peejman

Welcome!

What he said. I'd remove them and either blue or rattle can them.

I also have little ones. Thoughts and prayers with your family.

I worked away from my wife for 7 months while she was pregnant with our 1st. Not fun. However, working at the same place as your wife can have pro's and con's... Consider that carefully.

A friend sets up web sites for online sales for a living. If you're interested, I'll send you contact info.

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You can peen the bottom of the dovetail slot (or the sight) to raise a little metal. Or you can peen the sides down a little to tighten up the fit. If you don't intend to adjust it, you can stake the sides. Or try a different front sight. Not sure what you mean by the hand guard. I don't think any of the metal parts would be painted. Yes, you'd have to strip the paint to re-blue.

Given it a lot of thought. Very little actual effort, but lots of thought. I think endurance training would be much more valuable than strength training. There's lots and lots of big, strong guys who would collapse before the 1 mile mark.

The flyer at work has pictures at a range. Our best guess is it's the police range across from William Blount HS, but we're not sure.

Neat stuff. I've always found typical blacksmithing work interesting. There's something satisfying about heating metal red hot, then pounding it into shape. I think it would be a neat skill to learn.

Crabgrass is really hard to fully get rid of. I've basically given up. I spray my lawn with a broad spectrum weed killer in the spring and that's it. I quit bothering with fertilizer since it just makes the weeds grow faster. If your neighbors have weeds, so will you. If you really want it gone, hire one of the professional lawn chemical services (Trugreen, Scotts, etc.). They've got all the goodies needed to take care of it. They're not cheap, but probably more cost effective than fighting it yourself. My neighbor uses them and his yard looks like a golf course. Mine is green and it grows and that's good enough for me.

Find out what the snakes are after, get rid of that, and the snakes will go away. My in-laws had copperheads in their basement. We quite readily discovered that the snakes were there to eat the mice. The mice were eating the dog food and bird seed. Got rid of the dog food and bird seed, no more snakes.

It may be too late (warm) for lettuce. I planted lettuce seeds about 2 months ago. A couple seedlings came up then quickly died, nothing else. What I've read says they're very early spring or fall plants, they don't like the heat. I planted two types of green bean seeds. One version has lots of sprouts coming up, the other only a few so far.

This. And this... http://www.corneredcat.com/Contents/

Bought my Yugo SKS (in excellent shape) and my Ruger P85 (stainless, well worn, but an excellent shooter) both for $350. Given what the SKS was worth at the time, I figured I paid $100- $150 for the Ruger. Given today's value of the SKS, the Ruger was free.

Wife's uncle has lived there for a long time. Cousin (his son, my age) grew up there. The above descriptions sound pretty close to me. I had a job opportunity there several years ago, but just couldn't talk myself into it. Too flat, too far from the coast, and too much bad weather for my tastes.

Nobody? I guess that answers my question.

Good for him. Think if his big brother picked up that Luger from a German officer who didn't need it anymore and gave it to him...

Anyone know anything about these folks? http://site.terminalperformance.com/ Saw a flyer on the bulletin board at work. Can't seem to find anyone who knows anything about it. Looks reasonable based on the web site (facebook is blocked by big brother). It would be quite convenient for me. Just curious if anyone has heard of them...

Anyone know how to convince broccoli plants to actually make broccoli? My plants are relatively large and seem quite healthy, yet... no broccoli. Not even a hint of a head forming. What's up with that?

Excellent pics and descriptions of the issues, thanks!

That's a big snake. Probably someone's pet that got a little too big, so they turned it loose.

Welcome Rob. Thanks for participating.

A coworker recently had one removed... Several years ago, he was napping in his easy chair and his son decided a running jump on Dad would be a fun way to wake him up. Guess where his knee landed. At the time, the doc said it was damaged but advised to wait and see if it would heal up. It mostly did until recently when it began to swell and be very painful as you describe. He said recovery from the surgery wasn't fun, but it's better now. And he's old enough to not need them anymore anyway. Hope yours turns out to be something simple.

It's very difficult to rebuild a tarnished reputation. Just ask Simpson race products. My PT-145 has been excellent.