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I received a letter from an "Associate (city) Planner" about a rezoning appeal for a house in my neighborhood. Currently this is a Residential-Single Family neighborhood. The owner of a house nearby wants to have the house designated as Short-Term Rental, which is for periods of less than 30 consecutive days and is not owner occupied. The letter invites property owners in the area to attend the City Council meeting dealing with the appeal and express their views. I would not want to attend such a meeting without doing some research. Who rents a house for 30 days or less? It sounds like maybe a halfway house for addicts or parolees, maybe an Air BNB? What's the best way to find out who owns the house and their intentions? Who would monitor the 30-day rental period, and what would be the consequences of renting it for longer periods? Anything else I should find out? UPDATE 4/22: Thanks to your input and encouragement I was one of 3 speakers who spoke at tonight's City Council meeting in opposition to allowing a short term rental in our neighborhood. No one spoke in support of the re-zoning. Council agreed; 8-0 against allowing the short term rental. I appreciated your comments and wove them into a persuasive narrative. Can't say it was fun, but it was a unique experience!

My wife started this some long time ago with intent to have it finished by my birthday. It's a little late but I am sitting here just plainly devouring it with my eyes! She ordered a plastic model and spent an unholy amount of time and effort (and holding her breath!) to detail this to her satisfaction!

OK, it wasn't a dazzling white like freshly bleached sheets but, in general, people looking at unbleached cotton canvas and asked the color will say "White." Yeah, it's maybe an off-white, "Barely, almost-tan White" or something. (Pointing at bolt of fabric) What color is that? Uh...it's white. The organizers of that event should be subjected to a bit of Socratic thinking" "Of what were the covers of wagons made?" "Um....canvas, I guess." "Of what is canvas made?" "Um.....I think it's usually cotton." "And, in general, what color is cotton grown in the United States?" "White. Isn't all cotton white?" "Actually, no. Some types, usually not for large commercial production, are light green, or a brownish red. But the huge bulk of it is, indeed, white. So maybe you should drop your racism and allow these wagons to be shown as the ones that made the trek really were, rather than your revisionist pipe dream."

Most canvas is cotton duck and starts out kind of an “off white” in color. If I were one of those wagon owners, I’d refuse to participate and then park my wagon, white canvas and all, where everyone would have to pass by it and hang a sign on it explaining why!! If I had time, I’d have some flyers printed and hand them out during the exhibition, accusing the organizers of racism!!

+1 for what Tennesse Williams said. It's all about transitions with double duelist.

I may have mentioned two of my great grandfathers who were Confederate soldiers. One was scour for General Sterling Price and the other signed up and was on his way with a few others to get uniforms weapons, and cetera when a Yankee patrol captured them and he spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Michigan. Well, I recently was given some of Mom's papers that my sister had ever since Mom passed. Sis didn't know, nor did she much care, what they were. Four eight and a half by fourteen photo copies of pay records for Private Robert C. Owens (My grandmothers uncle and brother to the one who was a scout) of Captain Landis' Company, of Light Artillery, CSA. There are four pay records per page and start on December 8, 1862. There are some gaps because the next one, dated July (can't read the day) 1862. Skip ahead and he is on the Roll of Prisoners of War, captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 and now living at Camp Morton, Indiana. He was released January3, 1865 after refusing for the entire time he was a prisoner to accept parole and finally taking the oath of allegiance to the Union at Camp Morton, Illinois. He was released at Gratiot Street Prison, Saint Louis, Missouri. He was described as dark complexion with brown hair and black eyes, standing 5'7 3/4" tall. One more brick in the wall.

Trucks carrying P-47 fighter aircraft through the streets of Liverpool, 1943 (one of the comments pointed out that this model of P-47 didn't come out until later, so 1944 or 1945). The eight-mile route from Speke to the docks was challenging. The path, narrowly cleared by removing trees and relocating light poles, couldn't accommodate the wingspan of a P-47 Thunderbolt. That's why the aircraft were loaded sideways.

......"....... you said you wanted a drain, .... you did not specify a 'working' drain" ........

Update.... The 512 is turning out to be a real nice shotgun. IMO it has the possibility of becoming the "Go To" SxS shotgun for this game. IMO it is a much better choice than the CZ. I've tuned both and I found this one to be much easier to work on and am happier with the results I got. I was able to get a couple parts that I wanted. Both of the two I got were un-usable out of the box. I mean ABSOLUTELY not usable at all. They were so tight that they couldn't be opened if you were able to even put them together. But the good news is after spending some intimate time at the work bench I found that they are pretty straight forward and tune-up well. You will have to fit SOME parts if you want it to work, and MOST parts if you want it to be a competitive "Cowboy" shotgun. I put in some after market Firing pins, which are longer and IMO are needed if you intend to reduce the hammer spring tension. The aftermarket pins were a little larger in dia and I had to dress them down a bit to keep them from hanging up... but no big deal. Most parts need to be fitted. The gun is VERY LIGHT. Weighs under 6 lbs. I put a Mercury recoil reducer in the stock to help. I wouldn't want to shoot any "Big" loads in it. I have ordered a extra stock and will cut it down for my wife to try. We both shooting Browning BSS right now. The BSS is a work horse and like a tank compared to these little light weights. Time will tell the tale.

