Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

What a generous/lucky raffle gift RNG. You got me wondering what little gifts RCBS may have waiting for you. Electronic automatic powder scale and a set of matchmaster dies ? Maybe not though in these times of shortage. It has taken me over two months to get just a shellholder for a hornet case, the shelves in our gunshop have never been so empty.

Turns out the bag contained a t-shirt, beer can coozy, and a coffee mug, all emblazoned with the RCBS logo. But the company also donated an electronic powder scale, and another big box that I think included a case trimmer, and everyone that wanted one went home with a nicely ventilated baseball hat with an RCBS patch sown on the front. There was a rep from a gun shop located in Paradise, and her table was chock full of various powders and reloading tidbits. When I asked her about ammunition availability, she said her husband works very hard to ferret out new supplies to keep their shelves stocked. My last visit there showed that they did indeed have inventory, but they were so proud of that fact that I couldn't afford any of it and went home empty handed. Some would call it price gouging. In the future, if you get stuck for something else, I'd be happy to take a look around here for you to see if it's available. As I mentioned, RCBS is located only about fifteen minutes from here.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .13 inches rain.

Piddle around out back a bit, try to entice Makani onto the Mule, Kekoa will definitely go for a ride. Watch the Bucs / Patriots game. Basically an easy day.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

67F, wet, and cloudy @ 13:00, heading up to a high of 73F. We've had 0.21" of rain since midnight, chance of an isolated thunderstorm starting later around 18:00.

A "slow roll" for the day as Thomas would say, nice to relax a little and not feel like I have push it to take advantage of good weather.

Feeders need refilled so that will surely be on the menu. Also feed fish.

Place Amazon order.

Have one pallet of fertilizer/amendments/concrete that I need to remove from the garage and put in the back of the van to make room to work on the Kubota. There are four 50 lb bags of starter fertilizer currently in the back of the van that need added to it before I can put it in there.

Collect up filters/consumables up in the shop for Kubota service.

Clean and straighten up garage which is pretty messy at this point.

Possibly do a little housecleaning while I'm at it.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe Sunday ...

 

[rswyan]

Once again, RS, I was exhausted after reading only the first half of your busy day's activities.

Well, it was actually two days ...

No way I could keep up with you, but I wonder why you left out what you had for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

Breakfast and lunch are easy: I don't (typically, at least) eat them. Sometimes I do though.

Dinner last night was pizza from Guiseppe's. Night before it was ... leftover Chinese ?



Hope ya get some cooler temps, if not some rain to go with them.

 

[sodamo]

Light rain here is making it look like an inside day.

Reading about your 2 patients Roy had me meandering down memory lane. When Sophie was in her car wreck we had a 6 yo, male boxer, usually 75-80 lbs. after a couple weeks I got permission to bring him into the hospital. As you well know, he was still an exuberant boxer puppy at heart and I was a bit concerned as Sophie was still in her hardware and limited movement. My concerns were unfounded. It was like he knew. Of course word spread and some days it would take half an hour from entrance to her room. So many others wanted a visit. It was like he became an instant therapy dog, his affect not only on Sophie, but the strangers along the hall. After coming home, Soph was another year in the hospital bed, but I never had to worry about leaving them together.

And of course we had multiple boxers when I had my knees down. They were never a concern, again, like they just knew.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

As far a contradiction to Sen. Johnson’s claims, for those who claim to want the truth, does it bother you at all that the CDC cannot simply provide verifiable numbers of Vaxxed deaths vs non-Vaxxed deaths during anytime? That is simple information that should be available at their fingertips. It bothers me that we cannot seem to get that information from the CDC.

If a US Senator is raising the question and the government cannot provide concrete answers there has to be a reason that they can‘t or won’t.

A young engineer I work with (female), who's young husband is an ER nurse (how's that for gender perception), tells me of her husband's experience. He says that well over 90% of those admitted are unvaxxed.

My doctor just told me that 94% are unvaxxed, and the few vaxxed patients admitted, have major underlying conditions.

The real world I'm surrounded with, tells me what I need to know. And I have been called a "Missouri mule" upon occasion....even though I've never stayed in Missouri.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all- sunny and warm today.
Showed my son how to drill and assemble the new brackets to hold the torsion bar on the Simplicity. Will be testing later. Looks like these should hold, 1/4" plates from a slightly newer Regent. The original holder wore out and the tranny tilted, loosening the belt.

