Rufus Brady

Simply mail the pin to New Zealand. I ordered some Glock parts from Israel and the used an envelope and stamps!

have two 38 S & W but don't if they qualify for side matches. One is a lemon squeezer and the other is a top break, spur trigger. Also dies and brass. Will be listing next week.

Three blocks east of my house, turn right and behind the gym at the high school!

First, I kept seeing "shadow figures" out of the corner of my eye=smoky "clouds" that you never saw directly. As I am trained as a scientist, I thought/blamed the opiates (Dilaudin and OxyContin)=but they lasted several days after I told them to drop the opiates. Second, my wife visited me and turned the A/C. I had two pillows down at the foot of the bed to elevate my leg to cut down swelling. She turned it (the A/C) down and left for the night. The top pillow lifted about 3-4 inches up into the air. It was about 10 feet from the a/C. Went straight back down. Only did it once! I watched it for at least an hour and it never did it again, even though the A/C went on and off several times. Third, a couple of nights later, I woke up needing to use the urinal and all my sheets were pulled down to below my feet before I sat up for the bedpan. The next morning I was talking to two of the nurses aids and they told me several patients and orderlies reported seeing an older woman wandering the halls late at night who would disappear. As a scientist, I realize there are many things we don't understand. Ghosts? Maybe! Unknown laws of physics? My philosophy professor told me there were things that obey the laws of science for which we simply don't understand the rules!

Actually, I'm a FED! I keep Blue Cross into retirement with drug coverage AND get Medicare. The bill for rehab, hospital, ER, etc was almost $30K=We had to pay $300. BTW: The convalescent/rehab hospital was haunted!

Last Labor Day, I was returning from the field, visiting a chimpanzee sanctuary, and I tripped and broke my humerus in 3 places. Out for two months from work. Went back about Turkey Day and then went out of Govt furlough. Came back and I tripped again; this time I shattered my knee cap and tibia. Hospitalized and "house arrest" for another 6 weeks. Now I am teleworking for a month, then retiring in another 3 weeks after that. Relearning to walk in therapy. Glad to be back!

An up and coming smith took 2 years to do a custom Vaquero, including a caliber conversion. He always had excuses but they seemed reasonable, so I waited. Work wasn't what I thought we agreed upon but was well done. I had him re-blue an original 1892 Winnie. Took over a year, again with many excuses-not so reasonable. I noted that he did good work but many delays on Facebook. All of a sudden, he refused more work from me (a 71 Winnie re-blue). Information via a PM.

I definitely think a COLT should have natural grips. That being said, I have had ivory composite, real ivory, stag, elk and real MOP on Colt's and Rugers. My hunting rig, OM Blackhawk in 45 Colt, wears moose antler and has a matching Randal skinner (I live on the edge of grizzly country). My SASS rig was matching SAAs with real ivory and a matching knife. So, in descending order: Ivory, antler (elk or moose), buffalo horn, stag, hard rubber, micarta, wood.

German = high school & college (5 years) (Hoch Deutsch) Spanish= high school (1 year and 50+ years living in SoCal and fishing in Baja) (El Espanol de los Pescadores de Baja) Gaelge: Irish Gaelic (2 years) (Dia Mahre duit!) Tolkien also based his elves on the Irish Tuatha de Danaan. Note: Elves in Gaelge are Aos Sidh. The Five High Clans (and the Fitspatricks) intermarried with the elves and the women of these marriages were referred to as the "Women of the Sidh" (Bean Sidh), the matriarch of the 6 clans (including the Bradys=of which my grandmother was one==Mo shomatheur aran an Bradeach!). Note the similarity to the Sith in Star Wars?

BGTW: People mostly misunderstand Murphy's Law. It says "If time is endless, then all things will eventually happen!"==people are just pessimists and changed it to: "If anything can go wrong, it will!". Remember, Murphy was an Irishman!

I don't use a French press but do grind my beans. I drink my coffee strong. 1. I use a coffee called "Deadman's Reach" from Ravensbrew Coffee, based in Alaska. Very "high test"! 2. I grind 4 scoops for 12 seconds==that gives me a fine grind (This coffee is NOT bitter). CAUTION: Deadman's is a VERY high test coffee. Will get your heart racing!

Office staff meeting today and they decided on a Kum-Bay-Yah potluck (early) for St Paddy's Day. So, I wore my "Dublin 1916" t-shirt, made up some soda bread and colcannon [mashed potatoes & turnips, kale& cabbage(sautéed in bacon fat) and a pound of crumbled bacon.] BTW: Irish didn't eat corned-beef-and-cabbage until they came to America. Beef was for the rich, landed gentry or was exported to England. The Irish ate bacon and cabbage (or kale). When they got tothe US, bacon was too expensive and they learned to corn beef from the Jewish butchers!

As a wildlife biologist, I know (or can think) of places and circumstances where "antlerless hunts" are necessary. That being said, I wouldn't be bragging about it=it would be a meat hunt.

The "dry side" has had snow for two weeks (6-8 foot berms), then sunshine and rain (the snow left), then snow yesterday and the day before! Today: gloomy and drizzly, snow back Thurs & Friday (thru the week end) drizzle next week.

I've talked to Patrick and he doesn't do buffalo horn (bison or water), as of last year. Try e-bay, if you don't mind doing some fitting.