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i find the worst part about plumbing is that repairs are seldom in a convenient spot. just kneeling on a tile floor (with replacement knees) is a feeling i don't really look forward to.
 
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overlandflyer said:
i find the worst part about plumbing is that repairs are seldom in a convenient spot. just kneeling on a tile floor (with replacement knees) is a feeling i don't really look forward to.
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That's where the profuse swearing comes in. It may not help, but it makes me feel a little better.
 
the saga of my holster rigs finally concludes. a mistake at the time, the first belt i ordered a few years ago was too small for me. i bought an extension for it, but it looked too goofy, so it went into hiding. in the meantime i picked up a pair of black powder revolvers (the same type Quigley used at the end of the movie... classic dying (the other guy) line if you never caught it) and ordered a larger belt. fast forward to losing 7" off my waistline. now the original too-small belt is ok though i have to cinch it up nearly all the way (1 hole left). i had to bite the bullet (hmmm....lol) and get a new belt for the 1851 Colts and that just arrived (with a $300 bill...!). i'd ask if anyone is looking for a 45" cartridge belt, but i don't feel right about posing that question here...;)

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for those puzzled, the revolvers (lower pic) are black powder, but the cartridge belt holds 44-40 caliber for my 1873 Winchester rifle.

almost everyone agrees gun laws need to be fixed. here's some great logic... the 1873 (top) revolvers are a matched set... i bought them as a matched set, but i still had to wait 30 days until i get the 2nd one (cannot buy more than one handgun every 30 days in CA), and i had to go through two separate background checks, ...30 days apart and wait an additional 10 days because of that. this is the sort of thing the govt wastes its time doing.

all in all, so far my most expensive wardrobe fix.

by the way, just as a disclaimer, both pair of revolvers pictured are reproductions of Colts with a few modified safety features. one nice quality, original single action Colt would set you (me) back more than the price of all four of these. in their defence, the Uberti clones are very well made.
 
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back in black...!!

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it was a scary few weeks... i swear i saw a 177 one afternoon after a big bowl of pasta... :)

a busy weekend on the road ahead.
should be a eating no-brainer.
 
177! that must have been an alarming swing. For you that's something like 4% of your body weight, I don't think I've ever seen a swing that big. Anyway good that you are back down into the 160s.

Cool guns and holsters! I am one who thinks our gun laws need a lot of fixing, but your guns are not the problem. Very few collector's black powder guns used in mass shootings or for other nefarious purposes. The last time I purchased a hand gun was many years ago, I bought it in Utah, but had a Wyoming drivers licence at the time. The dealer told me he couldn't sell to someone from out of state and asked if there was anything I could say that might lead him to believe I was a Utah resident. I gave him an old Utah address and he was happy, I got my gun, no waiting period. I suspect things have gotten tighter since.

That was just a small 22 revolver, I used to carry it when hiking in the woods in case I saw a spruce grouse. They were quite easy to approach so not much accuracy was needed. I have taken spruce grouse with rocks, sticks and even a shovel. I always had a hunting licence and took them legally. Unfortunately they are not consistently great eating so I gave it up.
 
re: the 177.... there's no getting around the fact that pasta is heavy and very likely soaked up a lot of liquid before it got past the small intestines... but enough of that sort of talk. it didn't even last through the morning, but i think i did bulk up a few lbs the past few weeks. i know i had a few snacks past my eating window. you just can't string a lot of those together. but hey... when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose... isn't that how the song goes?

my hiking revolver (seldom find myself in that situation, but just in case) has a bit more kick...

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S&W 329PD... 44 mag. the upside... it's very light. the downside... it's very light... 25 oz. not the sort of revolver you want to shoot all day at the range... it has a brutal recoil, but it could probably take out anything i'd ever run into out in the wild ... as long as i saw it first. good answer to the question i sometimes get asked.... "why do you need so many guns?", though ...different tools... different jobs. i don't have/ want any of the questionable AR/AK types... to me those would be useless tools.
 
alligatorob said:
I have never purchased, carried, or used a gun for any purpose but hunting. Never felt the need to.
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once in a while i do some back country hiking. some years ago i watched a video, the title was... "the last picture taken on phone cameras". one showed a bear in the distance. you can probably guess the rest of the story. i've been debating whether to buy an ELT. have to say when i saw that movie about the guy who had to cut off his arm. the place he was trapped looked awfully familiar.
 
i wonder if this happens to anyone else. quite often i hear something on the news and a befitting tune immediately pops into my head. in this case even the name of the group seems to be apt. i know this is gong to be bouncing around in my head all day...

 
i mentioned this in the IF club, but i have been keeping track recently and i'm finding it makes a big difference when i position my eating window earlier rather than later in the day. when that 7-8 hour after eating hunger hits, it's not even noticeable when i'm asleep (ending my eating window by 8pm ... at the latest... sometimes at ~6) vs when i start late (say 2-3pm) and end at 10pm(ish). in this later case, i have been waking up and immediately getting a pretty big hunger pang. of course it passes... usually aided by a morning cup of coffee... but i'd rather avoid it completely. from now on i'm going to have to think twice about the consequences of that 10pm bowl of popcorn even if it's within my eating window.
 
Late night eating kills my weight goals. I hardly ever eat after dinner (~6pm) these days and I feel like it happens. Just anecdata though.
 
spiders blow me away... this is only 1/10 the story... the other end of this line is over 20' away and maybe 10' higher in a tree adjacent to my porch. how the &*%^$ do they do that ...!!

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i've got to confess.... without digital"free" pictures my photos might not be that good. that hummingbird shot ↑ up there.... one of 41 pictures i took while s/he was visiting... the other 40... so-so at best.

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wow... eating food on the road for 3 days... wasn't expecting this. i was moving a lot.
 
our club has a 50 cent soda machine and i think i drank more cans of soda (diet) this past weekend than in all 2019 up till then. that had me worried a bit. meals were f/f, but there are some in the area not that bad. a Greek place has great gyro's and i passed on the sauce (some sort of yogurt concoction) and RBurgers makes very tasty, lightly breaded real chicken tenders.... unfortunately with fries that could feed an entire family, but around that town, you can leave food out and it will not be ignored for long. the hotel had 24 coffee available, so that was convenient. my favorite sports bar in the area also serves one of the best Chicken Tortilla soups on earth.
 
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