Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST 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!
kewl weapon system... must be kinda nice stumblin across systems that you own and have been long forgotten...
useful for two-legged varmints...
We shopped fer tractors yesterday... narrowed it down a bit...
If you did the pink with crystal lite what did you do the green and blue with? lol
Easter egg dye, huh? Cool. I’d like to see the blue in particular!
Sounds like it’s gonna be a purty afghan!
Morning G’nad - well, Nothing Runs Like A Deere...
The Model 4510 looks like great rig. Con’t know anything about the others.
‘course so does the Model 5425 :-)
The ‘migrating clause’ in the warrenty was interesting. Never heard of that before.
Kool-aid (Berry Blue and Lemon-Lime) and Easter egg dye.
Morning Corin - nice to see ~ someone ~ has got their tulips up. We’re still in the crocus bloom phase. Sigh..it was 78 on this date last year...
Hmm... I think it would be hard to install a gunner’s protection kit on any of those....
Darn that global warming.
Morning Winmag. Nice bug-out bag weaponry you have there. I like it. With jhps it would be right handy to have.
You sure hit the nail on the head with the old Astra, the grip design left a lot to be desired. It was likely 40 years since I shot one a friend had, it was either $20 or $30 bucks with a holster and maybe an extra magazine. Perfect for college budgets, which is why he had it.
The straight-blowback design left even more to be desired. No buffering of the recoil as in a locked-breech system, just a smack to your hand. The web of my hand felt like it had been hit with a baseball bat. I was less sore firing a full box of .44Mag than one shot with the Astra.
I've been watching the old "Mission Impossible" series, and the bad guys mostly carry Astras and Masden M60s. They must have been hard up for weaponry.
Morning!
At least my daffodils are looking good. Think I’ll plant the lilac bush before the race starts. And I suppose I should dig up that little forsythia down near the road before the bunnies eat it or the road crew trash it.
Ooooo. Them’s purty tulips! So far we have some green growth for our hyacinth, daffodils, and a tulip or two. It’ll be a few more weeks before we have any blooms.
I got the lilacs and the...um....grassy plant installed before the green flag dropped. If the plants live, I might just have a landscape started.
Well, we did have a bit of sun today and mid 50s. It was enough to persuade Miss Annie to enjoy some quality time in the back yard. That cat has a very narrow comfort range, the sun and temp must have finally hit her minimum acceptable.
Good Afternoon - been snipping and cleaning, got half the rose-of-sharon area looking half way presentable. Would you like four bags of leaves and twigs for your compost, we deliver to your door. :-)
Was the lilac bush a transplant or new acquisition?
It’s both, actually. My former supervisor’s wife (the master gardener) gave me a bunch of plants before they moved to Boulder. The lilac has been sitting in muh raised bed all winter and I’ve just moved it to the front yard. It liked theraisedbed ‘cause it’s got all these shoots coming up....wonder if bunnies like lilac.
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