Forty Rod SASS 3935

No kidding? Whose rose garden did you poop in? Tell me what you do / can drink.

Atta boy Blackwater. Add some good coffee and that's a breakfast.

Yul, we have a little place near here called Nana's Cafe. Next to my own, they make the best gravy I ever tasted. I have no clue as to what goes into it but's thicker than most, has good pork sausage in a large percentage, I seem to detect bacon drippings, and something else....but they won't tell and can't identify it on my own. FWIW, I add a small dash of Tabasco to almost everything but ice cream and coffee, but that's just me. BTW, it isn't white gravy but a rich brown color. Come on up and I'll buy you breakfast and you can decide for yourself

Please tell me that isn't another publicly funded California wet dream.

I never had much use for those kinds of rides. I got my jollies by skiing, racing sports cars, climbing mountains and hunting or fishing, chasing girls, and riding horses and mules.....not necessarily in that order. And then there were the years in the Army and Marine Corps.

There are massive numbers of people who just look for some BS reason to force their stupid ideas on other people because you know, they are so much smarter than anyone else so they NEED to force it down our throats to justify their useless existence.....and no one challenges them.

Good question. There was a time when I would have answered yes, but I'm too old and crippled up now to do it. Okay, I'll admit I'm part of the problem these days.

Dad and I used to take eggs along, too. He had a trick: He had about four dozen of the old Alka-Seltzer bottles. (I'd love to find a cache of those bottles. I have no real use for them any more but I'd still like for the nostalgia) He'd crack six eggs and put them one at a time in one of those bottles, put a piece of wax paper over the top and screw the lid back on. He had a few net bags that held six or seven of those bottles and we'd put them in those ice cold Rocky Mountain streams and they'd keep for a week or so. He did he same thing with butter in half pint Mason jars, and a canteen or two full of milk. Mother Nature's fridge. He always made a mix of flour and seasonings for the fish (generally one of three types of trout), and a flapjack mix with a jar of maple syrup. They were kept in some cotton canvas string top bags. We also used the skillet in the stream trick, too. Heavy load but we were seldom more than a few yards from the car and it all fir in a couple of war surplus gas mask bags. We ate well. Hunting was a different story. We took along home made jerky or pemmican, apples, sour dough biscuits, carrots, candy bars, and other things that would fit in our pockets. Add canned beans, chili, soups and a few other things that were left in the car. Refrigeration was suppled by snow or what Dad called "wild ice" busted out of streams or ponds...or frozen puddles. Ate well then, too.

I have a few times, but not in the last 45-50 years....until yesterday. I read it with the idea of what corresponds to today's situation in this country, what the founders were trying to express and what has been violated ever since the document was first published. Start with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the other non-defined rights. What? THEY ARE THERE! Go on to what they are damning that has been done by the King of England and his minions and look for similar things that are happening in our own government today. Take your time, change a word here or there to Americanize the titles, name of offices, and who is destroying our lives today. Do this and realize that we have let this happen because we have allowed it to happen...way too often because we didn't understand, didn't believe it was happening, and way too often because we just didn't think it effected us enough to bother with. "Let George do it" runs deeply though our society, right up there with "my vote / opinion won't matter" and "I don't want to get in trouble over this". Do this and let me know what you think. Don't hold back. You won't hurt my feelings, offend me, or change my mind. Just remember , if we don't take a stand against these infringements we forfeit our rights to bitch about it. I'm going to put my soapbox away now and go make some lunch. BTW, next lesson is on the Bill of Rights.

You are generalizing something of no interest nor importance to a vast majority of the people on this planet. JMHO. I'm gone!

No one asked me what I wanted and now I found no one carries what I want anymore. I have been searching for brown Dan Post boots in 12EW for weeks. I was told "they never made those while I was standing there wearing a pair. Same thing with Wrangler jeans in 34 / 28. And the march goes on.

Price the ammo before you decide if it's going to be "fun".

Isn't a piano a "percussion" instrument? And a xylophone? And a rack of chimes? Or bells?

Sam Walton would cry his eyes out if he could see what his grand idea has become. So would Joe Albertson and others whose ideas have been "corporatized" into mega-money makers and the customer be damned.

Sounds familiar.

