Yesterday I broke my oil cap completely off. All I was attempting to do was check my oil and add more, the thing broke in half leaving the cap screw in the engine block. My neighbor John came over with a crescent wrench and unscrewed the bottom of the cap out of the block. Lucky me!
I called Owyhee Auto Parts, NAPA, and Trent drove out with a new oil cap and 3 quarts of 10w30 oil. They were so fast and responsive. I didn’t have a debit card to pay with, only cash, and they did it anyway. How lucky am I? How nice are they to do that?!
I couldn’t believe it broke in half. They are the nicest people! I don’t exactly live close to them either, but they went out of their way to come to my house, bring me a new cap, and brought me 3 quarts of oil. Very Cool!
If it hadn’t have been for them I wouldn’t be able to drive my car! So amazing! Thank you to Trent, he delivered the oil cap and oil, the great clerk at NAPA who helped me! You guys and gals are amazing!
The Nampa Farmers’ Market is awesome, as always! You meet the friendliest people, the cutest dogs, and wonderful vendors you could ever want to meet. People take time out of the craziness going on in their lives to spend a few hours with the cool vendors at the Nampa Farmers’ Market. Visitors can pick up fresh produce grown by local farmers, but beyond that, the market has vendors selling homemade wares, art, wooden boxes, T-Shirts, and when all else fails, there is always food and music!
Photos by Jaz Fagan
What a fun day! We can get out of the confines of our stuffy houses, be in the company of other people, share our smiles and happiness with them, take off the mask for a moment, breathe the air, love life, and be present in life. This is all possible because of the wonderful committee of the Nampa Farmers’ Market. At this point, if we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t have much of anything else.
I must admit I was a lot afraid of presenting my art, but at the end of the day, everything was positive! I could live without the people presenting their free speech religious views at the entrance on one side of Lloyd’s Lumber. Thank goodness the music drowned them out. We have enough going on without people shoving their religious views down our throats, no one really wants to hear it.
All-in-all it was a beautiful day! People were in great moods, things were friendly and not everyone was wearing a mask. It was so fun! I didn’t get nearly as many pictures as I usually do because I was busy with my own booth, but it was a fabulous day!
There is always something for everyone at the Nampa Farmers’ Market! I swear I am going to get more pics next Saturday. The Market is every Saturday from April to October with great vendors, music performances by local musicians, food by Jammi Dawgs, and always amazingly friendly people, kids, and dogs!
When I got home I was really tired, but I took the time to shoot a few photos of the sunset and birds. Enjoy!
What a beautiful 4th of July weekend! We are so fortunate to live off of the Snake River, the fireworks, while not close to us, were beautiful. Shooting with a large camera body at dusk is never easy. I captured most of my photos with my camera mounted on a tripod, set at a night setting, and I used a remote to fire the shutter. Even in the best circumstances, I ended up with about 20 acceptable photos out of 350 shots. The rest were blurry and way out of focus. I was pretty happy to get what I got at the end of the evening.
Photos by Jaz Fagan
We spent the three day weekend playing games of Cornhole on the lawn. If you have never played this game before, it is way more difficult than it seems. The platforms are set 27 feet apart from the front of the platforms, and hitting the little hole with a beanbag is harder than one would think. Cornhole is something like a mix of horseshoes, bowling, baseball, and shuffleboard. I got my butt handed to me by Mike on every single game!
Cornhole Platform Photo From Lowes.com
We also barbequed, played Trivial Pursuit and other games, and even managed to get a few honey-dos completed. Mike figured out a way to stabilize my hemp choker display that will be at The Nampa Farmers Market next Saturday. We also managed to get in quite a bit of rehearsal time. We pulled out our guitars and ran through many of our songs. Since the Covid-19 outbreak struck hard, we have had nowhere to perform at and no one to perform for. Fortunately, we picked up three gigs at The Nampa Farmers Market in September and October, and we have The Lava Hot Springs Folk Festival in August.
Photo Courtesy of a Patron at The Nampa Co-Op 2019
All-in-all it’s been a really good summer so far. It has only been marred by the Corona Virus and the crazy race riots going on all over the country. Why can’t we all get along? Why do people have to destroy the very tenents of what made our country great? We are supposed to be a melting pot, and it seems to me that the people that have the right to bitch the most about their rights being trampled upon are the Native Americans that were, and still are, displaced in the United States. Why do people have to put a racial connotation in and on everything, ripping down statues of the founding fathers, including Abraham Lincoln! Did they all skip school the year that we studied the Emancipation Proclamation?
Photo by apnews.com
When people choose to riot and destroy public property, attack citizens, resort to violent demonstrations, aren’t they worse than the very things that they are supposedly fighting against? What do they expect to gain by resorting to violence, destruction, looting, and being jack-asses other than a lengthy jail sentence or worse? I’m not going to get into this because it is far too disturbing to waste time on.
At any rate, I hope that everyone had a lovely 4th of July! Here are more pics of the sunset and fireworks that I took yesterday.
Photos by Jaz Fagan
Happy 4th of July from Idaho Gazette and Jaz Fagan. Make it a great week!
Double Image photo by Jaz
Photo by Jaz Fagan
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