May e-Postal Results Are Up!...

...over at the Smallest Conservative. This was a great match, and pretty much boiled down to what you could hit after you had collected 10,000 points. Many Thanks to the Sand Castle Crew for putting the May match together for the rest of us to enjoy. Be sure to shoot the June match over at Engineering Johnson's blog, or click on the link to the June match on the left sidebar.

Weekend Steam: A Little Rocky Mountain High

Courtesy of the Fishers.

Not My Victrola

BSGS98 has posted a rare record of Mills Merry Makers performing 'Moanin' Low' from 1929.  We are well into the electrical era with this song, and it is interesting to hear a flute being featured, something that would not have been possible a few years before.




And one from cdbpdx of the Red Hot Mama:
...And Annette Hanshaw from EdmundusRex.

 

Brat will be along later this weekend...

Should'a Done A Little More Calculatin'

It seemed like a good idea.  Susan's Mom hasn't had a good appetite since her stroke, and was doing a lot of picking at her food instead of eating.  We had her do a weigh-in, and she was down to 92 pounds; not good.  We started taking her out to eat at least once every weekend, and she will clean her plate at a restaurant.  We've been hitting KFC, Long John's, barbecue places, even Taco Tierra in Fairfield, and it worked!  She was up to 97 the last time she weighed.  I checked my weight, and I have picked up 6 pounds during the same period.  Gotta fine tune this idea a bit.

Not Only Merely; Really Most Sincerely...

South of Orchardville, IL. 

Cultural Ref

Come For The Hats...

...and that's just the beginning!  Meet the bloggers you read.

 Shooting lessons from real champions!

Vintage firearms usually appear; this one from 1927!

And, maybe something will follow you home!

Gun Blogger Rendezvous is just three months away!  Click Here to go to the GBR website, and register with Mr. Completely.  Proceeds from GBR and the big Saturday night raffle go to Project Valour-IT, to purchase voice activated computers for wounded service personnel.  It's guaranteed to be a great time!

A Blast From Our Past

 A lifetime ago we were small scale beekeepers, but we gave away our active hives about twenty years ago and stashed our leftover equipment in the barn.  The Mrs recently got the hankering to jump back in, and we attended a class to refresh our memories and learn what is new.

Sunday, we drove up to Waterloo to a well respected beekeeper and brought back two nucs with good queens and lots of eggs and brood.  Click to enlarge this photo and you should see the queen with a spot on her back.  These seem to be extremely good-natured bees, who never got cross while we handled them in spite of the cool, cloudy weather.  I was up against the action while our hives were assembled without any protection.  I did make sure before I left home to wear a light colored cap.  Don't ever wear black around beehives.

Susan is going to be the primary beekeeper, but I am getting a new hat and veil so I can do the heavy lifting for her.  The car sure did smell good coming home; bees have a happy smell.

Ruger's Auction To Benefit Youth Shooting Sports Alliance

There can't be many more of these U.S. Government models left in Ruger's vault.  None were sold to the public out of the 17,000 Ruger made for the miltary, and this is one of the few rare ones that were hiding in the Ruger vault.  Click Here to go read all about it on Ruger's GunBroker page.

This fine firearm will sell mid-day, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

Your Job Should Be So Sweet

Back To The Old Grind!

Not My Victrola: An Old YouTube Friend

KSPM0220 was a YouTuber, until YT killed his account for copyright issues.  That is something that I have to watch, and you never know what will trip their trigger.  Last week they blocked two century-plus old records, and sent me a nasty-gram about copyright strikes.  I think that in the future I will confine my record uploads to DailyMotion, which is much more friendly to old record sharers like KSPM and me.  Here is one he posted back in 2009; a real upbeat song from the 1920's



Shakin' The Blues Away-Ben Selvin Orchestra 1927 by bigband78