so waht ya doin today?

[Glaciers]

Went to a BBQ and family get together at SIL's house. The occasion was daughter, my niece, Irene had just graduated from the Veterinary school, CSU I believe, in Fort Collins, as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Parents Kathy and Andy spent a month in Colorado and attended the graduation last month.

Anyway Kathy and Andy are back last week and Irene and husband Nick Fisher are all back in Alaska.

Irene has had a job offer for the last year at a local Vet Clinic and starts soon. Nick here husband of two years is an interesting fellow as well. He's a Professional weight lifter for one or two categories of that sport. Can't tell you which, dead lift might be one. I believe Nick is the State Champ and is 8th in the nation. He's not tall, but, he's a big boy.

We are proud of them both and happy for there return.

 

[Rick H]

Why fight the fish with planer boards on the line at all? I made up a mast that plugs into a seat mount, can run one or two planer boards (a Riviera and a clone) and 2, 3 or more rods off each one at the same time if wanted. My release is just an old metal shower curtain hook and a #11 rubber band 1/2hitched to the line as far back as you want to run the lure. Hitch on the rubber band and clip the shower hook to the planer board line (parachute cord) as far as you want. When the fish hits, the rubber band breaks and it is just you and the fish.
I use 12# mono for fishing salmon, and run it off of downriggers and planer boards. I get better action and I'm convinced more hits off the lighter line. It is a thrill to fight a 20+ pound king on relatively light line.
I use the same rig for walleye but with lighter line and rods.

 

[Bret4207]

The nags took out a fence last year and I'm just taking a break from repairing it. I knew it was warm, but I didn't realize it was up over 90 already. That's pretty warm for here in June. Not even close to record setting or anything, but the air is definitely hot and muggy. Thankfully there's a decent breeze. Got-er-did at any rate. Next on the list is wrestling heavy steel objects into submission so I can spend hours and hours in the hot sun mowing hay for animals that have absolutely no appreciation for my efforts!

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

This is the latest quilt she is doing. (wife) each square comes pre-stamped with design. I embroidery on it then paint it then start creating the blanket.

 

[popper]

embroidery on it then paint it Paint it?. Cool. Grandma taught me to embrodery when I was a kid, hoop, needle and thread - maybe called needlepoint?

 

[Mitty38]

Ok guys, I finally broke down and bought a new one of these.
Just for casting.

 

[462]

The .38 Special Uberti 1866 sporting rifle's trigger puller should have stayed home, or taken a different rifle, one.

Excuse: The front sight was in focus enough, but consistently fitting it in the terribly out-of-focus rear semi-buckhorn was nigh on to impossible. Wait . . . it was impossible.

Maybe it needs a tang peep. Should be the same as for an 1873, what?

Recoil. What recoil? Lee 358-158, 5.1-grains of 7625, and an 8-plus pound rifle recoils like a 10/22.

 

[KeithB]

Set up the manual lathe to knurl the inner rim and the manual mill to drill the valve stem hole in the two piece pneumatic tailwheels we make for our main customer. Pretty much finished setting up the shop's office computer and laser printer, generated a CAD file and a LibreOffice document and printed them out. Had to knock off at lunch, got cleaned up and went to local hospital to get an X-ray and an arterial Doppler on leg, will find out results tomorrow when I see Dr.

 

[Bliksem]

Finished a Star sizing die in 0.309” tonight. I have dies all around this size but this one is for the 300HAMR as the tight chamber of the WC barrel has very little wriggle room. 0.3095” bullets would sometimes not go into full battery.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I was gifted some ZINK bullets to try!

lyman 358429 mold. They ran about 103/04grains. Super clean and sharp very very nicely cast bullets. NO LUBE OR PC NEEDED!!

CW

 

[Bret4207]

Well, the Bret vs extremely heavy metal match is over. I won, but the steel gave me some good shots. And I had to order a couple hundred bucks worth of pieces and parts. Oh well, would have been the same result if I'd done it 6 weeks ago like I intended.

This AM is cloudy with a chance of rain, I HOPE!!! Gotta do the rear pads on the Burb. Actually, I needed to do them last week!

I finally hit 185lbs. Down from 245-250. 10 lbs to go!

 

[popper]

arterial Doppler on leg
Hope the report is good.

