so waht ya doin today?

[Glaciers]

Outstanding, John! I'm jealous. Mine turned out to be more ambitious than my body can handle, not sure if I can even finish it fully as designed now but at least it has a foundation and I can frame an insulated, air conditioned shed on top.

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Well if you ripped those poles in half cozie them up and you'd have a flat floor. From the size you could have a Barbi and a fridge as well. You're certainly going to have room. Air conditioning too. It looks good and ambitious for sure. I scraped my first idea of making a 8x 10 truck van body into a shooting shed and and and and. This is much cheaper and simpler.
But, get well, first, then take a handful of salt pills and go for it.

 

[Glaciers]

It's swinging!!!



Doors on and if you notice that door is almost black. It's a pine door that has never been finished. It's covered with carbon from the old generator room. Might need to use some Ed's Red to get it clean.
I broke down and bought 2 sheets of T111 and 10 studs. Add that to the 2 treated 4x6's and a 10x12' tarp and everything else is used from salvage jobs. So I have about $250 in so far need to come up with some trim and paint. But I have that somewhere.

 

[Ian]

Good, now the critters won't get in there tonight.

 

[fiver]

bet that carbon has it pretty well water proofed.

got to talk to one of our local police officers on the way home from lighting off the little pack of fireworks with the G-boy.
he gave me a warning.
I thought he said warrant, he was like no just a warning.
then went and checked to see if I had insurance [cause I could only find like 6 insurance papers only none from this year] and come back and said ,,,, warning.. turn your headlights on.
then Jax tried to bite him when he gave back my license.

 

[Ian]

Thug Life, huh?

 

[CZ93X62]

That Jax character sounds like he is over-burdened with attitude.

 

[Glaciers]

Outstanding, John! I'm jealous. Mine turned out to be more ambitious than my body can handle, not sure if I can even finish it fully as designed now but at least it has a foundation and I can frame an insulated, air conditioned shed on top.

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Ian those look like Cedar poles. You really got the though stuff done, got the piling foundation and rim built, floor beams. Strong enough You could drive a tank in and park it. I bet You could even move 50% of your lead supply in and it still hold up. Were you planning on frame or are you going to continue with logs? Being elevated on piles like that, will that help keep crawling critters out?
Up here the days get shorter and shorter until it's more of a 4 hour "day" of twilight where you don't see the round ball of the sun for about 2 to 2 1/2 months. We are on the northwest side of the ridge, great in summer, not so hot for winter sun. Fairly good shooting light though, I doubt I will "light" it at all, if I can't get it done in one session, I'm retired so everyday is Saturday. I need just a bit of warm and to keep blowing snow out. It's discouraging to go to shoot and there's ice on everything. I think I'll have that whipped. You have just the opposite problem, need for shade, wind block, cool down a bit. Although I was in a blowing ice storm on the west side of Amarillo one time in 1970 that I thought it was going to kill me. Conditions look to be opposite but the problems presented are similar.
On the bench side you could have sliding barn style doors of what ever size needed to accommodate one, two or more shooters. Are you close to power? Just looking at your work most people don't realize the effort it takes to fit poles together.
I'm rambling so I just wanted to say that you certainly have a good start, and it will be as my Son says "sweet".

 

[fiver]

yeah,,, well I was leaning on the window opening with my arm, and smoking at the time soo.

yeah Allen, she has an attitude problem sometimes.
when it's just me and her or someone she likes she has a pretty sweet disposition.
anything outside her circle of trust,,, well it needs Bit, barked at, or grabbed,
and sometimes that applies to those inside the group too.

 

[JWFilips]

We are going to be in the 90's for the next 6 days ( that will make 8 days total) got out early to water my gardens! Decided time to get the long hoses out and use a sprinkler set up! have been doing that for two days in the mornings & the growth rate of the plants has been exceptional.
I have a few Japanese pumpkins ( winter squash) that have taken off engulfing the yard! All the tomato pants are full of fruit and The "HomeSlice" variety are producing eatable tomatoes (& very tasty) Red beets and Derby Green beans are larger then I have had in years! Light winter miserable Spring but things are evening up! Rare chillies not so much! May take a hit this year on them!

 

[CZ93X62]

Got to 100* today, and still haven't turned the AC on. Yes, we are desert rats. Dry conditions are grand.

