so waht ya doin today?
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fiver
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I did something, then I moved some 80-90 lb. cement blocks, then I moved some dirt, then I done something else, then fell asleep in a chair out under the crab apple tree.
I think the sunburn forming on my tonsils woke me up, or maybe it was the big fat Laprador trying to knock me over.
then I mixed up some dirt in the flower box out front before calling it good for the day.
I think the sunburn forming on my tonsils woke me up, or maybe it was the big fat Laprador trying to knock me over.
then I mixed up some dirt in the flower box out front before calling it good for the day.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Raked and swept oak leaves for most of an hour. Water-can watered all the front and back potted plants and hose watered whatever is in the ground in the back yard that the gophers haven't discovered yet.
Yesterday I filled the motorhome's gas and propane tanks in preparation for a long overdue get-away. When? Most likely after Memorial Day. Where? Maybe Angles Camp.
Yesterday I filled the motorhome's gas and propane tanks in preparation for a long overdue get-away. When? Most likely after Memorial Day. Where? Maybe Angles Camp.
L Ross
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Getting ready for my annual .22 silhouette shoot. I always think this year will be easier. Then I end up yelling to my wife that I'm never hosting a shoot again. Then I start planning what needs to be done for the cast bullet shoot next month.
Here at Thorn Hollow we are still free enough to have a burn barrel. Ours has been located in the same spot since 2003 and sits atop 4 concrete silo staves. I added a gravel path to the new syrup cooking roof that happens to line up with the 80, 160, and 210 yard rails. The barrel is too close to the gravel for mowing purposes. So I'll move it, right? Very minor project that should take but a couple minutes.
First just roll the 55 gallon barrel off the staves into the driveway, pick up the staves, put them in the driveway, and finish mowing that spot. Next, go in the shed and get the Bachtold Fence Row King, (think DR high wheel brush mower), and mow a new spot in some rough land a few yards away. Darn, I'm going to need to put a gravel pad under and around the burn barrel to mitigate the chances of a grass fire. Okay, just take the forks off the Kubota, put the bucket on, scoop three buckets of gravel, deposit it in the new location, grade it out with the edge of the bucket. Now put the silo staves in the bucket to move to the new spot. Unlike fiver I only have to pick up the concrete staves to realize that carrying 4 of them the 15 or so steps to the new spot will result in chiropractic fees being paid. I put 2 in the bucket and moved them to the new pad and positioned them parallel to the front lip of the bucket. Next loaded the remaining two and in a moment of energy conservation, picked up the barrel, (which only has about a foot of ash in the bottom), and stand it atop the two staves that are sitting perpendicular to the axis of the bucket. Get back on the tractor, gingerly raise the loader and the barrel falls off. The resultant cloud of smelly ash mostly drifts away from me, mostly. Minor profanity mumbled, get off the tractor and reload the barrel. Yup, fell off again. Less mumbling, more volume, more creativity. Finally, the last two staves and the barrel are properly installed.
Well shoot, I really will need to put the forks back on the Kubota to move the target rails for the ancillary Boy's Rifle Match. So off with the bucket, back on with the forks. Why oh why won't the final pin go into the hole to attach the forks without lifting the weight of the forks and their frame with one hand while tapping the pin with a ball pein hammer with the other. Why oh why do you have to not quite gently hit the middle and ring finger of your left hand, (the one swinging the hammer), against the forks head stock?
Perhaps just a bit of enlightenment about the Boy's Rifle Match. One of my rules about the .22 silhouette shoot is that all participants must dress in clothing appropriate to 1870 to 1939. I don't care what station in life you wish to dress as, I have told my shooters that anything from cowboy to Oh Brother Where Art Thou would be welcome. I have one guy that does a credible job of dressing as George Maledon, right down to the beard. Anyway, once we started allowing early twentieth century dress a couple guys showed up wearing "News Boy" wool caps. And the next thing you know we are scrounging up Stevens Crack Shots, Favorites, and Marksmen. Remington Model 6 and and #4's, Hamiltons, on and on. The targets are the same silhouettes we shoot at 50, 100, 150, and 200 yards only now we place them at 12 1/2, 25, 37 1/2, and 50 yards in 4 banks of 5 and shoot them with CCI CB shorts or longs. You are not allowed to adjust your sights, and the rainbow trajectory of a 29 grain bullet at 710 fps forces the shooters to hold under up close and over at 50. We only shoot off hand, and the sight of big men hunched over these diminutive rifles is amusing. Big goofy boys. Finding a decent Boy's Rifle without a roached bore or a sloppy action is a challenge and some relined bores are making their way to the line. Recently a friend went to a gun show and found a Uberti replica Remington #4 rolling block that is just gorgeous. He bought it but was worried I wouldn't allow it to compete against the originals. What do we care? There are no prizes, we hardly keep track of score. Mostly we admire the new acquisitions, laugh, shoot miss, shoot and hit, bitch about finding CB longs and wonder how long our stashes will last.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
That's what I meant by "in the bag for". Clumsy wording.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Worked my butt off on fence yesterday and barely covered 100 feet. 3 tractors, a crawler, the skid steer and the SxS involved. Sheesh. Got ahold of the guy with the roofing and he never got back to me "after work" like he said. I just don't understand people. More fence plus running kids around today.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Happens all the time, around here, too.
