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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 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!
I lurve the llama llama duck part.
Which reminds me.... back in the early daze of the internets, there was the Naked Dancing Llama, who liked to frolic and dispense advice, and also ran for president. Clinton won, but NDL made a nice showing. The Fan Club was called Friends Of Naked Dancing Llama or F.O.N.D.L. Unfortunately, the server is no longer responding, so mebbe NDL has retired from public life. Viva the Nekkid Dancing Llama!
Spun da yarn: 
Now I'm making a scarf: 
Been outside recently? If you think it’s warm, it is, if you think it’s humid, it is. End of current conditions weather report.
I’ve got 94.8 in the shade and 90.7 in thesunroom.
been outside fer the last few hours... itsfrickinmiserable...
Trimming old weathered oak planks from the old horse barn... gonna mount the snakeskins on ‘em... need hardware tuh get ‘em ready tuh hang...
put a sign on the gate... mrsnad burned MOLON LABE using the greek alphabet into a plank... looks kewl...
Yup, you’re correct Sir. It takes about 20 minutes to a T-Shirt soaked. The combination of heat and humidity gave us a heat index of 122 at local weather station. Felt about that. Gypsygirl doesn’t care much for it, she looked at her squeeky toy I tossed and she gave me the ‘you want it back? Go get it yerself’ look.
122? That’s just insane, even for August.
Then just spent the last 15 minutes watching a hermit crab pick a new shell, decide he didn't like it, and move back into the old one.
It was ~fascinating~.
In other news, Luke came home today. He was sad about Abby, and then ask for a kitten...and a hamster...
I don't like change either. :~)
The kitten and the hamster ought to get along well together. :)
Jr. and I decided it must be a female because it can't make up its' mind.
For a while anyway...
Sounds like an interesting story, Corin!
Oh, what a beautiful stitch on that scarf!! Like those colors too. Did you color it yourself?
Good that Luke is OK about Abby.
First is a set of plastic vise blocks for the DPMS AR10 clone.
This allows the upper or lower receivers to be safely clamped in a vise for working on stuff.
And, in preparation for further precision paper-punching, I took the plunge and got a meplat trimmer from Sinclair.
The closed end of a jacketed bullet is the most critical part. For target ammunition, that means the tip is open, because the base of the bullet is the most important factor in accuracy.
But not all bullet tips are created equally, even between two bullets made on the same machine. One source of inconsistency is differences in the meplat. This can be fixed by trimming all the bullet tips to the same shape and length. Here's how it works:
The sharper the tip, the better, but uniform meplats are better still. Long-range (past 500 yards) shooters feel that a loss of less than 2% in ballistic coefficient is more than offset by the increased uniformity.
The main body of the trimmer is Delrin, and it holds the bullet by the ogive, the curved part of the jacket that ends at the pointy end. I found out that I can trim even loaded match ammo, because the case mouth doesn't touch the holder, so the trimming action is the same as if it was just the bullet itself in the trimmer.
In production, the actual depth of cut would be established by the adjustable collar on the cutter, after establishing the proper length desired. Of course, I need to go back to Sinclair to get meplat gauges that will allow me to measure lengths with regular digital calipers.
Still, with bullet holders in .224, .308, and .338 on hand, I could spend many quiet hours in the winter in front of a glowing fireplace, giving my meplats a trim.
No, I bought it as dyed fiber at a fiber festival in May. It’s much more difficult to dye the fiber than to dye yarn so I’m leaving that to the pro’s for now. I’m currently studying different breeds of wool and learning which ones I like best. I’m finally at the point where I can make useable yarn and in sufficient quantities that I can make something out of it. It’s a great way to pass baseball season. ;)
A hamster is a good low-maintenance pet. Very un-prima dona-ish
To quote Not Valerie, “You’re thinking of bringing in yet another animal that I won’t go near?”
IOW, we’d put the hamster on my desk because that’s were I keep “Luke’s” fish and hermit crabs...
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