I busted my butt shoveling snow for the kids. My boys wanted a rink out back despite skating 3-4 times a week already. This is where I learned to play hockey.

100'x40'. Half the size of regulation. My friggen back is sore.

Buy em a zamboni tightwad....

lol. It'll be for me, not them. They come with beer holders?

I called up an old Bud of mine this morning, and asked if I could load up some clay bird loads for the Boar hunt, I already had purchased some components at his direction.

Went over to his shop and loaded up my first ever shotshell loads, he has an old MEC loader, I put up 300 12 gauge 1-1/8th oz. of #7.5 shot inside Clay-Buster wads all inside Winchester AA hulls with Red Dot powder and Fiocchi 209 primers.

Was a lot of fun, but I'm less than 1/3rd there, have 700 hulls left.

Gunner

ran a couple errands this morning dug post holes for a dog run i'm building for my parents. going duck hunting in the morning and fishing the king ranch shore line.

You wouldn't be the first to ask me if I could make some cup holders...

Made hatch ribs for my teardrop camper....up until the bearing burned up on my template router bit.

Cut down 4 big locust trees and blocked them up. A fine young man that my wife had in her middle school class and is now close to graduating High School that has had less than an easy life and is being raised by his grandmother came out and loaded up a bunch of trap loads on my MEC's. Then we went out in the back yard and shot about a hundred rounds of 45 slowfire. He told us that he is planning on going into the Marines when he graduates. Gave him a new Case XX Marine "Kabar". Went to town and bought groceries and made steaks and tators. Sipping libation. Forgot about loading up about a face cord and filling up the wood box

Cut down and cut up a huge oak out back that broke in a wind storm.

Hate to tell you this, but Monday it'll be 50 in my neck of MI, don't know where Blue Water is but I hope your ice survives.

Monthly trip to town. Groceries, check out the gun racks at a couple of shops, benefit supper at the school & back to the reloading room. Figured it was safer there than in the living room with six giggling 10-12 year old girls having a sleepover. Funny thing is, they keep wanting to come into the shop & want to see & know about what I'm doing. Bunch of little girls curious about guns & ammo. My daughter seems to be able to pick pretty good friends.

spent the morning squirrel hunting. came home & spent the afternoon in the recliner with my feet up.

Bought my wife a Ford Edge this morning...

Wow do they put a hole in your gun buying budget !!

Shot about 50 prairie dogs (86 shots). Best string was 3 in a row at 452 yards, love it when the wind isn't blowing.

Good on You for spending time with that young man and pointing him in the right direction Blanket.

Gunner

Went to the gunsmiths shop and met the GENERIC COFFEE CLUB for coffee and doughnuts and we bad mouthed obama and his minions.

Russ, where did you locate that? My ten year old grandson just made PFC in the Young Marines and that is exactly the knife he wants.

I bought it in a surplus store in Florence, Alabama about a year ago. Was in town for work and just dropped in. I can't remember the name of the place but I can call down to get a number if you want. Old boy that runs it is about 75 Sonny's Army & Navy
.3105 County Road 16, Florence, AL 35633
(256) 766-7441

Went kayaking on the upper Manatee River from Rye Preserve to the dam at Lake Manatee and back. Not a cloud in the sky, temps in the 70's and low humidity. Doesn't get much better.

Buy them their own shovels.

WTH is that stuff? I watered my trees today..

it was dang near 60

New? Used? Care to discuss price? An Edge is on our list.
Oh yeah, pics or it didn't happen.

80 mile trip to a Doc. Visited with the fam for a little. Drizzling rain here so I just hung out at home. No racing tomorrow so my night is free.

Cleaned in my shop most of the day.

Made an emergency run to a friends ranch due to a horse accident. Everyone is OK.

Back in the shop, cleaned up a bunch of surplus chain I scrounged for my Trimarran, or collected for ranch andlogging projects. Cut off old shackles, removed spliced in rope, etc. I have all I need for two anchors for the boat, plus I found two long chains and one short one with hooks on them so I put one in the Samurai.

Added two new pegboards onone wall, moved a shelf, and swept or vacumed most of it.

Then before I left I reassembled the propeller and shaft for the tri so I could contimue epoxying the deadwood together.

