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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
ecurbh - that is a great pic, Gypsygirl waves paw at Homer, we're glad you both made a place for Homer in your heart and your home.
The use of simple handtools is becoming a lost art, glad you instructed them how it is done.
"He who splits his own wood is warmed twice" Thoreau I think.
I'm sure they wonder what to make of you sometimes. ;o)
A phrase I often use, having picked it up from my father. People give me really strange looks.
Argh, had a last minute realization that I only have one dress suitable for Palm Sunday and Easter, so I had to run out and pick up a cheap skirt/blouse combo. I hate when that happens.
"Is it I, Lord?"
Just back from pickin' up Jr. They got back early. That was equalized by the fact that he had a friend ask for a ride home to her Dad's house. 'Course it was 30 minutes in the other direction. And she didn't know how to get there.
Thank you, Lord for giving me two sons.
g'nite
My first safety lesson was watching my dad vaporize a pumpkin (my grandparents did not grow watermellons) with his 12 ga. I'll also put on a similiar demo for newbies, if there is appropriate produce available. I also let each student fire one shot without ear protection, to show them how important ear protection is.
Oh, and I found a tag line that I might steal: We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.
At various times I have been...privileged to be in the presence of a .380 ACP (mine, liked it, wish I still had it), a .38 SPL and a .45ACP (other peoples') and a 155mm howitzer (Uncle Sam's; I was about 50 feet away), without ear protection when they were fired. The .380 was an experiment on my part that I resolved not to repeat; the remainder were surprises.
lost most of muh hearin' in the right ear to an 8" SP Howitzer in the fight at Um Hujul... 8" in direct fire is devastatin' but definitely a last resort... still, we didn't havetuh engage dismounts... they wuz scattered all over the desert floor...
now I got tinitus in both ears... funny how I can look you in the eye at 10' and not unnerstnd yuh sometimes, but I can hear a deer walkin' in the woods at 100 yds in a high wind...
Why on earth does the choir have to be at church a whole hour early this morning? I'm clueless. Argh. And tired and sore.
Morning all!
OB: I've got the urge to plant some forsythia...where should I put 'em?
Remind me not to watch anymore Steinbeck movie adaptations...they're too danged depressing!
Selective hearing ;o)
I recently learned a joke. This is significant because I can't remember most jokes for more than a few minutes.
But:
What is an artilleryman's favorite word?
....... WHAT???
Afternoon OT - Can't give much advice on that since we don't have any. We'd plant 'em out of the wind though.
M198 155mm Howitzers. These belong to 11th Marine Regiment, according to the source.
3rd Bn 8th FA Regiment, 18th FA Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, US Army, used these in GW I.
Times have sure changed, I shot on the Knights of Columbus rifle team in high school, in a basement range, .22 rifle. Ear protection? What's that.
I thought about on the fence or along the west side of the house but then I wouldn't be able to see them from the inside. I'm putting off backyard landscaping until the sunroom is in.
I finished sanding the patches and wiped down all the walls. Time for lunch!
CB or LR?
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