain does evaporate obviously, and that yields some uncomfortable humidity, but considering how the past week?s weather behaved, it can?t really get much more humid anyway.

When I came in early to work today, it was so nice to not have beads of sweat forming over my brow from a five second walk.  In fact, I turn my air conditioner up to 75 degrees at night, so when I walked in there wasn?t much difference, wherein the past few days it was night and day.  That said, even with this Saturday-respite from the heat, last night was just as brutal as days past.  I really could NOT fall asleep, and I haven?t had insomnia for a couple years now.

That?s a funny story actually?I suffered from BRUTAL insomnia a couple years back, when I was working for Bob Jolley, former President of SB Collins, Inc.  For ten nights I didn?t sleep a wink; it was so unbelievably hard to overcome that lack of sleep, and last night reminded me of that.  There?s nothing worse than being so tired your eyes are just about bleeding (in terms of redness, mind you?I?m no stigmata) and all you can do is look at the walls and thrash in anger from your bodies wacky behavior.  Thank the good lord this instance occurred through the winter, because had that been coupled to the extreme heat and humidity of late, I think I?d be in the Brattleboro, VT asylum.  Honestly, for those of you who?ve never dealt with insomnia, I envy you.  It?s kind of fun, in a masochistic sense, because the days go by so quick.  Suddenly an 8 hour work day feels like a five minute hike to work, and the ten-day stretch feels like a couple of minutes.  As hellish as it was to endure, it was equaled only in bliss when I finally got to sleep.

Well, that?s it for this Saturday edition of the C-Digz Word Press Rant (I think that may be the new title since by Saturday I?m out of topics to write about), so I?ll speak with you again on Saturday next?try to stay cool and be cool my friends!

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan
Handy Toyota
cdugan@handycars.com

Being of Irish decent, us pale folk are not able to tolerate this heat.  Yes, I hear your thoughts, my friends??it?s Vermont, it?s summer, that?s what happens.?  I agree guys, don?t get me wrong.  My problem relates to global warming, or whatever the culprit may be.  I don?t understand, not being a meteorologist, why it has to jump from 65 degrees to 95 in the blink of an eye!  It?s quite unnerving, and as I said, being a bit pasty (or a lot, depending on which of my friends you ask) I just cannot tolerate it.  From a strictly biological viewpoint, I just don?t have the melanin to support this kind of ultra-violet exposure.  And as a quick side note, I don?t wear sunscreen.  Every day it seems I wake up and see on the news that some other pharmaceutical, homeopathic, or other medication or over the counter anything is causing cancer, or IBS, or some other g-d-awful symptom.  When that day comes, I will not be disappointed that I wore the sickness-inducing sunscreen?I mean honestly, what kind of chemical blocks out the power of the sun?!?but if the latter occurs I?m sure I?ll condemn my decision thusly.  Either way you look at this, it?s just paranoia with a bit of psychosomatic narcissism splashed in.

Handy Toyota was closed on July 4th, being a Sunday it would have been anyway, and the fifth as well.  I was lucky enough to get my first three-day weekend since I began working here, and since I work six days to bring you Handy-fans this great content (that?s right?I know you love it), having a three-day weekend was like getting a full week off.  I even wrote this blog on my downtime, started my own website, wrote some game reviews, and did a side job for the Service Manager here at Handy?s, Joe Luneau.  It?s funny, when I worked at another local employer after college; I absolutely abhorred the manual labor I did there.  I?m a little dude, and I always knew I wasn?t cut out for that.  I am in no way disrespecting those that make a career out of this type of work, on the contrary I have a great deal of respect for both your skill, dedication, and the fact that without you society would not be as we know.  I?m just a little guy, like I said, and though I?m no weakling, when you couple my small size with a slightly debilitating muscular condition, it makes sense that I always thought I?d be doing something like I am now?sitting at a desk typing away (I can after all type 105 wpm).

Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that I got this side job of stripping wallpaper and repainting an apartment building for Joe and it was quite relaxing.  That?s not to say I love my job, because I really, REALLY love my job (that isn?t for my employer to see, I swear; he is aware of the fact already), but it was odd to get back into that which I once did.  Of course, the notion that it was non-lasting probably helped dissuade me from disliking it too much, and he did offer rather than demand which always helps.  Nonetheless, it felt good to get my hands dirty once again and use what I learned at my last job.  Though my ?little guy? rant may have implied that I am no good at that sort of labor, I actually do quite well I?m told.  It was a treat, too, after the hustle and bustle of this job to kick back, strip some paper, and take my time.

But the super-long weekend is over, and it?s back to my guns on the web.  Stay tuned folks:  we have some great content rolling out soon all over our handycars.com and handytoyota.com websites, including new specials, lease specials, more community events, new blogs, and much more.  Don?t stop logging on, because in five minutes you can see something really neat each and every day?after all, that?s what I?m here for, and if you?re not enjoying it then I?m not needed.

