Warden Callaway

Trimming to same length helps getting a uniform crimp. 44WCF needs a good crimp.

We watch Grampa Amu make stuff. From toys to bridges without fasteners. Mostly using primitive tools.

He said 1-5/8 oz #6 with fiber wads an 90 gr Grafs power. Brass hull.

Son Chris got his turkey this morning with an antique Remington Whitmore Lifter 10 gauge. He's pretty happy.

The sheriff of Fractured Jaw.

Well that was a first for me. I was out mowing up the drive and two killdeer were doing their act on other edge of drive. I made a couple loops watching them and they had gathered their chicks and were moving them down the drive. I counted 6 about thumb size. I finished up and was heading back and saw them again about a hundred yards down the drive.

I think we have a pair of osprey here on the farm. First time I've seen them. Also notice the little killdeer are back. Strange birds, they nest in gravel and make great effort to distrack you from their nest. We had one nest at the edge of our drive. I set a traffic cone near it to protect it. Funny, if we drove out, the bird would stay on its nest. But on return it would fly off faking injury.

I can't say the 32WCF is my obsession but I have several. A couple of Marlin 1894, Winchester 1892, first generation Colt SAA and a pair of Cimarron Lightning.

I go to bed and toss and turn and hurt. Old body and pills. I get up about midnight and go set in my recliner and usually have a light snack. Then go back to bed.

I had a La-Z-Boy for probably 30 years. Broke and replaced set springs a couple times. Still worked but sad. We brought down Dad's La-Z-Boy that was 10 years old or better. Mary used it a couple of years. The screws fell out of the foot rest. A minor repair. But she suggested we both get new chairs. I countered with a plan that she get a new chair and I'd fix and use Dad's and junk mine. She was OK with that. A couple years pass and Dad's old chair broke a gizmo in the mechanical junk under it. Ok, it was time to replace it. We went shopping at a furniture store that we'd done business with for years. I tried out plenty on the floor and found one just right. We got it home and found out it was identical to Dad's old chair. Go figure.

Mine have a lot of adjustment through an APP. They have different modes for TV, Restaurant, etc. I mess with these settings sometimes but don't find they make a lot of improvement. Then they have a rocker switch on the aids to raise or lower the sound. I mostly just yank the buds out when I can't stand the noise. I call Mary Mrs. Klankenbanger when she's working in the kitchen. Cutting up vegetables or fruit sound like she's chopping firewood. Mixers and blinders, I can't stand. The other day I swore she dropped a 350 Chevy engine in the sink. Then she comes mad at me for not hearing her call me for a plate of food. If she doesn't have my attention, I'm not going to hear her.

This pair of aids are Phoenix mid-range or better. They cost $3,000 and I just got new ones last fall. The most annoying thing is that anything louder than normal is excruciating loud. Especially high frequency like a kid screaming. Drop a fork on the counter and it sounds like a crowbar dropped on a concrete floor. Modern movies are awful. Sometimes the low talk and then they are in some action scene that it painful loud. I think that's why I tend to like the old classic movies that tend to have leveled out sound. People ask how I like my hearing aids. I reply, cut off one leg then hobble around on cruches a year, then get fitted with a prothetic leg. Better but no substitute for the real thing.

Lots of power outages from Lake of the Ozarks to north of Columbia, Missouri. One man reported injuries from tornado about 20 miles wast of us. Sun is out now but weather is still unstable. Predictions of some more rain through the night. We got about 8/10 yesterday and about 2 today.

Another front just went through like a locomotive. Wind at 25, gusting to 58. Tornado warnings out.

Roll with the punches. Turn the other cheek. Rain, rain go away, come back again another day. He took it hook, line and sinker. I don't know him from Adam. Less said the better. Better left unsaid. Couldn't have said it better. Turn you every witch way but loose. Sock it to me. Put your John Hancock here. What goes up must come down. When the chickens come home to roost. X marks the spot. She can talk a mile a minute. Knock on wood. Boarding house reach. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Happy go lucky. Method to the madness. Breakfast of champions. Take a walk on the wild side. Take your best shot. Going gangbusters. Shoot the breeze. Eyes bigger than your stomach.