 

[KeithB]

Drove in to shop this morning and saw our resident groundhog come out of her drainage pipe burrow followed closely by four little pups. Cute as a litter of puppies. Mama was watching them closely, as was the hawk perched on the fencepost on the other side of the lot. The hawk flew off a little ways when I drove in but not far. Even though we are pretty much near the heart of the city we are next to the zoo, a large creek, and border a city-owned property called the dust bowl that floods every year and is a dry gulch the rest of the time. We can open the overhead door and see deer, turkeys, lots of small mammals like squirrels, rabbits, coons and possums, and various avians. Pleasant work environment to be sure. The hawks and buzzards seem to take care of the road kill.

 

[Rick]

The hawks and buzzards seem to take care of the road kill.

And as much as I dislike crows they too serve the purpose of cleanup.

 

[Bret4207]

We have either had the largest Crows I've ever laid eyes on here lately or we've had a mess of Ravens drop in. I thought they were Turkey Buzzards when I first spotted them in a tree near the horses pasture. That of course caused me to think I'd lost one of the old Perch mares! Nope, they're fine. The birds flew over head and had the vee shaped tail, which I think is how you tell them apart. Not sure which they were, but they were real big for Crows if that's what they were.

Got the Burb brakes done. Only needed help. Caliper seems to have stuck. Lubed things up and all seems well with the addition of new pads. No more "metal on metal" sounds. Did the job in the blessed rain! We could use a 4 day soaker, but I'll take whatever we can get.

Got a Town Board meeting tonight. I'm racking my feeble brain trying to some up with a diplomatic way to address the fact one of our dept heads has gone through her entire years budget already. I don't think there's a way to do it without her getting mad. Oh well...

 

[KeithB]

Dr said wound on calf and foot were healing nicely, X-ray shows no bone issues, Doppler shows some blockage but still enough circulation to get by.

Managed to drop car keys down elevator shaft while leaving drs office, wife brought spare key so I could get home.

Now I get to take two cats to vet. Oh boy, we all love that!

 

[JWFilips]

Didn't post yesterday because I was totally beat!
Loaded & placed another 25 Cubic feet of stone rock and dirt on my driveway ( 3/4 finished now!) Temps were in the 90's Not fun weather to work in....Had to work 30 minutes then head for the cold basement for 10 min to recover every 30 minutes!

Tackled cutting down our 41 year old Wisteria ( near the house) that I trained into a Large Bonsai tree!....Problem was it only flowered twice because of the constant pruning ...however it put long runners all over the yard and into my foundation! So time for it to go! Bought a quart of "Triclopyr"! Nasty stuff ...you have to paint the concentrate on the fresh cut stump and any cut shoots! 3 weeks later hopefully the roots will be dead & any runners it sent out will follow....the Crap is all over the yard! Ever ytime you cut the main vine back it thinks it is dying and sends out ten runners so figure 41 years of cutting it back!

It took 6 trips to the woods to dispose of the cut tree!....Being young and naive back in the early 80s when we built the house...I choose neat looking but not so good for planting around the house!!!

Today I was locked inside pacing the floors! Humidity at near 90 % and temps the same with heavy rain all day! I just have too much to do to be side tracked ...But since the basement is 50% humidity and 55 degrees I went down there & I loaded a bunch of Wadcuttesr for my 38 Spec and 357 mag Smith's
On another note : I lost another pound: putting me 25 lbs lost since February 15th.... and one pound away from my goal weight! os getting to where I was in 2000! at 158 lbs! ( don't panic guys ...I'm small 5"5" tall )....but just a Tough Polish Lad. like my Dad & Brothers!

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

This spring has been very bad for the local trees. We had 2 consecutive nights of freezing about the time most trees were budding out. Most of the local Burr oaks are producing very little in the way of leaves, so there will probably be no acorn crop. Looking out my window i have probably 30 Oaks that are almost bear of any leaves. I am not going to cut any of the trees this year hoping they come back next year
We had to go to a neighboring town today. An saw in the 8 mile trip that the hole area is the same.

 

[CZ93X62]

Planers that AREN'T a PITA to reel up with a fish on--Sea Striker #1 and #2 SSPs. You're welcome.

 

[Mitty38]

Had the boy and the AWD out to the sportsman's club. Teaching him to drive, running the trails.
Me in the passenger seat holding on for dear life, hoping he don't run it into a hill or the creek. Think the station wagon has a few more scratches on it, from the Briars.
Well guess nothing comes without some kind of price.