I pulled 50 feet of wire from the power pole to the new garage and put in a 100 amp service panel. Tomorrow: pull the 12/2 romex and install lights and outlets.

Better than going to work.

Completed a BBQ pit.

Reloaded 500 10 mm rounds with 180 grain hollow points.

Cast 1100+ 200 grain swc for the 1911 this morning and sized and lubed 1200 previously cast of the same mold this afternoon.

Got started putting a new battery in the Harley soft tail, and discovered I don't need one- - - - -found a rusty, dirty connection between the ground cable and the frame! Now I've got a spare battery! Tomorrow I'm installing a brand new set of hard leather Harley 100th. Anniversary locking saddle bags and a round leather storage bag between the handlebars. Getting ready to do some "social distancing" on two wheels in the very near future!
Jerry

I’m essential...

Worked on some 911 chit - building some autonomous vehicle/IoT emergency services cutting edge prototype stuff. Took Stella the Wonder Doodle on a couple walks with the wife, framed out some new doors in the basement.

Finished up the replacement stock for my 1890 Winchester and installed it and installed the crescent butt plate. It's finally done.

Me too, essentially. 😎

Loaded 250-3000, 260, 257 Roberts, 7MM STW, 300 H&H, 375 H&H and 500 Linebaugh Max. Poured up some hog specials - 300 H&H 150 grain round noses over part of my 4759 stash since the CFO wants some sausage made this weekend. Down to last 8 oz can of 4759 and exactly 12 ancient red box Hornady round noses now.
Did find a big bag of old winchester 180 grain 30 cal silvertips - wonder if they’ll work for next batch of hog loads......

Last day of freedom in Montana. I went and bought the hell outa stuff for the impending dome. Oh, pissed in a cup for a prospective employer. VACA about over - I'm afraid I'll soon be essential....

I drove 110 miles into the epicenter of virus city, Portland, Oregon to retrieve medication for the hound. Black gloves, and mask, with copious amounts of hand sanitizer being applied after each stop...Made it, I think. 😎

Prepping to start a batch of sauerkraut tomorrow.

I posted stuff on here and looked at porn.

Morning was spent working on taxes. Thank goodness for excederin migraine.

Later today, made dinner for a family in our church. Beer batter fried true cod. Husband suffered an injury and is bed bound for a few weeks. They also do foster care, currently caring for two infants and an older Child.

Better not have licked any door handles. My 94 yo grand mother is in an assisted living facility in Milwaukee!

Built a small retaining wall to extend wife’s garden.

Relaxing tonight, one beer in, the receptacle for the dishwasher blows. How often does that happen?

1.5 hours of screwing around in a cramped space to replace it. Invented a few new words.

I spread 100 lbs.of fertilizer on the yards and around orchard.

Got part of the yard watered will finish the rest of the yard in the morning.

Worked on trimming out a window. Took the dog and a couple guns for a walk out back to check a couple of trail cameras. Fired off a few rounds. That was all pretty good, but the best was a 40 minute phone conversation with my 79 year old Dad who's wintering in Florida. He seems good, but I'm pretty worried about him.

Picked up 8 ton of rolled barley, some pork bellies and some odds and ends.

My whole team got moved to "work from home" At least I get to hang out with the dog.

Shock treated the well. Picked a bunch of rocks with the kids off the lawn that I pushed on there with the plow this winter. Most the snow is finally melted.

Bb

Worked 8-6 at our ag essential shop. Our county starts its 10pm-6am curfew tonight. Headed back to work tomorrow.

The fish got fed. Pipe got hauled. Grader got built. Fish got fed again. Another day in God’s country.

Machined a bracket, to fit an alternator in place of the generator on my flat head! I wanted to keep the original type adjustment. Tomorrow I'll turn a sheave, and fit both water pumps ! Same kind of things i do when not on house arrest!

True cod............your on the west coast. Did you buy them or catch them yourself?

Just quit and came into the house. Unloaded a 20 ft. trailer and pickup bed full of parts and equipment for the mini-fleet of old Chev trucks - prepping for the caravan that will get the rest of them down the mountain to the new garage here..Moving that big upright compressor/tank taxed my declining abilities. Tools - lots of tools - emptied the packing boxes and started figuring out where they will be kept for various tasks. Figured out why my wife's 5 wheel John Deere whatever will not run - removed the vac operated fuel pump and will try to fix that setup tomorrow when more patience is available. Practiced some music to curve away from the earlier stuff, and then made some Hornet loads. Nice way to end the day. Grateful that I can.

I turned some water into cold cubes.

I got some corks out of wine bottles.

Heard Rush 30 min on the radio.

Watched Hannity on TV.

Pounded my pud...

Got caught up on Gunsmoke, Andy & Barney, Rifleman, & Pawn Stars.
Then took a nap to rest my thumb.