The Zombie Apocalypse is here. Look at the number of people walking around with the hoods up, shuffling along with their cell phones in front of their expressionless faces, dead eyes, totally oblivious to their surroundings. The walking dead.

There is nothing "civil" about any war.

I used it for my daily lunch money until I got out of high school. Then I bought a $2.00 pocket watch at J. C. Penny (I still have it but it hasn't worked in forty years.) and now they carry a watch and a tiny little folding knife that I carry because I like it and I can.

I have a few guns that are only "wall hangers", totally non-functional, that are on my wall just because I like the look and they fill a gap in my collection. A Hammond Bulldog that had been nickel plated and deliberately made into a lamp, a Manhattan Hero, and a Frank Wesson (coincidentally) small frame superposed pistol... a close copy made in about 1960..., and a couple of others. I asked around and found a few gunsmiths that have been willing to "make them look better". I also have a couple that I simply carefully cleaned up myself and hung them up as they were. A Remington Iroquois and a Remington-Elliot Deringer four barrel .32 are two that I fixed up myself. I have sold a couple that someone wanter more than I did I'm glad I prettied them up but it isn't cheap. In the case of the Manhattan I could have bought a working gun in fair shape for less, but who knew? Over the years I have done this a few times but you'll have to judge for yourself if it's worth it. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

I have one of those. It's way better than the price would indicate and look just right for SASS . I have a dozen or so others, some nearly 100yers old some not much older than some of the left-overs in my fridge. I also have nine wrist watches and two classic stop watches...and clocks on almost every wall in my house and workshop. I knew an old horologist who had a sign on his cash register that read "A man with a watch always knows what time it is. A man with more than one is never quite certain."

I have a small collection of pocket watches. I am offended no end by companies who either don't offer watch pockets at all or make them completely unusable, like very shallow, very narrow or with the top of the pocket above the bottom of the belt so you can't get anything in or out of it without opening your belt. I've seen some so far down the front pocket that they are equally useless.

This is NOT a personal attack, but.......Why do some of you insist on posting things that sound interesting but many of us won't "sign in" to some crappy site because we refuse to expose ourselves to unwanted garbage that often comes with it.

Snow birds are universally a PITA. When I told my California acquaintances and neighbors that we were moving to Arizona I got a lot of "Are you nuts? You'll bake your brains out." I could not convince them that we would be in CENTRAL Arizona and it wasn't all that hot. That was almost ten years ago and I've seen maybe fifteen days where the temperature was over 108 and a similar number over 102. Of course those same dummies think we have saguaro cacti on every street and park and yard, don't believe there is the largest forest of Ponderosa pine trees on the continent less than 29 miles from my house, bald eagles in my yard, and there isn't all that much gold in every body of water. Some are still convinced that the Grand Canyon covers half the state. I only regret that we didn't make the move 45 years earlier and that my wife didn't live long enough to really appreciate it.

Many years ago I was in a hospital bed and watching the only episode of Oprah Winfrey I ever saw (I was a captive and couldn't even change the channel until a nurse came in). She asked her audience similar questions and only one girl out if maybe 25 people could answer any of the questions.....and that young lady got all of them right. Examples; "Aparthied" is a dance that African Americans do. Chicago is the capital of the USA. Los Angeles is the capital of California There are 65 Great Lakes. Japan is a state. Hawaii is out in California where surfers hang out The President is some actor but I can't remember who. I never heard of any place called Utah. ....and the ball rolled on. This is why I firmly believe that we need a test of basic history, civics, and recent events that people should HAVE TO PASS to vote, drive a car, have children, hav any government job, or even leave their houses without a keeper..

I have a black belt in falling down. Been on blood thinners now for about 20 year and have a Micra Implanted Pace Maker for almost seven years so far. It's about the size of a 22LR cartridge and has no external "evidences" except a thumb nail size scar in my groin where they ran it up a vein to implant it. Battery is supposed to be good for about ten more years. I get a checkup every four months to ensure that it's still working. So far, so good. BTW blood pressure is usually around 128 / 72, oxygen is 94-96, pulse runs right at 62-65. I've never felt better. BTW#2 I have lost about 90 pounds in the last 26 months, down this morning to 192.4. I haven't been that light since I graduated from high school 65 years ago. (Nothing fits any more!)