Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Most of the towns in northern NY, Central NY, Western NY are about the same. Only when you get into the college towns or towns where there is actual industry does it change.
so waht ya doin today?
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Most of the towns in northern NY, Central NY, Western NY are about the same. Only when you get into the college towns or towns where there is actual industry does it change.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Huh, I never considered that. You'd think some of the forward thinking pols out there in the promised land would have added massive resevoirs where ever they could. I bet their envro-nut supporters nixed the idea?
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I don't know if any of you have ever tried it, but cornbread goes great with Tuna Casserole. I love it! Not much chewing involved, though! 
Rally, layers and layers of state employees, the ones that get progressively dumber the higher you go even though their educational degrees say it should be just the opposite? Yeah, 20 plus years of that! I've also noticed the shorter they are, the more "right" they have to be and if it's female that goes triple. If it's elected state officials you just know the "right" is going to increase exponentially!
Decent weather here, cold and windy, but sunny. Snow on the way but next week it should head for the 40's and mud season will start soon, as will sugaring. I gotta get out and draw in a mess of wood for next year while the ground is still frozen.
Rally, layers and layers of state employees, the ones that get progressively dumber the higher you go even though their educational degrees say it should be just the opposite? Yeah, 20 plus years of that! I've also noticed the shorter they are, the more "right" they have to be and if it's female that goes triple. If it's elected state officials you just know the "right" is going to increase exponentially!
Decent weather here, cold and windy, but sunny. Snow on the way but next week it should head for the 40's and mud season will start soon, as will sugaring. I gotta get out and draw in a mess of wood for next year while the ground is still frozen.
smokeywolf
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We've had about 125% of average rainfall and the Sierra snow-pack is at about 160% of average. Lightning apparently caused the Santa Barbara Airport to be temporarily shut down. We're still looking at more rainy days over the next couple of weeks.
We do chili both ways in our home. Mrs. smokeywolf makes chili with beans and it is fabulous. I make traditional Texas chili which the family prefers, but is more labor intensive.
We do chili both ways in our home. Mrs. smokeywolf makes chili with beans and it is fabulous. I make traditional Texas chili which the family prefers, but is more labor intensive.
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Well. I know what it's like to fight your way through layers of CITY employees. Imagine it's worse as you go up the line. Hope most of that is over.
Talked to the dirt people yesterday and gave them the go-ahead to start on my project. They recently expanded their excavating business - OUT OF THE CITY - and were located about a 1/4 mile from where I had looked at some vacant ground right over the county line. When I asked the head guy about it he told me that after doing work in and for the City for years he would not build in the City/County limits. "Evansville is tough to build in, grossly over regulated, way too many departments and agencies you have to deal with." No wonder the City's population is static and that virtually every big national/international business that wants to start up here locates outside the City/County area. And the City Council is clueless as to the definition and value of SMALL business.
At least we have started the hire-the-contractors phase. More to follow.
Talked to the dirt people yesterday and gave them the go-ahead to start on my project. They recently expanded their excavating business - OUT OF THE CITY - and were located about a 1/4 mile from where I had looked at some vacant ground right over the county line. When I asked the head guy about it he told me that after doing work in and for the City for years he would not build in the City/County limits. "Evansville is tough to build in, grossly over regulated, way too many departments and agencies you have to deal with." No wonder the City's population is static and that virtually every big national/international business that wants to start up here locates outside the City/County area. And the City Council is clueless as to the definition and value of SMALL business.
At least we have started the hire-the-contractors phase. More to follow.
fiver
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we have had a snow rain mix the last 2 days, the temp just hovers at 30 or so and the clouds just keep rolling by.
I still can't see my above ground rainbirds out back and I know I need to wear my boots to walk through the slush puddle out front.
bad enough the wife just commandeered my parking spot out front, but the kids tried helping her out by making the slush puddle bigger around and deeper on one end.
at least it isn't running up the driveway and into my basement.
the kicker is when I drop down in the valley I'm hearing people talk about mowing their lawn already, and seeing temps in the low 40's.
I still can't see my above ground rainbirds out back and I know I need to wear my boots to walk through the slush puddle out front.
bad enough the wife just commandeered my parking spot out front, but the kids tried helping her out by making the slush puddle bigger around and deeper on one end.
at least it isn't running up the driveway and into my basement.
the kicker is when I drop down in the valley I'm hearing people talk about mowing their lawn already, and seeing temps in the low 40's.
uncle jimbo
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Yes I did, actually. made it about 3, 4 times. And will make it again. Thanks.
