xsubsailor

Welcome to the group from another west-ender

I like your clamp rack, might have to make me one like it . Mine are all over the place ( but then again, I'm not too organized )

Just my opinion but I would stay away from Guns and Ammo. I've had friends who have bad experiences there in the past. The pawn shop, Accent guns and loans, right across from Guns and ammo has a full time, full service gunsmith. 901-327-8117 There's also Michael Wilder who has a good reputation 901-260-6030

This is one way to stop all the arguing about Covid A California county’s Democrat-controlled board of supervisors voted 3-2 at midnight Tuesday to declare misinformation a public health crisis and potentially silence residents who oppose coronavirus lockdowns as well as mask and vaccine mandates. https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-diego-declaring-misinformation-public-health-crisis

My wife was from Roanoke Island and we used to go back there every year for at least a couple of weeks. Sometimes I would leave her and the girls there and go back to pick them up a couple of weeks later. We didn't fish with rod and reels but the whole family was in the fishing and seafood business. We would go out shrimping, clamming, mullet netting ( they only talked me into that once ) and harvested oysters. We also had one nephew that ran crab pots so we lived on a seafood diet while we were there. Normally brought home 50 - 60 pounds of shrimp and some soft shelled crabs when we came back home to Tn.

I've got a neighbor that uses one of these and I am really impressed by the coverage he gets with it. https://www.lrnelson.com/products/sprinklers/traveling-sprinklers/rain-train-cast-iron/ As for myself, I finally figured out that if you water your lawn the grass will grow, then you have to mow so..................................... If you decide to go with a system, Home Depot rents out trenchers. https://www.compactpowerrents.com/rental-equipment/trencher/

Here we go again New Covid variant detected in South Africa has already been found in England as scientists warn it is the 'most mutated variant so far' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9937851/New-Covid-variant-detected-South-Africa-mutated-variant-far.html

"Never let a crisis go to waste" It just worked too good the last time to let it go

I thought this was a joke when I first saw it but it comes from Accuweather and is sometimes used by FEMA. What is the Waffle House Index? https://www.accuweather.com/en/accuweather-ready/what-is-the-waffle-house-index/667995

I started to respond to this when it was first posted but decided to wait and choose my words carefully so I wouldn't get banned ( Also joking ) I too, wish we could just discuss things. But I believe that any serious topic which has two drastically different opinions will eventually lead to put-downs, finger pointing and name calling. I also believe that every person has a right to their opinion and the right to express it ( just my opinion ). My problem is with those who believe that their opinion is the only one that is right or the only one that matters and has this overwhelming compulsion to prove their point. The Covid test/vaccines/masks, abortion and even gun control are examples of these types of topics. Everyone has an opinion and all the pushing, name calling and derogatory remarks are not going to change their minds. Gun control is a good example since most of us, at least I hope so, are on the same side. I don't understand the reasoning of the gun control people but they probably have no doubt that their way of thinking is right. I do though, have respect for their right to their beliefs and long as they don't try to push their way of thinking on me I have no problem with them. The same with any other subject, if your opinion is different than mine, I'm not going to try to change your mind or argue with you but will just let it slide because it's just not that important to me. I just might be the only one here that misses the political threads. Not because of the name calling and all of that but it helped present a picture of a persons personality. Seeing how they responded to different statements or situations said a lot about a person. Just from those threads I could most likely figure out who I could befriend and those I wouldn't trust very far. Well.....if I get banned, it's been fun.

My point exactly, it's the last thing we need.

I don't even want to comment on this Insurance providers will no longer waive all costs associated with COVID-19 treatments https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/insurance-providers-will-no-longer-waive-all-costs-associated-with-covid-19-treatments

^^^^ I agree with this ^^^^. I ate plenty of home canned meat growing up.

I don't like this. It looks like Tennessee could be getting a lot of rain from this in the middle of next week. Ida could make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday when it hits the Gulf Coast with maximum winds of 140 mph, according to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center. Projected to become a Category 4 hurricane, the storm would strike 16 years to the day since Hurricane Katrina made landfall there as a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds near the riverside community of Buras in Plaquemines Parish. https://www.foxnews.com/us/hurricane-idas-strength-forces-mandatory-evacuations-in-louisiana

I must be the last to hear about this, I only saw it a few days ago

I'd love to be able to look through all those bullet molds but that's way too far for me.

If you're all thumbs like me, this makes things a lot easier. I got mine at Basspro

My prediction: Once they figure out the logistics of how to do it, they will order everyone receiving any money from the federal government to get it. Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Military retirement, Civil Service retirement ... etc. Welfare recipients will probably be the last group to have to tow the line but they will get to them eventually. They might lose in court but people will suffer in the mean time (as if they care).