Forty Rod SASS 3935

Couldn't hear any scrapes? With the three jabbering people talking through the whole thing I couldn't have heard the mountain fall on him. Mighty fine driver, though. Wonder what he gets paid to do that and how often he does it.

I've hd three pedigreed dogs, a Cocker spaniel, a beagle, and a Portuguese podengo. I have had two chihuahua mixes, a dachshund, a couple more beagles, a Springer spaniel, an English pointer, a pair of Boston terriers, and a bulldog, all unpapered and unbranded and, when I got them, untamed. Only two dogs I ever gave up on: the dachshund and the Springer. The dachshund was an "ARMY DOG", passed along whenever his family got transferred and never anywhere long enough to bond or be properly trained. He was a pathetic little guy who was neurotic, very timid, and totally confused by his changing world. He ended up an office pet for the military shelter at Naha-Machinato supply area on Okinawa. The Springer was just plain mean and wouldn't get along with the other dogs. A retired First Sergeant who was working as a civilian at a National Guard unit in Ogden, Utah got him and they were meant for each other. I prefer rescue dogs because many of them don't have chance if they aren't adopted. I have never found much difference in their intelligence or in any physical way, and they have usually been very loyal, smart, and protective of the family.

In digging through my "stuff" I came across a 4 blade pocket knife that had belonged to my grandfather. He may have brought it back from England when he was working for the LDS church in the late 19th century. It has embossed silver scales and is 3 1/8" long closed. Both sides are identical and have the word "STERLING" in very tiny letters on each one. The blades are a 1 3/4"spear point with about 1/2 of the top sharpened as well as the fully sharpened bottom edge and a 1/2" screwdriver blade on one end. The other end has a 1 1/4" blade similar to the 1 3/4" blade described above and a 1 1/4" spear point with a fingernail file on both sides. The knife is in fair shape but there is a lot of rust and discoloration on the blades. Can anyone tell me of someone who can clean and restore this little knife? I'd like to get it in shape to return it to daily use, more as a novelty than as a real working knife. I also have a brand new Marble's Safety folding fishing knife like one my dad used for fishing and hunting for years. I have the original but it is beyond repair. The new one cost me a whopping $19.95 plus shipping and has a flaw in the hold open mechanism. It isn't even a "mechanism", but a small piece of metal, riveted inside the handle shell, that prevents the blade from folding when the knife is open. This piece is too small and I can't see a way to remove it and replace it with another properly sized piece. I'm told the blade is one of many originals that were sent to China to have an aluminum handle (no t nickel-plated brass like the originals) fitted to it. I'd like to find someone who can remove and replace this little metal stop so I can use it in daily carry. Thanks for any info anyone can give me.

Another beautiful musical number. Where are these marvelous young singers coming from and why aren't we hearing more of them?

A fine choice.

My ten pound chihuahua miniature pinscher mix has slept with me almost every night since my wife passed away. It helps.

I remember in the past that forging was considered to be superior to casting. Is that still true and if so, why?

Does in Arizona!

What? That's almost unAmerican. Go get and watch it. Are you still sitting there? Go get it NOW!!!

How 'bout the bartender in The Shootist? Or the cute girl in El Dorado?

Well then, I'm a sissy. Wanna make something of it? Well, do ya? Is your answer is YES then show up any time and bring your own burying box. If your answer is NO then show up any time and I'll take you someplace really nice where you can buy me dinner.

My wife and daughter went for two weeks about eight years ago. Their only piece of advice: don't kiss the Blarney Stone. The locals pee on it.

How come you know so much about cats? And when are you coming up here for a visit?

Sure as shootin'! Cookies aren't meant to be art for very long. They must be eaten to fulfill their role in life.

I have all the guns a body would ever need. I don't need another gun. Bought four since July and have a few more on my current list. I can stop any time I want to. DON'T WANT TO!!!

I don't know. I'm still disappointed that out of three hundred sixty MILLION people in this country those were the best two we could find.

Look like something out of a science fiction movie. Beautiful but really alien.

You hit the bullseye Loop. Isn't it sad that the US (and other nations) gave so much and lost so much to let it all just slip away, forgotten or ignored, put to the torch of political correctness and leaving us so diminished as to approach the point of becoming irrelevant? For me, at my age, I don't care a lot, but I greatly regret the increasingly liberal world that we are leaving my grandson and mourn the loss of a better world for him. We should have done better.

The war had been going on for several years with the US playing only support roles and pretty much staying out of the hard parts. Then Japan made a fatal error by forcing us into the heart of it and just over three and a half years late we had become the major player worldwide..... and a large part of the world lay in ruins. I recently found and bought a three disc DVD set of Victory at Sea and America's Wars. After a three night session watching VAS it occurred to me that out country has nor even fought, much less won, a war since 1945. Korea: a 60+ year "cease fire" that we essentially walked a way from without ending anything. Cuba: The Bay Of Pigs tells that story. Vietnam: we pulled out after our cowardly government abandoned our allies to the horrors of a Communist take over. Grenada: In and out almost overnight without any real solution. The Middle East: going on for decades without end in sight and with a stronger enemy than when we started. I also noticed that we helped win that war without consideration for "collateral damage". Maybe we need to return to that mind set.

Same here in Arizona.

Y'know, with a fat hog and a garden a person could get along fairly well on that.

A frat brother gave me a toilet seat painted in Christmas motif. I passed it along the following year.

Had a lady Major fire a privately owned S&W 29 inside a bunker in Dalat. She never did that again. Seven people rendered deaf in a split part of a second. If she had only shoved the muzzle outside the port a few inches....

I'll bet that didn't happen as a result of a popular vote. Shouldn't be that hard to get donations to cover it and let the taxpayers off the hook.

Hell, son, I thought you'd been drafted, abducted by guys in flying saucers, or were doing time for something. Someone even suggested you'd been shot by a jealous husband or boyfriend. Good to see you back and find out you're just like the rest of us.