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!
Nope, not the whole stem, we just cut below the blossom swell; that way they don’t go to seed. Moved the shasta daisys, the coral bells, ballon plants, tulips basicaly everything from the shingle oak bed and the water meter bed. Should transplant well. Dug a bunch more of dandylions. Neighbor things they are the perfect ground apparently, her back yard is pretty well covered.
How is/was the Talledega Race? That is one of the big ones.
That’s a great license plate slogan. We’re kinda surprised the review board let it through.
They had a "big one" when someone pulled out of pit row and onto the track....right in front of traffic going ~ 190 mph. Cars everywhere but no one seriesly hurt. Junior was running 2nd most of the race but got caught out of the draft trying to pass at the end and finished 5th.
I had to dig a space for the obedience plants (wet clay is heavy!) and relocated some daylilies to the planter box. I moved some campanula to the front and am going to try to get some ground cover ("moneywort") to grow around the front porch. After that, I was a little tired of shovel wielding so I thinned the lettuce and potted up some coreopsis, chamomille, and sage. I think I'll sleep well tonight. :)
You want to do LOST tonight? - We’d be ready by about 6 - both cats are in ;~)
Boy were we a waste today. Up way too late. Up too early this morning but not feeling like doing a darn thing!
At least we went to the feed store so the animals have food.
And we stopped for a burger that was probably both lunch and dinner.
I's tired! We yelled upstairs for Joseph to fire up the oven and get a pizza out of the freezer. I took two tylenol, so now I'm just sitting, waiting for supper to be done. Actually I'm only having a little slice of the pizza, then I'm gonna have one of my Leanie Cuisinie meals and some veggies. I think I got plenty of exercise already today, so no walking needed.
Ah - I see you aren’t even home :~)
OK - well, we’ll watch LOST tomorrow!
Thank you for your prayers, and keep them coming. My mom is now the last surviving member of her generation. She's doing well, and would do better if she just listened to her doctor, and tried the physical therapy he recommends for her.
I'm sorry I didn't mention this sooner, but handling her estate from the moment the death certificate was issued is a hugh task. I know each and every prayer of yours were effective. Her going was semi-easy on both herself and her "family" of 19 nieces and nephews.
Sorry to hear that winmag, losing family is hard. :(
I don't give the review board much credit. I once had to report: MTHRFC-R
I’m so sorry for your loss winmag. But I’m glad that her passing was mostly easy, and I’m glad you were there for her in the critical times.
Continued prayers for your mom and the rest of the family.
My Uncle Louie died a week ago, and my Aunt Mary Ann, and all of his kids and grandkids were with him at the time. He'd had a pacemaker implanted last month, and just never really recovered from the surgery, I guess. He was over 90, which I didn't realize. I always thought he was closer in age to my Aunt Mary Ann who is only just 80 or so. He always had an impish twinkle in his eyes. Funny, I never really knew all my Aunts and Uncles ages, just kind of an age range for each of them. My Aunt Mary, Mama's oldest sister, is pushing 90 now, and she just had a hip replacement, and I haven't heard that she's having trouble with it, so she must be doing OK.
The last few days were rough, but they kept her well-medicated and out of pain. I knew she could hear us, even if she made no indication that she did. I know I got a reaction from her when I kissed her forehead.
And I'm so happy that one stupid joke I told her earlier actually got her to smile.
I was pretty well satisfied with the "final" result, and then thought it would be nice to add the Falcon Industries Ergo Grip (also available for the Remington 870) as the cherry on top of the whipped cream.
Things started out with the usual quick delivery of the item from Brownells, the source of all temptation. All I had to do was unscrew the end cap from the original forend, put everything back together, and I'd be ready to hang a modest number of goodies on it.
Wrong!
It seems the Mossberg factory must have used an impact wrench to cross-thread the end cap on the action tube. And at 40 threads per inch (measured later), that's a lot of cross-threading. Even when clamped in a vise, and using an aluminum bar as the near-perfect spanner, the end cap would not budge, even though the entire action tube was trying to twist inside the forend.
After exhausting all my vocabulary of swear words (this was supposed to be a simple job), it was back to Brownells for a new action tube and end cap. A neat chunk of change was dropped that I was not very happy in spending. It arrived promptly, and after a dozen test fits (no way in the world I was going to allow the possibility of cross-threading), it went together as easily as the original part should have come apart.
I was now at the point of adding my accessories, but I noticed the square forend with the rail guards was not as comfy as the original round one. No big deal, I thought (by now you must know where this is heading). I bought a set of Pro Mag "full size" partially round rail covers. They're a hard plastic, but seem quite nice.
They slid right on with no trouble, but unfortunately slid off the same way. Since I didn't have my forend with me when I bought them, I didn't realize the forend has part of the rail "island" cut away, while other, more kosher, rails, keep that part intact. Here's a "good" M1913 rail placed next to the forend as a comparison.
The rail cover itself tells the story. There is just one tab on the end that locks the cover to the rail. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with a "cutaway" rail like this.
I finished the project (for now) by using the pieces of slim-line rail covers to protect my hand from those sharp, nasty rails. I now have to find another kind of rail cover, but I think the majority of expenses, and swear words, are over.
The flashlight is a Streamlight 9 volt LED. It's at the far forward end of the forend so I have to extend my thumb to push it. I can activate the laser with the back of my index finger. Unwanted light or laser is a tactical no-no, so both are far forward enough that I have to really reach for them. The laser is your everyday generic Chinese green one. For just 5mw, it can really stune you. Of course, that's because the human eye is five times more sensitive to green than any other color.
I like the setup because there are no tape switches and wires, just regular push buttons far enough out of the way that I can't activate them accidentally.
And with that, another plug-and-play simple project is finished (until it starts calling to me again).
Oh, very sorry to hear that. Hope you’re taking care of yourself in the midst of all that.
Morning ALL - looks like a whole lot of movie watching was going on. We even watched one, Charlie Wilson’s War. Very interesting; enjoyed the extra features when the real Charlie Wilson was interviewed about the movie and his political career.
I went thru a course in the service where I was issued a mossburg 590 ? I must have went thru 2ooo rounds in that week of shooting. Rugged rig that no doubt was made to NEVER come apart........:o)
Your gunsmithing reinforced our initial observations......LOL !
Sorry that was such a PITA to modify. I personally hate those forward rails. I have a SOCOM and a SOCOM II and that rail on the SOCOM II is a friggin cheese grater. Sharp and painful for the user and anyone unlucky enough to get hit with it.
I really don’t like even the sidesaddle on the shotgun. Only two shotguns we have that are dressed now are our “camp safety” guns. They are remington 870 marine magnums with a surefire forend. All the furniture is rescue orange from brownells , side saddle, single point sling adapter and a stock sock and sling, stock was shortened for same reasons we did in service aka thickness of body armor or in our case cold weather clothing in hunting camp. As well ghost ring sights are on each one.
Sorry to hear about your aunt’s passing. Being the executor or personal representative can be quite a task.
RE: the Mossy, that is taking ‘Tacti-Cool’ to a new level. Also relieved to hear I’m not the only one that has scratched their head and muttered whiskey tango foxtrot when trying a supposedly simple part replacement.
Morning - sip - didn’t get enough rain last night so looks like the transplants are going need some watering in. Can’t really count on the possible precip this afternoon so...probably spread some mulch and topsoil, maybe..
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