I’m going to count my blessings … my loving husband, my kids and grandkids, still having my parents kicking around and I’m still on the sunny side of the lawn.
And friends .. near and far.
I’m also grateful to have been born an American. I love this country and its ideals, its history and principles and don’t care if patriotism is at best a corny joke to those uber-sophisticated Citizens of the World.
Grandkids pic!
14 minutes until I can break out The Glenlivet the 15 year old french oak reserve
2015 has reached flyover country.
Just think, in a little more than two years from now, our long national nightmare will be . . .
Happy New Year, all!
Qualitatively different.
Does that translate as, “Different president, same old crap?”
Because that’s what I expect.
Happy New Year!
Darleen and Jeff and all the rest here that make the internet bearable.
I celebrated the new year on the way home from Ohare after having left Tustin CA where it was a fridgid 50 deg. Back to Chicago where it was 16deg.
California is wasted on Californians.
Different in some respect, but not in quantity.
Cute kitteh!
Looks like the first cat I ever had: a messy calico who to the end of her long days still jumped onto the top bunk to sleep with ME.
are you sure you didn’t hang that lil shelf upside down?
i am perplexed
Firearms question:
Chuck Connors in The Rifleman uses a modified Winchester 1892 Saddle Ring, displayed in this video (you can shut it off after they start talking about the convention).
He pops off 12 shots with the thing in the intro and pops off multiple shots in a similar fashion during the episodes.
Where are all those bullets loaded? There’s no revolver barrel, no magazine full of bullets, no machine-gun strip. And unless I ain’t been looking closely enough, no shell casings are ejected.
Is it just a Hollywood trick or can that gun really fire multiple rounds with nothing but a manual pump in between?
The magazine is the tube beneath the rifle barrel. Empty shells eject during the cycling of the lever. And yes it fires round after round.
http://www.henryrifles.com/henry-rifles/
this is close
http://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/henry-frontier-carbine-evil-roy-edition/
> fire multiple rounds with nothing but a manual pump in between?<
one pump one shot
put the semi in semiautomatic
oh good a gun thread
i went for the harbor freight mini mill in store today. @ $560.00 with a 1/1/2015 25% off i thought a good deal. but no. order it on line and whatever.
so keeping an eye on hf for the future. my garage ain’t ready yet. happy new year pw!
Lever-action rifles were among, if not THE, first repeating rifle designs.
I’ve got a Henry .22 from U.S. Repeating Arms — and one of my first toy guns was a lever-action cap rifle based on the old Winchesters.
I wanted it because of “The Rifleman” though it didn’t have big loop on the lever like his.
Thanks, all. The world makes sense again.
I especially loved levering off shot after shot like ol’ Chuck. My toy even had a little hinged catch so the lever would trip the trigger all by itself. It could be pushed out of the way for normal operation.
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My 8 y/o kitties (sisters) are super friendly — they don’t even mind the toddlers because they know we will teach the human babies to pet them.
And they are all about laps and petting. Anyone who sits on the couch is fair game.
Leeza, the one in the pic, sleeps on the bottom bunk with Nik every night and is forlorn if he’s sleeping over at his other grandma’s home on occasion.
Snuggling with a purring cat is what cats are FOR.
That and decor: nothing so tranquil as a sleeping cat.
a basking turt turt comes close
Was recently at my favorite pub, playing simultaneous games of darts and trivia with pals. In the trivia game, someone asked what (somewhat) famous actor had been both a professional baseball player and a professional basketball player.
Answer: Chuck Connors
in the new year i resolve not to fuck children like Prince Andrew
yep yep
January 3 update: so far so good unlike Prince Andrew i have not fucked any children