Fun to get him acquainted with all the tools and had him do some drilling and put in the bolts.

This Lawn mower is for him to tool around the property.
Did the head gasket and valves with him last year and then the torsion bar mount wore through, so he only got to drive is once.

David - google translate- Kahu lumi nani is beautiful room attendant

Roy - I hope Margeaux settles back down soon- with the wife hurt and the new digs, sure to throw any dog for a loop

Found out the "Hemlock" is really snake root- while still poisonous , unlike hemlock won't give you a rash if touched. Much less worried about it now. So much for online experts and plant ID.

Wngsprd - hard scrubbing is a good workout. I need to do that on some areas that the pressure washer can;t get too. Not motivated to do so anytime soon..

BEF - sad to hear- our thoughts to their Dad.

RNG - that shootout sounds fun- training to find out your gaps is always great, and having fun while doing it, priceless. I have never been to something like that, but hearing my police friends describe their practice runs, it seems like you got a good subset of it.

Off to get lunch and then see if we can get the simplicity going and see how the torsion bar fix works.

Stay safe and be well.


Oh and the twins and mom are back and looking healthy:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG - that shootout sounds fun- training to find out your gaps is always great, and having fun while doing it, priceless. I have never been to something like that, but hearing my police friends describe their practice runs, it seems like you got a good subset of it.

I think that was the case, Ken. The deputies freely shared their experiences with the same exercises, reminding us that their equipment load is something like 50 pounds and they practice rain or shine and in temps that this past summer frequently were in the hundreds.

But I may have left out the most important part of the day! The Sheriff is a little bit of a showoff, and the department operates two helicopters. He made his grand entrance using the helicopter to buzz the facility at treetop height, with him standing on the skid outside the open door. The pilot banked the thing into a 90° turn so he was staring straight down looking at us just before the landing. All that was missing was Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries playing from the loudspeaker on the chopper. Almost as remarkable, one of the helicopters was military surplus, and the other one was a donation from a very wealthy local. Both were refurbished and equipped using funds generated by events put on by the Sheriff's Posse, of which yesterday's was just one. It turns out they were also selling rides in the copters, and one young lady offered a thousand dollars if she, too, could ride outside on the rail. The Sheriff didn't have any trouble at all taking her money. They kept those helicopters in the air most of the day.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

57° at home.
70° and scattered storms were I am. Heading home today. Quick trip. Got 3 different people coming in at different times to take care of the 2 cats.

Don’t know vac status, but husband and wife that goes to church with dad both died yesterday from COVID. That was a shock. Don’t know if dad’s been told yet. So sad, I knew them since I was young.

Sad to hear of their passing. Prayers for their family and your church family. We had an older couple both in the hospital at the same time. The family was called to come, but they both made it through. The lady came to church this morning for the first time in a while.

The long term effects of Covid are not good, and we still have a lot to learn and pray about.

Roy, hope your wifey gets to feeling better.

Billy, sadly the Aggies lost a heartbreaker. SEC play is tough. Next week, Alabama will have their way I feel.

RNG, sounds like a great day spent with the local sheriffs. Our new sheriff is also a pastor, retired from the highway dept, but his budget is very low for our county which has a low populace.

Hoping to take kids to the tennis courts this evening to hit the ball back and forth a bit. I will teach the young ones about "English". Eric, do the English call it themselves when applying a top spin on the ball?.....or is that a term used on our side of the pond?

Daughter played bass in church today. We had a good turnout....the best since Easter.

 

[daugen]

Buckeye, sorry for loss of your friends.

happy to see post repair job was still attached, headed back later this week to sand, caulk and mortar.
Date on Meetinghouse is 1723, no idea how old that post is.

SIL made me some yummy gaspacho from my own tomatoes. That made for a fine lunch though a bit spicy.
Then mowed the lawn and called it an afternoon.

I saw some unexpected red flowers in the lawn and went to investigate. Not flowers at all. Mushrooms.
Very pretty mushrooms, never have seen them before. Probably poisonous as can be.