Dennis1209

Another opinion from the peanut gallery...   Work is just that, work and not a social gathering asking personal questions, dress or what's this or that. If you have a problem with something, tell it to the supervisor and let it go at that. JMHO.  

State of "The Peoples Republic" my fellow comrades. Pass the vodka comrade...

Well...   I have more gravel in my 300 foot gravel driveway than you have ammunition, maybe :up:   That's a goal everyone should strive for but, for me, I'd just shoot it?

A tip of the ole ham sandwich to that one...

I'm no expert gardener by any means but, something I learned some years ago when I had a very small garden.   Having a very small area for a garden I naturally crammed as much as I could into it. I won't go into all the problems I encountered, but one really stood out. I managed to squeeze in two jalapeno plants and three bell green pepper plants after everything else was planted. Long story short, it's harvest time and I have a load of jalapeno peppers. Time to cut them up and can them in a few canning jars.   For some reason as I was cutting them I had an overwhelming urge to sample a bite of one of the jalapenos. Bite, crunch, crunch, bite, crunch crunch, big bite, crunch crunch... It tasted just like a bell green pepper, not hot what-so-ever. Only one in ten jalapeno peppers had any hot to it?   I had mentioned that to a guy much more knowledgeable than me in gardening, and the first thing he asked is "where I planted them"?   I told him at the end of the garden right next to the bell green peppers. He tells me that was the problem, I planted the two species to close to one another and the jalapenos got pollinated with bell pepper by the bee's?   Don't know if that's fact or fiction but, gave the two plenty of space from then on and had never had a problem again.   I also learned a lesson one year just planting a single short row of sweet corn that didn't work out. Lot's of little secrets to make a small garden productive.

Never again!   The last place I lived had zoysia grass in the front yard and it was a nightmare for me. Admittadly, I didn't spend the required time thatching, fertilizing and plugging as I should to have kept up with the Jones's but...   If you plan on cutting it with a push mower, never let it go longer than two weeks between cuttings. Even though it doesn't look that bad, it's so thick it will quaddruple your cutting time.   It is the first to turn brown and the last to turn green.   I've always heard zoysia would take over crab grass and everything else. Not so, the crab grass, clover and other weeds took over the zoysia.   I tried to burn it off one breezy early spring day. I'm here to tell ya, if it had not been for concrete on three sides of my lawn, half of Illinois would have gone up in flames.   My front yard was about 30' X 60' of zoysia. When I finally got possession of the place the first thing I did was cut the grass. It had not been cut in probably 4-6 weeks. The back yard was regular grass maybe 10 to 12 inches high and an area of about 30 yards by 40 yards. The front yard zoysia actually didn't look that bad height wise?   Anyway, it took me three hours to cut the high grass / weeds in the back yard and four hours of constantly restarting and raising the front of the push mower. And another hour to re-cut it to make it look decent and reduce the grass clippings. I hate the stuff, I'd rather have a lawn strictly of weeks or an astroturf redneck front yard.   Did I mention I hate the stuff?

Start small this year huh? That's what I said last year, maybe a 8' X 8' raised bed garden? Pictured below is section one of three sections. Rule #1: When sitting on your tractor enjoying the day pulling your tiller along, leave the beer in the house, I tended to get carried away a bit. Two hundred potato hills, 300 linear yards of bush green beans, 42 tomato plants, 100 cabbages, six jalapeno plants, 100 linear yards od carrots, etc... Never again! Have four years worth of vegtables canned and between the garden and canning, that's about all I could do last year. I deal with Baker Creek every year, good people and excellent service. I forgot to mention. Last year I had to go out and purchase 300 yards of garden hose to my nearest water spigot and use my tractor bucket to haul water to the further reaches of the garden. I went out and purchased a Bolens front tine tiller and used it for my proposed 8' X 8' garden. After thirty minutes and 6 inches progress, came home with this in a couple of hours.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.   Seems wildlife laws, game wardens, the TWRA was created to regulate and control indigenous wildlife and protect the resource. Since when are feral and / or escaped domestic swine a wildlife resource that requires protection, rules and regulation?   What's next? Regulating the Starlings population and packs of domestic feral canines?   My old Pappy use to say, son, when you don't understand some reasoning, just follow the money...

It doesn't look pretty for my for my local FFL, he deals mostly with AR'S.   I ordered a Stag Arms AR-15 back in December and it's a two year wait for completes, uppers and lowers, so I assume most other manufacturers are about the same. Seems to me in today's competitive economy turn over is key?

