Warden Callaway

But.., But... what would a SASS match be without a Yeeha!

Red River - John Wayne played a character that was dark and bitter. But the story and musical score was great. Aside from Montgomery Cliff, the cast was top notch. Howard Hawks was a capable director.

What? Nobody mentioned Red River! Or How the West was Won.

I'm on my grandpa's diet. If he couldn't recognize it as food, I'm not eating it.

Side Track

Got a Colt Piecemaker but only use it on varmints. I seldom do any real practice. I shoot to try out a new or repaired gun. Sometimes just for fun or make a video.

Tim Burton comedy full of stars. Obviously a comic farce. But I think the current administration has surpassed in stupidity.

The Jones Boys (now middle age) rent our open ground. Cut hay and pasture cattle. Its amazing to witness the transition. What took dad weeks with horse drawn equipment and much labor, take them hours to put up hay. They mow with rotary cutters at almost road speed. Come right back and rake into wind rows with wide double rake. Follow right behind with round bailer and bail green. Stuff it in plastic wrap to make "haylage". They use GPS equipment to spread fertilizer to kept from missing spots or double applying.

I picked up an old Library II with real checking. Mary shot it one match. She was use to her Stoeger Uplander and sometimes forget to cock the hammers. Liberty II above CZ.

I still have a stack of them. Most have a part missing or something. First used one to load 30-30.

I weighed them both and the CZ was a pound lighter than the Cimarron.

Uncle Chuck's Case that he ran his sawmill with until his death in his 80s. Son's sold it. I have the sawmill in parts.

Don't know when and where you got yours but mine is fine. Just wish it had cut checkering rather than laser cut.

I've been told that when I was a baby, they would wrap me up in a blanket and prop me up in a high wheel wagon pulled by mules and pick corn by hand. I do remember them picking corn by hand. Probably the corn never left the farm. It was likely used to feed the hogs and chickens and anything else on the farm. Here is how millions of gallons of diesel goes into making ethanol.

Dad and his first tractor. I think it is a Farmall 14. It was on steel wheels but he had it converted to rubber. My older sister. Don't think I was born yet. Our house is directly behind him on the hill.

Get a load of the controls and electric equipment on this John Deere tractor.

Son Chris is in Greenfield and he's tickled to see the snow. He hopes it'll bring up the mushrooms.

May not be a problem with your 38, but I got an old black power Colt SAA that had been converted to 38 special. I shot some of the light cowboy bullets though it. Patterned like a shotgun. Friend Bill Fuchs suggested I try heavier bullets. Loaded up some 158 grain Kieth bullets and it grouped great.

I was in the men's room at the office. A young engineer had his hands in the stream of two sinks. Said, "This one puts out warm water while the other one cold.", with a confused look. I pushed the single lever over to make the cold one hot. He said, "Oh.".

Years back we attened a farm show in Springfield, Missouri. It covered the fairgrounds inside and out. Walk was at a snail's pace. We walked past a booth of high-school kids selling snow cones or something. I listened as a girl was relating a story. Most words were "like totally" and "duh". She augmented her story with gestures and facial expressions. I caught nothing intelligible in her speech. Suppose she's a speech therapist now?

Dad was in two tornadoes. Mom in one. The house I was later born in was half destroyed by the second tornado. The barn and other outbuildings totally destroyed. For many years I could trace it's path by twisted and downed trees. Some trees had twisted tin hanging in tops.

Additional confusion

We had a "strong rotating cell", they called it, come through last July and devastated the trees on our farm. I put a lot of effort into clearing the damage, fences and trails. Just drove a trail yesterday and more stuff has fallen across trail and elsewhere.

Just stepped out and seen the moon shining bright. I hope the sun comes out. Rained all night. Heard something that sounded like hail but can't be sure. We put the Ford under roof yesterday just in case.