In 1958 Jeffreys proposed a power law generalization of the logarithmic transient creep earlier attributed to Lomnitz. Although Jeffreys' power law form was admittedly defective in that it became unbounded at infinite time, he did not apply it to the viscoelastic behavior of the earth-moon system. Since then it has been successfully applied to many investigators to mantle rehology and Chandler wobble. Experimental seismic studies indicate that most rock types exhibit the almost constant Q behavior which Lomnitz showed to be associated with his logarithmic creep. In this paper, we study not only the Q behavior related to Jeffrey's power law creep but also other mechanical properties such as a precise spring-dashpot ladder network realization are developed. In addition, a very simple physically realizable modification of this leader network leads to a boundedness at long times of Jeffrey's creep in a manner which does not affect his successfuly application at finite times.