- And now, a math problem.
- Each bag of gravel from BIGBOXHARDWARE contains half a cubic foot of gravel and weighs 50 pounds.
- DaddyBear needs to cover a 10 foot by 30 foot basement walkout area with two inches of gravel.
- Additionally, he needs four bags of gravel for a sidewalk section, one for each of the basement window wells, and one for a patch of dirt he just doesn’t want to mess with.
- How many bags of gravel must DaddyBear purchase, transport, unload, trundle across the yard, place, lift, empty, and rake into position?
- If the answer is 60, how many pounds of gravel does DaddyBear have to do these things with in a single afternoon?
- If the answer is 50 X 60 = 3,000 pounds, then the ultimate question is how many of the muscles on DaddyBear’s body are threatening to emigrate to Tegucigalpa and leave him a quivering mass of pain after he finally stops moving for the day?
- The ultimate answer is, of course, all of them.
- I picked up the Ishapore Enfield from the gunsmith today. The good folks at my shop gave her a good cleaning, safety check, and test fire. The barrel is rather shiny, and the action is as smooth as butter.
- Normally, I can take advantage of being either the only or one of two customers in my gunshop, but the place was packed.
- The pistol cases were empty except for a couple of target .22 revolvers. There were plenty of deer rifles and duck guns, but only two modern sporting rifles and one non-hunting shotgun.
- The MSR’s were an AK clone and an AR-15, both from manufacturers I’d never heard of. They were priced north of $1300.
- Ammunition was to be had, but I couldn’t see how much they wanted and was afraid to ask.
- The vast majority of the other patrons were African-Americans in their 30’s or early 40’s. I heard “People have lost their mind” come out of more than one mouth as they bought accessories and got advice on new purchases.
- Irish Woman proved yet again that she will never hold a Kentucky Derby party and run out of food. We are going to be eating leftovers for days.
- Not that I mind leftovers, especially when we had an entire cheesecake and bourbon barrel cake unopened in the refrigerator this morning.
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Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on September 6, 2020
https://daddybearsden.com/2020/09/06/musings-348/
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OldNFO
/ September 6, 2020You’re gonna need some ‘straight’ bourbon after the workout with the gravel!
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daddybear71
/ September 6, 2020Maker’s Mark Cask Strength, neat, as a matter of fact.
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