[How do you tell them apart?]

Rust-oleum comes in lots of colors.  Use your imagination.  

[Old reliable Laz E Boy recliner]

I bought it new in 1978-1979.  It became battle-worn, torn and tattered over the years, but is still structurally sound.  To replace it would cost almost $2000.00.

 

I found a company called FIBRENEW and they came to my house.  They don't reupholster, they restore leather and plastic covers.  You have to find another solution for wood, metal, or fabric furniture.

 

 

In 4 1/2 hours the lady and gent who own the place used very fine abrasives, magic solutions, finely-blended dyes, air brushes, salves and ointments and polishes, and whatever else they needed.  I got a chair that looks nearly new (they even patched a badly worn spot one one arm and a 3" cut on the other arm) and with a coupon I spent $425.00 for the job.....a whole lot less than a new chair or a fully re-upholstered one.  

 

I have no idea if they are local one-off company or a worldwide chain, but they get my vote if I ever have another need.  They are great craftsmen and wonderful artists as well.

 

 

If you need that sort of repair / restoration In recommend them without reservation.

[Knife sharpeners]

I have a set of five stones that I've owned for over forty years andI bought a new very fine diamond steel.  A bit of a PITA but I learned how to use them many moons ago and still get a better than necessary edge when I sit down and take my time.

 

The steel is good for a quick dress up.

[Conception month]

2 hours ago, bgavin said:

For those born in the first 8 months of the year... you realize your parents had sex a year ago...

I don't think my parents had sex after 1989.

[Conception month]

14 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

That’s not always accurate!  My son, Hatfield was born December 1st.  However!!  Schoolmarm was told by her doctor that she was with child the second week in February!! At least nine months and three weeks!!  Probably more like a full ten months or more!!

 

He was just shy of ten pounds, twenty five inches long and had a full head of hair!! The doc kept telling her, “He’s fine!!  He’ll join us when he gets the notion!” 🤣

 

On the other hand, I was born more than a month early!! I weighed just over seven pounds and the dates worked out because dad was was already “overseas” in June and they didn’t meet until May!  I was early by a month!!

 

BESIDES, Rye! WHO NEEDS A REASON TO BUY ONE’S SELF A GUN??  Or a reason for someone else to by one for you?

 

 

 

I was 31 days premature (Mom had a ruptured appendix and they figured that had something to do with it), my son was 19 days early, my daughter was 27 days early and my wife died while delivering her.  They took the baby and brought my wife back with minor negative results to either one.  

 

Scared the hell out of me!

[ThIs Day, 83 Years Ago]

9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

 

 

I remember that clearly.  I was 34 days old.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Strange dog]

3 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Forty do you think someone may have put the dog in your yard knowing you would take care of it? Instead of leaving it on the street somewhere they figured you would be good to it?

Anything is possible but  doubt it.

[GOFWG]

On 4/15/2025 at 6:49 PM, Doc Shapiro said:

Now that the snow is melting out, looks like there are a lot of little pocket gophers about.  Soil is sandy and rocky.  I don't think grass will grow well.  There's also a fair bit of sage brush. 

You just had to mention snow.

 

We got about 2 inches of that stuff yesterday, April 18.

 

I know we need the water but I'll take rain any day.

[Would the .357 Magnum Cartridge have been popular in 1874?]

11 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

If the wagons were circled and marauding Indians were circling.....a Winchester 1873 in .357 magnum would have been nice to have. 

So would an M-16.  The .357 hasn't been popular in my house for almost 60 years.  I owned a few but I still go to a .44 or .45 in a handgun.

[Strange dog]

4 hours ago, Alpo said:

When he went to eat out of her food dish she was going to whoop him? And then when he came towards you she got in between him and you?

 

Don't sound like she was afraid of him to me.

I think she has an adrenalin gland just for things like that.  Several months ago she chased about a  45 pound bobcat out of our yard and she could have been killed in a flash.

 

She was afraid of this dog hurting her just be being all over the place trying to be friendly.  I think she was more afraid of him hurting her by accident. 

[Strange dog]

8 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Any holes in the ground near your fence?

The dog could have burrowed in. 
 

Image from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201814/Surfboard-maker-built-Great-Escape-tunnel.html

Didn't find any and the ground here is mostly caliche...hard as a steel.

[Strange dog]

8 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Trinket like him??

 

Maybe she’s started dating!!

She was a afraid of him.  He was so rowdy that he bumped into her and knocked her down a couple of times.  She let him drink from her bowl but was ready to tear him up when he went toward her food.

 

She managed to get between him and me whenever he got too close.

[Free alias]

Pearl E. Gates

[Strange dog]

I got up this morning, did my daily get out an go stuff, walked into the kitchen and found my 13 year old dog and a year old pup about her size.

 

Good looking dog, well-groomed, well-fed, and a rowdy as all get out.  Very friendly and  happy to be a friend.  I never laid eyes on the mutt before.  He had no collar or any form of ID at all.

 

He obviously got in through the doggy door out to my deck, but how he got into my yard is a mystery.  It's surrounded by skunk proof fencing and I couldn't find any gaps in it anywhere.

 

After getting him out of the house I secured my dog inside, gave the stranger some water and blocked off the doggy door.  A tour of the neighborhood didn't turn up anyone who recognized him so I called animal control.

