Neanderpundit

Started fighting mildew. We have long term houseguests so the shower gets more than the normal amount of use, there’s no fan in the crapper, and the mildew has to be punished with bleach on a regular basis- at least, until I can get the above problems resolved.

Then there was the fill. My dr, Dr Ayloo, is a cut indian girl, with huge… tracts of land. She’s very nice, and I highly reccomend her services to anyone. Plus, it’s fun having her rub your stomach. Even when she’s jamming a 4″ long needle into you.

Then I drove to South Bend for new tires.

let me tell you something about tires. If you have purchased name brand tires somewhere besides the Tire Rack, you paid too much. The best prices I could get on tires for the truck was around $500. I drove away from Tire rack with four new premium tires for $408, and I got an additional $50 cash rebate, for a total of $358 for four Dunlop six ply truck tires. Mounted, balanced, installed. Don’t buy your tires anywhere else if you can help it.

Thankfully, now the Exploder is much quieter.

When someone tells you to go to Sydney Ohio, and he’ll give you directions from there, type “Sidney” into your map software. otherwise you’ll drive 200 miles to far and have to come back.

Back to three days of liquids and soft solids (jell-o, cottage cheese). Forgot how badly I hate cottage cheese. If all I could eat was cottage cheese I’d weigh 12 lbs.

No breakfast. No coffee, even, till after this is over. Hate not having the morning brew.

On the upside, this will accelerate my weight loss. Look forward to it being over. Hope she gets the good radiologist this time.

Wow, did I ever need that.

I took the Marlin out, the one I bought in 30-30 wcf and have rebarreled to 44 remington Magnum. The first of ten shots went into the berm, with sandags etc wrapped around the action. Once I knew it wasn’t gonna blow up, I started looking at the sights. Wanted to see hwo the new barrel shot.

Here’s how it shot:

The ninth shot was good. 25 yards, offhand. Should be able to do better with a decent marbles sight, hoping i can get a tang.

THe gun itself needs a bluing, but a good friend helped me yesterday with the stock, and made it, frankly, quite presentable. here’s a shot of it leaning against the kitchen window.

And frankly, who wouldn’t go to the range, when this is the kind of thing you see there.

She’s shooting a brown bess musket. She looks better from the front than from the back, trust me on that. Her extraordinarily well-armed husband allowed me to take her picture, and I emailed him a copy. Snapped the shot just as she sent that big ball downrange.