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The garden at home produced reasonably, though I'll change some things next year... I planted the broccoli too close together and I didn't plant enough. The heads we got were tasty, but I was a little disappointed with the total yield. We ate all we got, no extra to save. I planted too much spinach. It grew so fast and made so much that the plants got away from me. It got bitter and went to seed quickly. Given that both spinach and broccoli are "cool weather" plants, I was surprised how long they lasted. I didn't plant enough snap peas and they need something to climb. I was lazy and didn't get the trellis put in soon enough after they began to grow. The bed has a base of pine needles and I thought that might be enough, but the peas on the ground rotted. That was about half my plants. The plants that climbed the chicken wire around the garden (lots of rabbits around) did fine and the peas were quite tasty. Again, we ate all we got, none to save. The tomatoes are growing quite well with lots of small green tomatoes, but none ripe yet. We put cantaloupe in another flower bed where a bush died and left a hole. It's doing ok if I can save it from the rabbits. I'm also a suburbanite so unfortunately rabbit stew isn't a good solution. The garden at work is doing ok... sort of. I didn't till my area after the tractor did the whole thing and that seems to have been a mistake. My area is full of weeds, it's terrible. Most of my plants are alive, but not really thriving. I've harvested some okra, but the plants are still tiny (knee high). When I've grown them at home they'd get 8 ft tall. A lot of it was too tough to eat as well. My tomato plants are also tiny... less than half the size of the ones at home. They've also got lots of baby maters, but no ripe ones yet. The green beans that sprouted are tiny (noticing a theme?). I planted two types of bush beans, about 1/2 of one type came up and less than 1/4 of the other came up. I've gotten a couple handfuls of beans, which were tasty, but that's it. The cucumbers seems to be the only thing that's growing reasonably, though it's somewhat hard to find them amongst the weeds. I've gotten maybe 1/4 bushel so far and they've been tasty. The watermelon plants are still alive, but not really growing. If I do this work garden again next year, there will have to be some serious changes. EPA regs not withstanding, something's gotta be done about the weeds (being an industrial site, we're responsible for our water run off and were told we couldn't use chemicals). It also desperately needs more compost. The drought/heat is taking a toll as well. I put a section of perforated corrugated pipe on the downspout adjacent to my garden at home so all the rain that hits the roof ends up in the garden. I think that's helping. My rain barrel is nearly empty too. At work, the company has let us run a hose from the building to the garden and a fellow gardener put up a sprinkler system. Unfortunately, the sprinkler doesn't reach all of my area so I have to hand water a bunch of it.... which I'm headed out the door to do right now...

As others have said, if you can legally own a handgun and meet the eligibility requirements, fine with me. A coworker is a resident alien from the UK and a serious gun nut. He typically buys guns 3 at a time because the "instant" part of TICS usually takes 3 days for him.

Best I recall, the water bath was how we did it. If my wife and I get back into it, I'd likely use the side burner on my grill to keep the heat out of the house. Ironic that you have to have the huge pot of boiling water at the hottest time of the year. I like your method of freezing stuff until later in the year when it's cooler. We're somewhat casually looking for a chest freezer at the moment... need more space.

Not a $0.10 paper bag, something even cheaper.... a light switch. The judicial system is absurd. The judge that didn't tell this family and their schmuck attorney to f-off needs to step down.

There's an app for that... http://www.motherearthnews.com/mother-earth-news-apps.aspx http://www.motherear...zecz11zsmi.aspx We don't can, though I have a bit of interest in learning how. I helped my parents can stuff when I was a kid and have bad memories of miserably hot, sweaty work. We canned tons of green tomato pickles, which I don't really like anyway. Now I mostly freeze stuff, though canning is a better long term option.

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jamming-cell-phones-and-gps-equipment-against-law

I agree. And that's why I pick blueberries instead...

mmmm.... shepherd's pie. Come to think of it, we may have one buried somewhere in the bottom of the freezer.

Thick and starchy, again with lots of ice cream.

This thread is full of win!

Mine too (though she's not a yankee). She'll ask if I want a piece of pe-cahn pie. I say "What? Oh, you mean pee-can pie. Sure! With ice cream, lots of ice cream." Though truth be told, peach cobbler is better. Oh, and to Dolomite's post above.... nail, meet head.

Welcome!

Yes, quite.

So the bolt isn't holding the case rim tight enough against the breech face for it to seal? Is there an obvious gas escape (other than the noise)? That may be normal for a .22, it just seems a little odd. How much does the size of the brass vary?

As Lester points out... I'd surmise than anything earlier than about 1800 is very unreliable. It certainly seems to neglect a number of significant global civilizations. My take on the chart is that the US economy has grown at a much higher rate than the others. I wonder if that's really GDP per capita instead of gross numbers. I'd expect to see a dip in the last decade or so, but not starting in 1950.

Ah yes, the good old vinegar and baking soda volcano. I'll have to remember that next time I'm hanging out with a few particular friends... Cool, thanks for the pic. Is there any sort of fire grate in the bottom, or does the wood just sit on the ground? I assume you have to start the fire and let it burn down to coals before you start cooking? Then feed in wood as needed to keep it going. How do you keep it from flaring up when you add wood?

Keep in mind that it may be against the law to bring firewood from your home to your campsite. http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/firewood-alert.htm http://www.tn.gov/agriculture/regulatory/tcd.shtml http://www.tn.gov/agriculture/publications/regulatory/tcd_map.pdf That said, hiking, fishing (license req'd), swimming, hot dogs over the fire, smores, books, ...

I'd like to build this... http://www.motherear...And-Smoker.aspx

I discovered it when I tried some old fashioned bulls-eye shooting.... one handed, arm straight out sideways. My groups were noticeably smaller than with both hands.

yep. A little motion blur might look cool... seeing the path of the ball through the air. Actually, probably not. The sports mode will choose the fastest practical shutter speed... 1/1500 or faster bright sunlight. If you right-click on the photo and hit properties, it should tell you the aperature, f-stop, and shutter speed for each photo. If you hold the shutter button down, it'll go into burst mode and you'll get 3 pics/second. Tell me about it.... What mcurrier said. Zoom lenses are light hogs and you get what you pay for. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/35mm-Lenses/ci/3018/N/4294247086 http://www.keh.com/Camera/format-Digital/system-Canon-Digital/category-Zoom-Lenses?s=1&bcode=DC&ccode=7&cc=80296&r=WG&f

There's tons of choices. Your best bet is to find a range near you with rentals and try a bunch to see what suits you best.

I have a periodic problem shooting low left. I've traced it to squeezing too much with my support hand. Both squeezing it during trigger press, and just plain holding on too tight. When my hits start moving low left, I have to force myself to relax my support hand and the hits come back on target.

Cool. How is the inside set up?

Use a bullet puller, aka pliers, to remove the bullet. Pour the powder in a yellow jacket nest. Drop a match in the hole. Save the case for dry fire practice.

Neat. It'd be cool if the draw one worked with the computer microphone and would pick up on the "click" to give you a time.