 

They sent a young man over and he scanned for a microchip.  No joy there.  We finally got the dog in the truck and the man said they'd take him to the pound.  He looked me right in the eye and said if the dog wasn't get claimed in 21 days he be up for adoption...and the he would be first in line to give little guy a home.

 

I still don't know how he got into my yard.  He was a jumper but I've got five to eight foot fences all around the yard and that pup was about the same size as my eleven pound chihuahua min pin mix.  I can'r see him jumping nor climbing the fences.

 

Mysteries abound

[Wonder if hazmat can ship on a train?]

On 4/16/2025 at 9:32 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Think of all the train derailments that have required neighborhoods to be evacuated.  No, no hazardous stuff on trains.

You mean like gasoline, motor oil, fertilizers, paint, tobacco, sugar, propane, Spam, aerosol containers of all manner of stuff, and other hazardous materials?

[Remarkable memory powers]

On 4/15/2025 at 12:58 PM, Warden Callaway said:

Years ago I read an article about how weaters and waitresses have better memory talent than average.  Today Mary and I took a ride to a corn fed town with one stop sign. A little diner opens at 11:00. We hardly get squrmed into our seats when the waitresses arrived with our drinks - she remembered. We've hit this place no more than once a month in the past year and not always gotten the same waitresses.  

 

Another example,  we made a lumber delivery to West Plains about once a month. Starting out well before sunup,  we'd get to a little town of Licking. There was a Diner there with easy off and on the highway.  A good time to get breakfast and coffee.  We didn't stop there every trip but often. The waitresses would greet us with coffee and read off our orders from memory and confirm.  Yes, thats right. 

 

But to top that.  I and several others were invited by IBM to Poughkeepsie, NY to see software they were trying to sell us. We staid at the IBM hospitality house.  They had a dinning room. Large tables seated 8.  For breakfast the dress code was dress shirt and pants, add  jacket and tie for lunch and dinner.  They didn't have a printed menu. The waitresses would announce three choices of meat, choices of vegetables,  etc. She'd ask each in turn for their choices. Nothing was written down. She must have served multiple tables. How'd she do that?

 

Oh, on our trip we seen a mature bald eagle about 20 feet off the blacktop eating its breakfast.  Later on, spotted an eagle's nest. Big as a VW Beetle. 

A place in Upland, CA many years ago.  It was called Yanks and had waiters that did that and spectacular food.  The partners split and the one who took over Yanks brought in a loud New Orleans piano player, mediocre staff, and added a few tables which made it very crowded.  We only went there twice again. 

[I turn green and yellow with envy.]

19 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

P-38 was faster at 414 mph 

The P-38 wasn't a fighter bomber....just a spectacular fighter.

[Why I don’t turkey hunt]

21 hours ago, Irish Pat said:

fried rattler taste like turkey

I thought it was because of family ties TURKEY!

[Trackdown TV series]

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

This is the best picture I can find of the gun. And the angle is wrong to tell whether it's a New Model or a Schofield. In my opinion the barrel is not long enough for a Schofield. Or not short enough for one of the Wells Fargo Schofields.

 

The gun was his personal firearm. And supposedly he used it in Hannie Caulder.

 

The gun he used in Hannie was a New Model. ImdbF says he used a Schofield in Trackdown, but they've been wrong before.

 

I did find it interesting that the cartridges in his gun belt seemed awful long for a Smith & Wesson. Although he carried a 92 Winchester so maybe they were 44-40s.

 

That top latch isn't the right profile for a Schofield.  It's "lift up" latch not a "pull back" latch like the others.  Notice how far into the trigger guard he has his finger....like maybe 80% of real shooters.

[Test]

2 hours ago, Will Kane said:

Just checking to see if my posts are making it through.

No they aren't.  

[women and guns]

I think that is the STUPIDEST video I've ever seen.

[Tang sights for 1894 Winchester]

Lyman is very good.  There are others better but usually more pricey.

 

Judge for yourself:

 

1. are you good enough to get the full value out of the sight

 

2. does it fit you and the gun

 

3. is it simple to use

 

4. is it sufficiently durable

 

5. if you find you don't like it is it resellable

 

I have had tang sights on a bunch of guns.  The only one I liked well enought to keep and used successfully (and wish I still had the gun and the sight) was a Sharps repro ten years before Quigley was born.  It was a .45-70 with a "Hawkenesque" stock that looked marvelous, shot better than I could, and with ammo, accessories, etc. sold for almost $100.00 more than I had in it when my wife and kids and the dog needed food more than I needed that rifle.

[Beef bone broth]

I add pearl onions (when I can get them) in my beef stew.  Adds a different and very pleasing touch.

[Other than just bad haircut]

1 hour ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

When I was stationed in Okinawa, I LOVED getting a haircut from a local. An Oriental Barber ALWAYS gives you a 30 second massage when you're done. There was even one at a local Barber College that did so as a student.

Behind the Rainbow Bar in Naha.  Great haircuts for thirty-five cents. (1966-1968).

 

Also a few doors down an old lady named Kai did baths and massages for a buck fifty.  The younger guys wanted young girls to "DO" them.  My wife and I both went there about once a week.

[My Dad in me]

4 hours ago, MizPete said:

The guy who inspected our cars recommend cleaning with toothpaste.

The old kind (diatomaceous earth base), not the modern gels.  I've used the old stuff to smooth gun actions.  It's messy but it works if you're patient.  

 

Be patient.  It's worth it.