Feel free to send me your comments at the email address below or though the comment section of this blog, our official blog at handytoyota.com/blog/index.htm, and like I said keep up on our website, Facebook page, and all that jazz because we?re really excited to make your next trip to HandyToyota.com a great one.

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan
Handy Toyota
cdugan@handycars.com

“I was feeling enormous pressure and was full of anxiety as I went in to bring up the rear of this losing battle,” Bloomberg Financial reported Mr. Akio Toyoda had stated at the onset of an annual stockholders meeting in Toyota City, Japan.  He went on to say “We were confined there and felt like criminals.  We crammed from morning to late at night, and I thought I might become ill.”  Finally, the saddest part of the whole ordeal, Toyoda said matter-of-factly “We felt like Criminals.”

Now forgive me, readers, but Saturday’s WordPress blog is my day to rant, so buckle yourselves in.  How absurd is this recall situation going to get?  Toyota is doing a fantastic job from my opinion, as well as in the mind of our GM here at Handy Toyota, and our GM’s no spring chicken.  He’s been around the industry for a good deal of time, he goes to all the corporate sponsored events and mingles with dealers from all locations, and he thinks Toyota is doing a good job handling the recall.  So why, I ask you, is Mr. Toyoda being confined to tight quarters and led to court hearings as though he has done something wrong on a citizen’s level?  I realize there’s an issue with Toyota vehicles, and though I personally feel outlets like ABC and others with their own agendas and commercials to sell are reaping the rewards of this mudraking, the most disheartening thing is the whole “under confinement” issue.

I remember in late 2008 when the folks on Wall Street decided they would like to stop being responsible members of society, and instead of taking the money that was labeled “Bail Out” and using it to stop the decline of our economy, what did they do?  They bought themselves new $2,000 Armani sports coats, thousand dollar bottles of cologne, and went to a fancy restaurant, all because this supposed bail out money was really just Bonus Money.  So $17 Billion and a seemingly unending use of taxpayer money is not criminal, but taking the necessary steps to correct an error is?  This just doesn’t sit well with me, and I’m a bit discouraged to think that the system in place allows for the improper use of tax dollars yet warrants persecution of a seemingly benign fellow who wants nothing more than to right what is wrong.  On a side note, the “Toyota Acceleration” problem is actually more of a problem regarding the components made from another company, as I understand it.  I wish I could give you a clear idea of my love for Toyota’s, but as someone that is related to the industry my vote probably means little.  Three months ago you could have asked me, before I ever imagined working for a Toyota dealer, and the answer would have remained the same.

At the event, a stockholder noticed Mr. Toyoda was shedding tears.  Toyoda was then condemned for said tears, being told he needs to be strong to be the face of the company.  Again, I find this a bit dramatic and unfair.  This is 2010 folks, we don’t need to be uber-macho when it comes to these matters.  And for the record, and I quote, Toyoda said “Make no mistake; those were tears of joy.  It turns out the people I am trying to keep safe are in turn protecting me.”  Well said, Sir.

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan

Handy Toyota

cdugan@handycars.com

What is the Toyota’s Still the Best Sales Event?  This is the time to buy, that’s the bottom line!

We have unbelievably low finance rates on many models, including 0% for up to 60 months, and Leases starting as low as $149 a month!  Headlining the event are the new Toyota Camry and Toyota Corolla, perhaps the leaders of our make.  The Toyota Corolla, one of America’s most fuel efficient sedans is also one of the longest running models in all of the auto industry, and for good reason.  Sporty, stylish, and low price/cost of ownership are only some of the benefits to this great little sedan, and this years model looks better than ever!

The Toyota Camry is back as well, with a 3.5L V6 engine reaching 268 horsepower, but it’s still as efficient as ever.  It’s also super safe, ultra reliable, and well… A Camry!  With these great deals, anyone who is in need of a new vehicle should be en route to Handy Toyota in St. Albans, Vermont and the greater Burlington area.

Nobody in the area will take as good care of you as Handy Toyota, because we believe in customer retention.  We don’t want to just sell you one car and never see you again.  We want to see you ever three to five years, or more if you would like!  We want to see you every time your oil needs changing, for every tire rotation and any other problem that we can help with.  In fact, if you want to stop in to say hi and get a great cup of Green Mountain coffee, we enjoy that as well!  You see, folks, we’re in it for the long haul; we enjoy seeing and knowing our customers come back, that’s why we believe in giving you the best deal with no hassles–we are just thrilled to see your face as you fly off the lot with the car of your dreams at an affordable price.

So come in and see one of us today, even if it’s just to chat a bit and have a cup, because we enjoy our friends and colleagues time.  And don’t forget about these great offers if you’re in the market for a new car, because it gets no better than the Toyota’s Still the Best Sales Event going on now through July 6, 2010 at Handy Toyota of St. Albans.

