So today, I am taking the weekend’s cash to the bank, and other errands, and the traffic on the road to the bank is stopped……I waited, and then shut off the truck and walked forward 10 or so cars to see why…

Seems a tree limb had fallen across the road. Not from a storm or anything, but had simply broken and fallen. The road was blocked and a police officer was there. (Branch was about 15″ in diameter, and held on by a piece of wood about 6″ wide and about an inch thick.).

The officer told me that it would be about 20-30 minutes until they could get someone there with a chainsaw to remove the branch (It isn’t that big of a town, dunno why it should take that long…and this is the main street of the town).

I walked back to the truck, opened the tailgate and pulled out the old double bit axe I carry on one side of the bed (the other side has a short handled shovel) and walked back to the downed limb. As I went, I asked several other drivers (male) to come and help me with the branch.

4 strikes and the branch was free. 6 guys, including me, picked up the branch and more or less dragged it onto the grass. Road open. No need for a chainsaw. No waiting either.

The cop, (who watched the whole thing without saying anything) then asked me if I always carried an axe in my truck.

“Doesn’t everybody?” I replied

The look on his face was priceless.

I got back into the truck and drove to the bank.

He watched me carefully as I drove by. I think he was disturbed by my answer…..

Seems the agents will have to eat the same food everyone else has to….and no lavish command center….no special accommodations for the agents to sleep in……and no special dispensations of ice cream and other special treatments.

The BLM folks thought they could blackmail Burning Man to pay for a vacation for them…..And they lost.

Good.

ETA: More HERE…

Shit….and I even brought my mittens.

Bummer

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When everyone says something about how terrible it was that the Atomic Bombing happened at Hiroshima 70 years ago….and analyzes it from the benefit of hindsight….

Think about THIS.

And THIS

You cant change the past of 70 years ago. Nothing will change it or fix it.

War is war. Damage the enemy faster than he damages you in order to remove his will to, and ability to, fight.

We did that.

Too tired to brain.

I got nuthin’.

Go read the folks on the left.

Maybe later.

Spent the days off (weekend) making gasoline powered equipment run (most of it hadn’t run in 7-10 years) in order that it can fetch a decent price at an auction of some old folks property….They are both in nursing homes, so the stuff they will never use again is to be sold at auction to help their finances…

I may NEVER use gasoline powered equipment without adding either Stabil or Pri-G in every tank…At least then my stuff will start when it is time for someone to sell my shit…. God, I hate the smell of old stale gas. But I got all but one piece running. Should be worth about $10K more now….

Spent today playing catch up at work  I may well fire someone that work(s)(ed?) for me for being an idiot.

And I was reminded that I had promised to bury some drainage tile at the range tomorrow….which I had planned as a half day off in order that I could sight-in and function test the Non-Ruger 10-22. I’d blow it off but there are 10 other people coming….Shit.,,,,Maybe sometime  *next* Sunday I can actually go to the range and shoot……

And I got a huge oak down due to wind in the back yard….. Anyone in NW Indiana need about 6-8 ton of firewood? You cut it, you haul it, I make you good deal. Really really really good deal. Might even help you load it. I already have enough firewood from last year that I won’t use the new stuff before it rots…..

About the time you are reading this, the men of the Indianapolis had just been SEEN. Not yet rescued….But seen. Rescue operations are just now getting underway.

Think about that ordeal.

70 years ago today..

Those poor bastards in the Indianapolis began their ordeal.

Forgotten by their command, they floated for 4 days in the Pacific after being torpedoed on their way from Guam to the Phillipines…No one was looking for ’em….A LOT of people failed the men of the Indianapolis that day and the next…

No one was even looking for them. Found by accident .

4 days.

880 went into the water..

217 came out.

Kinda like this story:

Seriously, at least a piece of it.

or so it appears.

Seems that a piece of what appears to be a 777 (and there is only one missing) wing or flap washed up on the shore of Reunion Island….But how long ago it washed up no one knows.

It is, at least, something to go on.

Maybe, at long last, someone will know, for sure, what happened. Maybe the rest of the wreck can be found.

Maybe…..