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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!
It’s “Spring forward, Fall back” so we get to do a whole hour over again....next weekend, I believe.
Um, yay. Or something. Good thing it wasn’t today since I’m already up.
Yeah, I always feel like we gain an hour in the fall...
Last year I kept getting up at the same hour for awhile, which meant a whole extra hour to write before work.
Next weekend. Which means I’ll probably forget and show up for church an hour early. Oh well. Better than the other way around.
I slept in. Need coffee.
Morning Corin - heh, wonder how it would go over at fanghorn. :-)
Morning Win-mag; very nicely done. Wondered how the front sight went on, now I know; great idea. What did we do before Loctite? :-) Three green dots or a surefire light, decisions, decisions. I like your solution, do both. That Glock sight pusher is a necessity for sight change overs and replacements. Glad to know you got one.
Stepping down a couple of skill levels, I did some tinkering myownself yesterday. Saw a great thread on rimfirecentral.com on improving Marlin trigger pull. My 881 is a nice rifle just an abysmal trigger pull. Seems someone got the bright idea to just replace the oem trigger spring with a papermate flexigrip ball point pen. I know a real ‘smith like you may cringe a bit but for $1.47 I thought I’d give it a try. Managed to hold onto the original spring and then replace it with the papermate spring. Happy to report it worked, slick as a whistle, of course the proof will be had on the range but I can say it’s about half of what it was before. I don’t have a trigger pull guage but it feels a LOT better. You always wonder what possessed the first shooter to try it...
Morning Miss Rose - gloves have come along way in recent years. The variety is quite astounding. Thin black deerskin seamless (seams on the inside) gloves were the glove of choice in my day, but now there are a lot better choices. There is a shooting glove I’ve seen on the ranges that seem to help with recoil, haven’t used them but lots like them. Sap gloves, the ones with powdered lead sewn in the back of the glove were available, but wearing them on duty often got a reprimand, carry only issue equipment, or so they would say.
We’re back and happy to report, all’s well in the shire. Visited with a new fella down the block. Retired military and phone company, raised here but left in ‘68, now decided to move back ‘home’ from the west. Nice fella, gypsygirl liked him. His wife is moving here to join him after the first of the year.
Technology to the rescue (and on sale at Midwest until the end of November). The Lyman electronic trigger pull gauge:
I have the spring-loaded trigger gauge, too, but I trust the electronic one more. It's also easier to use with less in the way of linkages and adapter rods.
Kewl! New friends!
It doesn’t look like we got a frost here in Perfect Village so I guess there’s still time to take cuttings from my 2-year-old pepper plant before it’s consigned to The Pile.
I already cleared everything out, except for a few pepper plants. The garden looks like it was never even there.
I still have a few pepper plants out in the raised bed along with some plants I got from a co-worker. The turnips, kale, and collards are actually putting out more leaves and I’ll keep ‘em as long as the leaves last.
We got in last night around midnight. Had a blast.
Steve is doing his pollution collection event this weekend, so he left really early this morning, right? I still have the cardboard up in my windows so it was pitch black in my room.
Last weekend I made arrangements for a little party in Joshua’s honor in his Sunday School class. Sunday School starts at 9:30am. I woke up this morning at 9:00am. The cupcakes were solidly frozen.
Heh heh! I managed to get us there in time to set up the party but it took some hot footing, I can tell ya!
Here's some pictures of our trip to Pops. Joshua enjoyed a Route Beer, but I don't have a picture. The boys in front of the 66 foot tall LED pop bottle in front of Pops in Arcadia on historic Route 66.
Joshua's cake. It got a bit beat up in the car during the drive.
Great! Except for the minor error, it’s a pretty good article, otherwise.
Happy Birthday to Joshua! Pops sounds like a great place for a birthday!
Heh...they are getting big but they don’t act like it sometimes. JP just came in and said he was finished with the disposable camera I bought him last night. Apparently he just took a bunch of pictures of Matthew lying in bed.
And Matthew just let him.
Heh heh!!!
How’s the pup? It’s hard to see them decline, I know...
We had her bad eye removed and now with the wound healing it's itching something fierce. She has one of those buckets to keep her from ripping the stitches. But that aside, she has a spring in her step we haven't seen in a while. The eye must have been bothering her terribly. Unfortunately the biopsy came back positive for cancer so she's got something less than a year depending on how far down we let her go. Right now she and Jack are doing their early afternoon wrestle. This will be followed by a brief nap and then the full-court press for dinner.
Well, at least you know and can cherish these last few months...she sounds happy!
I didn't even know that Saint Barbara was the Patron Saint of Gunners and Artillerymen until SirKit and I were in Puerto Rico in 1985, for him to present a paper at a conference. I walked out to El Morro, the big fort at the entrance to the harbor, and saw the gun emplacements. One was named Santa Barbara, for the Patron Saint.
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