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This is the first year rabbits have gotten into the garden. I've seen them around for several years. After they got the beans they nibbled on the cantaloupe, but I knew those wouldn't make it anyway so I didn't care. I'm wondering if the cantaloupe is what attracted them in the first place. That sounds like what happened. I really like zucchini, but I don't have the space for lots of plants since they get so big.

Tough crowd. I'm a frickin engineer and I've learned to accept that Star Wars is fantasy and the laws of physics are only applied when convenient. The bomber sequence was very 8th Air Force in 1941 esque. I'm guessing that was on purpose. Yes, the Leia coming back to life while floating in space was more than a little dumb. But again, this is fantasy. I assume the reason she's still around will become apparent eventually. I assume Luke figured he could do more good as a martyr than as a teacher. That's pretty common in history. Clearly his teaching skills were lacking anyway. Rey's got the books, she'll be fine. The lack of explanation of anything about Snoke is a little disappointing, but as already mentioned, I assume his character was simply a medium through which Kylo takes over. The points of the Finn casino thing were to introduce Del Toro's character who will reappear I'm sure, for closure between Finn and Phasma, and to show the young slave boy's powers. I liked it. I'm happy they're going back to more organic sets and actual props instead of everything being computer generated. Episodes 1-3 are my least favorite, and that's one of the reasons why. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Poor horse. It'd have to be stone deaf to not flinch when that rifle goes off.

I've got a beat up old P85 thats never failed and is still more accurate than me.

My garden was kinda disappointing this year. Yields in general were less than I expected and much less than I'd hoped. I went kinda light on the fertilizer, perhaps that's why. Didn't have enough tomatoes or cucumbers to justify canning anything. Froze a few bags of maters, made a bit of salsa, and just ate all the cucumbers. Dern rabbits ate ALL my green beans. One day they were a foot tall and doing great, and the next they were gone. Every. Single. Plant. One would hope that would produce some rabbit stew, but no luck there either. We wasted a lot of space on pumpkin and cantaloupe. We got exactly 1 pumpkin and 1 cantaloupe. I'll leave those to the big farms down the road next year. Okra did ok but I got lax about harvesting and ended up composting a bunch because it got tough. The zucchini went like crazy for about 2 weeks and then died suddenly. No idea why. The jalapeño was the sole exception. I had the hottest jalapeños I've ever eaten and one plant made hordes of them. I gave away lots of jalapeños. So overall, decidedly meh. We'll try again next year and do a few things different.

Welcome!

Specifically that exact size and exact capacity, yes. But there's lots of other guns within a couple rounds capacity and fractions of an inch that do exactly the same thing. Seems particularly odd that Ruger would market 3 models that are nearly identical... SR9, 9E, and now this.

Looks like a refreshed SR9. Another fish in an already big pond.

Send it, and your man card, to me.

I've used irfanview (freeware) for years. It's simple and does most things reasonably well. Photoshop is more powerful, but it's necessarily more complicated and slower for simple stuff. If you're getting into photography, Lightroom seems to be the best.

That's the beauty of a GT or Sybo knife... you can't break it.

Nonsense. Knives were meant to be used, guns were meant to be fired, cars were meant to be driven. Get something nice. You've earned it.

Ice fishing?

The 3 B's.... boots, books, and booze.

Yep. The carbon steel turns black (oxidizes) when exposed to the acid. The thin silver lines are a high nickel content steel that doesn't react to the acid so it stays shiny. And yes, that's a cool pattern.

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Merry Christmas y'all.

I could post a link to the whole movie, but these are some of my favorites... Nattafinga!

All my AK's, which have been numerous, get a light coat. Mainly for uniformity and a little extra protection. Makes them look clean. Make it look clean without actually having to clean it? Win!

Has the gun run this ammo flawlessly before? If not, find ammo it does like. If it has run this ammo fine previously, id look at the magazines and possibly springs in the gun if it's got a bunch of rounds through it.

I've got one tapco that works fine. I've got a few that I think are Romanian surplus, two of them have no finish left and get kinda rusty, but work fine. I've also got a few brand new Polish mags that also work fine after I filed some of the really thick coating off them so they'd fit.

Great band, great cover song. I hope Moody can get past his substance abuse.