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Good morning

Helos have wire cutters too. Not sure I would care to try one for real.

Good evening to all of you. Cloudy today with a high of high 50s and a few light showers. We have a good chance of thunderstorms tonight into tomorrow morning. We are forecast to have a very nice weekend with highs in the high 60s, perhaps even 70.

I am ready for spring, lol.

Y’all have a great day.
 
I’m still playing with the guitars, and I haven’t touched the car. It’s been cold enough to keep my old bones indoors lately. I decided I can deal with any little rust that forms at my leisure.

That cheap Indonesian Telecaster is turning out to be my very favorite guitar. I’m playing it far more than the Schecter or the Stratocaster.

The 1448 is a lot of fun to play as well, but the Tele is a little bigger. Certainly a higher quality instrument as well.

Anyhow, not much going here otherwise.
 
Ernst said:
Kevin, you are exactly right!

Guess us old guys remember the day! Ha, Ha!

Regards
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After my dad broke his back on a jump with the 101 in WWII, he was a general's driver until he healed up enough to volunteer for the glider corps. Right before Normandy. He told me about the traps the other side would rig for unsuspecting vehicles.
 
Kevin, bless your Dad and his service during the war. We have very few WWII veterans still living and most of us can only live through the stories and photos they left. I always remember the stories my Dad passes on about the war and the recovery years after the war. Unfortunately we are also losing over 300 Vietnam era veterans each day and most of us are in our late 70s to early 90s.

So few young folks even know the history of WWII, Korea, or Vietnam.

Regards
 
Ernst said:
Kevin, bless your Dad and his service during the war. We have very few WWII veterans still living and most of us can only live through the stories and photos they left. I always remember the stories my Dad passes on about the war and the recovery years after the war. Unfortunately we are also losing over 300 Vietnam era veterans each day and most of us are in our late 70s to early 90s.

So few young folks even know the history of WWII, Korea, or Vietnam.

Regards
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Speaking of Vietnam, my son graduated from high school in 2000 - I remember looking through his history class book....they still used books back then....and there was NO reference whatsoever to the Vietnam "conflict". I was appalled.
 
Good morning to all of yous. Cloudy again today, but it has not fallen as some think it is. We are forecast to have sunny skies and mid to high 60s this weekend. I can handle that.

Isn’t it ironic when Biden took office every thing from roads built 60 years ago to the price of bananas was racist. Now, if the new administration mentions DEI the talking heads start spinning around and exploding. Just an observation.

Anyways, you all have a great day.
 
Husker88 said:
Speaking of Vietnam, my son graduated from high school in 2000 - I remember looking through his history class book....they still used books back then....and there was NO reference whatsoever to the Vietnam "conflict". I was appalled.
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Kevin, guess that doesn't surprise me! History these days seems to be whatever was on social media yesterday! Or, at best, in the 72 hour news cycle!

However, I will give you one real world observation. I proudly wear my Vietnam Veteran's hat most of the time when we go out and I have never had one younger person, say under 30 or so, make a comment (not that one is ever expected). The majortity of the comments come from older men and women, typically over 50 or 60, and are either "thank you for your service" or "welcome home".

I have my doubts if many folks today could even show you on a map where Vietnam is.

My other obsevation is that I seldom see younger veterans wearing military related hats. What you see the most are Vietnam era hats, a few Korea hats and a decreasing number of WWII hats. Occasionally I see someone wearing a specific service or unit hat.

Regards
 
My father spent over 30 years in military service, and he never spoke about it much or even at all without being questioned, once he retired.

He served in two hot wars and, between them he did hazardous remote station duty, during the early cold war.

He didn’t wear ribbons or badges or hats. He didn’t go to the VFW or the American Legion or anything like that. He knew what he’d done and he really didn’t care if anyone else knew or not.

That was enough for him.
 
Good Monring All. Wyoming weather update. Hope you all are enjoying better weather today than us!

Temperature was minus 6 over night for the low and we are currently at zero. Looks like we've got about five inches of snow so far and the daytime forecast is for 2 to 4 more inches before the front passes. Today's high is forecasted to be 9 but I'm not sure we will make that.

They issued avalanche warnings for the mountains early this morning and they were forecast to get several feet of snow with this storm.

Groundhog said six more weeks of winter. Hopefully Mother nature doesn't agree!
 
Here in Cow Town its supposed to hit 60+ today with sun. What a change from two weeks ago. It won't last, being February in the Midwest, but I'll take it. People are wearing shorts and T-shirts at the store.
 
It was 70° here yesterday and it’s already 64 before noon.

I read this yesterday and had to laugh a little bit.

“Why are all you conspiracy theorists so quiet right now? I mean, you’ve FINALLY got an actual elitist billionaire taking control of the government – the thing you’ve always predicted and railed against….?”

It’s because he’s cool. Right now he’s the coolest man in the universe as far as I can tell, and nobody else can compete with him in that respect.

I may not want to drive a tesla or a cyber truck or fly to Mars, But it doesn’t bother me a bit that he does. If I wanted to do those things I’d want the same rights as him.

The coolest thing about Elon Musk is he still young and he’s going to learn and grow even more. A serious force to be reckoned with.
 
Good morning. Cloudy and 42 at 8 am. The high today high 40s, maybe 50. Yesterday was sunny and a high of 82. Tomorrow should ben60s, and so on and so forth. It certainly beats the cold like up north.

You all have a great day.
 
Good Morning! Just a quick weather update.

Snow stopped last night and we have around 8 inches but hard to accurately measure given the wind. Overnight we were negative 3 and sitting at zero now. Should get into low teens today but expecting wind. Our high yesterday was 5 above. Have a second front coming Thursday night and Friday but should be quicker and less snow.

Old man winter is certainly here.

Everyone have a great day!
 
It was in the high 60s today but we did get some breeze and some mild rain.

I sold the Ruger precision rifle yesterday. I was really disappointed in the ballistic performance shooting .308 caliber. I always shot better at 200 yards with the .223 Savage.

I included the Zeiss scope because I didn’t like it at all. I think there was something defective with it right from the factory.

There was also this adjustable swivel bipod that I bought, and I hated the thing.

Finally there was a Plano flight case, and oh boy did I hate it, because it was just so freaking heavy, and it really wasn’t quite the right case for that rifle either.

I turned that money into two more guitars and a new (vegan) leather guitar strap.

Here I have a baby blue garden-variety Stratocaster clone that you can find anywhere. This one has some upgraded parts on it though, and it makes it a really nice playing guitar.

Also, the classic 1958 Silvertone Speed Demon, made by Kay.

Neither one of these guitars shows any playing wear. One is just too new to have any. The other one got put away in the closet and didn’t get played for 60 years.
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Here I am pretending to be Roy Clark, or Buck Owens, or Slim Pickens… I don’t know. She’s a rather complicated Guitar.
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I paid $850 for the Speed Demon. If it had been a Gibson ES 335 in this condition, from the same year, it would’ve probably fetched $25k.

Somebody said you can’t buy love. But it’s easy to buy things that you love.

Especially if it starts out by selling something that you hate.
 
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