My girlfriend is going to help sort all the misc nails, screws, nuts and bolts, and small nautical fittings tomorrow so I set up tables for that, then cut a pipe into lengths so I can move the safe I am rebuilding around in the shop.

Then I went and took my grandson down to the dock to look at fishing boats.

Pretty typical rainy retirement day for me right now.

continued fighting whatever bug i have had for the last couple days.....the wife deserted me to go with some friends this weekend....went to the store to get stuff for chicken and wild rice casserole and made me some to eat.....some equaling a big arse pot that i can eat from for the next couple of days....

Thanks for playing fellas.

A good day here. Drove up to Jax to visit with my daughter, her husband Phil, and the new grandbaby.
His parents were up, and some friends came over. Watched the North /South college all star game, cooked out, and drove the 75 miles home.
Great day.

Worked on a rental for a couple hours and then went to the range. It was cold and raining, but I needed to do some shooting. Went home, sorted and polished brass then cast some .40 bullets. It's still raining.

Plowed the sub division streets and several driveways with my ATV, picked up 12 40 lb bags ofice melt, and took a nice walk in the woods. There's a really big oak down from last summer's Derecho storm. The root ball is close to 8' in diameter. The woods was quiet.

My son and I ran our two GSPs (Roxy and Ruby) with NE1022 and his GSP (Homer). Homer's one of Roxy's pups and a litter-mate to Ruby.....

Homer checkin' in.....


My son taking a detour.....


Ruby and Homer found a dead deer.....


Roxy stopping by to say "Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for taking us RUNNING!!


A couple ugly mugs (NE1022 on the left and me on the right)....


Roxy pointing a deer carcass. We ran across 4-5 on a 2 mile walk!!


Homer found a shed as we were leaving and brought to NE1022....
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Beautiful full moon on the way out....
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Good on you. I hope your boys were right there with you with shovels too though, Mac.

In the city, we'd flood parking lots and tennis courts. Voila! Instant rink.

damn Roxy is a fine looking dog

I got a sunburn.

Forgot the OQ. Worked, picked wife up from NYC trip, picked up Taiwanese food in Chinatown, came home. Leaving back for the salt mine in 8 hours.

Went to grandsons first birthday party. Cant wait for him to be on his first hunt with us!!!!

You sure know one when you see one don't ya.....

Today? Let's see...

Sold some rimfire ammo to a neighbor because all the stores are out.

Hung out with my Air Force son.

Talked on the phone with my youngest Army son who is in Washington.

Sold a Rat distortion pedal on CraigsList and ended up with a new customer for my music store in the process.

Took care of Mrs. Plinker who is coming down with a cold.

Played lead guitar for the Saturday night service at church and rocked the flock.

Hanging out on the CampFire sipping rum & Coke.

Typical day....

Now, that's a good day. I strummed a litle too.

i spent most of the day on the couch and Jake was laying by me on the floor when he wasnt wrestling with the wifes mini dachshund.....

I had to work 8-5. Worked til 10 last night, 45 minute drive home, finally in bed at 1 o'clock. Got up at six to go back in. Had a busy day at work and my butt was draggin when I got home so I took a nice nap after supper. Woke up at 9:30, caught the news and got on the web.
I need to get back in the shop really bad.

slept in with my better half
we sat in bed & listened to the kids talk downstairs (hysterical),
hunted from 11ish-4ish (cold, noisy woods, couple doe out of range)
came home to a very nice flounder dinner,
played Wii star wars with my 4 year old,
went over addition problems with the 6y/o,
one load of laundry,
cleaned the Hawkin,
piled up some kindling for the chiminea,
shared a glass of wine and sun chips with wife on couch and
watched "the boy in the striped pajamas"...
checked in on 24hcf, Drudge, and another site a time or 5.

Overall pretty nice day!

Sold a pistol Saturday!

After going to the range and seeing all the empty cases .. and exorbitant prices on the few guns left...
The wife said " maybe we should sell my Sig Mosquito, we never shoot it"

My son said a co worker of his was looking for one. And could only find it in PINK!

So we worked out deal and she came over, I checked her out ( not as much as I would have like to .. my wife was there )
She left cash with gun in hand.