It's scary!   What does that say about the majority of people who voted for them, and continue to vote them into high office? It's sad you can't isolate yourself from their liberal thinking, laws and eventual American population enslavement.

I have the fixed 3X on my AR-15 with the Nikon mount. It's not an ACOG but for the money a pretty good scope.   Only problem I have with it is... Can't get it zeroed at 100 yards, shoots three inches high. May not be the scope, it could be I have too much off set between picatinny rail and scope?

So, you can actually call up a coyote during day light or you talking about night time hunting?

Got a question for y'all?   I only have a high school education and at best average intelligence, however... Be it written or verbally, if I have something important to communicate and want it understood and not vague, open to interpretation or misunderstanding, I so say or write it as such.   Why do the courts have to interpret so much of the meaning and intent of legislation when it could have easily been discussed, debated, written and understood by the average Joe?   Same with the United States Constitution, a well written and easily understood document a high school student can easily interpret. Why does it take the SCOTUS to tell us the meaning?   Maybe I need to go back to college or law school?

    Well said. There's only two words I could add, "anchor baby".

  Also consider this making your decision on premiums, coverage and out of pocket. If memory serves, medical bills are the #1 or #2 reason for filing bankruptcy.   My daughter was a passenger in a bad vehicle accident with her uninsured friend. It doesn't take long for the bill to amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if you have a good plan that pays 90% of everything, that's still a good chunk of change out of your pocket. What if it only pays 60-70% of your medical bill?   My daughter was 18 at the time and I found out something I wasn't even aware of. As the policy holder of the family medical insurance policy that my daughter is covered under, the policy holder (not the treated) is ultimately responsible for all expenses not covered under the policy. And it's reported to all three credit reporting agencies if payment is not made.   Fortunately, I was extremely pleased I made the decision for the higher coverage at that time.   What's really fun if you have never had the pleasure yet, is sitting down with say... the literature of three medical policy coverages to determine what's what, what's covered, what's not, what's most likely to occur in your lives, what's not, etc. Financially, it's one of the most critical decisions you can make if disaster strikes. Good luck.

  It's a two edged sword that's probably going to come back and bite them based on their breeding and other states problems.   For eating pleasure, I think a feral pig is much tastier than venison IMO. On the other hand, they're probably more of a problem than they're worth decimating quail, turkey and other game populations. Not to mention the damage they do to to farmers crops and polluting the water.

Yep, been there, done that! In warmer weather I didn't realize I had one bad battery and it cranked just fine. Then the weather got real cold and the wait to start light takes thirty seconds to go off while the glow plugs heat up, turn the ignition switch to start and not enough power to crank the engine.   Get the volt meter out and sure enough, one good battery and one dead one. It doesn't make sense to just change out one does it? I got 6 years service life out of mine.

I've had Blue Cross / Blue Shield for many years. I've got Standard Option family and it's about $13,000.00 per year so a few hundred bucks a month more for the addition of your spouse sounds right.   You may want to talk to your HRMS and ask if you can go through them and get the family option and that would also include any children you may have or adopt in the future.

In the five years I've lived here in NW Tennessee, I've only seen two quail? Think this is a local / regional problem and do you have a population of quail in your areas?   I'm thinking about buying and raising a bunch of them and let them go on my property in anticipation that they won't stray far. But, there has to be a problem why they are not around here so it's probably a waste of time and money. I thought about contacting the TN. DNR and asking them, maybe I will.   Today the wife and I saw at least 75 turkey's in the field the other side of the road. Seems to me if it was a predator, environmental or cover problem, the turkey would also be affected?   We have coyotes around here like everyone else and a few stray domestic cats. Could it be house cats maybe?

  Interesting thought process!   Knowing where we have been, knowing where we are today, and curious about our future. That's a no brain-er.

  That's what happens when you let your fingers do the walkin. Thanks, I changed it!   It's the year 1875 and Mr. Dolomite wasn't married and visited the local watering hole and got into a game of cards for instance. Prior to the card game he had a nice steak and chipped a tooth. Now he can't keep his mind on cards and in short order, looses his shirt. However, he does have enough money left to try and console his loss with the nice lady inviting him upstairs and ultimately gets a case of the ...   Do you know what the cure was for a case of the ... back then, that didn't work? In my bravest hour, there is no way I would let that Mercury injection to occur in Mr. Pee Pee.. And "biting the bullet" was literal dentistry back then to alleviate air getting to the tooth.   I stand by my six guns. Times are much better :up:

If you could have been born in a different year in history, what year would that have been and why?   Watching all of these survival and Alaskan programs over the years on TV, reading about them in books, etc., my wife asked me, why do you watch them and do you wish you were born back then?   That was an interesting question from her and I responded with...   Yep, I was born 125-175 years too late. I would have loved to live in the times of exploration and the founding of our nation. I would have loved to explore the wilderness on my own, free of society, government intrusion, taxes and a hectic life. I would have enjoyed hunting and trapping and living the nomadic life of a wilderness pioneer and learning the skills of the Native American Indian.   In my sturdy and younger years I thought of myself as invincible, hard and up to the task of being born back in the day. That is until...   I got a few broken bones, toothaches and really sick! Then I appreciated the modern age we now all enjoy.   Can you imagine having a toothache(s) and little personal hygiene (tooth brush for instance) back 150 years ago or more and living with it? Ever tried to sleep or keep your thoughts with multiple toothaches or an unset broken bone for days, weeks and / or months, lifetime maybe? I tried years ago on a Saturday morning pulling an abscessed tooth with modern vice grips and pliers, because I couldn't get a dental appointment until the following Wednesday for an emergency. It wasn't pretty and it made it worse.   My first born had the umbilical cord wrapped around his body and with each contraction, it was becoming a race between life and death. But with modern technology, equipment and modern medicine, it was recognised and corrected. Can you imagine the frequent heartache of loosing a child during mid-wife birthing in the old days?   I believe the average life span for our ancestors back then was around 40 years old. Look at where we are today with an average life span of about 70 years ago! Even incurable disease bad pain can be managed and bearable in today's modern medicine.   So, with the years accumulating on me and my body at this old age, much older than 40, I'm blessed to live in the day and age I was predisposed to live in?   If you had a choice, what year in American history would you choose to be born and where would you want to live?   Just some thoughts of an old fart from younger years to present.

Precious! Congratulations!   I hope you took advantage of watching the miricle of child birth. Short of losing my parents, nothing has ever reduced me to tears like watching my precious children enter this world. It's a life long memory that still makes me smile and proud.   Little story I'll share... Thirty-five years ago with my first born, I had to take those Lamaz (sp) classes to be in the delivery room and watch my first born enter this world. Scrubbed up and had to put on everything the doctor had on, cap, footie's, scrubs, etc. My first born son was born deformed, he had a very pointed skull and reminded me of the comedy, "cone heads" on TV. They did the quick count of digits, wiped him off, used the suction tools to clear his breathing etc., then bundled him up and handed him to me.   I wasn't told the "cone head" would be gone in a couple of hours and it was the result of pressure of the skull on the cervix, thank God!   At that time I was one hardcore tough S.O.B. , but you couldn't tell it from the tears dripping from my chin. The miracle of witnessing child birth of my very own son reduced me to my actual loving and caring self, no pretence, no outer shell, just my hidden actual self. I went from a drinking bar hopping fighting Billy Bad Ass, to a responsible, dependable and caring parent in short order. It was a life changing experience for the better.   Fast forward to twenty-one years ago and the birth of my daughter and last child. No classes required, everyone and their brother was in there for the birth, the doctor, his two interns getting training, a couple nurses, my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, me, I wanted to yell out the window and see if any homeless people wanted to watch also! No sanitary delivery room, just a cluttered and unsanitary "birthing room" complete with coffee pot and TV?   My have times changed!   One piece of advice... Enjoy them every chance you get, because they sure do grow fast and the time just flies by and you wish you had some little baby time back!   Again, congratulations!

That kind of stuff is banned here in NW Tennessee.

This morning I was scouring the Internet for 9mm & .45 ammunition, like one or two of you may be doing. As is well known, almost none to be had except, found one off the wall place that had 9mm for $55.90 for 50 rounds, no way I think to myself.   Headed out to get a hair cut and decided to stop by a local sporting goods store first to see if they had any Gun Butter. I got greeted as I walked in the door and with a smirk I said, "I hear y'all are having a 9mm & .45 ammo sale"! Expecting to hear the same old sad tale he says, well, we only have one box of each left and don't expect to get anymore anytime soon.   So without even looking at the price I scarfed them up and immediately made a bee line to the check out. I don't know if it would have made a difference trying to squint and see the price tag before I plopped down the cash but... Fifty rounds of Winchester White Box .45 for $40.00 and Blazer Brass for $17.00.   The way I look at it, it's one more month I can have the ammo to shoot my monthly IDPA matches.   I noticed not long ago Walmart's value packs of four boxes 12 ga. shotgun shells went up $5.00 per pack over night.