It leaked oil when it got here.

We have cherries...real, tasty cherries in the desert.
A real photo below of our real cherries.

Doing small inside jobs this weekend--

Eliminating the little things that pile up to become major roadblocks.

I am also enjoying just hanging, on a weekend to which
I added a day off on the following Monday...
The temperature's here are starting their usual sudden climb.
We are working on getting acclimatized to 
the summer that is coming.

I have been researching for the retirement, older car project.
I can't say vintage because real vintage cars are now
priced out of regular human reality.
Vintage cars now, like everything else belong to the 1%.
A search across the usual sale sites, every possible brand and model,
through all available literature has resulted in the fact that
 I have now begun to focus, attempting to manifest 
a particular brand and model. 
Me being me, the choice could not be anything normal or easy.
I want a
A 1972 through 1974 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super 1.6 sedan.....

This particular Alfa is out there--offered for sale in odd moments,

in varying conditions from trashed to awesome.

The Giulia Super's are a beautiful Italian sedan designed 

so that the Italian family man could maintain some respect

in daily drama of  Italian, formula one style, commuting.

This 4 door racer is powered by 4 cylinder,

double overhead cam, 1.6 liter, with dual Weber carburettors , 

 which in and of itself is art

something only the Italians can do to an engine. 

At the moment there is nothing I can do with this project

other than research, study, thought experiment and

manifest.
I want this vehicle--
To endlessly wash and detail,
to tighten bolts and make new again.
To drive it quickly and with aplomb,
  the passenger windows rolled down,
 to breakfast in town with my JoJo, in the cool
of New Mexico retirement spring mornings.

I am carrying my Walkman DC10 cassette player 

with me in my daily street bag.

I bought this Walkman and the matching earbuds in 1988 

while I was working in Tokyo.

36 years old and still working..only slightly larger than the cassette tape it plays and

powered by one AA battery.

It was the height of technology then, and still a joy to me now

when i fire it up and music comes out.

My Darling JoJo gave me an Amazon Paperwhite Kindle reader

for my upcoming birthday. 

It is amazing.
 I am looking forward to utilizing it for years to come.

 I am currently studying 

the required operation.

As part of the learning curve with this new object, i ordered 
the following books--very simply to do and are automatically
download to your personal machine---
The Paperwhite system of reading is incredibly
easy on my now older eyes.
I can sit and read without fatiguing easily 
as with a real book due to the lighting qualities of 
a machine specifically designed for reading and reading only.

and:

and:

Such a contradiction am I,
carrying a 36 year old cassette Walkman in the
same bag as an endless electronic library.
I am both lifted and dismayed by this variance within me. 

"Until one has loved an animal

a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

Anatole France