Still
here. I think I am growing webs between my toes.
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Yeah, we got almost another half-foot of global warming here too. I am totally excited beyond words, or at least words longer than four letters.
Complete heating system shut down,and clean out. Wifey said it's her last..... as she looks with a glint of evil right in someone's direction.
"Did you enjoy your trip darling"? I....ask
"What trip you ____"? she sneers.
"The trip to town,cause it looks like you just stepped off a 1885 coal train to Birmingham (UK)"...not funny.
But what is funny,or strange? So,system is down for service,thermostat turned way down.... and I got the service switch off at the unit. At some point I turn the unit switch back on once all the furnace parts are clean. Then go clean the chimney way,the freak up there.... but I'm on top enjoying the view. Wife doing duty on the lower end,yanking and tugging..... told her to think of it as "house yoga".
Anyway it's all buttoned up and at the exact moment I'm telling train girl to hit the thermostat..... the unit comes on. I thought it was pretty eerie? Wife's past it...doesn't see the humor?
"Did you enjoy your trip darling"? I....ask
"What trip you ____"? she sneers.
"The trip to town,cause it looks like you just stepped off a 1885 coal train to Birmingham (UK)"...not funny.
But what is funny,or strange? So,system is down for service,thermostat turned way down.... and I got the service switch off at the unit. At some point I turn the unit switch back on once all the furnace parts are clean. Then go clean the chimney way,the freak up there.... but I'm on top enjoying the view. Wife doing duty on the lower end,yanking and tugging..... told her to think of it as "house yoga".
Anyway it's all buttoned up and at the exact moment I'm telling train girl to hit the thermostat..... the unit comes on. I thought it was pretty eerie? Wife's past it...doesn't see the humor?
Pistolero
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And I thought MY wife was cool for helping me with my carpentry, painting, plumbing and wiring.
She does let me do the furnace work by my self. Bravo to your wife, ITShop!
I hope the dog is OK, too. You can buy new parts for the furnace, not so much for the dog.
41F here today, almost all of the white stuff is melting away, say 85-90% at this point Supposed
to be 40s tomorrow, too, that should finish it up. YAY!.
Hope your roof holds out, Brad. Ice damming is a real bad deal.
UncleJimbo....if you have made it 3 or 4 times, it must have passed muster.
Bill
She does let me do the furnace work by my self. Bravo to your wife, ITShop!
I hope the dog is OK, too. You can buy new parts for the furnace, not so much for the dog.
41F here today, almost all of the white stuff is melting away, say 85-90% at this point Supposed
to be 40s tomorrow, too, that should finish it up. YAY!.
Hope your roof holds out, Brad. Ice damming is a real bad deal.
UncleJimbo....if you have made it 3 or 4 times, it must have passed muster.
Bill
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Missionary
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So back to the original idea
Today rode the 250 Kaw KDX up to the mountain villages I visit weekly. Nice beautiful sunny day when I left at 6:30 am. Left early due to the fact the forecast was for thunder storms up high beginning at noon so I did a fast in and out. Sure enough at 12:15 the thunder rolled but I had already returned home.
We are buying anti convulsion meds for a 11 year old girl up there who has a rare brain disorder. Her immune system is consuming her brain. Fortunately it is not painful but she is loosing all mobility. Today was the regular re-supply day.
Today rode the 250 Kaw KDX up to the mountain villages I visit weekly. Nice beautiful sunny day when I left at 6:30 am. Left early due to the fact the forecast was for thunder storms up high beginning at noon so I did a fast in and out. Sure enough at 12:15 the thunder rolled but I had already returned home.
We are buying anti convulsion meds for a 11 year old girl up there who has a rare brain disorder. Her immune system is consuming her brain. Fortunately it is not painful but she is loosing all mobility. Today was the regular re-supply day.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Installed some after-market parts in the 10/22. It is one of only two scoped rifles I have and it will be visiting the range a lot more, because of a recent vision impairment, so figured it needed a wee bit of spiffing up. Polished some parts, then installed an extra strength recoil spring, Volquartsen extractor and spring, Weaver/Picatinney scope base, some sort of fancy plastic bolt stop, and a very long extended magazine release.
It already had a Volquartsen hammer kit installed, and it smoothed and lightened the trigger pull such that I didn't think their trigger kit necessary.
