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Wisdom for the Ages

These guide stones were put up by an anonymous group outside of Elberton, GA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

The Georgia Guide Stones outside Elberton, GA

 

Labor Day in Atlanta

View from the Peachtree Plaza Hotel Revolving Bar

September and the living is easy…

… or something like that. There is a hint of fall in the air. There seems to be a few leaves starting to fall and the kids are back in school.

Where did it go?

Time has really flown. It has been over half a year since I posted anything on this site. I had every intention when I started this page to post a little more often than I have. Real Life seemed to have intervened or I have been lazy. You can take your pick. Six Months have flown by, where did it go? Oh well, on with the show.

Hoover Dam intake towers

Here is a picture from my vacation to Los Vegas from a couple of years ago. It is a picture of the intake towers for Hoover Dam. I think the Art Deco design is great.

Christmas is coming

This reminds me of some of my family I haven’t seen for a few years. Now I know where they hang out during Christmas.

The Election, what election?

Well, it has been a while since I have posted anything. I guess I could claim that I was too busy being involved with the election, work, whatever but I guess I have been lazy. I’ve been playing too much Scrabble, surfing the net, and plain just being a lazy slug when I haven’t been working or doing chores around the house. In my defense I will claim that it has been my busiest time of year at work with a lot of traveling. And we did move into the new place that did need some things done but I have noticed as I get older I don’t seem to want to do as much as I have in the past but I will press on. I resolve to write something on here a little bit more often. Who knows maybe someone will actually read it and leave a comment.

Now to say something about the election. What to say, hmm. OK, I think the president elect has some good ideas and good intentions but he just needs to remember the old saying that road to hell is paved with good intentions and not forget what this country was founded on. The United States is a federal form of government and we need to get back to that idea instead of this mega centralized government that wants to govern every aspect of your life from cradle to grave. God bless President-elect Obama. he has his work cut out to govern this country in these times of trials for the USA.

Fun with Mr. Saiga

I needed to burn a couple of vacations days or lose them so I decided to take off Thursday & Friday and catch up on some chores at the new house. Stain the deck and fence I pressure washed last weekend, cut grass, etc. You now, the stuff that is part of being a home owner.

But no, I decided when I got up this morning I was going to go play. I had bought a inexpensive scope from Sportsman Guide and I thought to myself why don’t I mount it on the Saiga 308 and see if it works. So I went down to the basement workshop and got it mounted with the AK mount I had bought a couple of months ago. It went on and I tightened it down and sighted it in with the laser thing-a-ma-jig and took it to the Charlie Elliott Wildlife area range not far from my house.

I started out at about 50 yards and it was shooting low and to left. So I played around and got it hitting the bulls eye and decided to move my target out to 100 yards. It surprised me how good the Saiga shot with just a 16″ barrel. I was talking with a couple of guys siting in their rifles for hunting season and they asked me what I was shooting since it didn’t look like it belonged on the 100 yard range. One guy was telling me he had just bedded the barrel along with a couple of other custimazations on his Remington. I laughed and said the only customising  I could do to the AK design Saiga was maybe take a rock to it if it didn’t shoot accurately and try to adjust the barrel.

Below is the target I was using. The shots low and to the right were from 50 yards with some 147 grain FMJ Bosnian surplus I had just got. The others were with the GA. Arms 150 grain FMJ I had got at a show in the fall.Not bad shooting for a delicate piece of Russian equipment.

 

Avatar Picture

A couple of people have asked me about my avatar and where I got it. This is a picture of a metal wall hanging my wife bought from a second hand store. It says it was made in Germany. Any further information would be welcome.

Move Completed!

We have finally gotten settled into the new home in the country.  We have been here a couple of weeks now and it is starting to fill like home to us. We finally got the picture hung over the fireplace and that seemed to really make home. We got the pod picked up out of the driveway last week and I finally got enough boxes out of the garage to get both cars in! What excitement!

It is quite an adjustment to make coming from a built up suburban community with all of the amenities to the nearest restaurant a good 12  miles away. This last week we have seen a deer and a couple of rabbits in the back yard. My wife saw a fox in the neighborhood when she was going to work the other morning. We were too late to plant a garden but we did set out a couple tomato plants, a jalapeno pepper, and some herbs. Now we have to hope the deer and rabbits don’t eat them.