What did you do today

[Tom&Shelly]

Today I set up a five finger discount in front of my Mom's house



Mostly scrap wood and junk that accumulated in the basement over the past 60 years. Whatever doesn't disappear by Wednesday gets taken away by the local trash authorities.

Someone already came by and took two wooden fruit crates. Originally shipped from somewhere in South America that no longer likes the United States. (Probably didn't in 1960 either.) I also noticed a slightly broken cooler had disappeared.

Actually, this is about half of it. I looked at the forecast this morning and it was bright and sunny through Wednesday. About two hours later a rain storm passed through, so I held off taking down the cardboard boxes of junk and mattresses. Last week we gave a lot of stuff to a mission run thrift store, until the workers started to give us dirty looks. We took the good stuff first and progressed down until...well, you can see in the picture.

Tom

Update: Several hours later. We were faster putting stuff out than the scroungers were taking it in. Still haven't put out the mattresses, or the recycling.



It's a good thing we have long yards in our neighborhood!

Shelly put the riding lawm mower (not run in 25 years) on some forum giving it away free, and got 7 or 8 emails in a few minutes. It went to a good home, and they also took a few scraps of wood.

Hope everyone had a happy Labor Day! We'll grill tonight, now that the hard work is done for the weekend.



Tom

[Tom&Shelly]

We've been in Upstate New York for about six weeks, and haven't had a vacation yet. Still getting my Mom's house ready for sale. Should go on the market early next week. We have a team of handymen doing the difficult fixes while Shelly cleans and I repaint the garage door and exerior windows. (If anyone is interested in a 5 bedroom, 2 bath colonial near Binghamton NY, PM me!)

Dad bought this drawing board, used, nearly 60 years ago (I barely remember the purchase) and used it as a workbench



It tilts, but he left it flat and eventually added a drawer. Not sure how old it is, but the metal pieces look like they could have been made in a blacksmith shop. I've seen a few similar drawing boards, but none as big. This one is 3 x 5 feet.

Yesterday, I took it apart, and we're hoping to take it back to Albuquerque along with the workbench I mentioned above, and lots of other junk. It'll be a real challenge fitting everything into our Tundra, while also keeping the camping gear handy to use on the way home!

I'm thinking this bench will make a great second layout table and sanding station in our wood working shop.

Tom

[tony.latham]

Me? Took the new truck camping.







Thank goodness we had the Propex.

Tony

[gudmund]

good looking "NEW PU" !!!! enjoy.............

[delta fred]

Worked on my teardrop (based on a Benroy).

The chassis and floor are from an 40 year old trailer tent, the canvas or which has seen better days.
The sides are the old (marine ply) beds which set the length so the floor and the chassis have been shortened by 80mm (3 1/8"). I'm waiting for the paint to dry on the chassis before I can final fit the floor.

No photos yet as who wants to look at a chassis.

[Tom&Shelly]

After 2 months of painting, cleaning, and hiring professionals to paint and clean, we put my folk's house on the market today.



My Dad would have loved the drone the photographer used! He flew RC model airplanes for years, and we sometimes experimented with short take off and landing aircraft that could fly out of there. The power lines always defeated that effort.

Sure hope no one gets ideas about putting an offer in on that teardrop in the back yard!

I painted the garage door. At this distance and resolution, it looks okay, if I do say so myself. We've been told to get an FHA loan, there can be no pealing paint, so we fixed that.

Tom

[MickinOz]

Haven't posted for a while. Life got in the way.
Had a good day yesterday. I know a bloke who owns a gigantic paddock that is home to a WWII bombing practice range.
The target circle is 200 yards in diameter.
So yesterday, a quick text message yielded the written permission one needs to shoot on property owned by someone else, and my mate and I spent the afternoon using up some Winchester 0.223 target ammo I no longer use in competition.
Despite 20 mile per hour winds, and a rifle sighted for a 200 yard zero, and shooting off a rickety camping table, we managed to shoot 1 minute groups of 3 at 100 yards.
So, happy enough with the centrefire.
I want to compete in a 100 yard 0.22 rimfire shoot next Saturday. We managed, after a bit of sights adjustment on my old Chinese Norinco I inherited from Dad, to produce 1 inch 5 round groups at 50m, with the wind roughly at our backs. So I'm thinking, when I go for 100yds/90m at the range, I should be OK unless the wind goes boonta again.

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[MickinOz]

Well, the practice day paid off.
The rifle club hosted a "double bunny" shoot yesterday.

Morning event was 200 yards, open for any hunting rifle. Really anything other than a dedicated target rifle.
The target is an outline of a bunny about 8 inches long printed on A4 paper. It has a more normal target overlaid. The ten ring is about 1 minute of angle. So a touch over two inches in diameter.
If you hit the bunny, you score according to the ring you land in. However, you might land in the 9 ring, but be just above the bunny's back or just under his belly and score nothing.
Maximum possible score is 200 points, 20 rabbits.

The afternoon event is similar, but conducted at 100 yards. Instead of scoring rings the bunny silhouette has a circle on the head about 1.5 inches in diameter, and one about 2.5 inches in diameter on its butt.
Hit the bunny, get 10 points, except if you shoot it in the butt they only give you 9 points. As well, they count the number of head shots landing in the circle on its head.
So maximum possible score is 200 points, 20 head shots. This one is for 0.22 rimfire rifles only.

15 shooters attended the morning shoot. Some brought rather odd guns that were never going to produce high scores. e.g. one guy had a 0.458 x 2 inch.
Another guy had a folding Chiappa Little Badger in 0.17 HMR with open sights, no scope.
He got on paper a few times, but not a big score.
Well, I was the only guy to hit the bunny the maximum possible 20 times. So I came first with 189 points and 20 bunnies.

In the afternoon, I again managed to nail the bunny 20 times, but only got 6 head shots. Thus, I relegated myself to 4th place in the afternoon.
I was unable to get the scope on the 0.22 to adjust for windage. Found myself aiming at the left edge of the paper to get bullet in the bunny. This would be a pain in the butt in an actual hunt. I might have to buy a new scope, I think.

For my first ever 20 bunnies in the 200 yard shoot, the club captain awarded me the "Wascally Wabbit" trophy. This is a tiny statue of Elmer Fudd.
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