I've purged my office. It's clean, less cluttered and the dust has all but been eliminated. Yesterday I humped six huge garbage bags of junk to the trash container and with each trip I dumped years of memories. I'm sure I made some bum very happy as he dumpster dived last night.
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Our group met here at the shop last evening. We've agreed to cancel our table at the monthly gun show, for reasons we'll not discuss. We have though agreed to attend and sell at a later date, perhaps early next year. Shucks.
The group will have its monthly work day in a couple of weeks and should be fun. After our planned projects are completed we'll hit the firing range and blast vast quantities of small caliber lead down range. We'll restrict ourselves to small lead as hunting season is underway and its a real pain in the rear to explain dozens of bullet riddled bodies hanging from deer stands. Laws kinda funny about such stuff.
What tics me off is these Fudd's are well aware their hunting grounds back our firing range. It's a shame they can't be sports about it and wear bright orange targets on their backs.
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Now, a chapter from the daily news without commentary....
I've had at least a half dozen customers come in and complain they've lost their medical insurance. All are self-employed. One man explained if he chose the plan offered by his agent/insurance company, his monthly premiums would double and his deductible jumps from three thousand to seven per year.
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Under a box in my office I've just found a stash of long lost military brass. In total, about a thousand pieces. I'll not count. Seems to be a mixture of (in civilian terms) '06 and .308.
Later, and hey, be careful out there.
Stephen
I used to live on the southern shore of Lake Santa Fe, and a northeaster would cause whitecaps that reached several feet high. One storm was so bad that it tore up our dock pretty badly, and wrecked a couple of the neighbors' docks.
ReplyDeleteOnce in a while we'll get a basher like you described, Bob, but more often than not ours are in the twenty-five to thirty mile an hour type. Thanks, my friend.
DeleteStill having Nor'easter out these parts. Loving the rain after yesterdays heat and humidity. Got up this morn---- started misting. A few hours later. . .We now have drizzling and sprinkles. Went to little brothers house to help recoup after shoulder surgery. He is doing much better and still awats to go. Squirrels have ate all my pecans and most of my white oak acorns. I was going to send you some for your little underweight city squirrels. Are you really getting rid of your stuff. I only like 40s and 50s. Wishing you well and all my love. And now it is raining. . sky looks like snow.!
ReplyDeleteMy squirrels are not anemic....they're quite tasty as a matter of fact, well fed as they are from all the turkey oak acorns. Tell younger brother I hope he quickly heals. Love you too.
DeleteMan I wish I could find neat little surprises all over like you do. It would be like Christmas every day.
ReplyDeleteYa they gotta lose that insurance so they can get the ones that offer free abortions, pap smears and mammograms. Somebody has to finance those things for the ones who think they should be a free right don't cha know.
I'm forever stumbling across lost treasures. Duke, last night, said he wanted a .44 lever rifle. One of the other guys said, ask Stephen, he'll have one. I had to think about it but then remembered I do...it's stashed in my safe. I'd flat forgotten about it. Duke can suck eggs before he gets his sticky fingers on my rifle.
DeleteAh yes, those hidden treasures... Just check ALL the bags/boxes BEFORE they get thrown out...
ReplyDeleteI do, trust me. You'd be amazed what I find stuck in the nooks and crannies of this place.
DeleteOur insurance has been cancelled, and the replacement policy the state is fobbing off on teachers is worse than nothing.
ReplyDeleteDeer season up here as well . I don't go walking in the woods til it is over.
I spoken to several here with the same problem....this, is bad.
DeleteI received a letter from my employer a week or so ago cautioning us that the insurance plans for next year "have not been decided upon yet".
ReplyDeleteI declined all coverage except for vision and dental (they're better than the wife's), and she hasn't heard a peep about her insurance for next year. Since she's covered by the school district, and has what's most probably a "Cadillac Plan", we're expecting to hear something, but we don't know what to expect.
We wait. I use my wife's insurance for obvious reasons. Pucker time.
DeleteWait until the adder for smokers kicks in. The law allows a huge adder for the nicotine habit.
ReplyDeleteThe law essentially has the young supporting the old. To the tune of paying 6x what they normally would. Combined with the inability to refuse coverage, it is going to be a disaster.
This morning, November 9th on Drudge - fifty-two million Americans lose health care coverage. So far....
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