I’m really beginning to think we are there…
And it the O.M.G. category, imagine looking out the open door of your puddle jumper and seeing this… 
Two questions come immediately to mind… What caliber for snakes on MY plane, and how the hell did you miss that on preflight??? And how to I shoot it and not hit the tire… Decisions, decisions…
h/t JP
I thought, thought that I had a post today but apparently I neglected to actually check and see that it went up- Sorry about that folks! Still ass deep in unpacking boxes and unpacking books and trying to get things sorted before I head back to work tomorrow.
Go read the folks on the sidebar they are much better than I am and I’ll be back in battery starting on Monday.
Got a love the changeable Texas weather, it’s been in the high 90s to the low 50s this week. But then again it’s Texas if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes and it’ll change.
One more good meal tonight with friends, then it’s back to the normal stuff… sigh…
First delivery of stuff was made yesterday…
Oh yeah, and fireplace! 🙂 Hmmm, that reminds me, need fireplace tools.
And about half of the books… Peter and I were chatting Wednesday night at dinner about how hard it is to ‘cull’ the library and try to decide what to keep and what to let go. At least I was able to give mine to the VA hospital, but it was still a hard decision.
Note to self- Go buy another set of racks…
And then there was the ‘cluster’ of the safe move. It’s a rather ‘large’ safe, purchased from a local store (actually cheaper than shipping one with all the attendant hate and discontent), so there were four men moving it. Lift gated up to the bed of the truck, with the lift gate groaning and sagging.
Female store employee is standing on the ground ‘bracing’ the safe…
Friend says, “You might want to move.”
She says, “I’m fast, I can get out of the way.”
Friend shakes head, “That safe goes, she’s going to be a puddle…”
Getting it off the truck was not bad, but moving it in the house was actually kind of comical… 🙂 But it’s in and done.
Now back to unpacking…
Continued lite commenting and reading until I get some of the mess cleaned up.
Thankfully friends (you know who you are), are helping out, otherwise I’d be high and dry and totally screwed… THANK YOU!!!
Before the A-10, there was the A-1E. It was big, ugly, slow and could and did haul damn near everything in the inventory…
Better known as the Spad, it was a round nosed beast loved by it’s pilots, and those who’d been shot down in Nam…
It’s ability to loiter, and the carrying capacity that rivaled the B-17 on one engine was something to behold.
Signed my life away again…
The bank and I now ‘own’ this place… Well, the bank owns it, and I’m paying for it…
Final move to Texas will be in December, and I’ll finally have some dedicated time to write.
And a nice little patio to kick back on, and ‘refresh’ myself after a hard day on the computer… 🙂
Now comes the ‘fun’ part… Changing all the @#$&%^ utilities over, getting ‘stuff’ moved from various places out here. And I have to go back to work on Monday…
Sigh… Thank God for friends! 🙂
Sorry for the lack of reading/posting on folks pages, I promise I’ll be back!!!
Must come to an end…
The reach out and touch crew…
Left to right- McFee Precision .243, Ruger 1000x for $1000 rifle, M-24, M-82
750 yards… Through a 10X Loopy. The scope is clear, I just couldn’t get a good ‘picture’ of the target one MOA down from center. That was the hold for wind that got a hit on the target at 750X.
The results of a 325x shot on a coke can with one stick of dynamite in it… 🙂 And no, I didn’t do it the first time… sigh…
But sadly, everyone has departed for another year…
Thanks to FarmFam, and those who kicked in to help with the cooking, range set up, ammo, and everything else that has made the evolution run as smoothly as always.
Already looking forward to next year!
Remember, gun control is hitting what you’re aiming at! 🙂
Getting away for a few days have been great…
And I’ll apologize for the lack of commenting, responding, etc. But honestly, we don’t often have a chance to get the usual suspects together. Good times were had, and things were shot, sometimes more than once… 🙂
500 yard 3/4 size target… Zer was the only one that nailed the center target. Joe and I danced around it… sigh… Need more range time!!!
Our luck at 750 wasn’t quite as good… Again, Zer, Joe and I each got one on target…
Problem is I held the same hold three in a row, did one long, one short and finally one center low… sigh… Range time and practice with wind!!!
The food was, as always, fantastic, and the company just as good! It’s funny in a way, we only get together once a year, but it’s like there is NO gap in the get togethers… Conversations pick right back up, the ‘discussions’ continue, and the friendships grow.
It’s hard to believe FarmFam has continued to put up with us for now SIX years…
I’m still shooting that ammo up…
Thanks to Aaron over at The Weapons Blog– The monthly contests…
Handguns
Rifles
Shotguns
Air Rifles
Ammunition
Thanks to Obummercare, and the latest hijacking of drug prices, this one has come back around… Still true 12 years later…
Let’s hear it for Costco!! (This is just mind-boggling!) Make sure you
read all the way past the list of the drugs. The woman that signed
below is a Budget Analyst out of federal Washington , DC offices.
Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active
ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost
a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a
search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active
ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in
past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold
in the United States contain active ingredients made in other
countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug
Companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active
ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America .
The data below speaks for itself. Go HERE for the story and the embedded link to pricing…
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought
everyone should know about this. Please read the following and pass it
on. It pays to shop around. This helps to solve the mystery as to why
they can afford to put a Walgreen’s on every corner. On Monday night,
Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit
did a story on generic drug price gouging by pharmacies. He found in
his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up as
much as 3,000% or more. Yes, that’s not a typo: three thousand
percent! So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of
drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly
lies with the pharmacies themselves. For example, if you had to buy a
prescription drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for
100 pills.
The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic equivalent,
they would only cost $80, making you think you are ‘saving’ $20. What
the pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may
have only cost him $10!
At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether,
or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice,
and he said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost
for the generic drugs.
I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its
online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the
online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own
experience, I had to use the drug, Compazine, which helps prevent
nausea in chemo patients.
I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS.
I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for
$19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150
at Costco for $28.08.
I would like to mention, that although Costco is a ‘membership’ type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there, as it is a federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in. (This is true)
This is true in Canada, too. I went there this past Thursday and asked them.
I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter, and passing it into your own e-mail, and send it to everyone you know with an e-mail address.
Sharon L.
Budget Analyst
U.S. Department of Commerce
Gah… If things aren’t already bad enough, now the copays are going up (again), and the ones that are hurt the most are the elderly…
I only bought one box of ammo…
It might take a day or so to shoot it all… 🙂
Seriously, go read the folks on the sidebar, I’m out of pocket for a couple of days.