Dave Knows: Elko

We’re having our garage sale this weekend.  Finally, a chance to sell all the crap we gathered from other garage sales all summer!  All proceeds will go toward the “Cooper and Ollie Neuter Fund.”  Any extra money will go toward the “Elko Steve Needs a New Driveway Fund.”  Check on friday for our listing in [...]

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The unnamed pup finally received a name.  It took us a week and a half but we finally came up with “Ollie”.  So we have Cooper, Ollie, Marty and Boxer (COMB).  I guess his full name could be “Oliver”, but we didn’t want a three-syllable name so we’re going to stick with Ollie.  Ollie the [...]

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We hit up the Elko garage sale circuit this past weekend, and we scored quite a few gems.  We decided to skip the Wells community garage sale and stay in town.  We barely ever even drive to Spring Creek for garage sales, I couldn’t justify driving 50 miles each way to go to Wells.  We [...]

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A month ago our garage fridge died. I think it was older than me and it was just it’s time.  So we bought another one from a friend for $50 and filled it with soda/water/beer.  Then yesterday our kitchen fridge died.  All the fans run, but the compressor doesn’t.  I checked my favorite appliace repair [...]

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We had a good time at the 45th Elko Basque Festival over the 4th of July weekend.  First we hit up the parade downtown on Saturday morning.  We sat in the boiling sun and watched a steady stream of political candidates and church groups stroll by.  The highlight of the hour was when one of [...]

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I’ve been asking her to get it done for years, and my wife finally gave in the other day and got her pussy shaved.  The hair was getting pretty long and since it’s summertime it was the logical thing to do, it just keeps everything soooooo much cooler.  I must say that it’s an entirely [...]

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We may be gluttons for punishment, but we got a new addition to the clan over the weekend.  Before we get to him, let’s get everyone up to speed with our current crop of critters:

This is Boxer, our 7-year old Maine Coon cat.  He got his name because he was found in a box.  He [...]

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We bought our first house last summer.  It’s not exactly our “Dream home” but it’s a real house with a real yard and we like it.  Our first home improvement project was to replace the carpet in the living room.  When we moved in the wife could smell the cat urine and even after shampooing [...]

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The Elko Basque Festival is this weekend!  We missed it last year becuase we were at Disneyland.  Some of the events this year include:
Dance and Game Exhibitions on Friday night along with the fireworks display at the Fairgrounds
5k run/walk on Saturday morning
Parade
Handball competition
a Sheepherder Bread Baking contest
And I’m sure all the Chorizo you can eat.  [...]

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After last week’s blog post about my mother-in-law’s horsebite, I got to thinking about my animal fears.  I already feared horses before the bite, this just reinforced it.  I really get uncomfortable around animals that are bigger than me, can run faster than me, and can kick or stomp me to death.  Horses, elephants, rhinos, [...]

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