Please Disperse

I hate snakes.
At 11:10am this is what I found in the front garden smiling at me.

As I mentioned in a previous blog and at McB’s wedding, I’ve been target shooting a few 22s lately. I’ve also started doing a little bit of gunsmithing, which is really more screwdriving than anything.
I started with this cheap little ruger 10/22 from a local store:

after a few trips to local gun shows [...]

now i’m armed.
that’s right. I’ve had a Mossberg shotgun (just in case there’s something suffering in the back yard which needs to be put down) which i’ve never fired for a year now, but today i became part of a well-armed militia.
here she is. Actually, I have the 883ss model, with a silver [...]

why do i have two dogs? not to guard against anything, but just because they’re great dogs. each have a story about how they ended up in our care, and i’ll tell you that when i see you.
but they do serve a purpose. they have their own room with nothing else in it but [...]

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And just to make sure we get very wet, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow.

yesterday was a bit of a hectic day. i had a list of things to get done before we could depart the hudson valley to return to the 895 for connie’s big day.
we hit the road late. and i tried to compensate by driving a few miles faster per hour than i should [...]

They aren’t very good but it sure was fun taking them…
Not sure that I like flickr so much, but you should be able to see the geotagged photos on the map, so you can see exactly where i took them.

apparently (according to the natl register plaque) this diner (formerly the half-way diner) was the first in nys and the fourth in the nation on the historic register. now, it was placed there in 1986, so I can’t figure out if that means its the first place in nys to be added, or the [...]

no, not the one in brooklyn
i’m on my second tank of gas and have just sat down for a burger in red hook’s “historic” village diner.
I cruised up the west side of the hudson river through cornwall, which is an amazing ride and induced some significant vertigo. bad photos to follow.
after cruising up 9w, I [...]

I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas!