Jeb48

Welcome, I also escaped one those socialist states, 3 years now. My only regret was waiting so long. You are joining a great bunch on TGO.

I truly miss real local banks. When I was getting towards the end of college my Dad decided I should get a better car because it was likely I would be moving out of state and what I was driving might not make it. He was making the loan to me but had to borrow part of the money to do it. We were walking up town and he saw the bank president across the street, he yelled across the street addressing the pres by his first name and said Jim and I are going car shopping will you cover my check when it clears. Pres says how much my Dad's says around $2000, he said no problem and the loan was made. I'm sure more happened later but not a problem and nothing needed to be done ahead of time. Same car but a year later I'm at my new job and broke, but Winter was coming so I borrowed $100 from the local bank for a month or so till I got caught up with moving expenses. About 2 years go by and I go to the same bank to apply for a mortgage for my first house, I talked to the president of that bank and he said he would drive by the house to see if he thought it was worth what I wanted for a mortgage and I should come back the next week. Came back and he said he didn't get a chance to check it out and asked who the realtor was, I told him and he said good guy he wouldn't cheat you. Then asked if I had ever borrowed money before, I said yes $100 from them. He said did you pay it back and I said yes and I was approved. Ah the simpler times.

Alway thought it would be fun to own one of these. I got to ride in one a couple of time at a Christmas tree farm. They would take you out to the back 40 and drop you off to cut your tree down, then haul it back on a sled behind the Weasel while you road. M-29 Weasel in Belgium in 1944

Indian Territory US Marshall's

Caption needed on this one.

Welcome. Moving sooner is always cheaper. We moved 3 years ago and saw a few examples of what we could have bought 10 years before, when we could have moved, and well hind site. Even the place we ended up with I could have bought from the original owner instead of the second owner in that time frame.

Welcome to TGO and soon NE TN, hope to meet you someday. I'll tell you what the fellow behind the counter in the first gun store I stopped in when we were down looking for a house and I told him where we were moving from. "Welcome to America"

Memorial Day Salute. T92, self-propelled 240mm gun

I posted a different view of this one a while back.

Another strange one, don't know anything about it other than it looks like WW-1 also.

Here is another strange one. This WWI Armored Car Had A Propeller To Use In The Desert

No gun visible but to neat to pass up. WW1 one-man tank, used to move wire-cutters close to enemy lines

You are obviously right about mass killings in general but it does seem like the frequency has increased. That may just be the 24/7 news slots that need to be filled so we hear about everyone of them and for weeks not a day or so.

Get out the big guns. M35 prime mover towing 8-inch howitzer July 1944.

Pull over.

Confederate Soldier J B White of Tennessee

Welcome, good to see another NE TN member.

I know it is obvious to those of us here, just don't know why it isn't obvious to others. Guns have been part of this country since the beginning. The school shootings and other mass shootings have only been ramping up the last 10-20 years. If anything guns are secured better than they use to be. I didn't know one person growing up that kept guns really locked up, if they were it was a glass front case with a cabinet lock. My Dad's guns (and mine) were in corners and closets. Bullies have always been around, I never felt I needed to shoot anybody because I was bullied and no one else did back then. So if it isn't guns and bullies, we already know that, what has changed. Make a list. Violent TV, Movies and Games are a good place to start.

Another member? Spikehorn probably Michigan's most eccentric character

Must be one of our member.

Last two houses spanning nearly 40 years we have had acres of woods around us so lots of interesting things grow and dig in our yard. Discovered if you have grubs skunks dig holes to get a midnight snack and they make a noise that almost sounds like they are singing. Took awhile to figure out what the strange noise was in the middle of the night.

More Power.... One of the 4 Gatling guns Custer refused to take with him

I never was a conformist. My yard is more other things than grass, but it stays green even in a drought.

Mine is bigger than yours Powder monkey on a Union vessel during the American Civil War

I always mix white clover with whatever grass seed mix I currently like. The clover puts out nitrogen and the grass starts to crowd it out, the clover slows down the amount of nitrogen and the grass slows down and the clover spreads again. Nice system, plus I like the look of clover. Never did anything special, just mowed when needed. I do tend to keep my grass on the long side so that may help to.