PLAY Show Me something Nice!
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My Hairy as a new pup, home less than two weeks
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This is my boy Ronin...
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This was Hachiko, had him for 12 years. Brilliant mind. Trained him for SAR; area search and HRD land and water. He had the heart of a lion, loved to work, and could noodle out search problems with little or no difficulty. All for the love of work and his tennis ball.
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Our grand Evie
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Our new van. To me, this vehicle represents something VERY nice for Annie and I.
It also represents the end of my 104 day long stretch of us going without a vehicle, after our twenty year old Honda Accord munched its transmission while returning back home from
Cheyenne, after buying a new dryer (bottom pic).
After 3 1/2 years, we finally settled the personal injury lawsuit from the accident that permanently disabled me, forcing early retirement nearly a decade before I planned to. I was hoping for a much larger settlement, since it required neck/spine surgery eight months later to start healing, but ended my working career. But, we at least accomplished good things with what we received.
This is exactly what we needed…a van that lets Annie and I get around, travel around Wyoming, maybe a trip to Cali to visit our musician son Kenny, and a trip down to Texas to visit my Auntie Mary Lou…my late dad’s baby sister.
It’s a 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan SE, and we paid $12k for it, the TTL, and used the remainder to fill our pantry to overflowing. Runs like a fine Swiss watch, and Annie can get in, after loading her wheelchair directly behind the driver seat. I found it via CarGurus.com, out of 20 vans across the nation.
I was truly hoping to find an RT model, but this turned out to be the better deal. Still, very happy…
Our dearly departed Accord…alone on the shoulder of interstate 80, 20 miles east of Elk Mountain. Had no funds to tow it, fix it, or replace back in mid June. This is the car I posted a note on the drivers window, saying “call me, and I’ll mail the title to you”…and no one ever called.
Still, I suffered no bad thoughts about losing our car…just saw it as something that could bless other folks with…and then we moved on.
It also represents the end of my 104 day long stretch of us going without a vehicle, after our twenty year old Honda Accord munched its transmission while returning back home from
Cheyenne, after buying a new dryer (bottom pic).
After 3 1/2 years, we finally settled the personal injury lawsuit from the accident that permanently disabled me, forcing early retirement nearly a decade before I planned to. I was hoping for a much larger settlement, since it required neck/spine surgery eight months later to start healing, but ended my working career. But, we at least accomplished good things with what we received.
This is exactly what we needed…a van that lets Annie and I get around, travel around Wyoming, maybe a trip to Cali to visit our musician son Kenny, and a trip down to Texas to visit my Auntie Mary Lou…my late dad’s baby sister.
It’s a 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan SE, and we paid $12k for it, the TTL, and used the remainder to fill our pantry to overflowing. Runs like a fine Swiss watch, and Annie can get in, after loading her wheelchair directly behind the driver seat. I found it via CarGurus.com, out of 20 vans across the nation.
I was truly hoping to find an RT model, but this turned out to be the better deal. Still, very happy…
Our dearly departed Accord…alone on the shoulder of interstate 80, 20 miles east of Elk Mountain. Had no funds to tow it, fix it, or replace back in mid June. This is the car I posted a note on the drivers window, saying “call me, and I’ll mail the title to you”…and no one ever called.
Still, I suffered no bad thoughts about losing our car…just saw it as something that could bless other folks with…and then we moved on.
Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
The Veiled Virgin is a statue by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza. What looks like cloth covering the statue is actually part of the stone, so skillfully carved that it looks like sheer fabric.
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The Highlands in fall...
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What is that soup/stew? It’s getting winter and that looks absolutely delicious.
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This WAS a friend's car. Automatic, Hemi, droptop. One of 9 (?). He was taking it to RM for their auction that year. He hoped to get 750k. It gaveled at 1.7 million! Great show every year. The weekend before Thanksgiving in Chicongo. MCACN.com
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