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I acquired two more after taking this picture. 🫣 Though I did sell one! A full comprehensive list can be found here, where there are also a few before/afters. At this point I've got 30+. The first machine I ever owned is my computerized Brother machine, but I never use it anymore. All of them do or WILL work once I work on them. One of them is a cobbler machine (Singer 29-4), another is a chainstitch (Weld-Seam), and there is a 90's Kenmore serger in there too. The rest are standard machines. If you need a workout regime, I promise you that schlepping 30+ 30 lb machines down stairs and then back up them for one picture will indeed get you in fantastic shape. I was ready to keel over.

(Dog is an unwilling participant of this collection; sorry about the creepy mask in the background, I promise it is not haunted).

It's a fun experiment to go through and see how many you can name without looking them up. 😄

Blurb: Victor Ortiz-Bennett had some reservations about moving to Oklahoma, but his late aunt willed him a 70-acre horse farm, and he decides to fulfill his dream of running and operating his own training facility. Victor’s been around the reining horse show circuit for a while, and he’s ready to settle down, travel less, and spend more time with the horses he loves and away from the people he can do without. That is, until he picks up a horse at an auction with a bucking problem he can’t fix, and he has to take her to the one guy who can ride anything– Johnny Stearns, a retired professional rodeo rider.

Johnny Stearns is loud, chatty, eccentric, and fears nothing, exactly Victor’s opposite. However, as the training progresses, Victor finds himself sinking into an odd friendship with this new foul-mouthed cowboy without a filter, diving deeper into the mess that is Johnny’s life until there’s no way to extract himself from it. Johnny may talk a tough game, but there’s more to him than he’ll let most people see. Victor knows getting in too deep will mean a rough ride, but if there’s anything Johnny’s taught him, it’s how to stay in the saddle.

Triggers Child abuse (off-screen), transphobia/homophobia (off-screen), animal death (off-screen), alcoholism, hoarding, mention of infertility, other spoilery warning here.

Date of Publication: June 27, 2026

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