December coffee and grub

[The Trinity Kid]

 Greetings all.

More white stuff through the weekend on through tomorrow. About all there is to say weather wise. It's Montana in the winter.

My weekend was spent in Great Falls for the monthly giving of time to Uncle Sam. They held the unit Christmas party on Saturday, but my whole flight was excused for having helped arrange chairs. We took the opportunity to go bowling. I also acquired a cold from somewhere which has been less than pleasant.

On the topic of snakes: we once had a 5 foot prairie rattler get in the hanger at the Guard base. They were going to call a local "snake wrangler" to come get it, but instead someone just ran it over with a scissor lift and that was that.

—TK

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

'Tis 18 and overcast. High of 36.

Slim

[DeaconKC]

G'morning folks! 56 here right now, pouring rain AND foggy [huh?] anyway supposed to hit 65 today and be mild and wet the rest of the week. Going to the eye doc today for check up and new glasses. Lady C is finally over her cold, so that is good news. Y'all have a good day!

[Major 2]

Preparing for our Dec. 7 commemoration tomorrow through Saturday the 10th. 
I'm looking forward to it. We have 3 survivors scheduled to attend.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 24 and overcast. High of 34.

Slim

[The Trinity Kid]

Morning all, on The Day That Lives in Infamy.

Still cold and snowy here, per usual. Had an early kid that required getting up at 4, now getting ready for a trip to Seeley Lake to rescue a diner.

—TK

[DeaconKC]

Still barely morning, so Good Morning to you guys. 57 here right now and drizzling. Supposed to do this the rest of the week. May God keep those safe who are protecting us. And thank you to all who have served.

[The Trinity Kid]

I fell down a lot rescuing that diner. We'll just say the crew that runs the diner has a maintenance department with a single brain cell between them, and nobody brought it to work today.

For reference, their method of snow removal is to spray the parking lot with a garden hose. Works out great when it's below freezing.

—TK

[DeaconKC]

I fell down a lot rescuing that diner. We'll just say the crew that runs the diner has a maintenance department with a single brain cell between them, and nobody brought it to work today.

For reference, their method of snow removal is to spray the parking lot with a garden hose. Works out great when it's below freezing.

—TK

I couldn't even hit the like button for that level of stupidity...

[Major 2]

My counterpart (other curator) neglected to inform the fact that we had 40 member ROTC group
scheduled for today.
Now normally we co-work on Wednesday, so he just didn't put it in the monthly planner.
Imagine, my surprise, by both that revelation and the fact he was not coming today, switching to * Saturday
(*The big finally to our Pearl Harbor observance) 

No real problem, He had scheduled a volunteer docent, and the Kids (High School ROTC Marines) were VERY WELL behaved (remembering what school field trips can be like with eh ! kids today.

I would expect ROTC Marines to be well behaved, but it is still noteworthy of comment.

They were very polite, attentive and grateful... I was impressed  

One day some of them may be Officers in the Corp.

Like John Saffren's Grandson, a Second Lieutenant in the Marines, from an ROTC program, I know he is proud of him.

     

[Johnny McCrae]

Thank you for posting this Major. I am very proud of my Grandson. He is a career Marine from a College ROTC program and Marine OCS

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

'Tis 18 and overcast. High of 33.

Slim

[Major 2]

Slept in yesterday, and took two power naps throughout the day   
Not sure why I was so tried, didn't feel bad....
Was a little icky feeling mid-day on the 7th. drank a 7-up and that settled my innards.
By 6PM and closing, I was quite hungry I decided to go to my favorite Chinese Buffet.
They have quite the selection of seafoods I sampled. Maybe that was the thing with being tried 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

'Tis 23 and overcast. "Light snow likely. Snow accumulation around 1 inch. Highs in the lower 30s. East wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent."

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

Dusting overnight.

'Tis 30 and overcast. "Cloudy. A chance of light snow. . . Drizzle and freezing drizzle in the morning  then light snow likely in the afternoon. Drizzle also possible in the afternoon. Little or no snow accumulation. Minor icing possible. Nearly steady temperature in the lower 30s. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent."

Slim

[The Trinity Kid]

Morning all.

20 degrees and mostly sunny here. The "calm before the storm" as it were. Supposed to get hit with subzero temps and heavy wind/snow this week.

Todays schedule calls for a trip to the store for vittles, and the dehydrating of several zucchini. Followed by scooping horse poop. Lucky me

—TK

[Major 2]

We raised over $1200, for Seaman Don Dittmer, WW 2 Merchant Mariner, 94 years young.
He lost all of his belongings in Hurricane Ian in September.
He received a Congressional Gold Medal, in a ceremony we hosted just before Ian hit Florida...
A grand old fellow, sharp as a tack and of great humor

[Major 2]

I was handed (donation from an American Legion Post) a few interesting items for the museum.
Among them was a salted peanut can of bullets... not many but they were way COOL.

Seven antique- 41 cal. LONG CASE. Headstamped * PETERS 41 LDA and four- 41 cal. short (no headstamp)
all eleven were Centerfire & heel-based bullets

The fellow that donated them " said they thought they were CW era, I told him they were Centerfire
and later mid 1970's or so.
I'm not sure when these were last manufactured, being an obsolete round,
I'm guessing maybe the late 20's or 30's ... course the guns they fit had long since been obsolete."
This can have been sitting around, in storage many years, he had no clue how many nor whom might have brought then to the VFW.


* 41 Long Double Action

The shorts are not head stamped

I'm not sure what I'll do, I really can't have loaded rounds on display (liability)
I may unload them, and maybe put them in the Span-Am exhibit 

I'll post this in the re-loading forum too.

[Johnny McCrae]

Pork Chops on the grill last night. 1-1/2" thick and juicy. They were from a nearby Amish Market. Followed by some wine and a cigar while listening to Rock & Roll from the Fifties.  Anybody remember Little Darling by the Diamonds?
I remember listening to that song in my 53' Ford.

   

[Major 2]

Cruse'n' in style in that "Vicki".... I still enjoy Doo-Wap, the chops looked great too