June Mr. Completely e-Postal Is Up!

Click over to Engineering Johnson for the details of the June contest, which you can shoot this weekend, along with the May contest (Posted on the left side of this page.)  It looks like Zeke has designed a great contest, and I recommend trying to shoot it quickly at least once.  If you want to time yourself, set up a camera on a tripod, and you can get your time off of the video you shoot.

Weekend Steam; Holy Cow, A Year Goes By Fast!

The Southern Indiana Antique Machinery Show is just a week away; boy does time fly. There is usually a steam engine or two there to run the sawmill, plus beaucoup tractors, gas engines, fleas, and old cars. Click here for current information from their webpage.

If you need a show for this weekend, Click Here to go shopping.  Summer fun has begun!

Crankin' It Up: A Black Cat Double; Introducing Bart

WillYouRemember by TrueBlueSam Will You Remember was recorded in February, 1918, and is from the Broadway play, Maytime, which was very popular with doughboys who were shipping out from New York; this was one of the earworms for our men being shipped to the meat grinder of the Western Front. Brat's buddy Bart wanted up on the Brunswick with his pal tonight, so you all get your first glimpse of that cat. Bart is a much heavier bodied cat, but he didn't have the Tasmanian personality that Brat had when he showed up. Bart likes to sit on your lap and be petted, while Brat prefers patrolling the house and singing his songs.

e-Postal Deadline Is Coming Up!

The end of May is almost upon us, so shoot your targets and send them in to smallestconservative (at) hotmail (dot) com.  Tactics are important on this target.  The little goober with the nine bullet holes around it is worth 1000 points, but I couldn't hit that sucker.  I re-shot and picked up some easier points.  Click Here if you still need to download a target and study the rules.

UPDATE! UPDATE!! UPDATE!!!

The May e-Postal has been extended through the first weekend of June!  Engineering Johnson should be posting the June contest, and then you can shoot both on the same weekend!!!  Zeke?

Unbelievable

Too Many Tacos?

Taco Tierra in Fairfield, Illinois has been a regular stop for lunches for more than twenty-five years; they have lunch specials Monday through Friday, and that determines what I order when I stop.  Whether you stop at ten in the morning or eight o'clock at night, the line is out to the street, and you don't order over a speaker.  One of the workers comes to your window, takes your order, (Mild, Medium, or Hot?) and your food is ready when you get to the window.  Recently I pulled up to the window, the lady opened the little door and said "$3.63."  I handed her the money, she handed me a bag of tacos, and I drove a couple miles down the road and parked to eat my lunch.  Halfway through the first taco I realized that I hadn't placed an order, but the bag had what I wanted.  Try that at your local burger outlet.

Ruger's Auction To Benefit Youth Shooting Sports Alliance

Ruger's auction this week is a New Model Super Single Six manufactured in 1975.  Click Over to Ruger's GunBroker page to read all about it.  This auction ends mid-day on Wednesday this week.

Just One More Thought For This Day...

THE LAST POST

The stars are shining bright above the camps,
The bugle calls float skyward, faintly clear;
Over the hill the mist-veiled motor lamps
Dwindle and disappear.
The notes of day's goodbye arise and blend
With the low murmurous hum from tree and sod,
And swell into that question at the end
They ask each night of God--
Whether the dead within the burial ground
Will ever overthrow their crosses grey,
And rise triumphant from each lowly mound
To greet the dawning day.
Whether the eyes which battle sealed in sleep
Will open to reveille once again,
And forms, once mangled, into rapture leap,
Forgetful of their pain.
But still the stars above the camp shine on,
Giving no answer for our sorrow's ease,
And one more day with the Last Post has gone,
Dying upon the breeze.

Vera Brittain, V.A.D. Nurse

Our Memorial Day

Train...

...up a child in the way he should go;

 and when he is old,

he will not depart from it.