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan

Handy Toyota

cdugan@handycars.com

Welcome to our weekly blog on Word Press my friends.  I’d like to discuss the Facebook page we have at Handy Toyota, specifically the new Trivia game with prizes.

In order to get some interaction and perhaps engage in a little fun for our fans, our Internet department at Handy Toyota developed a Trivia game, as mentioned, with prizes going to the person who gives the first correct answer.  These prizes range from the current gift card to the Bass Pro Shop, where you can buy anything from fishing gear to shoes, to gift cards to local St. Albans, VT merchants like Mimmo’s Pizzaria, and possibly some upcoming Vermont Lake Monster baseball tickets.  But it doesn’t stop there; if we get some real interest going, the sky’s the limit!

As you may have noticed, we are constantly posting interesting news on Toyota vehicles, future vehicle technology, handytoyota.com blogs, and much more.  This is where the trivia questions derive from.  So next time you see a new post, don’t just pass it by!  Inside could be a little nugget of information that gives you a great prize!

Just this past week, Anthony Pelissier, a St. Albans native, won twice!  Granted the rules say you can only win twice in a certain period of time (that time period is still being hammered out), but he got two gift cards closer to a new pair of shoes or whatever else should tickle his fancy.  He even went so far as to comment on Facebook that it was such a great deal–a simple answer for some gifts.  I cannot disagree with that statement.

Another local woman, Robyn Williams, won the Friday Trivia contest and corresponding gift card.  To see her smiling face as she accepted her prize, see our Facebook page.  She was thrilled to get the prize for such a simple mathematical equation in regards to Reg Howard’s blog about the Thunder Ride he enjoyed this past Memorial Day.

As stated, we will be limited the amount of prizes to two wins, although you can always play for fun.  We also do daily trivia that is just for laughs, although prizes are given twice a week.  Winners must pick the gifts up at Handy Toyota in St. Albans, on the corner of Main St. and Fairfield St., and winners are designated by me via the time stamp on Facebook.  Other than that: it’s a free for all!

We hope you’re enjoying this new trivia game, the pictures and stories, the blogs, and everything else our store works so hard on to give you a bit of respite from your day.  If anyone has suggestions, questions, or comments, we always love to hear from our Fans and clients, so please direct them to me and if needed I’ll send them to the proper outlet.

And that’s not the only way to win big, my friends.  If you sign up for our monthly newsletter by clicking here or sending me your name and email address, you could be entered to win a FULL vehicle reconditioning, oil changes, and much more!  So what are you waiting for?  Give me those emails, keep on playing, keep paying attention, and you too could be a big winner some day!
Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan

Handy Toyota

cdugan@handycars.com

Our high school employee, Matt, was headed to Handy Chevrolet to take pictures today.  An hour or two later he calls me, asking for a ride.  I ask why, and as I do so I look to the left of my desk and see a typhoon outside!  I’ve seen some substantially heavy rain in my day, but none quite as fierce and out of nowhere as this.

Just moments earlier I had ventured downstairs to the Sales floor to ask someone a question.  I return to my office and as I said within moments the poor boy was calling to be saved from the ravenous thunderstorm taking place outside.  I saddled up, and hit the dusty trail; well, the “dusty” trail was so wet that it was more like mud in this analogy.  I jumped into the Dodge shop truck and crept along the driveway, always fearing some maniac will be bombing through the narrow entryway, and approached Main Street–what I saw was unfathomable.  Tidle waves of near-biblical proportion rose to the top of the full-sized shop truck, engulfing it and myself, who stupidly opened the window a couple inches in dirty, overflowing, backed-up sewer water–lovely.  The things I do for this poor kid who cannot drive company vehicles (age coupled with insurance reasons only, he’s a great dude).

So after my sewage treatment, I slowly turn into the road and can feel the gallons upon gallons of water slowing down the churning Dodge truck.  The slow and steady pace I elected to employ, fearing a full on hydroplane into the new Toyota’s on display along Main St., gave me a brief moment to gander at the rain splashing heartily upon their roofs and hoods.  The slashback was so ludicrous it looked as though the rain were jumping back towards the sky, as equally offended as those poor multi-thousand dollar vehicles must have been at their sharp presence.

As I continued down Main Street, things just got worse.  The intersection in front of Handy Toyota was so plastered with water that had no escape that when I returned from picking up Matt the section was closed by Emergency Personell.  But for my trip out to the other Handy store, there was just enough water to keep the roads open even though they shouldn’t have been.  Approaching Duke’s Creemee stand, some fool cut in front me coming off that treachorous outshoot from Route 36s north end, and the mixture of wet tires and high water was enough to scare me to death.   The rear end of the shop truck, light in it’s vast emptiness compared to the tightly packed engine under the hood, allowed for a good deal of nerve-wracking sliding, although thanks to my recent “keep it under 25″ policy adopted ever since I went without a vehicle for quite a long time, I made it through it just fine.

