Had a baseball tournament for my son this weekend. Coaches and families took all the kids to a major league game Friday night, watched fireworks after, and spent the next two days playing ball. They won every game they played, got to go swimming together at the hotel, eat and bond. The stuff you hope happens for your kid’s memories. Came home with a championship medal.
A great weekend.

A YT short popped up from
Fieldcraftsurvival.

I can’t embed it but here is a link,

https://youtube.com/shorts/nW3PVSMR1XQ?feature=share

Those guys have had a sort of happy.

Pilots especially will be interested.

Here you go.

I came REALLY close to that. Flying low, 200' just offshore, a flock of pelicans decided to come my way. I turned to avoid the flock, one of them left the flock and flew directly in front of me. Hit the prop, fortunately on the starboard side -- prop rotates clockwise looking forward, so the pelican hit the descending blade and was thrown downward. If it had hit on the port side it would have been thrown upward and likely come through the windshield.

Happened upon a garage sale last Saturday ,
Found a nice loop handle ,two wheeled hand truck .

I've been looking for,for a month.
600 pound capacity with inflatable tires.

Retail: $55.00
I got it for $10.00.

quote:

Originally posted by V-Tail:
I came REALLY close to that...

On my first cross-country while in PFT (in a Cessna 152), we were leaving Shenandoah Airport and in the distance could see a big kettle of vultures volplaning upwards of 2,000 AGL on the warm day. Maybe 50 of them.

Mark (the instructor) turned to me and said "Whatever you do, don't hit one of those fucking birds."

It is amazing the things one remembers after nearly 45 years.

Sig2340,
That's outstanding.
Great for you.

Been working on my weight and have thus far lost 30 pounds and dropped a few inches of my waist.
A good friend had a wonderful 50th anniversary party.
Get the chance to shoot about once a week and have a good time pulling the trigger.

Keep doing what's working for you.i remember my first 30 lbs.
I was dizzy with elation, you should be too.

My grand-daughter graduated from high school. Honors for a 3.8 GPA, student of the year for Orchestra, plans to finish her Associate’s degree at a community college then major in a STEM field. (She loves math)
Damn, I’m proud of her!

quote:

Originally posted by bendable:

i remember my first 30 lbs. I was dizzy with elation

A guy was having a drink in a bar and struck up a conversation with a woman, who mentioned that she had lost 30 pounds in a month.

"Wow," he said, "Doesn't 30 make you dizzy?"

"You got the price right," she answered, "but the name's Daisy."

New personal best treadmill walk this morning.

2.02 miles up a 1.5% incline in 49:00 minutes.

Followed by a short ride on the stationary bike, circuit weights, free weights, and resistance band workout.

My goal is to walk 3 mph for 90 minutes then I’m adding a ruck.

I took last weekend "off" after being out of town working for six days. Didn't do a single chore, not one. Slept in and spent all day on the boat or on the dock just hanging out with my wife and friends. Recharged my batteries. Felt good.

I’ve been busting ass nonstop at work and was starting to feel very burned out. Overheard the store manager telling the assistant I report to, “Of all the department managers in here, he’s one of only two that always deliver.” Normally such things don’t mean much to me but this time it actually gave me a nice morale boost.

Also, the garden is looking great so far this year. I put a ton of work into it and it didn’t do my back or shoulders any good so it’s nice to see the hard work pay off.

Saw one of these today. Beautiful butterfly. I'd never seen one before, although their range is all over the southeast.

In the past few months my wife and I have reconnected with two ladies we hadn't seen in years. They used to be fairly left leaning but now are conservative. When I was talking with one she told me "I've changed a bit since we last saw one another, I'm more like you now". My response was "You're fat and dumpy now as well?" Anyway, I introduced them both to firearms and shooting and both are now training and have submitted for their NYS Pistol Permit. They seem to have developed an enthusiasm for shooting and learning.