[Darksheare]

Sorry about getting back to this late.
*ugh*
Ended up raking leaves from noon to 3 PM yesterday.
After that, it was luggage marking duty so the owner will be able to ID their luggage in the airport.
I painted a blue rose and a red rose on the one side, and lettered their name in silver on the other.


Having been in artillery, I still have a hard time imagining something fired from a cannon flying slow enough to side step.
And yes, it'd be nice if that was the case for our guys all the time!
It just is mind numbing for me to try to imagine this.
The speed of the howitzer shell flying out the muzzle brake on my old howitzer was measured in meters per second, but to be able to side step a cannonball, it would have to be travelling somewhere in the 400 feet per second or so range like a giant bb gun pellet.

[snippy_about_it]

No problem, you're never late for a Foxhole thread, we've been known to go back for months to pings.

Do you suppose that the cannon ball that could be side stepped was one that was near its end, you know, it had flown as far as it could and ready to plop? At some point does it slow down? My ignorance is showing. LOL.