so waht ya doin today?

[Intheshop]

Not sure what's going on here today..... it is in fact raining so the weather liars get 1 for the win column.

Blast a few rounds then go predator jacking is the default.

Getting the tractor Hut detailed is more of a "pretty",just want to do a proper Martha (Stewart) beatdown sort of day. One thing "hiding" tractor does however,it frees up bay space for shooting paint on stuff without having to worry about overspray. Got some household pcs that need to be shot/sprayed. Had to move a nice stash of Va cherry to get the Hut cleared out so,got that to build something with..... thinking Christmas presents.

 

[Intheshop]

Heckuva commute but,you can drop the kids off here anytime Ian. Can promise you one thing though,they WILL be dirty by days end. And,wore slam out.

 

[CZ93X62]

Har! That's funny Ian. "Me" and "us" time! Right! Best of luck with that! "Me" time will be when you're at work. "Us" time will be the trips between drop off and pick up spots for the kids. Your social life will be meeting other parents in the diaper isle at Walmart or talking at school functions. The rest of your life belongs to the kids.

I know this film!

 

[freebullet]

I've been happily out of touch with the world for the last two days, while my son-in-law and I took Front Sight's two-day Defensive Handgun Course. I had a lot of fun, learned new shooting techniques and unlearned many bad ones.

Nice! I still use our trip there on bad days. It'll not just improve the defensive handgunning skills but brighten a gloomy day for years to come. Would really like to get back down there for a rifle course.

We took the 4 day handgun. Quite humbling & a great time, except for the 19 hour drive from here.

 

[JonB]

SNIP...
we have our hands pretty full now, I can't imagine how couples can have more than two kids and survive. They must have a lot more family/friends to help out than we do.

Ian, Congrats on the boy, he looks real good

A close friend of mine has nine kids. It's always good to have the first one a girl, so she can help Mom.
My friends Mom quit her job after having the first two, as they planned to have more. They also Home school to 8th grade. Their youngest is 5 or 6? The oldest finished nursing school and now has a real good job, and recently vacationed in Italy. Their next oldest did two years of training to become a EMT, and is doing that. The rest are still school age.

 

[JonB]

I installed a used (new to me) natural gas cook stove yesterday (this was a project, 12 months in the making, LOL).
I was aware my old stove was a cheapy and I put up with it's problems for the whole 25 years I owned it.
The new one...WOW... I love it! The sealed burners on the cook stove have a higher BTU, and have better orientation than the old stove.
It's so nice to have programmable oven and a top and bottom broiler.

The bottom style broiler that is typical on all standard ovens, is such a pain to use, and even bigger pain to clean, I never used it on the old stove.
I just charred some over ripe red bell peppers (using the top broiler) It's so much easier to do large quantities that way, than the way I use to do them on the charcoal grill.

 

[smokeywolf]

If Ian's Mrs. is his intellectual equal, and I'm betting that she is, I would absolutely encourage them to home school.

 

[L Ross]

Spent most of today getting ready for a special event Friday. Last year my wife and I were asked to help teach 6th graders from a local middle school some survival skills. It went so well we have been asked to return. We set up a wedge tent in an open face manner tomorrow afternoon and get our instruction area prepped from 8 am Friday morning. They break the 40 some kids into two groups and while some teacher take half, we take the other half and teach fire starting. The hardest part is to get them to understand the importance of proper preparation. They always want to start striking sparks and starting little fires, but they don't get as excited about stockpiling tinder, kindling, and fuel.
We bring two 18th century cauldrons for a couple of big batches of stew and a hominy based stew. A couple of the teachers showed up last year with big black pointed witches hats. What a blast!
In the afternoon we work on shelter building. It is a little frustrating because the 12 years olds are not to be trusted with axes, knives, and saws. They are given pruning shear for crying out loud. But, hey, our schools are so PC today and at least we can teach them something.

 

[JonB]

Today, the Electric co-op finally bored/buried my new power line...that was supposed to be done 2 years ago, when most of my neighbors had their's buried/trenched during the street/utility re-construction. I got them to pull an extra line for power to my garage (see paragraph below)... the extra line was pulled with the new service line and my cable TV line...both ends of the extra line are unconnected and just coiled up on the ground, I'll connect them next spring. I wonder what that extra line will cost? they used about 125 feet of cable. They used 2/2 since I plan on putting in a 60 amp box.

The new service pedestal is next to my garage, but the meter is on my house 80 feet away. I buried a line 25 years ago from the house fuse box to the garage, and while it's has worked, I wasn't done correctly and was probably undersized, since I do a little bit of welding...I've blown fuses when the Air compressor kicks in while I am welding. I plan to make the connections in the spring, as I should first, re-organize the garage and change much of the existing wiring, because the new breaker box will be in a new location...and I want to change most of the Lighting.

 

[smokeywolf]

Ordered a Kamado type grill/barbecue/smoker from Costco. Delivery supposedly in 2 to 3 weeks. Very much looking forward to having friends come for an afternoon barbecue.
EDIT to add: Went to the DMV today to get registration on cars switched from Kaliforniastan to AR. While they're much more personable here, the old story of you can't get this paper without that paper and you can't get that paper without this paper is still the SOP.
The Mrs. says if horribly humiliating to be driving around in "free America" with a California plate.

 

[Rick]

Speaking of free America . . . Did ya get registered to vote?

