Author Archives: Steve Mays

Riley: Two days

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We’ve been a one dog home for the last nine months and have spent much of the last six months searching for a Golden Retriever puppy. After a couple of set-backs, we think Riley  has arrived. Not home yet but in the world.

The photos below are of Bimini and Coconut with their two-day-old litters. (Not sure which is which but it doesn’t matter) Nine puppies in each litter. Bimini has six males and three females; Coconut four females and five males. All healthy and doing great. So Riley in one of these two photos.

Can’t tell much at this point but I’m sure we’ll get more photos. So, sometime around the middle of May Riley will join our family.

Just look for the red Buddha

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We live at the end of a gravel road, at the top of a hill. I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Not all of our neighbors agree, but mostly only those that would like to sell and move, so…

Most of us don’t have house numbers (on the house) rather some kind of sign out by the road. Today I upgraded ours with a little color. Before/after pics so you can see the scale better (The log is about 30 inches high).

This will look much nicer when Barb’s flowers start blooming.

“Entirely practical”

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“This is the sort of vehicle that most of us need, one that is entirely practical… there is no carrying about of weight more or less uselessly devoted to fashionable appearance and not really essential luxury.” — The Autocar (1948)

Came across the quote above in a magazine. True in 1948, less so today (okay, not at all). I’ve been driving mine almost daily for seven months and still having a blast. More Rover love:

“Perfectly reasonable people seem to take leave of their senses upon first meeting a Land Rover. It is less a car than a state of mind. Its owners are the most partisan group imaginable and its would-be owners are legion.” — David E. Davis, Car and Driver

“Yes, it’s loud, and rough, and slow, and unreliable. Yes, the Jeep Wrangler is better than the Defender in every objective way. But that’s the point of the Defender: it’s unique. It’s special. It’s unusual. The Jeep Wrangler is for people who leave their dealership license plate frame on. For people who drive past six gas stations to get to a Texaco two miles from their house because gas there is three cents cheaper.” (Jalopnik)