It's October and I hate pumpkin spice latte.

[Major 2]

Missed seeing you last night Jim, they had some great TexMex , a very good feed.... Berger Sharpshooters are the bench mark of how a Regional is run.... a true class act....

I have officially altered my profile  Major Smudge is now Major Mud  

Coined as such at the NCOWS South Wet Regional ...thank you all, I had great time

[Russ T Chambers]

The cat fish turned out great!  Added cayenne to mine, but left the wife’s more mild.  The dirty rice wasn’t too dirty and the Cat Head biscuits weren’t too furry.

We’ve got our afternoon winds back.  17 mph with gusts to 30.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee is hot.

'Tis 37 and cloudy. High of 59.

Slim

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[Major 2]

"SHE" had a rough day, tried her hand at repainting the front bedroom yesterday

First she had to Spackle in all the tiny holes from my daughters pictures, ribbons and general stuff kids put up on walls.
then we have these heave wooden deco shutters , which "SHE" tried to remove and got CLOCKED on the noggin
and saw "STARS" .... "SHE" jammed stubbed her big toe, stumbling out the door, I doubt it's broken , but "SHE" goes on as if it is ...
Then as "SHE" was going to the Airport to pick me up after 3 weeks in Texas ( Job ), the door of my X-over caught her finger....

 So I took her to Outback for dinner, that helped but I'm sure how much , I'll catch flack even though I was nowhere to blame )

Oh!  and the room.... not so good , unfinished with holiday's everywhere.... far be it from me to say " pea turkey !

you saw it here...in print ...now mums the word ...I'll say nothing ...course when "SHE" asks,  it will be a loaded question
and then I tread lightly ....pray for me 

[Delmonico]

"SHE" had a rough day, tried her hand at repainting the front bedroom yesterday

First she had to Spackle in all the tiny holes from my daughters pictures, ribbons and general stuff kids put up on walls.
then we have these heave wooden deco shutters , which "SHE" tried to remove and got CLOCKED on the noggin
and saw "STARS" .... "SHE" jammed stubbed her big toe, stumbling out the door, I doubt it's broken , but "SHE" goes on as if it is ...
Then as "SHE" was going to the Airport to pick me up after 3 weeks in Texas ( Job ), the door of my X-over caught her finger....

 So I took her to Outback for dinner, that helped but I'm sure how much , I'll catch flack even though I was nowhere to blame )

Oh!  and the room.... not so good , unfinished with holiday's everywhere.... far be it from me to say " pea turkey !

you saw it here...in print ...now mums the word ...I'll say nothing ...course when "SHE" asks,  it will be a loaded question
and then I tread lightly ....pray for me 

Bad move, come in next time, listen to the whining and then just say, "suck it up butter cup."    Go on, I dare you.

Dang they want you to do things then you help and they is never happy, no good deed goes unpunished.

Mine came home last night, been at a Halloween thing at the church, took a big dutchoven and spoon, they old dry ice thing.   Had a big chunk left, didn't know what to do with it, asked me if I knew what to do.  Guess dropping it in the toilet wasn't what she had in mind.   

[Delmonico]

Forgot, I had a hissy fit at Menards SAT, wasn't my idea to go there, but that's where little brother bought the shingles for Mom's house   Was short so we went to get 2 more bundles, our friend Charles drove and I rode along cause I was expecting trouble, Charles being a little shy, I figured he might need help.  Anyway, went inside and paid for them, headed to the yard, found the shingles, of course SKU #'s and the numbers on the bundles don't jive.   Only one other group in the yard, but plenty of yard birds wandering around, but neither group getting help.   

OK, guy came over near us, I hollered for him to come over he did, explained the problem, he said he was busy with a customer inside and would be back,  hmm went inside and didn't take anthing, bet he had to poop and didn't want to admit it.

Anyway, I called 411 and got the CS desk #, called them, told them we were over by the shingles in a white pick-up and needed help now and that nobody seemed to want to help us.  He said he'd page.  One of the fork-lifts came over, explained we needed to find the right shingles and showed him the paper, said he didn't know, would go seek out help, never got off.   As I was dialing customer service two more showed up, one walking, one with fork-lift, FL made it first, we explained the problem to him, he did get off and say that this one pile was what he thought was right.   I cut open a corner with my knife and we decided it was right, so he said how many do you need.  told him two and he said he could load them fro us if we wanted.  (load it dummy, yer hardly old enough to shave and we're both pushing 60)   No movement out of him, I grabbed one loaded it and grabbed another, as he's telling me he can help.  Told him not to bother, and he asked if I had the right amount, told him the paper he looked at said 2, I loaded one and then another one, and when I went to school 1+1=2, but doubted his education taught him that. 

As we were getting in he told us to have a nice day, and I told him it was hard when dealing with lazy stupid people. 