It already had a Volquartsen hammer kit installed, and it smoothed and lightened the trigger pull such that I didn't think their trigger kit necessary.
"They"..... or,"those people", are calling for snow showers today. Got my fingers crossed hoping we get a cpl inches. Driveway gets snow removed and the gravel gets groomed in one outing. The snow works better than rain...... like,lightyears better. Rain = mud. Snow is just right at keeping the gravel.... and rock/dirt/dust/silt manageable.
Tractor weights have been installed on the rear "I" beam drag/blade. Was wondering if they were going to be heavy enough? Got a feeling they are.... moving and installing them with a hand truck wasn't a nut buster but prolly 125'ish each.
Starting loads with new H4198.... previously been using and loving the IMR4198.... on my ADL223. I'm only one grain away from book max with 55's..... and headed that way. The H flavor does.meter a touch nicer. Not complaining about long stick powders though.....
I weigh every charge on a Lyman M5 beam scale. And can get a small rotor'd Uniflow to drop within a kernel or two with the IMR. The settings I've charted for the Uni stem are pretty dang close between the two powders.
Just trying the "H" flavor looking for something? Not really sure what? Got a tackdriver load for a 7-08/130 and a 30-06/175 using the IMR ..... but neither load is running that hot. Maybe 2-2200 fps. And both hold up well over different weather patterns.... but it isn't really pushing much on velocity and it's a wide loading window.
The 223 is a wee different..... as the extremes of temp for hunting are a little further apart. From February on the cold side to August on the hot. Hogdon labels their 4198 as being in the extreme line of temp stable powders? If for some reason it doesn't like the H flavor,will go back to the IMR..... no big deal. The LGS has an 8#'er of the IMR.
Tractor weights have been installed on the rear "I" beam drag/blade. Was wondering if they were going to be heavy enough? Got a feeling they are.... moving and installing them with a hand truck wasn't a nut buster but prolly 125'ish each.
Starting loads with new H4198.... previously been using and loving the IMR4198.... on my ADL223. I'm only one grain away from book max with 55's..... and headed that way. The H flavor does.meter a touch nicer. Not complaining about long stick powders though.....
I weigh every charge on a Lyman M5 beam scale. And can get a small rotor'd Uniflow to drop within a kernel or two with the IMR. The settings I've charted for the Uni stem are pretty dang close between the two powders.
Just trying the "H" flavor looking for something? Not really sure what? Got a tackdriver load for a 7-08/130 and a 30-06/175 using the IMR ..... but neither load is running that hot. Maybe 2-2200 fps. And both hold up well over different weather patterns.... but it isn't really pushing much on velocity and it's a wide loading window.
The 223 is a wee different..... as the extremes of temp for hunting are a little further apart. From February on the cold side to August on the hot. Hogdon labels their 4198 as being in the extreme line of temp stable powders? If for some reason it doesn't like the H flavor,will go back to the IMR..... no big deal. The LGS has an 8#'er of the IMR.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Gonna be a rant so if that stuff bores you, pass this by-
Had quite the rodeo here yesterday. Neighbors (the ones from Jersey) horses got out. I won't got through the whole ugly history but these people shouldn't have a cat, much less livestock. So anyway, once I get some other stuff taken care of, I figure I'll go try to herd their horses home. (Naturally she's off gallivanting and he's off truck driving I guess, so no help from them.) So I strolls up to see just with I'm dealing with. 3 draft mares and a draft stud horse, 2-3 years old. Soon as I approach they take off, which gives me time to notice they've taken down several of my fence posts, including some steel Tee posts, and my horses are nowhere in the paddock. I turn and see my herd up in a neighboring field a 1/4-1/2 mile away. Okay, so I don't have to sort horses at least. Go to the barn, get the truck and some fence stuff and fix the fence as best the perma-frost and terrain allow. Then I go to the nieghbors place and try to find where their idiots got out. Call another neighbor that hates these people but lives in sight of the farm and get the low down on where they keep the horses. Got back to the barn, get some stuff to at least sort of fix the fence and toss a couple of bales of my hay in the paddock to at least keep the horses in if I can get them there. Put the truck away and figure I might be able to drive the horses back home. Since the 4 idiots don't appear to be real people oriented, I break into my "Horse Whisperer" act and I can get to where I can touch one Belgian mare and she wants to follow. The stud horse looks like he may need an application of something long and whip or stick shaped since he's getting aggressive. So I go to get a halter, which I couldn't find any of my draft sized jobs, end up with a rope and lunge whip and by the time I get back the stud horse has decided to take a