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I tried not to go out except to feed the birds on my back deck. I filled the feeders and then scattered some food on the Table in the breakfast nook on the deck for the birds that can't feed on the tube feeders such as Doves and Cardinals and bigger birds. The only real issue I had with ice was about the 3rd day of going out to fill the feeders when I opened the door to go out it was blocked. I had some of the largest Ice Cycles I have ever seen and they had the doorway blocked. It took 4 real hard hits with a claw hammer to break them and then I pushed them off the deck and fed the birds. Has frozen water pipes for about 4 hours and then it began flowing again.

So far I have gone through 50lbs of Wild bird food and still have a ton of birds I'm feeding.

Not the ones at my house!!!!

I can't remember this much snow in Tennessee but then my memory sucks too. I wonder how the Nashville Snow Service knew this was coming and to have such a large supply of salt and other chemicals on hand for this kind of storm. Was it just a lucky guess of did someone know something was coming and just got ready for it??

Well, we got an additional 3-4 inches of fresh snow last night but no new ice yet!!! Our lights flickered a couple times yesterday but we never lost power. I hope Dirtshooter gets his power back soon before he needs a referee from cabin fever!!!! Hope everyone stays safe till this all melts over the weekend and then we will hear about all the flooding on the news!! I also am glad I don't live in Texas.

Well, I have generator ready to go with extra gas and back up Propane indoor heaters, 2 burner camper stove and gas grill if I need to cook anything and have plenty of food and paper supplies so I guess I am ready as I can get. I have been in touch with Dirt shooter and his power is down due to a large tree across the road from his house. He is doing ok and hoping to have power back on tomorrow. He has plenty of wood and generator running.

Well I am now a member of the NRA so I'm working on joining as I can afford at present.

Just joined TFA!!

I have joined so many different 2nd Amendment Programs I can't be sure who I am a member of and who I still need to join. I will try and check into it today and see which ones I still need to join. I know for sure I am in NRA, GOA and TGO but not sure about the rest but will join as I find ones I have not joined yet!!

I will be writing them as soon as I close out of TGO!!! We definately need this to happen!!!!

Back when I had the bait business over the 15 years I sold to the public I used priority mail to ship every package. I guess I am lucky Chuck bought the business from me or I would be suffering the effects with the mail as everyone else is. I order my Rosie's food and snacks from Chewy and they ship everything Fed-X and I ordered some stuff last Thursday and they delivered it on Sunday. Both UPS and Fed-X are both delivering 7 days a week now.

I heard that Pelosi was making a statement that is was GOP members refusing to go through them and she fear for her life by them. Former President Bush made a statement "if you don't want to walk through them find another job!" It's easy to be a Monday Morning Quarterback and make statements like that when you don't have to do it.........JMHO

I don't know if this is the place for this but has anyone else heard about the metal detectors that have been installed at all entrances to the Congressional floor where the House and Senate meet and they are being met with a lot of objections from many elected officials to them and demanding they be removed or they will not be going in on the floor till they are.

Prayers being sent for a fast recovery and hope everything goes well for him!!

I have both of them stored, both are on desk top, in documents and in downloads plus I wrote them both down on paper......LOL.

I have that same problem.........LOL

Well I have no intentions of leaving my house to go protest anything!! I have a line drawn in the sand also and it is right at my door and you are safe until you make any attempt to cross it such as try to kick my door in!!! I have heard about all the attacks planned in all 50 states and I sincerely hope it is only rumors as it would not accomplish anything except a big problem for law abiding gun owners such as folks here that love the 2nd Amendment and respect what it represents along with the rest of the Constitution!!!!!......JMHO

I have my own opinion on what I have read so far and for the most part a lot of what I have read were also said when Obama was first elected and everyone said Obama would get the guns. Well it didn't happen but that time Joe Biden was VP. This time he is President and I am not as concerned with him as I am Harris. If Biden should not be able to continue as President do to health or any other reason Harris will become President and that does concern me. I don't think anyone really knows her views on anything yet!!....JMHO

I watched a news special the other night about the Broken Juvenile Legal system and it is not broken. It is almost non-existent. Some Officers have arrested a Juvenile for possession of a stolen fire arm at 7PM and arrested him 4 hours later and he had another gun when they arrested him the second time. He was released at 7:30 to his mother and she said he never went in the house but took off soon as she stopped her car at home. The police said that the system is just a swinging door. The singer that was killed during a car hijacking was shot by a 13 year old that had 5 prior arrests with 3 of them for stolen gun violations during the commission of a felony armed robbery. He was arrested with 3 friends for the murder and he is the only one still locked up and his mother said she hopes they try him as an adult and he gets a long prison sentence. During the report it was said that the zip code for north Nashville and Madison area has more juvenile arrests than any other place in America. Now with that said, if an officer shoots and kills one during the commission of a crime they want to hang the officer for doing his job!!! They asked one officer if he had any idea how to fix the problem and he said yes, just 1. Pass a law the permitted people the right to use deadly legal force to protect their property without fear of prosecution and it would take a short time and you would begin to see the numbers go down pretty quick. He said until you put some fear in these young people that they can be killed by the property owner they will continue to do as they please because they don't fear being arrested.

I was just throwing some other options out there because I have seen Gelatin explosives in action in a Flagstone quarry and the blast is more of an orangish flash, and would not be as heavy to move or haul. Plus if his ex-girlfriend could tell what he was doing when she said making bombs it would be obvious what he was using looked like a stick style explosive. As far as her and her lawyer reporting his actions over a year ago it would appear that every law enforcement agency from Metro police to all the 3 letter or more all dropped the ball. FBI, ATF, CIA, and Homeland Security were all involved and got reports about this guy and did nothing. I can see now that is why the phrase" If you see something say something" is not working!! The FBI even said they didn't even know about the guy yet they had a file on him! I guess we will have to wait till it is on Unsolved Mysteries in a few years to get the facts. The insurance companies are all praying they label it terrorist action so they don't have to pay out for damages to people that lost everything. I think it was just a nutcase with a grudge....JMHO

I had a driveway alarm when I lived in Gallatin but don't have one here. If they make it past Tommy's house up front without getting stopped I figure it is someone we know. Mine was not an expensive one and came from Harbor Freight and the outside wireless unit was Battery operated and the base worked on 110 volt and it would react to anything moving including the UPS truck.

I notice most folks are fixed on a fertilizer bomb but I have another idea that might throw a wrench into that idea. The guy was an electronic wizard to people that knew him. Fertilizer is one option but you would also need something such as diesel fuel in large amounts. The RV was not squatting so it would not appear to have that kind of weight in it. Now with all the construction going on in Nashville that means there would be a few trailers of Gelatin explosives setting around town and in them that require blasting caps to detonate so they must be kept in a different location. With this guys electronic abilities, he could have made this own blasting caps capable of setting of Gelatin dynamite. In my opinion he used something other than Fertilizer to blow himself and the RV up. Authorities have not said to the best of my knowledge just what he used to cause the explosion.....JMHO.

The only thing I am 99% sure of is the guy wanted to go out of the world in a Blaze of Glory and as of right now it appears he was successful in his endeavor. Beyond that I have no comment!

Very similar to the Oklahoma bombing of the FBI building.....JMHO

I wanted to take a minute to wish everyone here a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!!