 

[Rally]

Smokey wolf,
How long do you have to live in Ar. before you can get resident hunting/fishing license?

 

[Rick]

Not sure about the time Rally but in January of the year he turns 65 he gets a lifetime hunting/fishing license for $30.00. He can probably use utility bills or maybe proof of home ownership to get his licenses now. Plus if he now has his AR DL he should be able to get it. A simple phone call would answer these questions.

 

[Rally]

Most states require from 30-90 days in state and dL/ state I’d to buy resident license. Usually less stringent requirements for hunting or fishing than for trapping. Some state hopping trappers and big game hunters have so abused the state regulations that they have become rather specific with their requirements to prove residency. Snowbirds with dual residency also run into the same requirements. Just something to check out to be sure.

 

[Ian]

That's amazing about all thos kids, Jon. We're good with two, we'd like to still have a little bit of life left for ourselves! As much as we're both unhappy with the public school system our plan is to subject them to it anyway and just keep close tabs on the whole deal. I was home schooled until the ninth grade and honestly it was a double-edged sword. The state sued my father (a K-12 certified teacher with two master's degrees and tenure at the local university) for truancy when I was ten, he fought it all the way to the ninth circuit and finally won his case which finally established the precedent for others to do the same and eventually led to some major legislative changes and official state home school curriculum. I chose to enroll in public high school on my own as preperation for college. I suppose it's in poor taste not to walk through the door he sacrificed so much to open for me, but like him and my mother, we reserve the same right and responsibility to do what we think is best for our own children. Our daughter is very gregarious and needs the social experience. She loves all the activities we are able to find for her with peers. The boy, we'll have to see. We looked into private schools but around here all that means is cyclone fence, big $$, and most especially a continuous thumping of the pupils over the head all day long with the Bible or some other religious tome that to which frankly we will not subject our innocent children's minds. They'll get enough exposure to mind-numbing stupidity in public school as it is and the sooner they learn to cope with it, the better. I got that exposure too late and my mind still boggles.

 

[Ian]

Ps I really do know how to spell "preparation" and "those" and how to use commas to separate independent clauses but I'm kinda worn out right now and pecking on a smart phone doesn't help.

 

[Intheshop]

Well can say this with a bit of certainty..... and one important part of this is,how much fun bolstering that impression can be.

37g of weighed Varget in freshly annealed 30-06 cases, ignited with Federal LRPs behind an,as cast Lee 309-150F,seated with a medium jam,and barely enough 70/30 lube to even qualify the term,"lubed".......

When shot out of my CDL will flat out embarass an awful lot of JB shooters. To almost include short range BR guys using an '06...... meaning,heavy barrels and parallel stocks. Now,not to be bashing Luepold because on a whole,I like them but..... this particular VXII 3-9X40 leaves a little on the table in a cpl areas. It IS,a set and forget it hunting style scope..... therefore; shooting <1" 5 shot groups @100 in some pretty crummy conditions of rain,with it's challenging drearyness,and enough wind to get useful load window data gets held up as something sort of special.

Haven't chrono'd but,it's got some poop behind it. Put it this way,barrel heat aside..... you wouldn't want a steady diet of say blasting box after box(20rd). Gonna say it's in the 2400 fps range. Recoil is snappy. Don't need to rehash the whole story but, Earnie the Gunsmith trigger spring and a slight adj to the screws,sees this CDL with a 2 3/4#..... not quite glass breaking pull.

Wind is 30+ mph today. Maybe get some more tests in.

 

[Bret4207]

Home schooling has it's ups and downs. Deciding on the stuff you want your kids to learn (within the law) is nice. Realizing how much time and money is wasted in public schools every day is a real downer. Exposure to all the other little juvenile delinquents is also a double edged sword. Yeah, ya want your kids to not be entirely socially awkward, but you'd really rather not have them trying to emulate "ganstas" and hookers. Myself, if we had a local private school that was worth anything I'd find a way to get my kids there. As it is out 2 choices are a Catholic school (expensive and an hour away) and a school run by ex hippie communists. I really don't need my kids beaten over the head all day long with progressive, new age, climate change, Marx based religion. No good answers sometimes.

Jon, 20 some years back the power pole that carried power from the house to my barn rotted out and fell over. My garage had no power. I scrounged, and I'm not being inaccurate when I use that word, enough cable to run a 50 amp sub feed to the garage and then on to the barn. None of it is underground rated. I am going to have to run some real cable soon. It's not a fun job and it's expensive, but I bet I'll sleep a little better at night.

 

[Intheshop]

Even though I hadn't planned on it,translated to; being lazy. The Varget/Lee150 load is so dang good,may have to mill bases and get fully entrenched running in the "fast lane" of accuracy. May be a reason for a new style of fixture. Make it for milling,then pop it out of that vise..... and into another on a drill press for making HP's? One aspect is,they're not interdependent from the machining side of it. Meaning either or,..... or both.

 

[Intheshop]

Two things about public and to a certain extent private education and I should leave it there because of toes being inadvertently stepped on;

"Crab pot mentality" or whatever they're calling it these days is a huge problem in,not just low resource school systems,primarily, but not limited to inner cities.

And the other,just as insidious is the "hands free" ,park'm in front of a computer screen that is taking over the classroom and teaching mindset. Which is propped up by the budget as being the cure all. Just sayin,it's easier to request funds for hardware than it is to create better teachers.