Forty Rod SASS 3935

At one time Sears Roebuck was selling surplus guns ans accessories in a large place next to their store in Logan, Utah. Half the kids in town had surplus guns of one sort or another. Every caliber you could imagine. I wanted a .30-06 so I got an '03A3, a spare stock, a sling, and 250 rounds of ball ammo for under $35.00. Two weeks later I bought a Luger with a holster and five magazines full of ammo some ammo for not much more. We could go to a dumpster behind the store and get enough ribbons to decorate an entire neighborhood back yard army, too. They were throwing them away and didn't charge us anything. Another store in town was selling surplus bayonets for a buck apiece. I got one that folded sideways, made for a Jungle Carbine, and never owed the gun it was meant for. J. C. Penny has a counter in the basement where they sold stuff to Boy Scouts for a song. We got a lot of our hunting and hiking equipment there. I still have a couple of wool blankets, a pocket compass the size of a pocket watch and a dinnerware set that stores away into a metal clip thing.

That's beautiful work and I appreciate the skill, devotion, and time involved, but it seems like more than I need or want to satisfy a nicotine yearning...nor did I ever, even when still smoking 3+ packs of cigarettes a day. I can buy a lot of guns and / gear for less than that pipe costs.

An original idea? Used to be available in science fiction stories, but I don't see it anywhere anymore. That's why I get DVDs from my local library and the ILL (Inter-Library Lending) system. Lots of OLD movies and series that were original then and still ring my chimes. Some are fro 1928-1930 era and still great to watch. I avoid "sequels", too: almost no originality and usually not as good in any respect as the original. Just for what it's worth, I haven't seem much a in decade or two that was really watchable for many reasons: continuous very loud music, most dialog screamed, excess profanity (I can stand with the best when it comes to foul language), terribly poor directing, historical falsehoods, terrible special effects, no decent facial expressions, and so many other faults. I haven't watched more than a dozen "new" movies in ten years, and only one worth watching.

That is a temporary condition. If you stop drinking you will sober up and not be disorderly any longer. (Well, some of us still will be, right Alpo?). If you continue to drink, you will eventually become unconscious which may end with you being "dead drunk". That's why I stopped drinking aimost 27 years ago. It was just SO confusing.

Depends on whether or not you are upright. Could be "across" if you are horizontal.

Little Boy. Fat Man.

I would be more supportive of theses programs if anyone, anywhere could proved beyond question even ONCE that a single one of these guns prevented or solved a single crime since the invention of gunpowder.

Trepidatious? See what happens when you marry a school teacher! It rubs off on you and you sound smarter than you really are. After 32 years with a client's advocate who was working for an top-of-the-line attorney I sounded a lot smarter....but I only knew what about 3% of those words meant. Get better, Old Son, and keep us posted.

Yeah, welcome back! (Was he gone?)

I knew a very talented horologist (watch maker, not just s repairman) when I was a kid. He fascinated me because of skills and because name was Walter Raleigh. He had a sigh above his workbench that have copy of below my watch shelf. "A man who owns a watch always knows the time. A man with more than one is never quite sure." Walt and Belle always had time for a curious kid.

The bird or the "comedian"? If you mean the bird, you could feed a platoon for a couple weeks with one that size.

I have a few watches in my collection. In the trade they are usually called nurses watches for the reason Dr. Zook stated. I had only one, with a serial number on the back. It had been "identified" as a U. S. Navy issue nurse's watch from early WWII. I traded it for something I wanted more, but I can't recall what.

Maybe not, but is a cleve solution to a place keep your tape near your work bench

Show me Longmire's credentials. Maybe he knows something I don't.

Dynamite could be sold in half and quarter sticks. They had a brass and wood slicer (that looked like a short-bladed paper cutter) so it was always cut even. They also sold electric or "fire lit" fuses and a couple of different kinds of caps, and they rented an old-fashioned Hell box" if you needed one. Dad said he had matches and thought twenty cents a day for a box was ridiculously expensive. The whole thing cost just over a dollar and Dad squawked about that much cost. A quarter stick did the job on our stump. I got more experience with explosives working a lumber vamp in Oregon an in 'nam...mostly "det" cord and C-4. Did you know that C-4 can be used to cook or heat food?

I've known and watched a lot of auctioneers in my life. Livestock, antiques, gins, produce, crafts, cars, and more. Some have people bidding by signal. vocally, and a number of other ways.Most would have laughed their butts off at this ridiculous video. Oh, these folks are fast but try doing that while the situation changes every half second or so and you're trying to keep up with the instant changes, even with a crew helping you.

We were married for 51-1/2 years before she died. That was just over ten years ago and I'm still married and have no intention of ever marrying again. Why should I? God gave me a perfect match the first time around.

I don't remember that far back, but I remember Dad buying dynamite once from State Hardware Store in Logan, Utah as late as 1955 or so. Had a stump that had to go...and it did.

I have never said that, only implied it.

I called my daughter to ask how they are doing. "Dad, we're on the east side of the mountains and over seventy miles from the ocean. Last year's storm was a fluke and I don't think we have anything very bad this year."

OOPS This is very close to the political crap I promised to shy away from. MY APOLOGIES TO YOU ALL! Seems I'm human after all!

I disagree! The time is long past. A suggestion: if the UN stays in business throw it out of the U. S. and make sure that the HQ for it is in the nation where the Secretary General is from. Do away with their benefits, especially their Diplomatic Immunity where it apples to violation of all local government laws such as traffic laws, behavior laws. etc. Let them live in the country with its local facilities like roads, electricity, plumbing, education, sanitation, police units, airports, housing, shops and stores, people, etc. Withdraw our monetary support for the UN except for our fair share of the rent and justifiable services. See how they deal with that. Pull our all of their facilities except for justifiable and proven embassies and consolates. Limit the number of people allowed for each country's UN and embassy and consul employees. Stay with it for a year or two and if it doesn't work, pull out of that mostly useless and overwhelmingly anti-American attitudes ridden trash pile altogether and permanently.

Never thought of that. My roses will probably love some questionable powder that has accumulated over the years. Come Spring I'll try it.

Our family doctor when I was a kid carried a Luger that he had brought back form France in WWII. I asked him why and he said "Because if I am to help people and save lives I have to stay alive myself." No more was said. No more had to be.

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