Yes I was rude, yes they all were stupid and lazy, all seemed to be listening to the feetball game or someting on their phones.   

[Delmonico]

BTW I'm posting smut all over the internet today, don't tell Slim.   

[Major 2]

Told one of that breed "lazy stupid people" It'd take less time hunting what I was looking for " , than explain... "what I was looking for was,  and how it used " 
Now this genius, had on a orange vest with " PRO LOADER " inked on it , pro loader ? ....  right up there with French Fry specialist.

I'm not there to educate the fricking hired help....    go professionally load something....
 

[Delmonico]

Go to the bulk nail bin with a dial caliper sometime and sort nails into rejects and keepers, most of them don't know you can use nails for other than nailing boards together, when making knife rivets you don't want the slightly oversize ones ( figure they are from different machines.) 

[Delmonico]

Done, teeth set and sharpened, wood oiled with Canola, tested it on a scrap 2X4, works great.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Two man or one,Del?

40 some degrees here,still dark. Rain in the offing. Part of that hurricane they're saying. We set two post lamps yesterday to replace bad ones,two more to go.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee is hot.

'Tis 43 and dark. High of 60 with chance of rain.

Slim

[Major 2]

Brought the rain in from Texas it appears , it twas nice yesterday , decided to do something I just don't do any more
I went to a Cinema 
Wanted to see "The Martian " Ridley Scott  does good stuff , Damon is good & deadpan funny
good film.
Had a good "ol" fashion American burger at Johnny Rockets , and a Chocolate shake.
I had been working 10- 12 hours a day for 3 weeks , returned form Texas and treated me to some R&R PTO
Figured Movie & burger & shake was a good reward....

Planned to shoot today, but the rain,  I had enough of that shooting  in Texas    so ... not sure what I'll do
maybe reload, or  head to FFL  for poke around. Always something cool there to buy drool lust for.
often when I'm tapped out , gun money wise.

maybe Sonic's for Chicago dog     Willy's would be better , but I don't care to drive over 20 miles for Hot-dog today.

[Delmonico]

The Buck saw, one man, no eyes.   


Ahh, Chicago type hot dogs, guy I worked with was from around there, was going back and was telling his first stop was going to be some place that had the best dogs in Sheet-cargo.  Lead him on, asked him what he was gonna have on it, gave me a big list, and then I tord him just go down to Wilbur to Karpasecki's and he could get dogs so good you only needed a little mustard on them.   

[Delmonico]

Saw #2 done, a bit odd, paid $5 for it a couple years ago. Homemade from a piece of a bigger cross cut, it is 19" long at the blade. Front appears to have been cut with a chisel, most likely hot from the look, but probally wrapped in wet rags to protect the temper. (Temper seems the same the length when I sharpened it) Handle holes are punched, most likely also hot. As a cross cut the teeth don't need set, and it sharpened up nice and cut a 4X2 in half easily.

A friend who grew up in timber country told me he'd seen a lot of those homemade ones like that used as topping saws before light wight chainsaws were around A good use for a 2 man missing a couple teeth from damage.

Did the handle with Canola oil also, a lot of surface rust on the blade, but have it clean and stablized, some pretty good pitting but it will cut fine.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Kind of has a character of it's own, Del


51 here,raining pretty good. Been like that all night. Got both poles changed, the last one was a real stinker. Found that somehow, the under ground part of the power cable had the jacket cut. Had to redo the bad sections in situ( not easy). Plus, since the resident wasn't home, we couldn't check our work after finishing. Believe the breaker is probably tripped because of the short. Will have to go back to that one at some point

[Major 2]

Looking at 68° and a 83°  High... Chance of rain 80% , figures my last Vacation day , ....
Did nothing of yesterday's pass times, no shooting, or reloading , no FFL visit, and no Hot-dog either , course there is today   

X-Over needs a bath , but it's raining and an exorcise in futility,  need to presser-wash the north siding .....again it's raining.

Guess I'll try for the FFL visit & a hot-dog... I'm sure work will call with some question or need , It's been that way.

maybe one of TLD's naps     

 

[Good Troy]

Early morning for me...after gaining 8 lbs in the past 4 months and reaching a record weight for me, I got up early and went to the gym to try and regain my girlish figure.  Coffee (no pumpkin spice, black only!) is ready now, and I could use a cup.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Rained last night, and off and on today.

Slim

[Major 2]

Rained most the day, cleared about 3 :ish

FFL had a piece I'm interested in ... H&R Mod 649 with 18" barrel , in un-fired condition not sure I saw the second Cyl. though  

I collect H&R's , the working mans gun, functional , well constructed , reliable & in many cases butt ugly .

they were inexpensive, but not cheap made , H&R took pride.... some like the Mod. 999 & 646 can command $500-600 +
un-fired in the box.  

Photo is an example, not the gun I looked at....