Happens all the time, around here, too.
Does it ever. Make appointments with people to have work done and most never show up. Never see or hear from them again.
JonB
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Golf:
I like playing golf, but am just too cheap.
I tried to get rid of that last set of vintage clubs that I owned at last weeks garage sale, $5 and no takers. I tried to bring them to Goodwill, they wouldn't take 'em, the guy said they Looked tough. I brought them to another private owned thrift store and "donated" them to him along with a nice vintage Pizza cooker (labeled Tombstone), that was previously in our sportsman club's Bar ...Goodwill didn't want that either.
I like playing golf, but am just too cheap.
I tried to get rid of that last set of vintage clubs that I owned at last weeks garage sale, $5 and no takers. I tried to bring them to Goodwill, they wouldn't take 'em, the guy said they Looked tough. I brought them to another private owned thrift store and "donated" them to him along with a nice vintage Pizza cooker (labeled Tombstone), that was previously in our sportsman club's Bar ...Goodwill didn't want that either.
Because I'd hit them so seldom they's last forever.
Well there ya go, not only great targets but cheap too.
JonB
Halcyon member
I bought a wood Stove yesterday...$100 from a young widow.
I'll likely share some photos when I refinish it. I am about to learn how to make a steel wood stove look black.
This $100 stove is old and rusty, but looks like it was rarely used, door/window gaskets look new, Fire bricks look new. It had been stored in unheated shed, hence rust. It's near identical in brand/model to the Century Air tight stove I have used for 20 years (which I bought used for $400 in 2001 and was only lightly used prior). My Century has corrosion inside the burn chamber, there were a row of holes in the roof of burn chamber to have fresh air wash over the window (to keep it clean), as well as another row of holes farther back on the roof...both of those rows of holes are now a craigly corroded slot, which I noticed a few years ago, and have been looking for a economic replacement ever since.
Anything near similar made these days are $800 and up...and everything sold new these days has to have a catalytic chamber, which can be troublesome, so I've heard.
I'll likely share some photos when I refinish it. I am about to learn how to make a steel wood stove look black.
This $100 stove is old and rusty, but looks like it was rarely used, door/window gaskets look new, Fire bricks look new. It had been stored in unheated shed, hence rust. It's near identical in brand/model to the Century Air tight stove I have used for 20 years (which I bought used for $400 in 2001 and was only lightly used prior). My Century has corrosion inside the burn chamber, there were a row of holes in the roof of burn chamber to have fresh air wash over the window (to keep it clean), as well as another row of holes farther back on the roof...both of those rows of holes are now a craigly corroded slot, which I noticed a few years ago, and have been looking for a economic replacement ever since.
Anything near similar made these days are $800 and up...and everything sold new these days has to have a catalytic chamber, which can be troublesome, so I've heard.
fiver
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the ones that have trouble with them are not letting the stove heat up before they close the damper so the automatic open/close sensor can do it's thing.
I had an impossible time getting it through my FIL's head that the stove was supposed to not look like it had a roaring fire in there.
after burning all the workings out of it he went and got a pellet stove instead of just turning on the nice new gas furnace I paid to have installed in that house a few years earlier.
I had an impossible time getting it through my FIL's head that the stove was supposed to not look like it had a roaring fire in there.
after burning all the workings out of it he went and got a pellet stove instead of just turning on the nice new gas furnace I paid to have installed in that house a few years earlier.
smokeywolf
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Took Tasha out for a quick potty last night about 10:00 give or take. Panned the flashlight across the pond area about 70 yards east of the house and caught a pair of eyes looking back at us. For a second, said to myself, 'oh good, a deer'. Then it registered, those eyes were a bit too close together. Looked again and in a couple of minutes the critter appeared to stand up and slowly and casually walked a few steps to our right (south).
It was tan, not too tall for a yote, but too long and didn't appear to have a fluffy tail. Its movements were very fluid. I think we saw a mountain lion. Tasha never knew it was there.
It was tan, not too tall for a yote, but too long and didn't appear to have a fluffy tail. Its movements were very fluid. I think we saw a mountain lion. Tasha never knew it was there.
Rick H
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If they acknowledge them they have to come up with a management plan for them. Game camera's make liars out of all game departments. Trapper caught a gray wolf in the lower peninsula of Michigan, you know where they don't have any wolves at all!!!!! Took it to the DNR. They weren't very happy to see it. Now they claim there is at least one pack roaming in the Lower Peninsula.
Game camera footage is what made Michigan's DNR finally admit to mountain lions.
Game camera footage is what made Michigan's DNR finally admit to mountain lions.
4-5 years ago I saw a black panther on the back of my property. Went for the camera but it was gone before I got back with it. I had gone out on the rear deck and out of the corner of my eye noticed a cat, didn't think anything about it. Took a few more steps and thought wait what? Turned and looked at it, this wasn't the neighbors kitty. The weeds it was standing in were nearly knee high to me and this cats belly was at the tops of the weeds, long thick tail like a cougar and gloss black all over. The dog started woofing like a hound dog, cat ignored the dog but kept an eye on me as I slipped back in the house for the camera . . . And a gun. Never saw him again. Was a truly beautiful animal but I sure wouldn't want to fight with it.