Forty Rod SASS 3935

Happy birthday Pappy. I'll check in on my 90th...only eight short years down the road. Bottles, a round on me.

Shows what God can do with left over parts. (Now if only taste like chicken.)

If you don't like it you are always free to GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! You'll be missed....or maybe not.

I have no idea. All I remember is that it was a very tiny little two passenger critter with fore and aft seats and a cockpit cover that hinged sideways.

Actually she looks positively ridiculous

I'm looking for a 1/35 scale 1978 Ford, Dodge, Chevy, or GMC heavy duty pick up plastic model, slab sided, two door, plain-Jane pickup. I am going to make a diorama using this truck as a base for the vehicles that the Marines drove at NWS Seal Beach at this time. They were Navy vehicles painted gray and with Navy markings and MARINES painted on the doors, and all four of those brands were used, so any one of them would work. I already have a M-151 jeep like the one I drove when I was in the Army in Vietnam and a M-706E1 (former USAF perimeter and convoy defense) Light Armored Assault Vehicle like we had at Seal Beach for perimeter defense and rapid response vehicles. Both of these have been modified to look more like the ones I drove, complete with radio mounts on both, spotlight and flood lights on the LAAV, and a single modified Browning .30 M-1919A6 machine gun...removed the carrying handle and stamped metal butt stock, and shortened the barrel... for the cupola of the LAAV. I even added a M-1A1 Thompson smg to the M-151 like I carried for 8 months in 'Nam. I'll make a military radio for the truck and spotlight. I might even make a red and white ice chest cooler like we carried in them. The trim has to go or be painted over, large transparent green sun visors, and replace the bumpers with I beams and put a winch on the front and a hitch on the back. I can find 1/25 and other scales but those model trucks don't seem to show up in 1/35 scale. I found some VN era PSP planking to add to the jeep diorama and some little gray-green plants.

My wife had two kids when she went college. One was twenty nine and the other was 27.

The last person that accused me of being grumpy would have been about your age now.

My daughter met her husband while climbing a mountain near El Capitan in Northern California. She was trying to get over her fear of heights (It worked) and he was climbing it for fun.

Custer's Last Stand account is very good but who in hell decided to use so many pictures, not one of which is appropriate and many are not even of US Army troops or Indians of the tribes in that area? Makes me doubt the veracity of the man whose narrative this is.

Kiss my what?

Me, too. About like I need the mumps and Custer needed more Indians.

Yes. I just chuck it after I read the names of those who have died. My dad was a professor at USU when it was still a very good school. Not much of that "good" left. They still have an excellent engineering school and a space nutrition program. There has been a USU product on almost every NASA space launch since the first US manned flight. The Army ROTC Department, once referred to as The West Point of the West, isn't much any more and is no longer staffed by military personnel. Lots of leftist crap keeps being pushed now.

Private Kindergarten, Grade School 1st through 6th, Junior High 7th through 9th, High School 10th through 12th. College Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Senior again ( I changed majors in mid stream. Seemed to be a good idea at the time.)

JFWIW my wife was born on VJ Day 1946, a year after it happened.

I used to shoot 170 grain Silver Tips but I have no idea if they were boat tails or not. Took nine mule deer before I switched up to .30-06 so I could hunt elk, too.

We recently lost a very young baby girl in our town because the baby sitter forgot her. She had been in the car for about nine hours. Lots of blame to go around but the teenage baby sitter has been charged with manslaughter.....doesn't bring the baby back!

Found a local lady who used to own a restoration business. Very highly recommended. I contacted her and she wants me to bring it in next week to see what she can do. Strangely enough she made a bunch of Victorian Edwardian costumes for me when I was still with the Elks Opera House Guild. Who knew?

I'd like to get my hands on a Beretta (Uberti) Laramie, 5" .45 Colt. I've handled a couple and they fit me better, but I've bought some pretty nice cars for what they'r going for now...IF you can find a good one.

I stand corrected...but I'm going to watch it again just in case.

My daughter in law (Thanks God, for sending her into our lives) sent me a "white sound" gadget. It's called Color Noise and came from Amazon for under $30.00. Probably made in China, but at this point I just don't care. It has ten different colors of night light if you want them but can stay dark if you don't, and a dimmer control so you can set them as bright as you want them.. It also has 24 different sounds that have volume controls, a timer for 1, 2, 3, and 4 hours or on until I turn it off. It has a memory feature and an auto-off feature. It's about 2 inches high and four inches in diameter. The only thing I find annoying is it's going to take me a month or more to try all the settings until I get it where want it to be all the time. Last night I listened a bunch of little singing birdies chirping away, until I got up and found a "rain on a widow" setting. I'll keep playing with it until I get it just right. I'd like to have an option for a very quiet and gentle snoring sound. My wife used to gently snore like a kitten, almost a sigh, and I miss that a lot.

I did just that almost ten years ago when it stopped being fun. Matches became "shoot ten stages as fast as possible, pack up and go home." No fun stages any more, no camaraderie after the matches, no really interesting costumes. It wasn't all that way but became more so with every match. I still enjoy my friends, both those only on this site and the ones I have met (and still meet) in person. The Saloon is still one of the most interesting, informative, and enjoyable sites on the web, and I'll stay on it as long as they'll let me or until I simply fade away as so many have done before me.

I've known some BIG men and all of them were gentle...mostly. like Merlin Olsen: gentle as a kitten until you put a helmet on him and sent him onto a grid iron. Darnell Haney was another one, and Clint Walker. They were also very careful everywhere they went because they almost instinctively realized that they could destroy a lot of things if they were clumsy or careless.

He didn't play Klaatu. Klaatu was the robot.

Maybe it isn't the smell but the roar of thunder that wakes her up....or getting cold when you blow the covers off.