so waht ya doin today?

[smokeywolf]

MiL has a sister, niece and nephew close by. Nephew is 47 years old and the steadiest of the three.

Just got back from town. Retrieved my core deposit on the old truck batteries. Picked up groceries from Walmart. Case of Malbec from the liquor store.

Went to put groceries away and found one more mouse snared in the main pantry and one more in the elevator.

College Boy has one more year for his Bachelor's degree. A postgrad degree is still being discussed.

 

[waco]

"I hate meeces (sp) to pieces!"
Son discovered a mouse in one of the basement pantries last night. Undoubtedly snuck in when I had a garage door open while installing new batteries in my truck.
Mouse in glue trap this morning.

On a sadder note. Mother-in-law has Alzheimers. She's 82, which is a bunch better than "early on-set Alzheimers". She was diagnosed nearly 2 years ago, but it's now getting serious. Mrs. smokeywolf can't go see her or offer much help because her mom is in Japan. With her heart condition and SARS CoV-2 still on the loose, she can't fly back to Japan to be with her mom.
No one could ask for a better MiL. She's been nothing but supportive of her Japanese daughter marrying an American man with a near 20 year age difference.

College Boy will be home for nearly 2 months this summer. That will make life more cheerful.

My mom is only 68 years old and has advanced rheumatoid arthritis and is now starting to see the effects of early onset Alzheimer’s/dementia.It can be a very hard thing to deal with and it is hard to watch. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.

 

[Mitty38]

Well got the truck wiring unrigged and completely done. Solenoid was the original, so 31 yo.
Went ahead and put a new solenoid on it. While I had all the wires disconnected from the thing, figured may as well pull the 2 bolts and strap a new one to the fender.
Save the old one on the tool box for a spare.

Mechanic called and said my Station Wagon was done early. So went down to the bank, took out my last bit of cash, all but 5 bucks. Then took a 400 cash advance.
Went to pay him off. Besides the PTU- transfer case repair,The flex pipe was bad, plus exhaust manifold needed to be removed to get to the PTU, and some studs broke off. so.....When he added up the final bill I was 37 bucks short.
So I asked, " do you have a .38 special or a .357?" He did, have a .357, and he was out of ammo. So he has 25/ 38 special Red Dot wad cutters, and 25 speer half jacketed .357 Loaded up with H110.

Nice to have the Escape back.

 

[popper]

dementia- a tough road. Give then all the attention you can even if they don't remember it or you. Don't be shocked at what they say.

 

[smokeywolf]

Thank you waco. She is our sons' last grandparent.

EDIT to add: Dementia is bad. Mrs. smokeywolf took care of my mother during her last 7 years. My mother would semi regularly think I was my father who had died 7 years before we moved her in with us. She would also sometimes think I was one of her late brothers. At least once or twice a month she'd say that she needed to get home because her mother was probably worried about her. Her mother passed on in 1968.

Alzheimer's is worse.

 

[fiver]

Do you shoot trap mostly Lamar?

Good luck with the freezer hunt.
Our freezer went out about middle of September last year.
Imagine my surprise when I found out the soonest I could get one was about Thanksgiving!
Fricking Covid...
Thankfully, the neighbor across the street had an upright in the garage not being used.
She let Annie and I use it till we got our new freezer.

yeah Trap mostly.
I will shoot at pretty much anything I can with a shot gun though.
Trap just happens to be the closest to me right now [about 170 miles round trip]
but ducks, doves, starlings, pigeons, turkey's, grouse, chukars, fish, weasels, a few annoying squirrels from time to time, occasionally i'll make the drive up to shoot some sporting clays or 5 stand in Idaho Falls, and about 2-3 times a year they fire up the skeet towers at the club [if I'm there I will throw some skeet chokes in the trap gun and go down and shoot a round]

 

[fiver]

270 don't get too worked up about an antelope tag this year, they drastically cut the tag numbers this year in Wyoming.
the good thing is their numbers generally bounce back pretty quickly and next year could be a totally different story.

finding a freezer wasn't too difficult.
the place here in town carries pretty good stuff, but they sure are proud of them.
we went down to Pokey and picked one out and I asked the guy about them, he beeped the thingy with his phone and was like we got 6 of these.
good load one up.
Littlegirls hubby wanted another small one, I was like a slightly larger one will use about half the electricity than 2 small ones will.
that took all of 2 seconds to sink in.

got it home and got it in place and had enough time to get the G-Boy his dirt delivered and in place in between the rain and hail thunderstorms that cooled things off right quick.

 

[Rick]

A year ago wasn't a freezer to be found anywhere, not in stores or online. Took about 4 months to get one and I had to be on a waiting list to get it.

 

[Mitty38]

Took the Escape, and the wife on a 75 mile round trip, test drive. Just now, back from Summit Racing. Had an old rewards card wanted to see if they would honer it. My F250 is going to be sporting some nice coil overs on the back.
The Escape got around 19 mpg. It was getting 16 before I had the PTU replaced. A whole 3 more mpg! At today's gas prices I will have that $2100 repair bill recouped in no time!

 

[462]

Sixteen-grains of 2400 was this morning's winner.
03A3 (receiver and four groove barrel both dated 2-43).
Lee 311-41 at 179-grains.
Lyman 311284U (.309" before I lapped it, .310" after) at 225-grains.
5 1/2" black bull targets at 50-yards, which are too small for my screwed up vision and iron sights.
A bit more than 1.5 MOA East/West for both loads, but the too much vertical stringing seems to be my silver spike.

