A cool million is not what it used to be, certainly not a lifestyle. I wish the lucky couple well, and hope it makes life easier for them.

 I'd do like any other good republican......Go hire a bunch of illegal immigrants and build my dream house...It's the American way.

 In a heartbeat, I would buy a house with a view in Hart Flat.

 Easy there gube..I'm a Republican and there's no way I'd hire illegals.  Nor would any of the Republicans I know.  They're all as outraged with the border situation as you are.  You're generalizing.   

That 750K would fit nicely in my retirement portfolio and allow me to kick back (along with my SS) and work part time with no strain.  I'd be OK with it.  :-)

 Hart flat would work. I have several Friends that live there and they all love it. Audrey hey Chicky if we both win the lottery maybe we could be neighbors.

 Generalizing.....me.....

 I haven't been around Hart Flat since I live in Teh. back in '85 when about the only homes I remember being in that area were Noah Beery Jr. and Steve Cummings.    I'll bet it's really grown.

Hey Gubers

That would be great.  I look at ads for Hart Flat properties all the time.  The lowest priced ones are about $100,000 out of my price range.  But it's fun to look.

Fix my car.  But in my defense, it's a really *COOL* car.

 What kind RF?  Don't you have a Vdub bus?   (coolest van around)

 Old rocky I heard he was a nice guy.......Hart flat is definitely an upper middle class area.

 Old Rocky?

 Nancy not RF  that was Dusty    Random just rode around in it on their tree sitting days

Not only a vdub bus, but also a 70 MGB convertible.   

 Leave this country (preferably before the IRS got their hands on any of my cash), move to Scotland, write.

 Down payment on The Padre, baby.

 Gube, you're too funny. I'd leave the country (probably to a third world country) invest some in stock markets and live ghetto fabulous.

 Out of work for a year and still spending $20 per week on lotto tickets?

Man he sounds like a real catch, too bad he's already married.

 Ghost..too late, the IRS takes their cut off the top.

RF..ahhh...MGB...Money Good Bye pits I'm told but they were the absolute cutest of the foreign sports cars.  Two good choices for vintage vehicles.

Wish I had the money and the fix-it skill ro have one.

 Gube, "Rocky" (Rockford Files Audrey) Noah was a character.  My mother in law had the Wards catalog store before we took it and one day he came in to place an order.  He came to the counter and, as I always did, asked "the name you order under" and he replied "Noah Beery Jr."  I was sooooo embarrassed because I didn't even recognize him.  I've often wondered what he thought.

He was married to a ditzy gal named Lisa who was really flighty.  He would just stand, leaning against the wall, smoking his pipe, and wait for her to scramble up an order from the catalog.  He was a VERY nice man..courtly and a gentleman.  As was Jack Palance.    Chuck Conners on the other hand, was a jerk.

It was my dad's MG.  He used to say his hobby was writing checks to pay his mechanic bills. 

Spam Code D DUHB.  Sounds like a little kid trying to say it...

Nancy, Beery was Jimmie Rockford's Dad character (as I'm sure you know).

And yes, Chuck Conners was the biggest jerk ever!

Friend of mine sold him a Quarter Horse years ago. He was sooooo proud of it. Had no idea what he had (or didn't have).

He was bragging to my wife when they were a loadin him an she just looked over and quietly said to him, "they musta seen you comin from at far ridgeline!"

On my mother's eyes I swear he was too fulla himself (and/or stupid) to know she had just cut him ta pieces. All the cowboys standin around there were dyin.........

 Chico, when the guy next to the ranch had to sell his buffalo he had a big roundup and invited Chuck Conners to join them.  I was in the little VW bug when I saw him come riding up the road so hung over he couldn't sit up in the saddle.  The round up was over by the time he straggled in so I led him back to the ranch to put the horse back in the corral.  It had one of those sliding bolt into a pipe locks and he couldn't figure out how to get it open.  I had to open it for him.  Once inside he untied the girth and tried to pull the saddle off..it wouldn't come and he kept pulling.  I had to stop him and tell him he needed to unhook the breast collar before it would come off.  What a phoney..and a drunk, as well as a jerk.  LOL

 1 million dollars is not a large sum of money. a person could work 5-7 years and make that. I hope these people have their stuff together and invest the money, not blow it on crap.

I'd find myself a cowboy to marry and buy a nice huge ranch, on which I would fill it with buffaloes, horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, etc., etc. -- but mostly buffaloes and horses! We'd keep the buffaloes as pets and ride the horses, and we'd have to make sure the cattle didn't mix with the buffaloes. We'd be sure to keep all the buffaloes alive, and we'd only have to kill a buffalo for meat if it became agressive. I'd be sure to reserve a nice piece of the land specifically for farming, and we'd grow everything possible, but of course I'd need extra land to do the rotating of my crops so the land didn't get so tired of itself. Oh, jeez -- and don't forget to keep the goats away from the buffaloes; you wouldn't want the buffaloes to get that disease and die from it! That's an important one.

