I’m now a tailgunner on a truck that delivers eggs from the farm to the grocery store.

Pretty good advice.

Sad that so many people never learn this.

” ‘Tis better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war”

Lao Tzu

In other words, be peaceful and productive…when circumstances allow. But have the capacity for violence and destruction when circumstances require.

Only then will you have a chance for peace.

The Ukrainian “conflict” (war) is an example.

So are you a gardener or a warrior

Dude gets the treasure his grandad buried when the Russians invaded….

Treasure hunter uses his father’s hand-drawn map to find buried silver – 80 years after his Polish family buried it in remote forest while fleeing WW2 invasion in what was Poland but is now Ukraine

I guess he figured he was out of time and it would be Russians that invaded again, so he finally got off the dime and began searching….before it became a part of Russia once more.

(We know it was Poland, then invaded by Russians, then Ukraine, so apparently the land changes hands often…..)

Seems that a substation caught fire in Oakland California.

So it must be those damned Right wing folks... Says so in the article..with, of course, no proof. But it must be because it happened somewhere else a while back.

Now I am not sayin’ it is, and I ain’t sayin’ it isn’t.

But why conflate the two until there is some evidence that it isn’t some other cause?

If you read this blog regularly, then you likely have become somewhat aware that all you are told by the Media is not always the whole truth….(yeah, I know, I am a master of understatement….)

If so, you should ask yourself: When did you become aware?

Go there, and read the comments. ‘Tis an interesting discussion.

For me, I think it began with my father’s father when I was an early teenager…then a teacher or two, and I think around then I began really listening to (and hearing)  what my father talked about….and it snowballed from there. They all taught me to think, and question….and slowly, piece by piece, bit by bit, the picture became more and more obvious. The doubts grew.

There were many reinforcing moments along the way…too many to list. But they added up. Carter, Bush, Ruby Ridge and Waco, GWB, GHB’s capitulation on “Amnesty”, “Global Warming”… Lots of other happenings. The Tea Parties, The reaction of BOTH parties to Trump. Lots of media stories that I was able to debunk or find the missing details over the years………the total misleading of the US people. The attempts at social engineering with the normalization in the media of the Gay lifestyle (Not acceptance, but normalization) and the push for the acceptance of the pedophiles….

I don’t believe anything they tell me and less than half of what I see .

So there, all alone on a table at the gunshow, was a nearly pristine Marlin model 39A.

I’ve been looking for a model 39M, the straight stocked version for a long time, and they are as rare as hen’s teeth. Decent 39A’s are hard to find as well….The examples out there are shot-to-shit and all scratched up or dinged up, or the join where the receiver splits is all peened up….

This one had no box, but was as new as it it had just come from the factory…..if it has 25 rounds through it I’d be surprised. It is a 1985 production. Clean, rust free, scratch free, ding free.

We haggled. He didn’t get what he wanted for it, and I paid more than I wanted…..But It came home with me. Cash sale, too.

I paid too much for it, but ain’t that always the case?

Anyway, new range toy. Nothing more fun to plink with than a lever action .22.

The Dunes Gun and Knife show in Valparaiso.

I hope my wallet survives.

So Bobby the Redneck is fishing in the lake using half sticks of dynamite. He lights the fuse, waits, throws the dynamite a few yards away, waits for the explosion, and then. when the stunned fish rise to the surface, he scoops ’em up with his net.

He’s done this three times, and has a fair number of fish, when he sees the game warden waving at him frantically from the shore.

He ignores the guy, who finally gets a boat and motors right up next to Bobby.

“You can’t fish with Dynamite!” He yells to Bobby

“Why not?” asks Bobby

“It’s illegal!” He yells.

Bobby calmly takes another half stick of dynamite, lights it, and throws it to the game warden on the other boat a few feet away…

“You gonna yell at me some more or are we gonna fish?” asks Bobby.

Raquel Welch dies at 82.

Not only a sex symbol of her age, but a beautiful woman whose class and behavior should be a lesson to all women. Few could match her then, She was an example of what to strive for in looks and behavior and poise and style. I don’t think any women of todays celebrity and fame have the class and style to hold a candle to her.