When we built our home in 1986 we decided we did not want railings on the stairs. We liked the clean, open lines of the stairs and figured we were smart enough to avoid falling off. The upstairs is mostly my domain and I go up and down many times every day.
I recently decided it was time for some handrails. Just something to hold on to when going up and down. I reached out (once again) to artist/machinist Andy Cain and he came through.
These will look even better when painted.
Lost gas cap found
This is one of those “I left my phone/coffee/purse/baby on top of my car and drove 10 miles without it falling off” stories.
Couple of months back I forgot to put the gas cap back after filling up the pickup and drove home.
When I discovered it was missing I went back to the convenience store but if anyone found it they hadn’t turned it in. So I purchased a “universal” cap because there was no way to replace the original which had been on the truck since 1977.
Yesterday my neighbor flagged me down and held up a gas cap asking, “Is this yours?” He had been raking gravel from his yard back into the road and discovered my gas cap. It somehow remained balanced on the bed of the truck for five miles of turns and hills and only our steep, bumpy gravel road shook it off.
Powerful forces at work here, friends. I’ll come up with some sort of chain to insure this doesn’t happen again. Minty Fresh is once again perfect.
UPDATE: I replaced earlier image with the one above.
Riley: Two days
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.
1971 Series IIA Land Rover
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Link to this beauty (I assume they were all out of every other color) showed up in comments on another post. Restoration by Classic Car Studios in St. Louis. Figured it deserved a post. But I’d be much more likely to buy this truck before one of the new Land Rovers.
Just look for the red Buddha
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.