I had a lamburger, bought some yarn.... and this T-shirt:
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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
So you were Field General Jen?
I couldn’t start my mower....
I had a lamburger, bought some yarn.... and this T-shirt:
LOL, they really are sheep.
I’m trying to decide if I’m ambitious enough to even try today...probably not.
I did buy a new gas can. One that should actually pour at less than fire hose volume. I just spent about ten minutes trying to figure the thing out, though, just the same...
Gas things scare me, OK? ;-)
LOL! I *love* it! Too funny...
Actually, I knew I had it wrong but I couldn’t figure out the fourth letter, cause their ain’t one.
It’s just “Nature Deficit Disorder.”
There’s lots of nature out there.
Evenin’ folkses... Nice new thread ya gots here. I’m fresh back from da aeropuerto. It was a Principals meeting at the home office this week. Gads. Interminabal meetings. But this time, actually just maybe a little constructive.
Speaking of nature, though, mister Stormhands... On my flight back I just finished “Another Country” by the inestimable Jeff Cooper (may peace be upon him).
Anything by Sensei Cooper would be good for mushy young minds needful of inspiration to real adventure in life.
IMHO. :-)
evening....
Ha! Funny shirt!
Evening... Stopped by da waterin’ hole on the way home.
Local uber-lib couple was there. Very cute couple in their sixties, drivin’ their Prius wearin’ their Obama08 buttons.
I’ve talked politics with them before. Its just too sad, and I won’t do it again. They have about a preschool level understanding of world events.
Well, of course.
I have often said that the 60s did more damage to this country than we will ever know.
Actually, they're not a bit smaller, they're a whole lot smaller. Here, at about actual size, is the Xythos revolver in comparison to my High Standard derringer:
This is the wonderful and wacky world of pinfire blank-firing micro "guns". The following pictures are magnified images, because the things are too darn tiny to show life-size. The quarter is there to help keep things in perspective.
I picked up the revolver at a gun show, just for kicks. It's advertised as a flare-gun survival item when assembled in this configuration.
I suppose if you didn't really need to launch flares, you could cut off a bit more of the barrel, increasing concealability :)
The Maus (German for "mouse") was given to me by my aunt ages ago, when she found it in the back of a kitchen cabinet in the house she had just moved in to. This must have been the deluxe model, complete with fitted box, ramrod, and pinfire blanks in gelatin medicine capsules.
Reloading is tricky, because you really need some fine-point tweezers to handle the ammo. Here are the two "devices" (I hate to call them "weapons", although I'm sure TSA would take a dim view of trying to take them aboard a plane) broken open, and ready for loading.
The cylinder pin of the revolver is unscrewed (via some teeny tiny threads) to allow the frame to break open. The front half of the cylinder is removed, and the pin is then used to push out the fired blanks. There are seven holes in the cylinder, but one is an alignment pin that joins the front and rear halves together.
I fired one shot with the Maus, and the bang was surprisingly loud, about like a full-power cap gun. For you folks under 40, I will not explain what a cap gun is. You can research it on Google, and learn about all the depraved toys we were allowed to have back then.
Next week the subject will be about something bigger, because I don't think I can go smaller than this.
Roger that.
On another note I heard on the way home that Paul Harvey’s wife passed on today. Very sad.
He and “angel” (his nickname for her) were married for sixty years.
He proposed to her on their first date.
[Snif]
Wow.
Very sad. I haven’t heard about it on the news but I did not have the TV on today except for 2 ball games.
God Bless Him, and rest her soul.
I see that the last thread was locked by the RELIGION moderator. Somebody has to tell folks we don’t WORSHIP Hobbits!
That’s just a smokescreen. We all know Hair’s the ~real~ moderator...
Sixty years.... wow!
I wish I could fool you Corin. :~)
Good morning all. :~)
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