The Coffee House

[Frank F.]

See you on 22nd. All packed. Digital detox. No computer, No internet, No Smartphone. Just Forest & Horses on a Pony Farm. Relax, read, write, wander, workout, play, sing ....

 

[Gary A.]

@ Frank: You have the life.

 

[jcdeboever]

Mr. Hockey, Nikon FM, AIS 50mm 1.8, 400TX

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Y'all Coffee Hosers. Gary is taking his coffee in the patio. It is a cool and refreshing morning, but it is predicted to heat up. The Cook and Gary will leave early this morning while the walking is good.

 

[Gary A.]

Headline in the LA Times Sports Section "Puig's moon shot over Miami".

The Dodgers are hot!

 

[table1349]

Do you walk in Foster Park? I bet Cook would live it. Lots of trees and wide open spaces.

 

[Derrel]

I'm transferring 300GB of photos to long-term back up storage. Anyone else amazed (but annoyed at the same time) that you can transfer that amount of data in about 40 minutes?

Wow..three hunnnerd gigs in 40 minutes! @JonA_CT

What kind of drives to you own? RAID arrays? SSD's? MY transfers take a looooooooot longer than yours do! I did 179 gigs last week and it seemed to take forever.

 

[table1349]

I'm transferring 300GB of photos to long-term back up storage. Anyone else amazed (but annoyed at the same time) that you can transfer that amount of data in about 40 minutes?

Wow..three hunnnerd gigs in 40 minutes!

What kind of drives to you own? RAID arrays? SSD's? MY transfers take a looooooooot longer than your do!

Derrel, we keep telling you, you have to upgrade that computer of yours.

 

[Derrel]

NOPE!!! Not until the stone drive bird drops dead from overwork!

 

[Gary A.]

Do you walk in Foster Park? I bet Cook would live it. Lots of trees and wide open spaces.

Foster Park ... Gary suspects you are referring to La Mirada Regional Park ... yes we do, but not everyday. There are four parks within easy walking distance from Cook's house. The Regional Park (as the locals call it), Creek Park South (runs into Biola University), Creek Park North and a park to the east which may be privately owned by the surrounding homes. Typically, Gary let's Cook chose which direction and which park we visit. Creek Park South is the most visited because it relatively unknown with fewer dogs. Cook walk without a leash, so she can explore and generally just be a dog. When Gary sees an unknown dog approach, he will leash her up. After 14 years of walks in Creek Park, Cook and Gary rarely run into an unknown pooch. Lots of dogs in the Regional Park and Creek Park North restricting Cook's freedom. Regional Park has ballparks, tennis courts, lake, Frisbee Golf, et al.

Creek Park North

Creek Park North

Creek Park South

Regional Park

Regional Park

Regional Park

 

[table1349]

Do you walk in Foster Park? I bet Cook would live it. Lots of trees and wide open spaces.

Foster Park ... Gary suspects you are referring to La Mirada Regional Park ... yes we do, but not everyday. There are four parks within easy walking distance from Cook's house. The Regional Park (as the locals call it), Creek Park South (runs into Biola University), Creek Park North and a park to the east which may be privately owned by the surrounding homes. Typically, Gary let's Cook chose which direction and which park we visit. Creek Park South is the most visited because it relatively unknown with fewer dogs. Cook walk without a leash, so she can explore and generally just be a dog. When Gary sees an unknown dog approach, he will leash her up. After 14 years of walks in Creek Park, Cook and Gary rarely run into an unknown pooch. Lots of dogs in the Regional Park and Creek Park North restricting Cook's freedom. Regional Park has ballparks, tennis courts, lake, Frisbee Golf, et al.

Creek Park North

Would you hurry up, I got pee mail to sniff!!!!

Creek Park North

That's the biggest dog I have ever seen.

Creek Park South

Max the collie is dating a poodle????

Regional Park

I bet I can outrun my human.

Regional Park

See I told you I could.

Regional Park

Don't even think about it dog, this is not a fetch ball!!

 

[table1349]

Gary, what is the name of the park between Imperal highway and La Miranda Blvd? Is it part of Creek Park?

This is where I generally walk our girls.

It is a huge wildlife refuge with a creek running through it and several miles of meandering walkways. It can be entered from three different locations, one of them easily walked to from our house.

 

[Gary A.]

That would be Creek Park South. There is a horse trail connecting Creek Park South with Creek Park North with tunnels under Imperial Highway and La Mirada Blvd. The tunnel under La Mirada Blvd. takes you to Biola University, which is always fun to walk.

Northern Tunnel

Saying hi to friends along the way

Cook & 'Kitty'

Cook & Bruno

Cook & Mariposa

Cook & Val

The horse trail between the Creek Parks

Heading South

 

[Gary A.]

Gary, what is the name of the park between Imperal highway and La Miranda Blvd? Is it part of Creek Park?

This is where I generally walk our girls.
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It is a huge wildlife refuge with a creek running through it and several miles of meandering walkways. It can be entered from three different locations, one of them easily walked to from our house.

That park looks like a lot of fun. We walk about 2.5 to 3.5 daily depending on the direction. Round trip to the end of Creek Park North is about five miles. The Cook is getting a bit too old for that.

 

[table1349]

Thanks it is a lot of fun for the girls. Here they take leash laws quite seriously so I have two 30' retractable leashes for them and let them have full run of the leashes. It is one of those parks where keeping them on a leash is really necessary. There are deer and lots of other wild critters that live in the park.

My girls would love to chase the deer and other critters. They firmly believe that all animals were put on earth to play with them. We have a rabbit that lives in our hedges and it has learned that if our dogs caught it they wouldn't know what to do. It used to fly out of the fenced yard, now it leads them on a merry chase before leaving the back yard.

I do worry about the family room sometimes. We have the two dogs and two cats that all play together. When you get the four of them chasing each other around and playing it can be a danger zone for sure.