And that is after a double dose of  “Vitamin I”….I must be gettin’ old….

So yesterday, we had a work party to recoat the metal roof of the indoor range building. I try to get it coated every 5 years, but we were two years behind…..Both of our 2019 work days had been rained out, and we won’t bother discussing the dumpster fire that  was 2020. But this job had to be done soon….The metal roof is 45 years old and it has no rust yet, but we gotta keep it cared for.

(Caring for infrastructure of something like a range is an ongoing task…..paint, roof coating, general maintenance, it has to be done…..or it can cost you. Ferisntance: a new roof has been quoted at $64,000 without replacement insulation…And, frankly, the range doesn’t have that kind of money….so we gotta take care of what we got….)

I spent a few hours by myself on Friday cleaning a portion of the roof of old coating material in order to have one portion ready for coating while another part was being cleaned so we could stagger people in order to not have them all on top of each other or just standing around… That put my arms and hands at a pretty high fatigue level at the start of Saturday….

Saturday was a beautiful day for doing such work. at 8 AM the temp was 68 degrees. The sun was out and the roof dried of morning dew quickly. People showed up we had jobs for them. Brushing the roof of detritus, scraping the loose material, brooming and blowing it off, brushing on the new coating. I handed out gloves to some of them (who shows up to work without gloves???? At least they showed up though).

We had just enough volunteers show. Not any extra, but enough. One team cleaning the roof, the others brushing the new coating on.

Having said that, by 11:00 it was getting fairly warm and there was no breeze and people were getting hot . 3 or more hours of spreading roof coating or scraping the roof gets tiring. I made sure that everyone had enough cold water and stayed hydrated. Fatigue had caught up with me as my arms had not recovered well from my work Friday, but I pressed on

Soon enough, it was 1 pm and the temp was 84F…and we were cleaning up.

Everyone was hot and tired, but we should be good for at least another 5 years….My thanks to those other Range members who showed up and worked hard…when they could have chosen to do something enjoyable on a beautiful Saturday.. It is volunteers like this that keep the Range operational.

I am glad that things went as well as they did. My logistics and planning came off well, as there was mixed material there when it was needed and there was little waiting for clear space to work and such. I’ve done this 4 other times on this roof, so I had the plan worked out, and it worked out well. Experience pays.

My arms are still tired though, as I type this on Sunday Morning, and mostly my hands are a bit stiff… (I just don’t recover like I did 10 years ago. )

What you do with it is up to you:

http://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2021/09/is-your-employer-mandating-untested.html

But, sadly, the government’s reaction to the Covid issue….and more importantly, the citizens of that country and their acquiescence to the government’s lockdown have made me decide that I really can take that off my bucket list of places to visit and experience.

Sad, really. I wanted to see the country.

ETA: I had always believed that the Australians were rugged, individualistic, and as freedom loving as US citizens. A heritage that bred strong people, not slaves to government nannies. Apparently, I was incorrect.

ETA: THIS

Seems the Newsom “won” his recall election.

Was there really any doubt? What with the early voting, unverified mail-in voting, and all the other shenanigans, is anyone really surprised that this whole thing was simply Election Theater with Taxpayer money?

If you are surprised, then you apparently aren’t paying attention.

Thing is, I don’t know if the win by Newsom was legit or not, any more than Biden’s win less than a year ago was legit (or not). I do know that the system as it exists is ripe for opportunities for fraud. I do know that if we don’t have elections where we can trust the results, our governments become more and more illegitimate in the eyes of the citizens. This won’t end well.

For Kalifronica….not well.

Seems tht they are now looking to burn even more fossil fuel to make up for the shortfall….and they want relief from Federal pollution standards to do so…

I think the Feds should tell the Californians to pound sand, and make ’em deal with the results of their idiocy. Darkness has an effect on people and it means that they need to see what their leaders are leading then towards.

Thing is, this push for renewables energy and purchasing electricity from other states simply means that the pollution happens somewhere else, not that there is no pollution happening to make electricity. Kinda like the idiots who claim battery powered cars are “Emissions Free”.

We are told all the current Covid Cases are the Delta variant…

But only months ago, they were all Covid “Alpha” and “Beta” variants. Now those variants seem to have gone away.

I find that hard to believe….that the “Original” two variants of this disease simply disappeared.

While I am not an epidemiologist, this seems….strange. One would think that the transition would include a mix of the original strains for a long time, with the Delta variant adding to the case count, not taking it over all at once.

The Media has switched from showing bar graphs of covid deaths to showing bar graphs of covid cases. ,,,,if they show us a graph at all…

Almost as if they need to keep the fear up but the death graphs are so low that they needed to change to cases so they could continue to scare people and yet keep their credibility.

The Leftists keep telling us how the Hospitals are “at capacity” but fail to mention that the real reason is because the hospitals have no staff…..

I wonder what is in the Covid shot that they have to get all of us jabbed? At this point, we know it doesn’t work, and yet they keep pushing it…

What happened to 70% and Herd Immunity? Seems it went the same way as “Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve”

“Biden’s actions in Afghanistan would get Captain America charged with treason”

If the vaccine mandate really meant something…..In other words, if being vaccinated really mattered for public health, then Joe Biden’s office would not have exempted the nearly half-Million Postal workers from his mandate.

If I were a business which had over 100 workers, I’d ignore the mandate simply because of this fact. (forget the fact that, OSHA really doesn’t have the power to “set emergency temporary standards that take effect immediately” until Congress changes things….)

One could also point out that this arbitrary number of “100 employees” forcing a mandate for vaccines shows exactly how stupid this all is…if the vaccine really mattered, then we would not exempt anyone at all, much less small business (nearly 30% of all employed people) employees…. and especially not a single block of a half million Postal Workers….Are we to believe that Postal Workers are somehow less likely to become infected or pass the disease?  .

If vaccination REALLY mattered, Congress and the President would make vaccination a requirement for Federal aid, welfare, and unemployment. If they wanted to get the Poor vaccinated, they’d make it a requirement for continued Obama-phones…

Certainly they would not exempt people based on politics or size of your employer’s payroll.

Like most things Covid, once politics get involved, we see the fact that is is not a real crisis, but instead a political and control issue. Note that, like most mandates, Congress (and this time Federal Juges and their staff) are also not included in this Presidential Mandate.

The part of me that likes tinfoil beanies wonders what, exactly, is the the reason for the Covid jab mandate….It certainly isn’t public health.

So I spent the day of 9-11-2021 with some other volunteers teaching a Hunter Safety course.

25 bright young minds learning safe and ethical hunting practices and methods.

I think educating the next generation is worth the time. and It as better than listening to the news media bloviate their carefully massaged and tailored message about the 9-11 attacks 20 years ago.