Friday Morning

Great morning folks,

A little less cool than it has been at 40° with the cloud cover here near Halfway USA. 54° is the expected high later. Chance of rain late today.

Debra Dearest accompanied me on the trip to the range. She shot her little Rooger 380, Colt Detective, a Bearcat & a Smith 66. Her skills with a pistol are suited for self defense in close quarters. Just a bit more practice & she could qualify for Space Shuttle Door Gunner school. At the very least, shot gun seat on an RZR.

I was pleased that the first cold bore shot out of my 30-06 ripped right through the center of the 100yd target. Follow up shot was just to it's left. The 300mag got dialed down 2.25moa & also left a mark on the center. Ready for November deer camp.

Grass is going to get cut today. I could stand to wait a day but rain is in the forecast for the weekend.

Harvest is well underway at this latitude. Soys, Navy & Black beans are leaving the fields. Tandem, live bottom & single dump trucks have been crowding the roads as have Combines. The state highway 1 mile away is in it's later stages of construction and blacktop is going down at a rate a couple miles a day. Clock is ticking on that work & them folks are supposed to done by November 1.

The gun club news letter is complete, just got to fold & stamp it this morning.

Looks like our Florida trip has been delayed until later into November. We let other lesser important things crowd their way into our calendar.

41 on the way to 73 in the far reaches of Northern California.

Good morning to all you Varmints.

Well,the lion in the area must have moved on for the time being, or some good citizen “moved” the lion along. The bear is still around, hitting garbage cans. The dogs pay him little mind, as he has been around forever. He lives up a steep, heavyly forested area accross the road. I have seen him a few times, a big boy! We had a bear living on our property near the Oregon border. We knew where he laid up during the day. I told the wife to get on one side of the narrow strip of fir trees and I would send the dogs from the other side so she could get a picture. She looked at me like I was crazy (she was only about 1/2 right). To think, she used to be fun......

Have a good day boys and be careful out there!

A wet Good Morning to all of your varmiteers. 41 degrees, with a 100% humidity, rain and a southwest wind up here on the wind blown prairie. Tried to Finish up on the beans yesterday, but the Black Ghost showed up around 4:00. The feeder house chain broke and went into the combine and tore up some stuff. So that slam shut us down. Down to one combine and the rain shut that one Down. Have just less than 1 section to be done, a real bummer.
On the positive side with the rain forecast for the next 3 days we should be able to catch on drying the beans. They are wet, 2 dryers running and can’t keep up to the combines. They are running 24 hrs a day. They will get the combine apart this morning and order the parts. We will see how far we have to go for the parts. A couple weeks ago the electric clutch on the axial flow cylinder failed. Closest one was Fremont, Nebraska. Over400 miles away. All the dealers up here were out of them. Sort of looks like John Deere has a problem, the damn thing is wound with cheap aluminum wire. It corrodes and shorts out. We have a Hutterite Colony up here that has A very good electrical shop. They are real busy and not fast. The clutch is over there and will be rewound with copper wire for next time.

The coffees done, better have breakfast and be ready for the parts run to who knows where.
Have a good one and whatever your doing do it safely.

Friday

Good Friday morning all. It's a rainy mid 40s in Indy and that's what we get all day. Not going to be a great night for high school football for those loyal fans who are going. I'm none of 'em. The mighty (no kidding) New Palestine Dragons are playing the team that knocked them out of the tournament last year. Revenge is a dish best served cold and wet!

Recent posts have made me wanta' wander a bit. The Ark Encounter seems like something I need to see. By the way, it is NOT the ark that was built up here. That one is much smaller but it did go to somewhere in KY. Clingman's Dome is now also on the want-to-do list. I've seen signs for it but, since Birdog threw out the bait, I want to take a bite.

Got a few errands to run before we go downtown for lunch with the owner/driver of the racecar I used to work on. Always fun talking about the good old days. By the way, racecar backwards is racecar.

Have a good day.

Mornin boys...
47 and rain here high on RUGER Mt this morning.
Football game last night and didn't get home til about 1.00.
We all slep in this morning. First day Elijah has missed this year.
We won 38 -- 12 but we had to play 11 of the other team and the 5
refs. It was the worst called game I've been to. Oh yeah, get a 20 yard penalty
for to many on the field...never heard of that...lol. The boys sucked it up and
kicked butt anyway.
Might try to load some today for the Mountain Man Match tomorrow.
You all have a gooden today and GOD Bless...


Donnie