So on I go, braving the elements, and I finally get to the Handy Toyota sister store, Handy Chevrolet.  Matt comes running out, soaked pretty thoroughly, having been too good a worker to abandon his post and leave a truck in the middle of the driveway, lightning or no.  Apparently he had finished his job before calling for the cavalry in the form of me and the truck.  He hopped in, we left, and the rain stopped!  What a bit of Murphy’s Law.  They say us Irish are lucky, but in 25 years, and certainly this past week and the three years prior, I’ve found that it’s some sort of sick joke.  Or maybe it’s implied with the naming of the Law as Murphy’s, because if it can go wrong for anyone, it will for us Irish.

Nonetheless, my coworker was safe.  We arrived back to Handy Toyota, came up to my office, where he works from time to time, and had a good laugh as the air conditioner dried us up a bit.  Thankfully we were both not sick from the experience, although I suspect he has the greater chance.  Well that’s all for my weekly rant, I hope it entertained.

Stop by our new blog at http://www.handytoyota.com/blog/index.htm and enjoy some new stuff going on over there.

Until next time, Cheers!

Chris Dugan

cdugan@handycars.com

It appears BP is no closer to stopping the uncontrolled flow of crude oil into the Gulf than they were when the disaster occurred several weeks ago.  No one really knows how much oil has been released but one thing?s for sure?if it has not yet exceeded the worst man-made disaster on record it is rapidly approaching it.  The ramifications to the environment cannot be measured until BP, our government, or any combination thereof can get a handle on this mess.  The genie is out of the bottle and who knows when it can be put back in?  It is painfully obvious that these so called experts really do not have a fail safe way of dealing with this type of a problem.  That said, why do we allow the continuation of off shore drilling until the oil industry can convince us that they in fact can deal with all potential problems?  We will not be happy until we have polluted all that sustains us here on earth, until it is too late.  Sounds farfetched and a bit extreme but convince me otherwise.

Staying on the subject of energy usage, this is why it is so important for all of us to change our vehicle preference choices to that of alternate fuel or hybrid power.  All manufacturers have a wide variety of vehicles nearly ready for the market and not a moment too soon.  Toyota leads the way at the present time and I expect them to maintain their leadership but what is coming from our industry will blow you away.  In my thirty seven years in this business there has never been a more exciting time to be a car dealer.  It is my opinion that our industry will be at the fore in leading the world to a greener place.

Stay tuned!

Dan Luneau

Handy Toyota

This past week I tried a totally new pizza that will now be added to my Pizza Playbook.  Waking at 2:30 a.m., I began the dough-making process.  After putting the dough together and doing the rise-and-fall thing twice by 5:00 a.m., the dough was ready to be topped.  Still unclear on which way to go, I topped it with Ricotta Cheese mixed with an egg and half and half cream.  I then cracked pepper over the ricotta, sprinkled it with a grey sea salt, and finished the topping with Pecorino Romano cheese.  Then into the fridge it went, where it got to chill out all day until 6:00 p.m. to prepare for its date with a 375 degree oven.  Still undecided on the finish, it came to me on my way home.  I stopped and got some baby spinach and a small bag of cherry tomatoes.  I pan grilled some chicken, pancetta in about one tablespoon of olive oil, and sliced the cherry tomatoes, and into the oven it went where it just bakes with only the ricotta cheese and Pecorino Romano on top.  After 15 minutes I removed it and put the chicken, Pancetta, and cherry tomatoes on top, the spinach over that with a misting of olive oil.  I covered all that with mozzarella and it went back in the oven for fifteen minutes.  Then I removed ?pizza perfection? from my oven; a quick brush around the rim of the pizza with extra virgin olive oil and a light sprinkle of salt on top of that, and dinner was served.

Hopefully all this beautiful weather we are having is not the be all and end all of summer weather.  If this is a sign of things to come then a long hot summer is in our future.  Today they are having snow in Utah so I guess you never know.

It looks like a strong ending to another good month a Handy Toyota.  Our customers continue to give us good grades @ DealerRater.com (4.9/5 through 115 ratings!).  Toyota has a lot of great new thing in store for next year and we at Handy?s will mirror those great things.

Our favorite Truck-Pull driver Jack Chamberlain will be showing off his new Toyota Tundra pretty soon at the County Fairs all across North Country.  We at Handy?s wish him well for a safe and productive 2010.

It looks like a wrap for this go ?round and I will be back next week.  Enjoy this great weather and partake in some of Vermont?s many summer activities.

Tom ?The Blogmeister? Young

Handy Toyota

Saint Albans, Vt.

800 698 5143 ext 17

tyoung@dt.handycars.com