roll on an icy spot and can't get back up. I spend 15 minutes trying to get him up. He's been touched by human hands now at least, but no joy. So back to the barn to get some sure foot. I take the truck back this time and by now the stud has gotten up on his own somehow, but he's exhausted and not in any mood to give me problems. I count my blessings! I get the rope on the mare and we start for home. All the sudden she bolts, so do the others and I have no clue why. I lost the lead and then I hear the thundering herd. Here come my idiots at the gallop. I'm thinking now I'm going to have a real mess with 11 horses mixed up in a bunch with no help or way to sort them. Mr Stud goes for one of my aged mares and she kicks the living snot out of him! So much for the sorting problem, the 4 go in one direction and my morons go in the other. Back to the barn again, (we're no where near the truck by now) and get a bucket of grain, call my horses (horses do come when called and you have grain...sometimes), and get them behind the fence. Then back to the other 4. I did have the good sense to change out of my Mickey Mouse boots (about 8lbs each) and put on my much lighter, but far colder Muck boots. I go for the one mare with the lead and by now her blood is up and she isn't having any of it. They take off for the road and I try to take a short cut to at least turn them home. They do and then it's trying to get them by my herd which is up at the fence by the road, doing their best to screw up the best laid plans of mice and men and whatnot and maybe bust a gate or cut themselves up on some fence while they're at it. I drive the 4 on by and then it's just walking them home and keeping them from taking a detour into the woods or a meadow. They finally smell home and trot right into their paddock. My hay is a big hit and that gives me time to sort of half way get the "fence" and "gate" fixed. Word to the wise- electric fence works a lot better if it's not under 10" of snow or wrapped around a steel Tee post. No way the electric is going to get fixed this time of year by me at my cost, so I do what I can with the barb wire thats there and some baling twine, a real farmer fix. Then I gotta get my lead off the mare. She's coming down off her adrenaline rush and I finally get the remains of my rope off her after using the last 10 minutes of my patience up. Text the neighbor lady and let her know I got the horses in, but the fence needs work ASAP. To top this fun off, the neighbor lady texts my boy Gord (he is about the only one in the area on good terms with them, gets their hay out, brings in wood her when he's gone) and asks him if he can fix up the fence area when he gets home from school! Mind you, there's a good 8-10" of frost in the ground, more on open areas. Gord, good hearted soul he is, gets home, does his chores and goes to fix the fence. I get home about then from going to town for propane and to pick up his sister from an after school event she ended up not going to (!!!) and do my chores, and Gord can't find these peoples post driver, etc. So I went and helped him do what we could. I actually bent my new digging bar trying to pull a post Gord put in the wrong place. Get home and have supper, help with homework, etc. Figure I'll sleep like a rock. Nope. 2:30AM I'm awake wondering if the horses got back out...
Had quite the rodeo here yesterday. Neighbors (the ones from Jersey) horses got out. I won't got through the whole ugly history but these people shouldn't have a cat, much less livestock. So anyway, once I get some other stuff taken care of, I figure I'll go try to herd their horses home. (Naturally she's off gallivanting and he's off truck driving I guess, so no help from them.) So I strolls up to see just with I'm dealing with. 3 draft mares and a draft stud horse, 2-3 years old. Soon as I approach they take off, which gives me time to notice they've taken down several of my fence posts, including some steel Tee posts, and my horses are nowhere in the paddock. I turn and see my herd up in a neighboring field a 1/4-1/2 mile away. Okay, so I don't have to sort horses at least. Go to the barn, get the truck and some fence stuff and fix the fence as best the perma-frost and terrain allow. Then I go to the nieghbors place and try to find where their idiots got out. Call another neighbor that hates these people but lives in sight of the farm and get the low down on where they keep the horses. Got back to the barn, get some stuff to at least sort of fix the fence and toss a couple of bales of my hay in the paddock to at least keep the horses in if I can get them there. Put the truck away and figure I might be able to drive the horses back home. Since the 4 idiots don't appear to be real people oriented, I break into my "Horse Whisperer" act and I can get to where I can touch one Belgian mare and she wants to follow. The stud horse looks like he may need an application of something long and whip or stick shaped since he's getting aggressive. So I go to get a halter, which I couldn't find any of my draft sized jobs, end up with a rope and lunge whip and by the time I get back the stud horse has decided to take a roll on an icy spot and can't get back up. I spend 15 