I would like to be out doing something productive, they have closed state parks so I can't even fish. Like millions across the nation for the next couple of weeks this is my song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZI54Y8qf70

+1 (road maintenance)

Rebuilt portions of my front yard fence. Sat on the the front porch and drank beer.

Life is good.

Worked the last thirteen days all but two in the office. Taking the weekend off. Working around people is over rated and now dangerous.

"Shut in" began last night. Leaving for work in 15 minutes. My part time, post retirement job is considered "essential" and with half the staff out for various reasons I am ending my third week of 40+ hours. Today, I'll be well over 50 hours for the week with last Sunday being my day off. The next three weeks look no different - 6 day week, 8+ hours a day unless I become sick.

Retired from the Fire/EMS field into retail and am working harder than ever. Good point is store management listens to me and our sick calls are significantly lower than our sister stores. Some physical and a lot of psychological preventative measures have kept us in the game. Proudly the only store in the region showing a profit.

Gonna work in garden today

This;



And I put in 5 more tomatoes and 3 more bell peppers in the garden. Neighbor had some leftovers. Also weeded a little. Cherry tomatoes in pot on the back porch got little buckshot on em!

weather has been sucky lately........

yesterday cold.....windy......snow squalls......

today....more mountain snow..more NW wind...

'bout 26* outside now.......

Went fishing for a few hours. Brought home some nice small bass to start stocking my pond. Sized some 358/140s I cast the day before. Stuffed some of them into 38 special brass. Will do more of that today.

Put out COB for my Deer, put out bird seed for my Mountain Quail and other birds, then sat on my front porch,

And listened to the 1/2 hour of Rush,

While watching all the critters. Very relaxing day!

This being forted up ain't that bad!

Virgil B.

Welded and fabricated all morning. Painted a spare bedroom in the afternoon. Reloaded some 22-250 ammo this evening.

Crappy weather so it was a good day to do the inside work.

Even though I'm considered essential, my real job is now just 3 days a week. Loving this schedule/shutdown thing and not having to go anywhere.

Not any turkey on FTCKY that's for sure....
LOL!!!

The canal co. has turned the water down the main canal. It'll be in the laterals in a couple weeks. So, it's time to get the ditches burned & dug out. I'm 90% done with that although I have a run of concrete ditch that needs some minor crack repair.

The garden's a mess. It'll be 6 to 8 weeks before we can start planting but I have a lot of cleanup that I didn't get done last fall (hunting season, you know). We took out 7 hybrid poplars this winter and I still have a bunch of limbs to run through the chipper. My wife likes the chips to mulch her flower garden.
She's no longer using a patch of ground for flowers so I'll reseed it with pasture grass and move a fence to include it when it's well established. Llama pasture.

We're not short of stuff to do.

I’ve been catching up on the non stop farm work. But it’s what I enjoy doing. Getting everything ready for spring planting. Will be fixing about a mile of fence today. Have managed to get a bit of loading a shooting done as well.

Worked remotely from home, but at lunch I tested some ammo in a nice AR15.
In the same line, I converted my Dillon 550 from 44 Special to 223. First time I did that conversion, it was not bad, but I needed to change a lot of stuff. Powder bar, small primer feed, set up dies, change shell plate. Lucky I had a unused powder measure conversion unit. With that done I can flip back to 44 special pretty quick.
I am thinking of a second 550.

Getting some dry rub on a pork butt for the smoker tonight.

Enjoying the longest spell at home in three years... Not near as productive as most of ya'll! Oh, put this together casually over the past couple evenings. Bartered for the leg brackets a few years ago on here... And rigged up a 20 watt solar panel and some amazing LED floodlights for my pole barn. Just 40 watts of light does wonders. Getting some new fly fishing equipment together too.


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Replaced the sway bar bushings on my Pathfinder. Plan to replace a torn boot on the rack and pinion steering link today. Over the next two weeks will be yard work, painting and lots of reading Jack O’Conner.
Use your time wisely and enjoy some time with family. MTG

All my squash seed washed into one place. Transplanted them back where they are supposed to be.

So true 'Gunner. Before you know it we will be back to what it was a month ago.

I've found this whole shut-down thing very refreshing and great break to the normal cycle. No meetings, no reason to go anywhere you don't have to, and no other BS to virtually take up every minute of your time. You get so caught up in it you don't realize how much time it takes. I've contacted friends and family that I haven't talked with much the past few years just to see how they are doing which is something that never happens with a normal schedule.

Yesterday: Worked remotely from home. I had some extra hours in last week, so I only owed them 5 hours. The rest of the day was spent checking my beehives, mowing, and fishing a bit in our 1+ acre pond. Today I'll spend some more time in my hives, finish up the mowing, and probably drown a few more worms.

