so waht ya doin today?

[Bret4207]

Different times Fiver. I knew guys that put kids through college working at a sawmill or mine... and bought a home and a car. No one had 2 cars when I was a kid, and no one ever had a new one. I was probably 18 or so before anyone I knew actually bought a brand new car! No one had a credit card, no one! Sure has changed.

Getting pretty cool here. I think I engaged the wrong Amish guy for the work I needed done. Be lucky if he gets the barn roof done at this rate. Not making me real happy. Going to try to get some more odd jobs done today.

 

[smokeywolf]

After living in the same house for well over 3 decades, selling and moving has been a nightmare.
We’re here now. Furniture won’t arrive for another week. Sleeping on the floor is a bit tough for this fat old man. With more that I need to do and more that I want to do, I hope to lose a little of that fat.
Machines coming this morning. Big forklift parked in back, professional driver (Rick) will be here in about an hour. Rick’s help and kindness have made some of this process so much easier. It seems I had a great neighbor before he was officially my neighbor.

 

[S Mac]

So, @smokeywolf, are you in the Mountain Home area as well? Curious minds and all.

 

[fiver]

hey Bret, if he rolled up with clanking beer cans on the floor and has some 90's rap boomin out the back of the buggy he probably ain't the one you wanna hire.... jus sayin.

musta got cold last night.
I emptied out the wheel barrows of water with 1/2" of ice still on top of them at 10 this morning.

 

[JonB]

More crazy weather here.
The last couple days were chilly (50s-60s) with misty rain.
This morning it's hot and humid...house windows are all fogged up (moisture on outside), the house is still real cool inside (65)....it must be 85 outside and real humid right now. The Heat is suppose to brew up a big storm by late this afternoon...and back to 50s-60s cool tomorrow and rest of the week. Mother nature having a Hot flash?

 

[Rick]

Machines coming this morning. Big forklift parked in back, professional driver (Rick) will be here in about an hour. Rick’s help and kindness have made some of this process so much easier. It seems I had a great neighbor before he was officially my neighbor.

He ain't got the bill yet . . .

 

[Rick]

So, @smokeywolf, are you in the Mountain Home area as well? Curious minds and all.

15 Minutes north of town. He is now an official Ozarks Hill Billy.

 

[fiver]

he ain't gonna grow no mullet is he?

 

[Rick]

he ain't gonna grow no mullet is he?

Well . . . There is a pond on his new property but I don't think he has any plans on stocking any fish.

 

[Bret4207]

Went to Lowes and returned my brand spankin' new broken12 foot step ladder. No problem there, they credited my card and that was that, no questions asked. I told them I wanted it replaced and they said I'd have to go get a new one and put it back on the card. Okay, whatever, not really and exchange, but I can live with it. I go over to the ladders and find that the price has gone up almost $40.00!!! Back I go to the service desk. I explain I'm not about to pay an additional $40. because the ladder was DOA from the factory. Thought I'd get an argument, but the guy says no problem, same price as you got the last one for. Huh! Not a bad deal IMO.

Came home and went to get some gas from the corner store for the tractor. As we're driving by the sheep I look into the paddock and there's a freakin' coyote IN WITH THE SHEEP, just standing there drooling and eyeballing them. My old sheep dog was nowhere to be seen. I figure he's getting old and is up all night, so he probably sleeps all day. Anyways, I step out of the truck and he runs off. Good enough sez I. Go and get gas and on the way back, there he is again! Well that's just too much. So I hunt around for a rifle that is hopefully sighted in. Get the trusty old 788 22-250 and then have to find ammo. (I ain't exactly been burning up the range with my shooting these past few years. Shame on me!) We hop in the UTV and park off a ways and injun up to where we can see the field. Freakin' coyote is like 50 yards from the sheep pacing back and forth. He goes out of sight and I get behind a bale. He must have scented me and moves off a bit, still well under 100 yards. He's out there prancing across the field trying to decide if it's worth it. He stops and I squeeze. Click. Yup, just a click. I haven't fired this gun in a good 5 years. Lift the bolt and reset it. Now he's further out and definitely getting antsy. It was now or never and I timed his movements just right. Hit him a bit higher than I wanted, but he was down. One less lamb eater around. Had to be this years pup to be that bold and reckless.

 

[Bret4207]

Practcing posting pics. Here's my old sheep dog Sam, some of the herd and what I thought was goign to be a nice sunset in the background. Okay, so I'm not an ar-teest! The color didn't come through at all.

 

[Rick]

Cool . . . Only good use for a yote I've ever discovered is target practice. CA is over run with them.

I gotta admit Bret, your a good bit younger looking than I would have thought.

 

[Brad]

I have a feeling that is Gord

 

[Bret4207]

And finally a front moving in, looking across some of my meadows. Again, the camera didn't capture the contrast as I'd hoped.

 

[462]

Nice, Bret.

 

[Bret4207]

I have a feeling that is Gord

Yessir, that is the (currently) infamous Gordon, aka- Mr. "I pulled a really boneheaded stunt in school and got suspended and that's why I'm home with Dad". Honestly, this was way more fun and interesting than I'd intended his day to be. OTOH, the coyote was covered in ticks and Gord got the heeby-jeebies after finding that out!

A better pic of my boys, Gord in the orange hat. Chris T- That's Matt! I think he was about 6 the last time you saw him. He just turned 30!

 

[462]

After a three-week range closure, it felt good to get behind the scouterized ‘96 Swede and the .38 Special Uberti 1866 butt stocks.

Did some Lyman 266469 lube groove testing, with the Swede, with one, two, and three grooves lubed, in addition to the wee one on the gas check shank. Going in without any preconceived ideas, nor expectations, I found, at least on this particular and unscientific experiment, that bullets with one groove lubed shot the best. Powder of choice was IMR 4227 at 22.0-grains.

With the 1866, it was Sierra 125-grainers with 4.9 and 5.1-grains of SR 7625, with 5.1-grains being the clear winner. Interestingly enough, that is also the Lee 358-158 RNFN accuracy load.

My shooting didn’t upset Earth’s orbit, but I was happy to be back shooting, and satisfied with the results.

Might cast some 452374s, this evening. The Randall eats them like it's been on a starvation diet.

 

[fiver]

it's amazing how little lube you can get by with.
don't think about it too much though, you'll find yourself goin down a path your not gonna enjoy.

took a bunch of sweet onion greens over to littlegirls house to dry out and she decided to make soup out of some of them.
the basic recipe.
the greens chopped down real fine, milk, tatoes, and I added some Bacon at the end so the fat would cut the onion flavor down just a hair.
that and we were having bacon and tomato sandwiches with them.
I ate too much of the soup and only had a mater sandwich with it.

that one will go in the recipe card box though.

 

[462]

Fiver said: "it's amazing how little lube you can get by with.
don't think about it too much though, you'll find yourself goin down a path your not gonna enjoy"

Yep.
Read much of Los Tres Amigos' lube quest(s), and I've no qualms about not tagging along. I might try lubing all six grooves, just because, but that would be the extent of it.

 

[Tom]

Shelby, Mt tonight. Having breakfast with my sister and brother in law before delivering to the prison in the morning. Low of +12 tonight. Hopefully configuring this engine as a bk60 with matching cam, injectors, pistons, and programming will make it start better than it did with mismatched everything. First somewhat cold weather start since the out of frame rebuild.
Had antelope tacos with my oldest daughter tonight.