I'd also found (err...establish? What's the word I'm looking for???) my own agriculture newspaper for all the farmers and ranchers, but I'd have to do all the copy editing myself once it got started, because I don't think I'd ever find a copy editor I could possibly trust to do everything the way I want it to be done.

Shoot...I ran out of money. Perhaps I've given this a little too much thought....ha ha ha! Very creative, right? I am a silly chica.

Chico, who the heck is Ted Turner? He doesn't sound like a cowboy, anyway. You used to do beefalo, didn't you? I've actually never tried beefalo, but I've eaten buffalo meat ... and I'm not a big fan, personally, but that's only because I have a huge heart for animals. I still eat some meat, though. Don't really have a choice. My dad likes buffalo meat. Buffaloes are sooo cute!

Nice one. That was a funny joke about Obama, Chico.

Hey, Nancy--Old VW buses never die, they just "scratch":

 Nancy I meet both chuck Conner's and Jack Palance and Ruth Buzzi and all where nice people. I delivered Propane to chuck Conner's house once and I had no Idea who he was. He showed me around his place he had BVS and when I left he gave me a Rifleman hat. That was 20 years ago. Ruth Buzzi was a sweet lady who always had time to talk to my kids.

 Am I the only person in Kern County who didn't meet Jack Palance or Chuck Conners?  ; - )

Gube --  How many rounds did El Hombre de Rifle' fire at begining of the show?

Od ya think he had one in the pipe? Was tape audio altered ya think?

What'd ya do wif da hat?

Didn't have a propeller by chance did it?

Palance was funniern' a drunk turkey buzzard BTW. Liked him. Not Chuckie though....... (or his kids)

 9 shoots???

Hey chuck  was cool i got to his place at ten in the morning to fill up his propane tank and after the tour of his house and chuck telling me about his professional basketball and baseball days a bunch of small talk and a few beers .....He was always friendly to me. Now Palance was known to be a jerk.........But he did kiss my boy on the head once.....

 The opening titles of The Rifleman featured Connors rapid-firing thirteen shots as he walked down the street of North Fork.

Actually, he fired only twelve shots; the 13th had to be dubbed in to time out with the music

 Chico i wore the hat out.........I was young and didn't know any better. I guess I should have had him autograph it and put it up but hell the manager at the propane company tried for years to get a hat and never could get one. So I wore it partly to piss him off...

 Did I say 9 ....I meant 13...

 I would definitely invest and not with GE:)

 Gube -- Did you work for Mr. Strickland?

Sorry, couldn't hep myseff......

(I love King of the Hill BTW)

 propane and propane accessory's.......

 Did I say 9 ....I meant 13...

You were thinking reality. You're a shooter!

You may have a 45 LC or 357 Winchester Trapper Model or similar and weren't thinking modified "Hollywierd" gun vato.

Thats how I took it...............

 Gube...Chuck may have seemed cool, that is if the drinking, the attitude, the trying to crowd in line at Town and Country Market , and his penchant for little girls doesn't bother you much.

Audrey, I lived in Tehachapi for 15 years and met Noah at teh Wards Catalog store, Jack Palance at the Indian Hills Pow Wow next door at the Indian Hills Ranch, and Conners in the market and at our ranch on the buffalo roundup.

Robin...Be careful what you wish for with buffalo.  They are NOT domesticated creatures and when the urge to migrate hits them, they will go though barbed wire fences like they were paper chains.  I lived in two trailers while rebuilding the ranch house and while in the first, a 26 footer, the buffalo stampeded in the night.  I could hear them thundering past the trailer and all I could do was pray they didn't bump into it.  Looking back it's really funny, but at the time, I was petrified.  Sitting in a 4 wheel drive pickup staring eye to eye with one of the bulls is a little intimidating too. 

I wrote on a previous blog that the guy was ordered by the county to get rid of them as they presented a hazard when they escaped and were tearing up the trees at the lake not to mention people gardens.

They're majestic, but not good for pets.

 If you had a kid like Bobby, Gube.............

naw............you'da killed him already...........

 Robin, I finally got the pictures up.  I'm not the fastest at that job.  :-)

 Oh..and RF..considering I love thoses busses, and pool is my favorite sport, I'd say that's a car I like to have on my rack. (no pun intended.)

It's currently for sale on ebay, Nancy. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Volkswa...