Been pulling wire and installing plumbing at the new house on the mountain this week. Headed home when I get coffee’d up enough to drive. My kind of social distancing.

I've been working from home mostly because what I was working on was my garage. Got it cleaned out and repainted. Even has a car in it now...

The last couple of days I've been working on a carved stag knife handle. It was going to be a wedding present for a couple that is getting married the first of May. Except now it will put off because of the virus. Going to finish the knife anyway...

I got one of them fancy non electric models. Doubles as a sex doll, and autonomous vacuum cleaner, too. Even has a job. Those electric dishwashers are overrated...😂

Took a ride on the bike, made some biscuits, found a shipping container for the new place, got all the stuff I need to do next week mapped out. Took a walk with my wife, loved on her a bit, and the day was over. Calm before the storm. Work is stacking up like mad,

This thing has shut my business down until probably fall. Going to need to be up and running by Q4 or things are going to get sporty. So the wife has decided that during my hiatus, "we" should do a complete master bath re-do. I already started demo, cutting up the tub enclosure and tearing out drywall. Her "job" is to pick out colors, tile, vanities, mirrors, hardware, etc. That woman needs to go back to work.

Fun stuff is reloading a couple flats of 12ga for sporting clays, tear down, clean, and lube all the toys in the safe, and hopefully get out turkey hunting in a month or so.

I discovered to my great delight that I can load 120 grain bullets with less powder than I had thought- a lower minimum. After some testing of best COAL last week I measured to ogovie of Sierra Prohunters and Speer Gold dots and loaded a few a piece to compare.

Good news is I think the Prohunters will perform a bit better after reducing loads 2 grain.

tiling a shower i built this past week.

I've got a 3 vessel brewery in my basement capable of 10 gallon batches and a couple hundred pounds of barley malt....I'll keep busy.

Also hitting my yoga workouts twice a day, walking the dog regularly and dusting off my dumbbells.

I started going through decades' worth of accumulation in the garage. Time to clear out a bunch of stuff. I see Classifieds in the future, as well as thrift store.

Getting guns tuned up that I have been meaning to address for a long time. Floating, triggers, etc.
Reloading and cleaning my disaster area so that I can find stuff.

Nothing's changed work wise, my concrete jobs don't require me to be around people much already. Had to work this morning on the backhoe demo'ing a block wall and loading in the dump trailer. Thought this would slow work but it hasn't, still booked 2 months out.

Kent

That knife looks like an old Henckels I have.

Watching grandson Jack this afternoon.

Still working (not too hard) on the bathroom remodel from hell.

My wife "understates" things. We had an under-sink leak that ruined the wood laminate floor. That was the only thing that really needed doing.

IMO!

The only thing that survivd the "reflooring" was the tub (left in place, but surround changed) and the toilet, now residing in the basement until re-install.

Even had to rip out one wall to replace the bathtub-shower mixer, as she wanted a differnt color of controls and spout, an they are not the same as the 30 year old stuff. With the bathtub drain coverand spout - those are easily replaced on the old stuff.

I keep telling myself that's a plus...... over and over agian....

I'm gonna touch up an old Oneida bow's paint and mod a quiver bracket.
In between beers of course.
Rain coming in a couple hrs.

Damn, I slept 13 hours!

Cast 13 lbs (app 425) 200 grain bullets for my 358 winchester!

Got the mowing finished up, and put another 5-6 supers on the hives. Now off to the pond to do a little fishing.

Today-Cleaned/detailed my airplane, cleaned the hangar floor and collected 32 gallons of maple sap from the woods.

Yesterday - changed oil in the airplane, my truck and my wife’s car, evaporated off my sap for about 1/2 gallon syrup.

Tomorrow - going flying and evap more sap.

Replacing “all” of the blinds in the house......I’d rather be digg’n ditches! memtb

Loading another 100 carbine cases..Grandson thinks its a.22

Been airing out great numbers of Belding's Ground squirrels. No one traveling in from surrounding states, so the fields are pretty rich shooting.

Got my .270 Wby on paper with its new scope a Leupold 3.5-10.

Did some reloading for the 338-06 and 257R yesterday.

Mowed grass today, just got off the tractor.

Posted here.

And, the day isn't over.

Didn't get up early.

My son's here, watching LSU beat Alabama one more time...

DF

Yesterday I only cut up about a half cord of wood. Wife's gonna split it this week to let it dry.

Today I cleaned out the dryer exhaust pipe. It's a jacked up thing, only took a couple of hours.

Then had to run out to property to open ditches, here in midwest (Michigan) we got alot of rain and water was flowing over the road
. Got water moving in the direction its supposed to.

On the road out of property, I'm doing about 10mph and my daughter started yelling that she seen an antler. Sure as [bleep], she found the right side of a 4point drop. How? I have no idea.

