Pat Riot

Our dog Maddie used to be terrified. Even with sedatives she was so fearful. Our other dog Wilbur was afraid when the first booms occur but after that he was fine. He actually liked to watch aerial fireworks. I always felt so bad for Maddie girl. Neither she or Wilbur are with us any more. I miss them so.

Reading the headline I thought “Mariachi’s a country?”

Someone kicks in my door and enters my home there will be gunplay.

When I was 11 we lived in Rogers, AR and we shopped there. That was ‘72. The store wasn’t very big as compared to a Walmart today. It was about the size of a medium sized grocery store.

I kinda figure Sam Colt was a twinkle in his grandpa’s eye when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

I don’t know what to tell you. The ones I have been in were dirty. Dust on shelves and products and the floors were atrocious.

They don’t! And they don’t clean either. My wife reminded me of the other 2 Aldi’s I visited in Austria and Sacramento. That makes 4 filthy unkempt stores.

I have been in 2 Aldi’s. That was once too many. I tend to shy away from any store that one has to have a cultural knowledge base to participate in a store’s shopping experience. #%$& That! That and both stores looked like the cleaning crew was part of the grocery bagging team.

Yes

Like this? These are laminate stocks. Image from: https://www.boydsgunstocks.com/product-configurator

Yes, hold fireworks in your non-dominant hand and use a long necked lighter or fireplace match in your dominant hand. You’re Welcome.

Sorry…it’s a day late so we are one our way to 2050. YeeeeeeHawwwwww

Rest in Peace, Mr. Madsen. Thank you for the movies.

I got to Great Lakes at the end of May in ‘79. Boot Camp in summer in the Chicago area SUCKS! Hot and humid. The days I hated most were the days we had to wear those (censored) rain coats and march around on a (censored) grinder for 2 hours. Hot and humid and sweaty, hot and wet. Then winter came like a sun setting in the west. It was hot, then it was cold! Really cold…Really (censored) cold. I spent 10 months there. In 2008 I was offered the position of Asst Director of Rail Operations in Chicago. It was a cold call job offer. All I had to do was say “Yes”. The job was mine and the salary was quite high. I declined the offer. Money isn’t everything. In 1980 I got to experience heat like @PowderRiverCowboy spoke of in the IO and Persian Gulf. Afternoon temps often hit above 120℉. The Indian Ocean was such a weird place. The ocean could be as flat and still as a farm pond in the early morning. Zero breeze and 125 degrees. The soles of your boots stick to the deck if you don’t keep moving your feet. It was so weird there it fascinated me…until we’d been there for 4 1/2 months. By then it was pretty (censored) old. We didn’t carry 75 pounds worth of gear though. I cannot imagine what that would be like with the dust and wind combined with heat. The hottest place I have ever been is still Puerto Rico. 98℉ and 98% humidity had me wishing for days in the IO. No wonder Puerto Ricans can be a testy bunch. They grew up in that (censored).