 

[oscarflytyer]

N AL. Early July and very few 90s so far. Forecast for next 10 odd days is 90 max ('course, there IS the humidity!) HOPE it stays this way! Now we need a follow-up hard cold winter.

 

[462]

Back to reality after a six-day get-away. Didn't go far, just seven miles to the county park that includes RV camping among the oak studded hills, the local range that remains closed due to the Chinese flu, and a world famous racetrack. It was quiet and there were only a few other campers till Friday and Saturday when the track was opened to wannabe crotch rocket racers. Three or four of them were actually quite good at knee dragging cornering, but the others just leaned over a bit and stuck a leg out a ways. None of them had the talent (or the gonads) to do fishtailing wheelies coming over the top of Turn 1, as did Kenny Roberts and Wayne Rainey. Never been into motorcycles, but I've seen five or six Moto GP and Super Bike races and those high-revving two-strokes can stir my blood a wee bit.

For you road racing fans, here is a teaser picture. I'll pay one year's membership renewal to the first member who correctly names the track, and for each incorrect answer I'll add another year to the winner's membership renewal.
First hint: Hold on the 4.

 

[oscarflytyer]

For you road racing fans, here is a teaser picture. I'll pay one year's membership renewal to the first member who correctly names the track, and for each incorrect answer I'll add another year to the winner's membership renewal.
First hint: Hold on the 4.
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Leguna Seca Turn #2

 

[oscarflytyer]

462 - if you are not into bikes (and I am not normally...), just go to a Flat Track bike race. You will be hooked! I love it! Used to watch it back in the late '60s as a kid, on cinder horse track at the local fairgrounds/horse track. WAY cool! BIG 1000cc Harleys! I went to a renewed race about 2 yrs ago, and met one of the original racers who I probably saw as a 8-9 yr old kid, and I am now 57! One of my son's and DIL went with me. Now their fav racing too! Flat Track bikes on a dirt or cinder oval, dirt track stock cars and Sprint Cars are my absolute favs!

 

[Mitty38]

Guy trying to sell me an 1890 Turkish Mauser for 300 bucks. No bayonet, but everything else is there and matches.
However the rifling is shot out , stock beat a bit, but the rest of the gun just does not show that kind of wear.
Almost bit. and started to wheel and deal, Was going to buy it for a re chamber and barrel.
Not an expert, but I know Mausers by owning complete, proper ones, back when they were cheap in the 80's. Before I had to sell of my collection.
As they say you can tell a fake by having studied the real thing. Something here just screams wrong.
Just can not put my finger on it. So I had to pass.

 

[fiver]

the brown grass says Sonoma.

gotta remember many of the turks and many others were originally battle field picked up and rebuilt, the Russians probably had 2+ million 98's rebuilt in several com-block arsenals.

we are starting to get up to 80 or so for our day time temps, and some of the plants are responding and some are not so happy about it.
I have all the cabbage cut and in, except a couple of the second year plants in the green house.
I did pick about 7-8 Beets today that are about 2"s across today to make some room, and I got a couple of cauliflower in for dinner tonight.
the broccoli are real close to their second cutting on some of the plants, and the peas are covered in blossoms.
the winter squash is struggling, all of it.
I cut the pumpkins and we ate the small ones along with the one acorn squash, and I took the one and only delicatta squash trying to force the plant into growing again.
the garlic scapes are starting to come on pretty good, so I will probably clip those in the next few days and make myself a nice lunch out of them.
the strawberries are going crazy but it might be one single spread out crop instead of them producing all summer like normal, I picked like 2 quarts of them today.

 

[462]

Leguna Seca Turn #2

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Oscar, tomorrow I will send Brad a check for your 2012 membership renewal.
Memories from your Ft. Ord days?

I think the picture points out something that does not come across on television, and that is the double apex.

 

[Brad]

Don’t forget the tax

 

[462]

the brown grass says Sonoma.

Brown grass, here, too.

 

[Mitty38]

gotta remember many of the turks and many others were originally battle field picked up and rebuilt, the Russians probably had 2+ million 98's rebuilt in several com-block arsenals

It seams like it had been re chambered slightly different, may have restored the bolt, but the did not mess with the bore any, on a partially wore out barrel, if that makes any sense. Just screams of someone has been at me and you may not like what you get into.