Well, today ecurbh and I get to be Fair Parents.
We’ll be with Jesse today while she’s at the fair. She has to be there all the time when the fair is open, and Bob and Kay can’t be there today, so we’ve been recruited. :~)
I’m sure we’ll take lots of pictures. She has Charlie the Alpaca there again of course, and she’s entered some artwork and a couple of fleeces.
She’ll have posted hours that she’s on herdsmanship and has to be in the barn to check on food and water and clean up the stalls and the aisleways for her group and answer questions, but the rest of the time she can walk around.
Kay said the good news for us is the kids have to do all the work, we’re not even allowed to clean stalls or do any of the work. :~)
So there's that! ;-)
Take pictures! If that needed saying....
Also a co-worker of Jen's came over and we did some work on the trigger of his S&W M&P. Nice gun but the pull left some to be desired. The worst part was a lot of over travel. Armed with a ‘how to’ description from the net. we ground down part of the sear and improved it a lot. Unfortunately since it was not swapping parts the improvement in overtravel was made at the expense of a little more pretravel. Oh well, good trade.
That vastly increased the amount of ‘real’ gunsmithing I have done. Will have to see how they shoot. It is nice to leave a gun tangibly better to shoot than when you started.
They were finding the overtravel was really spreading their groups around. Those light composite guns really twitch when there is a lot of that. Yeah that is fixable by just getting better at you smooth squeeze. The trick of balancing something on the front sight was really helping. But with the test coming up next week they needed all the help they could get.
Now that sounds like a whole lot of fun!!
Caramel apples....funnel cake...pork sandwiches...roasted ears of corn...cotton candy!!
Mmmmm!
I love the fair.