- It was warm enough yesterday that I sweated a little while I was working in the yard. This morning it was raining ice.
- In 24 hours, we’ve had sunshine, rain, snow, ice, and a mix of all three kinds of precipitation.
- Kentucky weather: The only constant is change.
- The advantage of doing your planning as far ahead of time as possible is that when someone asks that you do your work weeks ahead of time, you’re pretty much ready to go.
- Stopped by the local SuperMegaShoppingConsortium today, and just because I’m a starry-eyed optimist, I buzzed their sporting goods aisle.
- They had a nice assortment of hunting rifles, including a Savage in .308 that whispered sweet nothings to me.
- Like I could find .308.
- They only had two shotguns.
- Both were camouflaged and had turkey chokes on them.
- The ammunition cabinet was picked pretty clean, except that it had three boxes of Tula .380. I immediately put out an alert on Facebook.
- I thought about buying them for a moment, but I don’t have a .380 and they would have been trade goods.
- Knowing how short ammunition is right now, I just wouldn’t have felt right buying the last three boxes if I couldn’t have used them.
- I’m sure someone will give them a good home.
- They had a nice assortment of hunting rifles, including a Savage in .308 that whispered sweet nothings to me.
- We gave all the stuffed animals a good run through the washing machine today.
- Some of them were a bit…. crunchy.
- Apparently Boo isn’t the only one who likes to cuddle up to them and Moonshine drools.
- The yearly period of non-productivity has begun.
- Louisville is a number one seed in the NCAA squeaky round ball tournament.
- The Kentucky Derby festival starts about a week after the tournament ends.
- If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to get something accomplished right around mid-May.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on March 17, 2013
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Steve
/ March 17, 2013Hey,
I was at Churchhill Downs last week! Took the general tour and then took the “behind the scenes” tour. My wife and I were the only ones on that tour. It was great! The guide took us into a couple of “off limits” place in the ritzy-titzy section.
She kept insisting that we HAD to come for the Derby week and see all of the stuff…….ah, nope; don’t like crowds and all of the tom-foolery that humans create enmasse!
After the tour we went to that pharmacy behind the track; I think it was called Wagners Pharmacy. Had a GREAT burger! Black Angus beef with mayo on it! Just like what we had when I was growing up.
Then we split for the “Bourban Trail” part of Kentucky….Oy Vey!!!!
Steve
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daddybear71
/ March 17, 2013Churchill Downs itself is kind of neat. I’ve heard good things about that pharmacy’s food. I need to go try it out.
And yes, the Bourbon Trail is not to be missed.
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ March 17, 2013I know what you mean about the Savage. I handled one at the gun store not long ago, I think it was the Axis that comes with the 3-9x scope. Looking through a scope just makes me happy, but I have the scope off my 10/22 so I can learn to shoot iron sights right.
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auntiejl
/ March 18, 2013We spent Friday night with my folks (they and the kids needed a fix), and my mom washed Medium’s duckie. It still looks over-loved, but no longer grungy. Every now and then, I corral all her duckies (she has five; we rotate them for obvious reasons), fill the downstairs bath sink with super-hot water (the boiler is just on the other side of the wall), throw in a full scoop of Oxiclean, and let them soak for, oh, hours. If not a day. Then I run ’em through the wash. Amazing how clean they look after that…and how it takes about 30 minutes out of the dryer for all of them to look like she dragged ’em through the yard already.
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3boxesofbs
/ March 18, 2013Wouldn’t hurt to pick up a box or two of calibers you don’t own, in my opinion.
Never can tell who is going to be at the range with some toy you want to try; helps if you have your own ammo to run through it.
And more importantly; never can tell who (or what gun) will end up at your house when the Space Aliens finally come calling. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to offer a reload or two ? 🙂
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Old NFO
/ March 18, 2013Trade goods is right…
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Drang
/ March 18, 2013Camo with turkey chokes isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Chokes can be replaced, and depending on make and model so can barrels and furniture. Just sayin’.
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