Anyway, all things considered an excellent starting point for two new-to-me, but classic bullets.

A mid-to-late 20s guy had a Garand M1D. I figure it's a CMP re-build. Anyone know if they are original D receivers, or a regular receiver that CMP phonies up?

 

[Ole_270]

270 don't get too worked up about an antelope tag this year, they drastically cut the tag numbers this year in Wyoming.
the good thing is their numbers generally bounce back pretty quickly and next year could be a totally different story.

I'm getting used to it. Two years ago the 5 of us including the two Grandkids put in for Antelope does in one unit, bucks in another. Grandson and Son were the only ones to draw and those were doe tags.

We put in for antelope on the off chance of getting a tag, mainly going for mule deer. Will be a first for all three of us. I bought the ol'270 back in '72 to hunt western mule deer, this will be it's first trip.

 

[462]

My wife took care of her dementiated/Alzheimered mother for 10-plus years. The first few years were okay, but they gradually worsened and last three or four wore my wife out mentally and physically. The 24-hour care, the worry, the lack of sleep, the verbal abuse. It's an insidious disease, and if there is any positive to it, it's that the patient doesn't know.

My sister's mother-in-law has had it for about five years.

 

[waco]

if there is any positive to it, it's that the patient doesn't know.

Saw this with my Grandma. It's going to be hard. We have no illusions of that...

 

[Joshua]

I will never forget the crazed look in her eyes the day my Grandmother realized she didn’t recognize me. I was 15 and it freaked me out how she was just staring at me and getting agitated. She told my mom when I left the room that she knew I existed, she remembered me being born, but she didn’t recognize me. She had been pretending for about a year that she knew people when she went to her small town grocery store. She went downhill real quick after that.

 

[Joshua]

On a lighter note:
I got the mill lifted up onto the new table, leveled it, then cleaned the table, the ways, and the spindle. I installed a cheap Chinese vise. Collets and a parallel set are in the mail. I’ve also got to order a shaft for the drill chuck that came in the mail today. Right now I can’t true up the vise with a dial indicator until I have something to grab it with.

I installed a 1” indexable end mill tonight and milled all six sides of a little chunk of A36 bar stock.

There was a lot more vibration than I am used to. The machines at work are much more rigid.

I have been doing much more complex milling at work, with much newer and bigger machines. They have DRO’s, proper Z ways, and pneumatic draw bars. This old beat up/round column machine with all it’s drawbacks is gonna teach me a few things.

Here are a few photos!

 

[JWFilips]

JonB,
I share a "Fall on Mother's Day birthday" also. I was born on a Monday back in 1953.....story goes my Mother spent he Mother's Day washing clothes, cleaning the house and making food for my family ....she said she "wanted to get that done so she can have this baby tomorrow"!
Anyway today is my 68th birthday & I got up early to celebrate a goal I sent for myself back on February 15th of this year.....I wanted to loose 20 lbs by May 11th and I did it! Looking back it was pretty easy one I set my mind to it.

 

[Bret4207]

Josh, you might lessen the vibration by going to a link-belt type belt rather than a standard vee belt. Helped a significant amount on my little Atlas 6" lathe. Smaller machines are always a let down from larger, more rigid machines, but they still work once you figure out the kinks.

 

[Bret4207]

Cleared some more fence line yesterday. Studied out how and where to put one particularly off camber/sits on sloped ledge corner. I'm in for a BUNCH of rock drilling! I'm also going to have to invest in some longer tee posts to make this corner stronger- not because I need to go deeper, but because longer braces equal stronger corners. I'm also going to look into some sort of hydraulic cement to anchor the corners better. Never messed with that stuff before, but I see some comes in a caulking gun tube. On the plus side, the sun is shining!

My neighbor with the '64 IHC 3/4 ton 4wd pickup is getting edgy and wants it out of his yard. He dropped the price to just what he paid for it. I want the darn thing, but I want a lot of other stuff too! Sheesh! I did go and look at the Troy-bilt tiller, it's the smaller Pony, not the larger Horse model and he wants top dollar for it. OTOH, he has a nice Allis Chalmers B210 garden tractor with a good solid mower deck for less than a bare mower deck shell would be for the Deere. That one I might do!

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

It was my birthday yesterday, yes once every 7 years, my birthday falls on Mothers Day.
...and it finally paid off !
Most of my birthdays are uneventful...just another day of the week. As an adult, I never have a party or what-have-you and that is fine.
BUT this year was different. My Nephew, who is a big time fisherman, just got back from SD with a bucket full of Walleyes and Crappies. He and his wife threw a big Mother's Day fish fry for all the mothers in the family that live nearby, my Mom happened to get invited...and I got to tag along. Deep fried Fish lunch was GREAT. When my Nephew heard that it was also my birthday, he asked if I cook fish. I said Heck yeah! He offered me all the leftover fresh (uncooked) fish, enough for today's breakfast/lunch/dinner. BEST birthday present I have received in the last decade!

Mom and I, at my Nephew's house.
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Happy belated Birthday my friend!!! My lilest sister enjoyed a Bday Sunday as well! Mom looks very happy!

God Bless

CW

 

[Ole_270]

JW, looks like we're only about 4 months apart in age, I hit 68 in Jan. The weight loss thing is easy, if you really set your mind to it and don't have a wife and daughter who insist on cooking the wrong things. I'm down nearly 40 lbs in the last few years, been taking it pretty slow. Seems to go up and down depending on holidays, birthdays, strawberry season, ect.