The Mayfields: Loudon

This week, heading to New Hampshire International Speedway, weather is on everyone's mind as it seriously affected a Nextel Cup test at The Brickyard, and has been inundating New England.

And also seriously on the Mayfields' minds is whether to introduce their two youngest bulldogs, Zoë and Ivan, to air travel when they travel to this weekend's Lenox Industrial Tools 300.

This week: A little chew will calm you down?

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Q: Did you ever stop to think, when you flew into New Hampshire, if one group of Pilgrims ended up in New Hampshire and another went to North Carolina, and that's why there's "Conquered" in one place and "Con-cord" in the other?

Shana: Huh?

Jeremy: I guess that's what they did, but I don't know, man.

I thought about it, then I thought, 'I don't really know what I'm thinking about,' so I quit thinking about it.

Q: Is there any place better to be in the middle of the summer than New England?

Shana: Oh yeah -- I could think of a few.

Jeremy: I can't think of any.

Shana: I could definitely think of a few.

Q: Maybe we need to get you up on Lake Winnipesaukee, water skiing, to make you change your mind, right?

Shana: I think I'd rather go to, what's that called, the Hydro-slide? I haven't done it in so long I don't remember. Or going wake boarding.

Jeremy: You mean jet skis?

Shana: No, but I don't know. I'm not quite ready for bathing suit season. I think I'm going to have to wait until next year, so we'll put a hold on that one .

Jeremy: I wouldn't mind. I've been on the lake one time, but I always thought that was a pretty cool lake. What is it, now -- Winasuzuki?

Shana: Winnipesaukee -- it's Indian.

Jeremy: Naw -- Lake Winasuzuki. I can deal with that. Anyways, it is a nice place and we did that cruise on it before.

Shana: I've never seen it. I don't really go anywhere when I get to Loudon because there's not a lot to do. This trip I might just hang out with Mattie and Izzy.

Jeremy: I'm goin' fishing when I get there because I hear there are a lot of bass lakes around there. It's supposed to be good fishing, for sewer or largemouth bass.

I've heard there's a lake or two up that dirt road across from the ticket office at the track. We could take Buster's golf cart and go on up there -- that thing is a hot rod -- it hauls butt.

Buster keeps everything he's got right on the edge -- right on the limit. I don't know what he's got in that thing -- might be a small block.

Q: You ought to think about putting the No. 19 on that thing and trying it for a race -- it gets it.

Jeremy: We might as well. We could, because like I say, I don't know what he's got in it -- some kind of illegal fuel or something.

He's not subject to post-race inspection, for sure. He runs on alcohol, actually. Gas prices are too high.

But I thought about taking it out there and trying that lake. There's supposed to be some big sewer bass in there.

Shana: There's a lot for Jeremy to do in Loudon -- but I'm kind of at the mercy. There is not a lot for me to do up there.

Jeremy: You like that little mall over there, don't you?

Inside the Numbers Jeremy Mayfield in 2006 Race Start Finish Status Daytona 26 36 running California 21 22 running Las Vegas 24 25 running Atlanta 20 41 running Bristol 10 16 running Martinsville 23 26 engine Texas 34 31 running Phoenix 28 26 running Talladega 36 13 running Richmond 38 32 running Darlington 30 38 running Charlotte 2 15 running Dover 2 18 running Pocono 26 23 running Michigan 18 36 running Sonoma 32 22 running Daytona 42 36 running Chicago 16 24 running Average 23.8 26.7

Shana: No, not really. We haven't found another pet store like Debbie's Petland, which used to be inside the mall in Concord. But no more pet stores -- we got our hands full right now.

Jeremy: We got our own little -- I guess you'd say -- humane society going on here.

Shana: Our own little family -- and we're not getting any more four-legged babies.

Q: So how's the pet training going for the Pocono pet show next weekend?

Shana: We don't need to train 'em -- they're going to be perfect?

Jeremy: The bad thing about it is that we've got good kids, but I just don't know if they're ready for prime time.

Shana: Everybody's talking about getting their pets dressed up in these little outfits, but mine are beautiful enough they don't need to get dressed up in any clothes.

So we'll have to see what influences the judges.

Jeremy: But ours just, like, show out when they all get together. They brawl.

Shana: I know, so I'm kind of worried about that.

Jeremy: It's a lack of attention they get at home, you know?

Shana: No, they're lacking discipline is what it is. They're used to being off on the four-wheeler with Jeremy, so they don't know how to behave.

Jeremy: No. I mean, Ivan will walk up to whatever; hike his leg up and p--- for like three minutes straight.

Shana: And it doesn't matter what it's on or where it is, either.

Jeremy: He'll just pee and pee -- and you'd swear he'd drunk a 12-pack of beer somewhere, or something like that.

Shana: He does, and it just p----- me off so bad. I'm like, 'What are we going to do when we move? He's going to p--- all over everything.'

Q: Are we talking outside, or ...

Shana: No, we're talking wherever and whenever he feels like it.

Jeremy: He'll pee sometimes, but if you don't take him out and he's got to take a leak, he'll just go.

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Shana: Yeah, but he doesn't even give you a clue he's got to go out. The others will go to the door, but Ivan will just wake up and hike his leg, and then lay back down .

You can't read his mind, you know?

Jeremy: Ivan is weird, man -- he's crazy. He's from Talladega High.

Shana: We bought him a hula-hoop and we were going to try to teach him to jump through it.

Jeremy: Because he jumps, constantly.

Shana: That didn't last long. We got home and he destroyed the hula-hoop -- chewed it in half.

Jeremy: Yeah.

Shana: He's always jumping so high; we thought maybe we'd teach him a trick, like jumping through a hula-hoop. He didn't like it, so he chewed it in half.

Jeremy: Yeah, he got it and there's, like, a third of it missing. He eats things.

Shana: He won't just chew on it. It's gone. He ate our remote control -- like, seriously ate it.

Jeremy: Like, swallowed it -- batteries and all -- ate it.

Shana: There's nothing left of it .

Jeremy: He's crazy. He's bigger than Izzy. He's huge -- and he's only a year old.

Shana: I'm scared of what he's going to grow up to be like, because he's already so big.

Jeremy: He looks like Jethro from the Clampetts, man. I'm not kidding.

Shana: You should see him right now. He's got two chewies hanging from his mouth -- one hanging from each side.

Jeremy: He's eating two chewies at once. He eats everything, and I'm not joking. He ate half the hula-hoop the other night. He ate the remote control.

Shana: He ate my flip-flop. I mean, ate it -- bit it in half and ate it.

Jeremy: I don't mean he chews something up -- like, he swallows it.

Shana: We've got some weird doggies.

Jeremy: The biggest thing I've ever seen him eat was my boot. He ate my rubber boot.

Shana: He did.

Jeremy: While we were gone one time he ate a whole rubber boot. Like, it was gone -- missing. There were a couple of those little steel D-rings left -- that was it.

Word Association

The lake
Jeremy: Winasuzuki. BK big fish.
Shana: Winnipesaukee.

Lobster claws
Jeremy: Not sure 'bout that one.
Shana: With hot butter.

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