Good times

Finished forming, trimming and neck turning 500 pieces of 20 Vartarg Brass from new Lake City 5.56 brass for a Prairie Dog hunt that may or may not be happening at this point in June. Good quarantine work.

went out back and shot 250 rounds of golden bullets out of my colt (walther) 1911. that thing needs a trigger job and i need new glasses. but i could kill a skunk at 50 feet if i had to.

Just got finished cleaning the mud room and two of the bathrooms. Anybody have any tricks on how to get mildew out of the caulk seam on the shower door. Not bad enough to tear it out and re-caulk but still looks unsightly.

P.S. Also bought an old caplock shotgun to rehab into something usable.

Reloading .223. I'm saving the 30-06 for another day. I'm pretty sure there will be another day of setting at home. Yep. .223 today.

kwg

I gained a sawtooth ridge-line that I’ve been wanting to get up on for a long time. Moved along its entirety.

We are lucky enough to be able to be well out of town and on BLM and FS less than 1 hour from home. It has been a year of well above average precip w/ lots of snow in the mountains. The growler and I have decided to follow the spring blossoms as they ascend from Great Basin and Mojave Desert zones through the Transition Zone and into the Alpine as temps rise through the spring into summer. We plan on spending at least every other day out hiking, looking for critters and hanging out.

Spent some time today loading the 4Runner up w/ folding table and outdoor recliners, steel targets and stands and miscellaneous gear and toys for full days out. It doesn't look like we will make our usual spring multi week safari through the mountain west but we will make the best of what we have close to home. If this continues I will have no excuse for not being a better shot and in better shape come fall.

Good thread, folks making the best of tough times.


mike r

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Tested the new remote social distancing shooting apparatus with three previously unfired 17 HMRs and a 22 Ruger Wrangler. Bench 100%, Savage B17G 100%, Savage A17 uhhh, very accurate but not semi-auto, Rossi uber RB17 bolt action is not even a single shoot - then I dropped the mag and lost the spring, so there's that... Ruger wrangler, big targets are good, it's left about six and down six at 30 feet yet a fun little phucqker..... To hell with the governor!

That chair is awesome.

laughing!

I am supposed to make an uber three-legged shooting bench stool, but gots a set of these with the house last year... Comfy and stylish.

Spent the afternoon prepping .223 cases and loaded 100 rounds.
It would have gone a lot faster, but I had to remove than danged primer crimp on
the Hornady Frontier ammo I was using......

Prepping brass, reloaded a couple hundred rounds, shot up a few. What’s not to like? Oh, and road the Honda 4-wheeler through the woods for a while.

Swapped hay spear for the bucket on the feeding tractor bright and early and roaded it a couple miles to an elderly friend’s place. Used a chain to jerk an old half rotten gate post out and then scraped off 2’ of dirt that was under the fence from decades of plowing the field on one side and grading the road on the other so I’d have a level work surface.

Dug out the bottom that broke off the post when I pulled it and dug another posthole so I could put in the 6” pipe H brace I welded up for him to replace the broken post and restretch his fence. Rotten bottom of the old post was full of scorpions I discovered when I grabbed it to haul it out of the hole, luckily I escaped being stung. Cemented the new posted in place and skipped down to the pond to wash the cement out of my mixing bucket.

While I was there I figured I might as well try a cast or two since I just happened to have my bass rod. Third cast I got my only bite and landed a 6 pounder!

Cleaned house with the wife when I got home and then took the boy back to the bass ponds for a boat ride. Big girls are in the shallows getting their beds ready, caught 3 more over 5 pounds and broke off a monster right at the boat. Caught about 20 little ones too. Not a bad way to spend a day.

Watched grandson, will mow yard after he goes home.

Let a turkey walk the back yard this AM.

I'm not a turkey plucker. On Sunday.

Started the necessary task of rebuilding half of my back deck... The other half is only 3 years old, but this part is well over 20... Had to do it anyway, but now with walk-in traffic banned it gives me time to git-r-done... In my younger days I would have had it completed in two days.. But now - it'll be four+... Hard on the back and knees...

Dammit, man.

Finished pressure cleaning and re-sealing driveway and walks.















Kinda lazy today. Foot was keeling me. plantar fascia ligament acting up from wearing Jeebus sandals - Birkenstocks.

Found out I’m spoiled from loading pistol ammo on a Dillon pistol press
Loaded 400 rounds of 30 carbine using a Rock Chucker.
Would’ve loaded another hundred but ran out H110.

Meat Loaf
Creamed Corn
Green Beans
Fried Okra
Mac & Cheese

Reviewed my taxes, wrote my checks to US Treasury, researched COVID-19 and construction sites, and had our traditional Sunday night pizza night with my family.
Oh, and bought a Varmint stock for my new T1X .17 Hummer....