We live at the end of a gravel road so the Land Rover gets dusty fast, especially with the soft top. I hosed it out today and tightened up some screws and nuts. The truck is held together with hundreds of the things and the bumpy road shakes them loose. I try to find them before they fall out. I do love this truck.
Foxes
Spotted this little critter coming home tonight. He/she and two of his/her pals were eyeing the cat you can see in the background. We’ve seen a single fox a few times but this was our first sighting of three. Update: A neighbor took the photo below.
All I know for sure
“All I know is that there is existence and there is awareness of existence. That’s all I know for sure. And I feel that life isn’t quite right. Instinctively I know that it should easier than it is. Why isn’t life quite right? Well, because there is an underlying fear of life – an underlying, constant unrightness. I don’t know this the way I know that there is existence and awareness of existence. But it makes sense to me. There is an underlying fear, a lie, a lens through which we live life.
— Beyond Kama (Kaushik)
New door top for Land Rover
Back in May a tornado hit Jefferson City and did a lot of damage, including the storage unit where I housed the top to my Land Rover. I replaced a couple of broken windows but had to order a new top to the driver side door.
A local body shop did a fine job of matching the paint but when when I first looked at the old and new top side-by-side, it looked like the angles (see curved arrow) were different. Then I noticed the right side (see red line) of the old window wasn’t square.
Makes sense now because the old top got hammered hard enough to bend the steel (straight arrow). So we’re good to go. My buddy George has taken a hard line on getting the top of the Rover a make-over, too, so that’s next. Hoping I can make it though September — maybe a bit longer — with the soft top.
1963 I-H Scout
Chuck Vaughn found this beauty in a field near Lohman, Missouri. Paid $600. These photos don’t do justice to his beautiful restoration. “Before” photo below.
Honey the Golden Retriever
How life happens
“Life is nothing but moments, and every moment is nothing but another culmination of the universe’s incalculable ripples. Out where we can’t see, they’re crossing and merging, bringing toward us new forms and experiences that are almost perfectly unpredictable. Yet the way we think about life seldom reflects that reality. We plan and worry and forecast and dread, all with an absurd sense of certainty, like we’re setting up snooker shots and we can see all the balls.”
— David Cain
Land Rover for hauling your motorcycles
This long-wheelbase 1966 Land Rover Series II-A was restored to accommodate motorcycle transport. It has a Land Rover 2.25-liter gas engine and a Series III four-speed manual. The original truck, a fire engine that had been out of commission for decades, received a meticulous, 1,000-hour, ground-up reconstruction.
Squirrels and seagulls stealing GoPro cameras
The Internet will achieve no higher purpose than videos of squirrels and seagulls stealing GoPro cameras. I’m unclear on how the cameras were recovered. I eagerly await the day I can stream these live to high-end goggles.
In praise of AirPods
Everyone’s familiar with stories of someone regaining their sight after years of blindness… or getting their hearing back after a lifetime of silence. That’s what came to mind as I started watching movies and series on my iPhone with AirPods (ver 2).
It’s like I’ve been listening with cotton stuffed in my ears. Hard to overstate how getting all of the sound changes the viewing experience.
Halfway through season one of Deadwood and I’m right there in the muddy street, engulfed in the sounds of the camp. Horses breathing, a distant hammering, the full range of Ian McShane’s mellifluous voice.
I’m ruined. I can’t go back to listening to what passes for sound coming from the TV across the room.