minutes trying to get him up. He's been touched by human hands now at least, but no joy. So back to the barn to get some sure foot. I take the truck back this time and by now the stud has gotten up on his own somehow, but he's exhausted and not in any mood to give me problems. I count my blessings! I get the rope on the mare and we start for home. All the sudden she bolts, so do the others and I have no clue why. I lost the lead and then I hear the thundering herd. Here come my idiots at the gallop. I'm thinking now I'm going to have a real mess with 11 horses mixed up in a bunch with no help or way to sort them. Mr Stud goes for one of my aged mares and she kicks the living snot out of him! So much for the sorting problem, the 4 go in one direction and my morons go in the other. Back to the barn again, (we're no where near the truck by now) and get a bucket of grain, call my horses (horses do come when called and you have grain...sometimes), and get them behind the fence. Then back to the other 4. I did have the good sense to change out of my Mickey Mouse boots (about 8lbs each) and put on my much lighter, but far colder Muck boots. I go for the one mare with the lead and by now her blood is up and she isn't having any of it. They take off for the road and I try to take a short cut to at least turn them home. They do and then it's trying to get them by my herd which is up at the fence by the road, doing their best to screw up the best laid plans of mice and men and whatnot and maybe bust a gate or cut themselves up on some fence while they're at it. I drive the 4 on by and then it's just walking them home and keeping them from taking a detour into the woods or a meadow. They finally smell home and trot right into their paddock. My hay is a big hit and that gives me time to sort of half way get the "fence" and "gate" fixed. Word to the wise- electric fence works a lot better if it's not under 10" of snow or wrapped around a steel Tee post. No way the electric is going to get fixed this time of year by me at my cost, so I do what I can with the barb wire thats there and some baling twine, a real farmer fix. Then I gotta get my lead off the mare. She's coming down off her adrenaline rush and I finally get the remains of my rope off her after using the last 10 minutes of my patience up. Text the neighbor lady and let her know I got the horses in, but the fence needs work ASAP. To top this fun off, the neighbor lady texts my boy Gord (he is about the only one in the area on good terms with them, gets their hay out, brings in wood her when he's gone) and asks him if he can fix up the fence area when he gets home from school! Mind you, there's a good 8-10" of frost in the ground, more on open areas. Gord, good hearted soul he is, gets home, does his chores and goes to fix the fence. I get home about then from going to town for propane and to pick up his sister from an after school event she ended up not going to (!!!) and do my chores, and Gord can't find these peoples post driver, etc. So I went and helped him do what we could. I actually bent my new digging bar trying to pull a post Gord put in the wrong place. Get home and have supper, help with homework, etc. Figure I'll sleep like a rock. Nope. 2:30AM I'm awake wondering if the horses got back out...
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Coined a new phrase.....
Chicken wings....
When,mainly due to some fad...... we can take the cheapest cut of meat,or whatever and through marketing start selling it at/above what historically is the highest $ part of the base product. This isn't some new discovery on my part..... cause hot wings have been,uhhh hot for 30 years. Which was OK by me,just buy breasts for less. But it isn't solely about barnyard buzzards. Could be anything where there's a collusion of sorts within an already established economic structure....... FOMO comes close. "Fear of Missing Out".... but that ain't quite it. In "chicken wings"..... uhh,we have plenty.
Wife just looked at a pr of 200$ jeans is a good example of chicken wings...... and NO,not what some skinny white women look like wearing them. No,for 200$ you can get a really nice pr of Italian slacks. The 200$ jeans are made in the same Chinese sweat shop that.... oh,pick a brand,are.
Not a rant,it's a coining.
Chicken wings....
When,mainly due to some fad...... we can take the cheapest cut of meat,or whatever and through marketing start selling it at/above what historically is the highest $ part of the base product. This isn't some new discovery on my part..... cause hot wings have been,uhhh hot for 30 years. Which was OK by me,just buy breasts for less. But it isn't solely about barnyard buzzards. Could be anything where there's a collusion of sorts within an already established economic structure....... FOMO comes close. "Fear of Missing Out".... but that ain't quite it. In "chicken wings"..... uhh,we have plenty.
Wife just looked at a pr of 200$ jeans is a good example of chicken wings...... and NO,not what some skinny white women look like wearing them. No,for 200$ you can get a really nice pr of Italian slacks. The 200$ jeans are made in the same Chinese sweat shop that.... oh,pick a brand,are.
Not a rant,it's a coining.