Betty White Challenge

Yesterday where I named my Cars, Sport-Off Road-Touring picks I chose all white colored cars because it was Betty White’s birthday. Instead of writing (what I think are witty) captions for each car I just wrote under “In honor of what would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday please donate $5 to a local animal shelter in her name.”

Ms. White died New Year’s Eve, missing celebrating her 100th by less than 3 weeks. Because she was such a great lover of animals the interwebs created this “Betty White Challenge” thing and I thought it was a good idea to mention it. Having written that in my post, I needed to follow through and do that myself. I have some money in PayPal, I’m sitting at my computer, let do it.

There are a couple of shelters here in Klamath Falls, I’ll start with the local thing. The first one wouldn’t accept a donation of less than $10 and the second didn’t accept PayPal.

Alright, let’s try southern Oregon. Hmmm, only accepts mailed in checks, this one no PayPal, but will take your charge card and the next one didn’t have a link, that I could find, that even allowed donations.

How about nationally? I search the Google thing and found one or two news stories from around the country with links to their local shelters, but the first couple I tried ended in the same roadblocks I hit before. Next I went to the national ASPCA website and they wanted all my personal info up front before I could even see if they took PayPal.

I struck gold on the American Humane Association. They’ll accept PayPal and they will take my five dollars. They will also take another sixty cents to cover the processing fees and I almost cancelled the donation. But, I paused and thought to myself, “What would Betty do?” I hit the donate button.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Betty White’s 100th Birthday Edition of SORT
As of Monday, January 17, 2022 at 9:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1954 Chevrolet Corvette 1997 Land Rover Defender 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix
In honor of what would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday
please donate $5 to a local animal shelter in her name.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to, if the reserve was not met.
Sports: 1964 Volkswagen Type 2 Panel Van Sold for $65,000 on 1/12/22
Off-Road: 1983 Volkswagen Vanagon Camper 4-Speed Bid to $13,500 on 1/12/22
Touring: 1965 Volkswagen Type 2 Deluxe 21-Window Bid to $85,000 on 1/16/22

Another Moore Park Monday

Like last Monday, and most others, we went to Moore Park to go for a walk along the paved trails. Today was nice enough to take the Miata again. After walking, we drove down to the main drag through town to visit our favorite Greek restaurant to pick up gyros for dinner to eat while watching Monday Night Football1. And with the nice weather and in town speeds after Arby’s, we even dropped the top for the last couple miles home.

11 mile trip around town.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 3

 

There’s a New Jack in Town

I’ve written here before about being a big Jack Reacher book fan and now there is going be an Amazon adaptation. It will be based on the the first book, The Killing Floor.

And if it does well they will probably make more. There is plenty of source material to draw from, 26 and counting novels and over a dozen short stories or novellas. The series will start on February 4th so I’ve just finished reading the Killing Floor again to get ready for it.

There is a lot familiar about the trailer and there are also some things that I don’t recognize in there too. I know there are always compromises made when adapting a book into a movie/show, so I should be able to get over most of them. Mainly because I am already beginning to visualize Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher just from the trailer. Unlike the previous person how played him in a couple of Hollywood productions, Mr. Ritchson is the right size.

I guess if you had never read any of the books maybe those movies aren’t bad, but I have steadfastly not watched the 2012 Reacher, nor 2016’s Never Go Back because of my size bias against the lead actor. Maybe after I see this Amazon adaptation I may go back and give them a try if I can find them free somewhere, because the first movie is based on the book One Shot which was my first discovery of the character and the second film is based on one of my favorite of the series, Never Go Back.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

VW Van Edition of SORT
As of Monday, January 10, 2022 at 9:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1964 Volkswagen Type 2 Panel Van 1983 Volkswagen Vanagon Camper 4-Speed 1965 Volkswagen Type 2 Deluxe 21-Window
This is a big stretch for the category as the only thing sporty here is the Porsche name on the side. This is a slight stretch because it has been lifted with some knobby tires, but it is not 4-wheel drive. This one is only a stretch because usually I pick something fast for my touring needs.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to, if the reserve was not met.
Sports: Supercharged 1961 MG MGA Roadster Sold for $40,517 on 1/8/22
Off-Road: Supercharged 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser Sold for $52,777 on 1/8/22
Touring: Supercharged 1951 Ford Victoria Sold for $33,000 on 1/7/22

Moore Park Monday

We try and go for a walk everyday and we usually shoot for 2 or 3 miles, but sometimes when it is really cold we might just get a mile in. There are a couple of different walks we like to every week and one of them is to drive over to Moore Park to do a loop of the paved interior road on winter days like today (other times of the year we use the extensive park trail system.)

Today it was not too cold, but we had to limit our loop because of the snow cover still on the park roads, so we ended up only walking a mile and two thirds. The regular surface streets in town are free of snow, so we drove over in the CTBNL.

7 miles, Moore Park and back for our afternoon walk.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 2