Armed Eye Doc

I bruised a thumb on my brother's pistol grip shotgun. They did suck. I have no problem shooting my shockwave one-handed with minishells.

It appears that Ruger has discontinued the SR762 and I could not find a reference to a 6.5 Creedmoor upper in a brief search. Others may have more information though.

I do thank God that I was here to detect it and that I was protected from harm and the house remains relatively intact.

Welcome from Texas.

That is a nice paint job. Glad you you rifle working well.

It is real wood.

If I could find the laser engraving people again, that would be awesome.

He got enough money already. He's not getting lottery winnings.

These are the styles I got with the grab bag o' machetes.

Funny you should mention that. I scratched a $50 winner this morning.

I ordered this from Majorsurplus.com. 3-5 packs of machetes for $20 each. Then they doubled the order. Now I have a shitload of machetes that I paid $2 a piece for. They need some sharpening but the steel seems better than cheap machetes I have seen. No zombies will get past me.

The rest of the tree is down as is the smaller one we had him take down. Power and gas are back up. We lost our bathroom heater in the process. It is no longer in code and could not be left connected with a leak in the system. All the gas lines were replaced from the wall to the appliances. We are mostly whole except the carport.

Amen

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks everyone! Just to clarify, I was not in the house once the glowing gas line was discovered. That is why I do not have the picture. Fire, gas and electric were called as soon as it was realized. The tree guy is a volunteer FF and helped to make sure it was safe. Now that it ended safely, I can wish I got the picture because it was impressive. It is that inner child in me.

I still wish I had gotten a picture of the glowing gas line.

The house was built in the mid 50s. There's no telling if there was a code at that time.

He has been doing tree work for 5 or 6 years. His rope broke on that one limb. He said it was 900lb rope. Power is back on finally. A couple of things may have gotten fried. Microwave and a wifi router didn't make it. AC unit isn't coming on. It may have been turned off due to the gas furnace. The gas company found that there was a leak somewhere but couldn't say where it was. They used sniffers and said it was not the water heater or the furnace. Now I need a plumber.

@DNP's beard will tickle.

We hired a guy to take down 2 trees. One was a 50 foot oak in the front yard. It had the house on one side, carport on one side and power lines on another - overhanging all of them. The other tree is in the backyard between a fence and the detached garage with about 5 feet of space. He started in the front. He had gotten about half of the tree down without issue. Then this happened. He is bonded and insured and, most importantly, did not run away. I was in the house and heard the crash and saw power flicker off and on. Half of the breakers in the box had tripped. The limb had hit the power supply line from the pole to the house. I went back in to finish lunch when I noticed sparking in a wall. I ran to turn the main breaker off thinking that would be the end. But no, the sparking continued. I called the tree guy in who called an electrician friend to get here quick. We heard a buzzing sound that we tracked to the water heater closet. The copper tubing was glowing red. It is the gas supply to the water heater. It was radiating heat, not what you want from a natural gas line. (I wish I had gotten a picture of the red hot tubing.). We called the power company, fire department and the gas company. The electrician figured out that the limb had pull one leg of the power out of the meter into the tube and was arcing to it. It blew the return line to the pole and needed a place to ground. It found the gas line. We are currently sitting in a house without power or gas. Luckily, it is not going to get cold for a couple of days. We have our generator running a fan and TV while we wait for the power to get turned back on. It is supposed to be on before midnight. As I said, life sucks at the moment but I am thankful that no one was hurt and I still have a house to sit in and complain.

Welcome to the forum.

Do I see a small piece of scorched Earth at the bottom of the hill?

That explains your marriages.

It looks like y'all will have great weather for the shoot tomorrow. Are we going to get pictures of the shoot? It would be nice to go to one of these at the last minute. Damn responsibilities!

A young New York woman was so depressed that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the ocean, but just before she could throw herself from the docks, a handsome young man stopped her. "You have so much to live for," said the man. "I'm a sailor, and we are off to Italy tomorrow. I can stow you away on my ship. I'll take care of you, bring you food every day, and keep you happy." With nothing to lose, combined with the fact that she had always wanted to go to Italy , the woman accepted. That night the sailor brought her aboard and hid her in a small but comfortable compartment in the ship’s hold. From then on, every night he would bring her three sandwiches, a bottle of red wine, and make love to her until dawn. Three weeks later she was discovered by the captain, during a routine inspection. "What are you doing here?" asked the captain. "I have an arrangement with one of the sailors," she replied. "He brings me food and I get a free trip to Italy ." "I see," the captain says. Her conscience got the best of her, and she added, "Plus, he's screwing me." "He certainly is," replied the captain. "This is the Staten Island Ferry."