Chores around the house.. then took home bake pizzas to the In laws and helped them.
Played a card game with them until 9 ish ( in their 80 degree home..whew )
Home for more chores and bed.
Busy all day and almost nothing accomplished!

Sucks gettin old in Winter.

I took my 15 yr old daughter deer hunting. And guess what? Not one person got killed. Must have really well behaved rifles!

Sitting at gate C12 at Reno Airport trying to get home to HSV for the second time. On Friday AA cancelled my outbound flight. Had to stay 2 days extra at the Eldorado on AAs dime. But hopefully will make it into Dallas and then home by day's end.

Today I have work, yesterday I was stuck at home because I am waiting on a check so I can buy my clutch kit for the POS car.

Pulled the dead battery out of the truck, finally. The screw in the hold down block was corroded in and the head corroded so you couldn't get a socket to hold. Gave up Friday when it was 3. Upper 20's today, had to force the Dremel down deep in what space there was and cut the head off. And weld a nut back on for a head since Ford in their infinite wisdom used a 1/4 NF screw with an undersize head. Not betting I could find a replacement in this little town. Felt like crap so that's it.

And my luck with things mechanical continues, the solar powered auto-darkening welding helmet lost its charge and wouldn't darken. Pretty much used to it, but does it ever feel good when something goes smoothly.

We've had a nice warm spell this weekend so I cleared out some new feed lanes this afternoon after the cows were fed. 20-30F and the old tractor starts right up, no block heater or anything, shot of ether. Cummins engine.



Pot licker.

I took my grandson out quail hunting. He got his first game bird today, a big cock valley quail. He cleaned it, and I fried it up to split with him.

Now that is cool, great pic.

Moved 150 give or take cedar tree logs we cut last year and stacked off ground more compact for future fence posts.

Pulled out all shrubs to have Moms house releveled.

Cleaned some of the deer rifles as season is almost over.

Wondered in amazement that last year I hunted ducks almost every other weekend. And this year have not been out at all except teal season twice and never fired a round.

Got a short nap in.

Went to town to do an electrical inspection and help the line crew reconnect the power to that loop.

Had one EMS call and one fire washdown call.

Decided not to cut up 2 does from last weekend, wait till Monday.

Got to see a bit of wild west alaska to reconfirm its another ignorant scripted BS show.

Still needed to reseed some oats to get rid of seeds and clean out the explorer, but that didn't make it.

I wish I could have done ANY of the things you all did...I went to my dads funeral yesterday. He finally lost his long 10 year battle with Alzheimers (SP) at the age of 72!

Didn't mean to be a buzzkill, but that's what I did!

Elk Country

Walked couple miles in the TN hills looking for deer/turkey sign. Seen this while hiking...

Very sorry to hear about your dad EC. Our hearts go our to your and yours....

Damn Elk Country, here's to your dad, sorry to hear it.

you'se a good dad Mac


made the wife breakfast, took her to work, stopped by my work and did some office stuff, hung a flat screen on the wall for one of our tenants, went groc shopping, came home fed these baby birds we call kids, did some laundry, went back to my work closed it up for the evening as the clerical chic went home sick, picked my wife up from work, and now home packing for her and I tomorrow, yelled at kids for being lazy azz bums and lit a fire under them for chores etc., consoled the wife "hey they're not bad kids, but even good kids gotta hear it when they need it"

getting ready to fix this crew some dinner and just stopped for a sec to wonder what alla you jabronis did for the day!

now I know, so hi ho, hi ho, it's back to work I go

somebody(s) had a great day!

I'm with Sammo, classic pic, thank you for sharing that

yep we all had a good day compared to elkhunter

feel for you pard, laid my dad to rest early November.


all you guys that have dads and grandads left, the other stuff will wait, time won't

Ran a lathe all weekend. I'm buried. Trying to get through the PVC parts orders so I can get back to cutting metal.... awfully tired of the smell of cut PVC.

Thanks for the kind words guys! I know he isn't suffering any longer and now my mom can try to have a somewhat "normal" life again. She was the best caregiver a guy could ask for. They were married 52 years.

Elk Country

Sorry for your loss. After seven years I still miss my dad and start to call him often.