Jeb48

Browning machine gun on a hill overlooking Blair, WV during the 1921 battle of Blair Mtn

As a kid there was a slaughter house on the edge of town, not a big operation just a place farmers and hunters could bring animals to be processed. They always had fresh pork rinds that they made to share, when we stopped in to watch.

1950s Women's Rifle Club

My HVAC friend said as long as I stayed with one of the top 4 or 5 companies I would be happy. Most of the companies have several brands. I bought the complete Carrier 3 ton 18 SEER Infinity Series with furnace. It works as a system with a high tech thermostat that controls everything. 5 Speed heat pump so it only goes as hard as it needs and a variable speed air handler blower that you normally don't even hear running unless it is very hot or very cold. The outdoor unit in a lot quieter than my old 13 SEER one stage unit, on the lower speeds it is about as noise as a 20" box fan, even on the highest stage you can have a conversation while standing next to it. They make an even more efficient unit but for the TN climate, my research didn't look like it would save enough to have a pay back. I asked the salesman and he said the only reason to buy the highest efficient was bragging rights to my friends.

My solution wasn't cheap but so far it looks like it has cut my total electric bill by 20% or more. I had a heat pump with LP backup furnace that was 15+ years old. I have a friend out of the area that is in the HVAC business and I asked him how much longer I could expect it to last and he said somewhere between a month and 10 years. He also said if I had the money I should do it before it fails because the newer more energy efficient models sometimes took a month or more to get in and if I had to replace a failed unit I would buy what was in stock. Since I had the money I started looking around and learning what I wanted. My first reason to replace was to have something new that would not have an unfixable problem for a long time. My second goal was a quieter unit both outside and the blower. Third was energy efficiency. I only have 2 full months with the new union but it looks like all 3 of my goals have been met. My guess is the heating and cooling part of my electric bill has been cut in half but I still have the rest of the electrical usage. I believe my LP usage will drop significantly also since the new heat pump works down to 25 degrees and still use less electricity that the equivalent LP. Our previous house was built to heat with wood and I had IR electric and LP hot water backup. When prices got high or the bank account low I just burned more wood. For 30 years I heated almost 100% with wood, dropped back to about 25% as I got lazy. I do miss a good wood stove to sit by on cold nights.

I have a bunch of eMail address, I originally tried to only use one for sites that potentially might generate spam but that has failed a long time ago. Most of the addresses are hosted on gMail and when I get a really perssitant spammer I make a filter on Goggle to watch for the spammers eMail address or some other unique think in those spams and make a filter to send it directly to trash skipping the junk folder or my inbox. It helps some and makes me feel better. Sometimes I filter out a whole domain when it is a company.

These seem to go together

My first was also a 67. Was my Dad's and he gave it to me when I was around 12. It is an early one before they started putting SN on them. Had a few Daisy BB guns and a Benjamin 310 .177 pellet pump up air rifle earlier. Still have the Model 67 and the 310. I should get the 67 out, it has been a few years.

Photo looks too clean, I assume this is a posed reenactment photo and not WW-2, but a nice flamethrower.