| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
|
Locked on 01/03/2008 6:41:54 PM PST by Admin Moderator, reason:
Please direct your comments here: |
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!
Did you get your fertilizer down? Looks like that storm isn’t coming in until tomorrow night, so I may try to get the fertilizer down tomorrow. It’s gusting up to 39 mph here now.
Looking at the temps, I think we’ll have to light the boiler tomorrow (sigh). We’ve put it off as long as possible, but highs in the 50’s aren’t going to be real comfortable without heat. LSA
Heh. Once I walked up to the checkout with bluegrass and plainsong. People would think I was a musicologist!
I’m trying to come up with a weekend menu that will provide lunch for all next week.
Nah. I think I’ll put it down tomorrow morning sometime. I got the lawns all mowed and now I’m ready for the heating pad and the Icy Hot.
Mmmmmm......roasting peanuts....
Sounds like a normal book combination to me.
We’re leaving here soon... plane leaves in six hours and there’s a lovey two hour bus trip to Osaka airport first. But the good news is we get home before we leave... that’s nice...
Should be in mid-evening Sunday, maybe in time to get the animals from the pound. Whew. I’m tired. Great trip but now I need a vacation.
-Jen
This is a great little video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEe1d7YVVIg
It’s a marvelous song, probably my favorite from the movie.
And here’s a song that should have won the Academy Award. I mean, c’mon, this lost to Phil Collins??? Travesty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzG7bBylRo
There's some speculation of that on one of the threads.
So I took him to Micro Mart, where he bought 2GB of memory and a Maxtor 320GB USB drive. That should take him further, including grad school, where he earned a full-ride scholarship for a PhD in materials engineering at Georgia Tech.
After living in Ann Arbor, he knows what's needed for life in a college town. That's why he's getting my NIB Glock 19 for his 21st birthday. I consider 9mm to be a "starter" caliber.
He also picked up on the idea that he needs a bit more protection than that, so he's looking at the Mossberg 500 series shotgun with the 18.5 inch barrel. Even though his scholarship is great, money will still be tight, and a Remington 870 would cost about twice as much. I told him to wait until he's a Georgia resident, and then buy it locally as some gun show.
mmm. icy-hot, that’s great stuff. Just got back Gypsy’s walk, since I was at the range this afternoon, we got BBQ at the Hickory Pit. mmm-goood. Once we walked in the house the house with ‘the boxes’ Miss Gypsy decided to overlook the fact that her walk had been delayed. Nice wind out there still.
You think that’s bad...my Dad is running *Vista* on 512MB. That’s what his computer came with. I have *got* to help him get that fixed one of these days, and soon. It’s not as though memory costs much these days.
Give us a full photo rundown as soon as you’ve recovered a bit!
Turns out I’m out of Icy Hot and had to settle for Revco Theraputic Menthol Gel. It stinks too.
Mmmm.....peanuts....
Heh, sounds like some of my choices. I just ordered some new Christmas CD's including "An American Christmas" by Boston Camerata, a CD of Czech and Polish carols, one by a group called the Mellstock Band singing carols in the way they would have been done in Thomas Hardy's time, and "An 18th Century Christmas" including pieces by Corelli, Bach, and Haydn.
Musically eclectic are I. And I can't wait for Nov. 1st, when I allow myself to start listening to my Christmas CDs. ;o)
Evening winmag et al - first off Congrats to your nephew, sounds like a right smart young man. Best of luck to him in his Phd work - ramblin wreck and all that. Sounds like he’s learning to make ‘delivery systems’ as well as ‘targets’.
Short range report, the MDC was full to bustin’ at the seams today. Hour and half wait to get a booth. Deer season coming up next month and it’s time to sight in and practice. Based on the few targets I did see, most of the deer will live to gambol and frolic over hill and dale for another year.
Okay, it were windy as all get out, gusts in 30-40 mph range and the range flag was snapping like firecracker. Got a cool scope in a trade and mounted on my Marlin 881 .22. Quite a few clicks up and left and she was printing nicely all things considered. It’s a Bushnell 4-12 with Adjustable Objective. I got a set of Warne Rings for it.
The target stand was deflecting two inches past vertical in each direction so the target was arching back and forth, kinda cool actually. Bout time you doped out the arc it would stop and just bounce in one direction, then stop. Once I got the elevation correct and windage ‘close enough’ it printed nice one and half inch groups at 50 meters. The trigger will need some ‘tuning’, it’s about 10 lbs or so. Found ‘dope bag’ tip, take one papermate flexgrip ballpoint pen, remove the spring and it replaces stock Marlin spring and drops the pounds to about 4 pounds with no loss of relability. Well, we’ll see, haven’t found that particular model of pen yet.
Second rifle shot was my 1914 Savage hammerless .22 rifle. They really don’t make em like that anymore. Fit, finish, metal work, machining-fine rifle quality. Octagonal barrel, take-down. It’s a full sized rifle that fit me very well. It has a tang safety with a raised metal post you can feel with you thumb when the rifle is cocked. Rear sight is screw adjustable for elevation and windage. Didn’t have the right screwdriver for windage but the swiss army knife screw driver (small size) was a perfect fit for the elevation. So kentucky windage was used once I knew it was one and half inches right at 25 meters. Nice groups (considering the wind, open sights and bifocals.
Weather won’t likely be that nice next weekend so it’ll be back to making osage shavings or heading to the indoor range.
Sounds like a good Caturday.
That's amusing that your nephew had been working with 512MB.
oy... muh achin’ back...
got lotsuh werk done tuhday... clocks tickin’, and I gotta get the ridge ready fer winter...
high point was burnin’... had a feller come over with a Bobcat, he dug a 10’x6’x’6 pit fer me tuh burn all the scrap would and other frap in... been burnin’ fer two days now...
when he got done diggin’, he asked if it was bid enuff... I said, “you could get a whole lotta bodies in there...” he snickered, cuz he knows me...
gotta get the werkbanches cleaned and organized, as well as the loadin’ bench and weapons maintenance bench...
man... I gotta start usin’ spell check...
We're just happy you know how to read.
I hired someone to finish the building...
Sam's been pullin' the toilet tissue off of the roll in the downstairs bath. We figure that's just boredom whilst we're gone.
But I'm finding weird throw up in weird places. Last week it was on the top of Luke's chest of drawers. It had to be the cat, but I'm not sure how even she could get up there. There's no clear path and nothing was knocked over.
Tonight it was ~on top~ of the cat box. It looked a bit like Sam had been eating out of a trash can. Won't describe it, but I think I figgered out where. That may also be boredom.
But the one on top of Luke's furniture remains a mystery. How do you explain this to a vet? And, more importantly, do I need to?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.