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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
G’night, thread...
I have succumbed to the Dark Side ... I bought an iPod. I find that I code much better with constant, reliable, upbeat music shielding my attention from the distractions of an open cubicle. And, with an mp3 player, I don't have to load the mp3s onto my work computer, leaving it free to run queries against 9millon records.
I'm now considering how cool it will be to take my iPod on road trips --- I can set up a jazz playlist, don my headset, recline the passenger seat, and bliss out.
You do cross-stitch ... I wish I had time to do origami. Talk about a peaceful activity!
Muahahahaaaaa. It will change your life. I'm series.
I have playlists for every occasion: being happy, being mad, Mondays, Fridays, workin' hard, hardly working, road trips, plane trips, trips to White Sands (begins with Marty Robbins singing "out in the west Texas town of El Paso!"), holiday music - mega play lists and by sub genre, classical music broken out by century, pop music by decacade, quirky obscure stuff, favorite childhood music, favorite college music, stuff I like to sing at the top of my lungs, stuff that puts me to sleep...
I love, love, love my ipod. It's old and obsolete and almost full, but I love it. Then they banned them at work because of their *potential* connectivity to a computer. You *could* put data on them (you *could* put data on a piece of paper, too, but that's different... or so they tell us) so therefore they're not allowed in the office. I think I went through six months of withdrawl. ~alas~
Good Morning ALL -
OT & G’nad: how’s the rain at your place?
We got just a bit, of course, the rain we did get was when we were walking Gypsy last evening. She didn’t mind until she saw the lightning off to the south, then she decided she forgot something at the house and proceeded to make like Balto back to the home place.
He was mostly dead before.... until he got better.
poured off and on here yesterday... twenny percent chance of thesame here tuhday...
will try and get the walls and rafters fer thekidz playhouse up tuhday...
Morning - “kidz playhouse” ...I thought they were going to use the garage-barn for that. hmmm.
thenewboy: ‘Now where did Dad put the keys to tractor?’
theboy: ‘Aww Don’t need ‘em, we can jump start it, just get the big screwdriver..’
thenewboy: ‘OK’
Heh, heh, or so I’ve heard tell..
Talon gave me his old ipod waaaay back when, while we were dating. I love having music accessible all the time at work.
Origami is nice but I’m not very good at precise things. For some reason cross stitch works, folding or drawing straight lines doesn’t.
Morning!
I got a little over half an inch the other day (Thursday?) and hardly anything yesterday. I expect the grass will be dry enough to mow later on this afternoon.
Got thesunroom painting done...now I have to figure out how to trim out the bottom where they ripped the old deck out.
We got, at most, a .10 of an inch. Lots of dark clouds, but nada. Could water, but, then again, I could just let the dang stuff die! LSA
Gosh, guys, I was talking about the grass, not the thread! LSA
We can always count on you. ;-)
I’m done with errands for the weekend and now doing laundry, watching Doctor Who, and fiddling around with my typewriter. And reading. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday. If I ride, it’ll be tomorrow. It’s looking like drizzle anyhow.
Another military-marked shotgun in my very limited collection is this somewhat puzzling Remington riot gun.
The Remington Model 11, produced since 1911, had always been produced in very limited numbers in the riot gun configuration, with the short 20-inch barrel. The Model 11 was produced by Remington under license from Fabrique National, where it was called the Auto-5 or A-5. There was also a three-shot version (FN A-3, Remington "The Sportsman") for waterfowl shooting. The only difference between the two models were some magazine parts, and the foreend.
Three shots made sense when hunting waterfowl, but not when you could have five when using the shotgun for police or military work. After Pearl Harbor, the government not only grabbed all shotgun production for itself, it sent agents to firearms distributors and large dealers to buy Remington, Winchester, Stevens, and Ithaca shotguns off the shelf.
This "The Sportsman" comes from the same very early serial number range as the first Model 11s made specifically for the military. All of these shotguns were built with the same commercial features as the civilian models. Checkered, varnish-finished walnut, roll engraving, and beautiful slow-rust bluing. The only difference is the military marking on the barrel, receiver, and stock.
My "The Sportsman" is a bit of a puzzle because it came from the same range of serial numbers issued to GI Model 11 riot guns. Five shots makes sense for a riot gun, but this one is the three-shot model. The barrel and receiver serials match, the markings are in the correct range, it's just not logical to build a riot gun like this.
Unless the government was so desperate for riot guns, it accepted the three-shot versions just to get the guns out the door and into the hands of troops and security guards. There was a later block of serial numbers that were mostly Sportsmen, but most of those were with 30-inch "sporting" barrels. A lot of shotguns from all manufacturers were military-marked, but otherwise identical to grandpa's hunting gun. They were intended for skeet shooting, which was part of the training of fighter pilots, and aircraft gunners. Some were used for recreational shooting at larger troop R&R facilities.
As a side note, when Remington finally got around to making shotguns to the original military spec of uncheckered stocks with linseed oil finish and parkerized metal, Remington added an extra marking to the receiver. This was done to assure GIs that the finish they saw was because of government specs, and their future Remington purchase would have the fine commercial finish that customers came to expect.
Took Clare to the plane this morning heading back for school. She’s gonna look Stephen up when she gets a chance.
Maybe she can be my spy on the inside. ;-) I kind of doubt I’ll hear much from Stephen, and I’m hoping he does OK!
Heh, I’ll tell her to do just that!
So he’s coming in as a Freshman, right? He likely won’t have any classes with Clare, but the campus isn’t that big, so she’ll see him from time to time, I’m sure. I printed out a picture of Stephen so she’d remember him. We met him when we had dinner with y’all once when we were coming back from picking Clare up from Camp Hulbert. I think that’s when we met y’all at the King Arthur store. The picture was from the Mini Music Moot we had another time I was coming back from taking Clare to the camp. I think I sent you a color photo of your sibs playing on the tailgate area of Van-sama.
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