so waht ya doin today?

Rally

NC Minnesota
Was on my snow machine all day looking beaver contracts. I think I pushed as much as I rode over. Kind of like surfing in sugar! Never took mySkandic out of low range and put on 29.1 miles in some good looking beaver country. Gotta get some numbers together and see how bad I can scare them! Pretty good workout.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Now they're calling for "wind-mageddon". "HURRICANE FORCE WINDS!!!!!" they say. Gusts to 75 mph. Gonna break up the ice on Ontario and cause shoreline flooding. Huh, must have been a slow news day. Funny how anyone with shoreline property seems to think when they get some hurt it's cause for everyone else to rush to their aid with grants and whatnot. Happens all the time up here. Someone gets flooded or an ice jam trashed their place and it's totally unexpected and they should be rescued and compensated. Kinda like when New Orleans floods. Go figure.
 
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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Nice sheet of ice on everything. Expecting more rain followed by freezing temps later. On top of that we get 6-8” of snow later along with 35-40 mph winds.

Not a day to be out.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Mid 60's here today with a moderate chance of rain for only a couple of hours around noon. Sure is nice to not be on the frozen tundra. :)
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Twenty minutes from Rick..............fog rolled in yesterday afternoon and I'm still socked in. :sigh:

Probably, still be hanging around till the rain arrives.

Plan to do some outdoor casting, later this afternoon. Have a relatively new MP (44 cal) 250 HP mould, I want to tryout with the cup point pins. Already did a batch with the supplied hollow point pins. Those weighed @ 238 grains out of three parts lead to one part lino.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Rain and more rain.

Had a knock on the door this a.m. @4:00. It was a deputy..... said we called 911. Nope,we did NOT call. That's how bad the "service" is when we get weather like this,been under cloud cover for days. Heck,I'm typing this up at the post office.

Gonna drop a thank you note off at the sheriff's office.... checking up on us N all. I went to the door with a detective sp and a rather calm Dobe. 125g hydrashoks
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Still raining. Snow is coming fast. Snow is going to have a nice wet, icy base to it. How fun.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Twenty minutes from Rick..............fog rolled in yesterday afternoon and I'm still socked in. :sigh:

Probably, still be hanging around till the rain arrives.

That's because Winelover lives in Sleepy Hollow where it's always foggy and that headless guy rides around on his horse. Rain never came, clear, sunny, calm and 64 degrees. Life is good. :)
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Rain and middle 40s here in south side of KC. Melting the snow, thank goodness.

West of here....looks bad. Looks like the storm the weather guessers predicted last Tuesday, which didn't
happen is going to happen today. The good news, is that Tuesday I was in Colorado driving home....and it
didn't happen. Now that it IS happening, I am home and safe inside, not driving across all of KS.

Be careful Brad. It looks like a PITA up there.

I just looked up where you are Al. I drove through a bit east of there back in Jan of last year up to 29 Palms to
pick up a USMC friend who had just graduated from training, and to take him down to San Diego to
see his brother graduate from USMC basic training.

Bill
 
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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
I80 from just west of Omaha to Grand Island is closed.
Between the frozen rain on the roads and the heavy snow and wind we have right now it is just plain nasty. Birds are eating me out of house and home. Dang finches are eating almost a quart of fine sunflower hearts a day. Squirrels aren’t a lot better.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Got a text from SIL in Pagosa, can't skii, too much snow. Roads up the mountain are closed. Looked like 3' against the railing where they are staying. School chums near KCI are taking food to neighbors that are shut ins, walking to their house of course. Doc calls to cancel appt due to weather. Sure wouldn't want to be on I70 or 80 when it is shut down.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
now I know why we only have maybe 5-K people in our whole county.
all the rest have died from the snow.

the G-boy come over for about an hour this afternoon he watched me tie up a jig then we played around in the shop for about an hour.
he had a hissy fit when he had to go home,, until he realized Grandma was going with them,,,, then he was just plain out pissed off.
I guess she is gonna babysit while the kids go over to the VFW for some dinner thing.
I'm staying home to watch the stadium series hockey game.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I killed three pigs just before sundown and had to buy six bags of ice on the way home because it's only 40-something degrees. Cheaper than driving 18 hours north I guess.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
I left the house once today. Got the mail and then came back in.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Bill--

Marie and I go up toward Joshua Tree NP and Yucca valley quite a bit (on SR 62). That whole area is now snow-covered, 8-12 inches on the ground at present. Not unheard of, but the depth is a little unusual. That "slot canyon" that the highway climbs up toward Morongo Basin within (Big Morongo Canyon) is still kinda daunting, but it was a death alley before the state built that K-rail/Jersey wall between E/B and W/B traffic. My patrol time training ground was nearby, in Desert Hot Springs. I recall a NASTY multiple-fatal head-on collision that occurred right after midnight a few days after I began training. Pouring rain and sleet, bitterly cold, and dodging drunks that came close to hitting the CHP, us, and the fire folks on scene a few times. CHP finally just closed the road in both directions for a couple hours before we got whacked ourselves. One of the scariest nights of my career. That K-rail has saved a bunch of lives since installation.

You might recall having seen a tavern/restaurant near the top of that grade called Willie Boy's Saloon. Kind of a take-off on some local history, the last true "posse hunt" of the old Western variety took place here in 1909, involving a young adult Native American male who went by the name "Willie Boy". Willie was in love with the 14 year old daughter of a foreman at the Gilman Ranch near Banning named Lolita (first irony warning). The foreman Mike Boniface wanted someone other than a casual labor ranch hand like Willie courting his daughter, and the outcome was Willie killing Mike and abducting Lola/Lolita in what was termed a "marriage by capture". Willie and Lolita fled east from Gilman Ranch, then north up Big Morongo Canyon into the Morongo Valley. During this time, Lolita was killed by a gunshot, located, and Willie continued his flight until brought to ground after ambushing one element of the posse at Old Woman Springs, wounding a posse member. Willie was found shot to death after a mutual firefight between himself and posse members went into siege mode for a time. A cloud of flies hovering over Willie's last know location kind of announced Willie's status after a time, and he was found with the rifle across his lap that he had used to kill Mike--kill Lolita--and wound Charlie Reche the posse member. In a prophetic and ironic twist, Robert Blake played "Willie Boy" in the 1969 film made concerning the incident, which is largely a travesty of the historical record. The 60s were like that, though. A better and far more accurate account of the matter was written in 1960 by Harry Lawton--Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt.

My great-grandfather was a peripheral participant in this event, and the Colt Bisley 32/20 x 4-3/4" and Winchester '73 carbine in 44/40 came along with him. I inherited these when my Dad passed in 1994. I shoot them frequently.
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Cleaned, annealed, sized, trimmed, and primed 150 .30-30 cases.
Received my Skinner peep sights for my 1894 Marlin.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Only got about another 2" of snow today, but it's still snowing. Weather man forecasting 50 MPH winds later tonight. Swept off the entry pads and went to work in the shop. I'm not moving any snow until it stops. Folks are getting restless up here. Phone keeps ringing just because! March is going to be a long month for some folks. Oldest grandson just announced the coming of my second great grand child. Gotta love winter.
 
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