Forty Rod SASS 3935

Alpo has led a very sheltered (and lonesome) life. 🥲 So sad!

I have all of those type things (and much more), mostly gathered since 1973. I worked in a black powder store called the Flintlock and got all wrapped up in the mountain man / free trapper world.

Don't know what my first album was, but my first record, a 78 rpm, was the Tennessee Waltz, I was about 13 years old and bought it because a girl I liked told me she loved that song. I learned a lot about trolling for girls in those days. It usually worked, too.

Anything from Neil Diamond, ABBA, Slim Whitney, Dolly Patron, or George Jones. Now, that being said, I can give you forty or fifty (maybe more) groups of five, none the same. I have very catholic, diversified, various, broad, strange, non-committed, non-conformist, peculiar, and changing tastes in music. Some C&W, classic, rockabilly, religious, reggae, opera, jazz, soul, hard rock, cajun, blues, lullabies, classical, marches, ballads, gospel, Celtic chants, movie music, tribal, you name it.

Only one is "Bowie:" style but the others are all period correct for camp or costume to use for everyday carry needs.

Marvelous. That took guts and he had the skills to carry it off. My kind of man. L'audace! L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

Over the years there are a number of planes and choppers I have wanted to ride in: Succeeded in: PBY Catalina, Okinawa 1967...a civilian model surplus restoration. (Wettest, noisiest, shakiest, most terrible ride I ever took.....and I loved it. Kamam Husky "egg beater" Ton San Nhut Airbase, Vietnam... air port fire fighter, 1968. Grumman Goose...Long Beach, CA 1977, a civilian version, and another in 1991 in Upland, CA owned by a company who rented things out to movie studios. B-25 Mitchell, Logan, Utah 1960, owned and civilianized by a cousin who had flown them in the Pacific WWII and converted to an executive plane. Beechcraft 17 "Stagger Wing" civilian model owned by a professional photographer, Upland Ca 1975, and 1980. C-46 fire retardant conversion on loan from Alaska to Forest Service, Boise, Idaho, 1964. Super G Constellation from SLC to Washington DC for an Army Officers' Convention, 1963. Elegance to the N-th degree. JFK killed three weeks later. CH-47 Chinook (S--t Hook) all over "Nam, 1968-1969. Hueys galore, slicks, dust offs, gun ships, recons, couriers, again all over 'Nam, 1968-1969. Bell 47 (MASH chopper) crop duster out of Brigham City Utah, 1971 and Rexburg, Idaho, 1978 Hughes LOCH from Ban Me Thout Vietnam to Cam Ranh Bay, 1968. Sikorsky "Jolly Green Giant, Phan Thiet, Vietnam to Phan Rang, 1969. C-47 "Gooney Bird" Long Beach, Ca when I worked for McDonnell Douglas, 1982...in for rebuild at the factory Never got to ride in a Bronco or any kind of military jets except for passenger planes.

I watched this a dozen times and never learned a thing. I was busy studying her, not what she was teaching. 😍

I still have four of the metal ones I inherited from my mom. They must be nearly 50 years old now and still do duty in times of need.

A "favorite" bitch of mine is unwelcome music everywhere I go, even in gas pumps, parking lots and on sidewalks outside of some businesses...especially in food places and retail stores, especially where it is too damned loud and totally inappropriate. I am also sick of being told "it's a corporate decision". I doubt their "corporate" even knows where Arizona is, much less Prescott Valley. I have deliberately stopped doing business, or cut back on what I buy from, a bunch of places. One or two I still buy from simply because no one else in the area carries a specific product. I can generally get it from Amazon, the place where a lot a retailers cry about stealing their business. I wonder how many dollars are lost because of this.

Why should I have to go to five or six to gat this information? There should be a single site to see what their hours are, directions to their place of business and a contact number. May do but an infuriatingly large percentage don't. I also resent a contact number promising to get in touch shortly and never getting a call.....ever Cracker Barrel is famous for this, so are some others. Tractor Supply, Harbor Freight, most electrical and construction companies in my area, and At Home are models everyone should copy.

We still get three different Yellow Pages every year. They are pretty much useless, companies that have been out of business for several years, changed addresses, or moved out of my range. Even the police departments and emergency outfits (not all, but some) have changed something vital. BTW, phone "information" is now nearly as useless and it's very nearly impossible to reach an operator. I had to call 911 one day a few weeks back just to reach Animal Control. The lady who answered asked why I called 911 if this wasn't an emergency. I told her and she said she'd pass it on and someone would call me soon. No one ever called but they did send someone to get the dog. I hope he found a good home because he would be a keeper for someone who wanted a young, enthusiastic, very friendly, and beautiful pup, just too energetic for my "old lady" dog to deal with.

Why is it that, when searching the net, I find so many stores DO NOT post their hours of operation? One would think that this information and a contact phone number would be easier to find, but I have had to go to four or five different websites to simply find out what time they are open. It's almost as if some places don't want my business...nor yours either.

I don't see the point of burdening myself with another bunch of crap. I have a 1911 with Novac three dot glow-in-the-dark low profile sights, a Colt Mk. 8 Government .380 with the same sights, and a 1947 vintage Colt Detective Special. All are "carryable" and somewhat "concealable", and I am proficient with them. If I encounter a situation that calls for "less than lethal" I'm not beyond knee-capping the target, leaving me with a minimum of four other options (plus reloads) much of the time. If I am in a situation where none of these are suitable I have to tell you that I have very seldom been in a place that wasn't loaded with "hand weapons", be it a hand tool, a glass sugar dispenser, a ball point pen, a cup of hot coffee, lots off office gadgets and a lot of furniture. Over the years I have learned to almost unconsciously inventory every place I walk into and in most cases I manage to put myself within reach of one or more of them. Situational awareness is your best defense in almost every case. And I generally have a few knives on me or nearby, too.

Right!

I have two Bavarian style belt knives, one is a 2 1/2" stag handled knife that my grandfather brought back from Switzerland in 1893. The blade was broken so I reshaped it into a 2 1/4" neck knife. The sheath didn't survive. The second is a 4"Linder that I bought about 40 years ago. I sewed the sheath into a beaded buckskin outer shell and it now rides on my shooting bag. I also have a Linder 8"'Bowie style that has a buckskin sheath decorated with conchos, brass beads and tacks, horn pipes, tin cones, and horse hair. All three of these have genuine stag handles or scales in a Dixie Gun Works beaded sheath. My "bag knife" is a Green River 5 1/2" butcher knife with black walnut checkered scales.

🤪 In a world where large percentages of the populations are too incompetent to drive a land vehicle we are going to give them a third dimension to screw up? 😄

Used to have hundreds of them every year at Lynx Lake. That's only five or so miles from my home. I've seen a few dozen in or near my yard. The last few years the numbers have dwindled down to much smaller pairs....less than a hundred.....because of drought, pollution, man-made things like buildings, roads, air pollution, etc. It's really sad.

😄 Kinda like California (and a bunch of other state and lesser government entities) North. 😀

It wasn't like that in the old days. 😮

That just scares the hell out of me. What will be allowed next and will it be accepted as real? Can someone be convicted based on this crap if it is seen by a jury?

Wow, Bear, you sure captured a lot of cute in those pictures. Thanks.

Why?

I've been working with computers since 1966. I still don't understand them, don't trust them, hate what I have to deal with just to get something very simple because everyone seems to use them for everything but scratching their butts.

Animal abuse. Shoot the woman, get the animal into a rehab program.