Nuts…

Well, acorns… But anyhoo…

According to Farmer’s Almanac, we’re in for it this winter…


Another one is to look at the nuts that hit the ground, and what the animal’s coats look like…

Here’s a pic of the ground last weekend.


And here’s the SIZE of the acorns. They are so big the squirrels are having to gnaw them down to ‘size’ so they can fit them in their mouths… And that’s a quarter for reference.


As far the the squirrels, none of them would hold still, but BUSHY and fat is the best word I can use to describe them…

Yep, better break out the WINTER clothes, and start growing the winter coat (beard) early!

Raffle for Tam, winners list!!!

Finally got all the cats herded (at least on this one)…  Here is the final list of winners and the prizes chosen from the raffle I hosted:

GregB-package A: Diamondback and custom holster by Michael, Kathy Jackson Book

FormerFlyer-package B: ISSC .22 Trainer (Glock style) (Carteach) , Kathy Jackson Book


Sabre22-package C: Ruger P94 (John S) mags, shoulder holster, Kathy Jackson Book

MattG-package D: Ye olde Handgonne or knife winner’s choice, plus engraving, Kathy Jackson Book

Tom O’B-package E: $200 Brownells gift cert (Stingray), Kathy Jackson Book

TomcatTch-package F: $100 Midway gift cert (Pat), Sightmark Tactical Red Dot, Kathy Jackson Book

Wilson-package G: Stabby package- Gerber Applegate Fairbairn Combat Folder (Brigid), Emerson CQC-7 Mini, Remington collector R1 Upland pocket knife.

Carl-package H: Guns and Roses handcrafted necklace (Phlegmmy), $100 Amazon gift cert

Congratulations to all, and once more THANK YOU for the donations, it IS a great cause!!!

Oops…


                 Wife texts husband on a cold winter’s morning: 
     
        “Windows frozen”

                  Husband texts back:

       “Pour some lukewarm water over it.”

                  Wife texts back 5 minutes later:
       
         “Computer really screwed up now.”

Yep, it’s THAT kind of day… sigh

About those secession petitions…

Couple of folks have mentioned this on the mil-email and other places…

David Martosko from the Daily Caller- 


The Defense Security Service (DSS) wrote in a Nov. 16 bulletin to government contractors that ”erroneous statements have been made to the effect that DSS is directing contractors to treat the signing of such petitions as reportable adverse information.” 

By “adverse information,” the agency means personal information that could lead the federal government to cancel — or to not renew — a “secret,” “top secret,” “Sensitive Compartmented Information” or other clearance level.


However, further down in the article is THIS statement…

The Pentagon agency did, however, leave its options open regarding petition signers.

“Please note,” the agency cautioned, ”that DSS has not provided any approved direction or guidance. … This issue is under review and DSS will provide information to contractors when that review is complete.”

Full article HERE.

Now “I” am betting as soon as DHS gets their hands on the list of signatories, it WILL be bounced against those with clearances, and we WILL NOT like the results of the ‘reviewed’ guidance…

YMMV…



Mini-mini-Meet…

Barron from The Minuteman is in town on business,  so we got together for dinner, since our schedules diverge for the remainder of his trip.  

Truly nice guy, funny as hell, and smart as hell too!!!  I really DO need to get to Boomershoot… sigh…  

I don’t envy him his job, matter of fact, he can ‘have’ that stuff… I’ll stick with herding cats for a living! 🙂

Go read, he’s worth the time!

For you Lexophiles…

Some old, some new… Enjoy!

1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two -tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
6. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
7. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
8. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
9. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
10. A calendar’s days are numbered.
11. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
12. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
13. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
14. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
15. When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
16. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine .
17. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
18. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
19. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
20. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
21. The roundest knight at king Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
22. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
23. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
24. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
25. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
26. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
27. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
28. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
29. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
30. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
31. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’
32. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’
33. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
34. Don’t join dangerous cults: practice safe sects.

The things you see…

Spent a couple of hours yesterday helping a friend of a friend do some set up/programming of some AV stuff… And then writing instructions the folks could actually read and use (pretty bad when it took us an HOUR to figure the damn stuff out ourselves)…

Anyhoo, as I was levering my tired ass up off the floor for the umteenth time, I happened to look over the couch and what did I see?  An old Red Ryder BB gun!

After laughing at me ohing and ahing over it, we took it outside and shot it!  It’s the one he got in 1943 and it still shoots!!!

The reason the butt stock is so much cleaner, is his grand-daughter was shooting it with strawberry jam all over her hands, so he had to do some serious cleaning 🙂  He said he’s going to get around to cleaning the forend too!

And then he said, “Well, if you like this one, lemme show ya what’s out here.”

We walked out into the garage, and he disappeared into the laundry room, I heard a creak of a safe opening, and it was kid in a candy store time!!!

Among other things (sorry lousy light and short time so no photos)-

A 1921 three digit serial number AH Fox 30in barrel duck gun in 12ga with Krupp barrels

A Winchester 97 pump shotgun in 12ga

A three digit serial number Remington Model 11 in 12ga (with original Polychoke), a four digit serial number Model 11 in 16ga

And 1886 Winchester in 44-40, along with a Gen 1 SAA (in an old El Paso Saddlery holster) that still had most of it’s case bluing, and showed only mild holster wear!

And one I can honestly say I’ve never seen…

A HRA .410 single shot that folded double!  It had an indentation in the forend for the trigger guard, and he ‘thought’ it was from the mid-20s!  He said his grandfather used to keep it and a box of mixed shells under the seat in the 36 Ford; and he wasn’t above getting out of the car to shoot a mess of geese or doves, or the occasional turkey!!!

Oh yeah, and he also still has the ’36 Ford sitting in his garage, while he restores it…

Quite the day, and I figure that was pretty good payback for helping them program that AV stuff… 🙂