Forty Rod SASS 3935

Just one more reason to not go to Phoenix regardless of the season

But sometimes it's so very satisfying.

Wouldn't fit in with my guns, model tanks and vehicles, knives, pictures, hats, arrowheads, tomahawk, and other cowboy, Army, Marine Corps stuff, and lots of books. And lights in cotton trips my "oh my God I'm gonna die" switch. And, no matter how nifty-neato-keen it looks it's gonna be a bitch to dust.

Natural gas....another great suggestion. Thanks.

I don't drink and I can still manage to say something I should regret now and again. Pobody's nerfect!

By the way, thanks for the hint Jeff. We are a bone-dry area of a drought-ridden state, but now and then during the "monsoon season" we get a catfish drowner, so I'll take your advice...just in case.

I have 30 panels on my roof facing east (didn't want to see them from the street) going on eleven years now. This time of year my monthly bill is usually under $20.00 for three months or so...... because the power company has to pay me for anything I don't use and goes back into their system, I get credits another three or four months a year (several have been over $45.00.) I figure that I am getting free electricity most of the time. I just ordered two free standing AC units, each about the size of refrigerator for my 1300 square foot work shop, one for each bay. With the 250 watt space heaters I should be able to work out there in comfort. My electrician friend has sold me on the idea of connecting the whole kit and kaboodle up to a pair of thermostats so they balance out automatically. I'm fairly certain my bill will go up, but not be prohibitive even then....and the AC units should pay for themselves in about 20 months. And I don't have any panels in my yard destroying the view of my half acre weed patch. Might be looking for an automatic emergency generator before too long.

It should have read "and one in my right hip pocket." I even forget that one myself...until I sit on it for any length of time. It slides in perfectly next to my wallet.....like it's a custom fit.

I think yesterday will be the last one I go to. There a dozens of gun stores and pawn shops and gunsmiths around the valley and I have bought a half dozen guns and scores of other things off of the SASS site over the last ten years. I'll be sending out another check tomorrow. I did get a card from a man who has a new in the box with all the paperwork, late 1970s vintage Winchester 9422M. He lives in Wickenburg and didn't have it with him. Just the possibility is worth the trip down to see if it's something I want.

are mostly made of ice. Ice is frozen water...and maybe some other things. We have thousands of overpaid scientists and experts looking for life throughout the reachable universe. They are searching for water because they are convinced that all life needs water. See where I'm going with this? DUH!

Gun shows around here are as useless as tits on a chicken. I spent about three hours and ended up with a side lever lock switchblade. The only place I can think of that is loaded with more rude people is a shopping center parking lot.

I bought my daughter a Charter Arms Undercover .38 when she went to college. Everyone she knew who saw her gun called her Annie Oakley, Little Sure Shot, etc. She became very proficient with it, but never had to use it until the Rodney King riots a few yeas after she graduated. She was working in LA almost in the center of that mess with her boss and his wife, and about ten more people. They forted up the first night in the office, then broke for his place up in the Agora Hills at first light. We hadn't heard from her until she called later that afternoon. She said she had driven one of four cars up there without any problem. I asked where her gun was and she told me it was in her pocket, but that it was almost useless. WHY? "All these others are crowding all around me yelling "Save me! Save me!" and I can't get it out of my pocket." After the laughing stopped her boss got on the line and told me that, using his guns and having Angela and three others with their own guns he was confident that no one could get past them. I never worried much about my kids after that. BTW, when my wife passed away my daughter asked for her gun. Now she has a pair of Charter Arms Undercover pistols.

1. 1947 vintage Colt Detective Special, 2" barrel .38Special in a Vampire Shoulder rig and six rounds loaded and three speed loaders. 2. 1911 for heavy weather, .45ACP with a Ted Blocker belt rig and six loaded mags, one in the gun and four more in two belt pouches. I have more guns but these are my "go to" pair.

I lost my wife 10 years, 6 months, and a day ago. We were together 51 years, 6 months and 13 days when she passed. I still talk to her everyday and thank God for all she was and still is....and you put it to words better than I can match.

Actually, I'm getting rid of guns...have been for over a year now. I have four more than I started with, but I simply can't pass a good deal on a gun I want. BTW, that .32ACP / 7.65 Savage 1907 I recently got shoots like a dream. I spent a morning learning how it works, cleaned and oiled it and was shooting 5"-7" groups at 15 yards. I has the same problem most of those early pocket pistols have: the sights are almost non-existent. Also I took a lot of fiddling to figure out how the safety works as a slide lock. Once I got that solved it works very well. We're going to a gun show tomorrow to see if I can find another magazine (10 rounds staggered type) amongst the goodies they will have...and maybe find a holster, too.

Stupid decision that will likely negatively effect their customer base. You don't attack your customer base in any way, form, or fashion.

I think my new girl is getting used to me. I woke up this morning and she was curled up under my chin. Up until now she's gotten on the bed but about five minutes after I turn the lights off she jumps down and gets in her own bed or the old recliner in the living room.

Lousy picture. Try again.

I never had a duck foot nor a cutlas, but I had the others, plus a Gold Coast .22 pepperbox and single action "shotgun hammer" pepper box. I'd buy some of them again if I could find them. Made great wall hangers.

Jeep's answer to sports cars.

Strange roommate you have there.

Just saw one in Chino, beautifully restored and running like a dream, keeping up with all the BS traffic in this area. Red and white paint job, with two old guys in it with the top down and just having fun. It's been decades since I saw one but I recognized it instantly.

And that list doesn't show the dozens of variations on many of those guns, or the vast number of other guns that were inspired by other makers and designers by what he created and guns that were simply copied from his designs.

Spirit Maker, who found a beautiful Savage 1907 pistol, a very, VERY nice piece for my collection. Grizz Henry, for an 1860 sling and hardware that I couldn't find anywhere, for one of my rifles. Got them both today and I'm so happy I'm going in the living room with them and a bottle of sarsaparilla and have a really long giggling fit. Thanks, gents. You done good.

(60! Dang snot-nose kid!) My son is 61 and my daughter is 59. I have socks older than 60!