Warden Callaway

We crossed the Maromac river above Steelville on Wednesday. It was running high and muddy.

I've seen video of guys shooting Josey Wales using only strong hand an smokeless. Of course, I shot gunfighter and black powder. I'd like to shoot it with cap guns and I have enough but I'm not a glutton for punishment.

Lumpy, did you get enough rain? I seen reports of major fluiding in Ozark, Missouri from the latest storms. Up to 8" reported. Looks like more rain coming.

I've shot Josey Wales with 4 handguns and shotgun a couple of times. Black powder. I clearder it with match director before match. Went through what I planded to do before each stage with TO to avoid confusion or problems. Last time with 5 Colts.

Caught on trail cam this morning.

Lt. Col. William S. Brophy, USAR, ret. Big book of Marlin. Lots of stuff. Look at this product I found on google.com https://g.co/kgs/ge5uHUn

I worked in a large transfer factory for 33 years. Every nameplate had a line that read, "no PCB oil". Our facility never used the PCB additive but required to add that note. PCB were outlawed as a cancer risk. Old timers who had worked in older factories told of workers dipping their hand, elbows, etc in the PCB oil to relieve arthritis.

It's my understanding the early lead mining was mostly picking up chunks on the surface. After the Louisiana Purchase, the Spanish and French land owners were geven several years to refile their land holdings. Many failed to refile their claims and lost their properties to filibusters. The best locations were already known and often stolen.

Laurel and Hardy doing carpentry work.

Son was coming down from Minnesota to visit and taking back oak firewood. But laws prohibit taking firewood across state lines persuaded him to stop. But with sawmill, I sawed out 4x4s he would haul back and cut up. Then last year he didn't talk about getting 4x4s. I asked why. He told his wife had him buy a cord up there for $700.

We ran a mom and pop sawmill for 24 years. We bought a Blockbuster firewood processor thinking we could sell firewood in the winter made from cull logs and such. Sold some for a couple of years until the sawmill business got to busy to keep up making firewood to sale. We still have the Blockbuster and use it to make our firewood.

Neighbors down the road cuts and sales firewood to pay for propane to heat his house. Said gas furnace gives more even heat whiteout the dust and smoke, etc from the firewood.

One thing for sure, you can't afford to burn the camp firewood sold in bundles outside convenient stores. In our area it's $7 for about a shoebox size bundle. All from standing dead trees. The closest pile is red elm. Middle white oak. Big logs mostly red oak.

More pretty than mine.

We have over 100 acres of mostly oak on the farm. There is an abundance of dead trees to pick from. We try to keep one year ahead in firewood put under roof drying.

Here is a real stupid parody of pioneers being attacked by indians on bicycles.

We were going south out of Mexico Missouri yesterday about 1:00pm and could see a big dark storm to the east.

Mary went to the library so I pan lubed the last 50. All went well. A couple pulled out a little bugger but overall very acceptable. I remembered that I had scrounged up some 40 S&W ammo box inserts from the range after some law enforcement did some training. The inserts worked perfect for racking up the bullets.

Whin I was in technical college, we still used slide rules. Hand held calculator were avaliable but very expensive. I showed my slide rule to an inturn from the Rolla School of Mines and she snickered at it. I showed her some simple calculation and she acked like it was something magic.

I thought I was in great shape finally the Lee 454 sizing die box. Opened it and the die and pusher deal were missing. But I went down to where I have the Lee APP press set up and they were there and the die already mounted in a collet. The bullets are goopy with that soft lube so I didn't try to use the feeder - just put one down at a time by hand. I have 50 more to do but need to wait until Mary is occupied outside.

I'm cheap. I made one out of denim.