Having spent quite a bit of time around cotton fields, growing it and dealing with growers and gins and related businesses and then working at a knitting mill that made un bleached cotton fabric up in New York years ago and then managing one of their sewing plants down in Arizona I can attest to the fact that cotton fabric is indeed white until it’s dyed. It’s not bleached white, it’s white through every step in the process until it’s dyed. I knew quite a few black people that worked growing it, cultivating it, irrigating it, harvesting it, ginning it etc.. and none of them were offended by its whiteness. I doubt that in the 1840’s they worried about what color their wagon covers were, they just wanted to get out to the west. Thinking that dying your wagon cover so the Indians wouldn’t see it is comical. The Oregon Trail was actually miles wide because there was so much livestock to feed, mules, horses, oxen, etc.. that the wagon trains widened the trail substantially just to keep their stock fed and I’m pretty sure the Indians knew all about it, after all they lived there.

Stay Frosty, I doubt they will give up!

Update in first post.

We're talking about the 1840's here. Try an internet image search for "covered wagons", "covered wagon covers", and...while yer at it..."ship sails". also... Fur Trade tents Canvas teepees The majority of examples I found have been some shade of WHITE/off-white/light tan. BTW...are you aware that, when left outside, fabric will fade/bleach out from exposure to the SUN??

No, sir! Last shot has to be on P3.

The body of your post is asking about shooting your guns faster, but the subject of it is shooting the category faster. They ain't really the same thing. I'll address both from MY saddle... If you want to shoot your guns faster(as in manipulating them as fast as possible without missing) then you need to find your speed limit. When you PRACTICE, shoot your guns as fast as you safely can without having more than 2 misses in a string. Then all you have to do is shoot them that fast without those 2 misses. Thats your speed for now. All the little bells and whistles that you can do to your guns WILL make a difference. Most of the differences will only be in your head. You'll think yourself into being faster and that's okay. Some of them make a physical difference that is not in your head, like being able to reach the hammers on your Rugers easily. Now it's a whole other story if you're wanting your stage times to improve. The indisputable best way to get lower stage times is get faster at what you're doing when you're not pulling the trigger. There's no secret speed sauce. Cut down on the time it takes between trigger pulls. For instance when you practice it takes: 8 seconds to draw and fire all 10 rounds from the revolvers. 8 seconds to pick up and fire 10 rds from your rifle. 8 seconds to pick up and shoot 4 kd with the shotgun. Then your par time for a stand and deliver stage is 24 seconds because you should be discarding and initiating 2 guns at the same time as a duelist. That will tell you where your transitions are. The time it takes for 10rds from both pistols from the holster plus 10 rounds from the rifle from staged position plus 4 knockdowns with shotgun from staged position. Your discards are built into the run. Clear as mud? Edit: Fast is fast. Slow can kiss my....grits.

It’s not… I’d love this stage! I’d do P3 P3 then work outside and back in on both sides ending with a double tap on P3! Fun! Hugs! Scarlett

The question reminds me of the old Armed Forces Radio announcer, “If you are in the Air Force, it is four in the afternoon. If you are in the Army, it is sixteen hundred hours. If you are in the Navy, it is eight bells. If you are in the Space Force, it is sixteen sidereal hours since midnight, and if you are in the Marines, Mickey’s little hand on on the four and his big hand is on the twelve.”

Generally when I see a toilet in my dreams it means I need to get up and go pee.

Just an update, since I’ve had a couple folks call and ask. Schoolmarm had her quarterly oncology checkup last Wednesday. She’s going on nine years cancer free and it has become sort of “run of the mill” because she’s done so well! Her doctor wasn’t happy with her kidney function numbers. He sent her for new blood tests and prescribed a blood transfusion to help get all her numbers back in order. No worries about the cancer, but all the meds and the recent bout with Covid has him a little concerned. She’s still doing well and nothing new has happened to set her back. I’m waiting on the home health nurse to come in and check out my foot and change the bandage. The doctor says that I am almost there, but I still can’t walk or wear a regular, (modified or otherwise) shoe. I have another appointment with the doctor Wednesday and I reckon that I’ll be attending the Kentucky State Match on crutches.

..... they was a limited edition for a verrrrry goooood reason (Thank God)

Honestly, when I open this this thread .... I thought this.

I wish I could afford to have it built.

Here's TW showing that pistol speed: