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Went to the bank to get funds for another toy to add to my panoply. This will be my third CZ rifle and my first two are fantastic shooters. I really need to get down to just one hobby and try to be good at that instead of mediocre at 3 or 4.

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I'll have to find a friend one day who has a CZ to see how much better it shoots than my k10/22t Ruger. I shoot 196+/200 (benchrest) but I see people with smaller groups using CZ and high-dollar ammo. Maybe CCI Mini Mags aren't good enough? Idunno.

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around '97 i built our patio, after all these yrs it was getting ratty and some boards were getting punky and soft.
put in new soffit, some vinyl lattice, then some fresh paint, then re-decked it. wit the crazy price of lumber, i re-hashed some of the good old deck boards to replace a couple of soft stringers around the edge. also replaced the rotting plywood skirting wit some new PT plywood.
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only thing left now is to rebuild the stairs- pretty rough shape after 20+ yrs in the weather. wife has also decided we want to lattice 3 more sides, wit "crazy lady" next door, i concur
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Well it was actually last Friday I had 2 shipping containers delivered to my cabin property. Now I have more storage space than cabin.

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Good work. It looks nice.

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If you ever find yourself in central AR I’ll let you give one a try. I used to shoot small bore silhouette years ago. Off hand shooting steel targets at 40, 60, 80, and 100 yards. My CZ in .22lr just edges out my Ruger 77/22 with all ammo tested. From bulk up to the expensive Eley and Lapua.

I’d like to do that shooting again as it was really fun.

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Shooting gophers really builds up your skill! Some years ago I spent much of a summer shooting gophers on the neighbors ranch. I about wiped them out down on this end but there is a bluff overlooking a big field on the other end. I've got an old Marlin made "JC Higgins" and I don't know how strictly accurate it is, but I was looping bulk ammo in the wind and getting some hits out 100++ yards. Had to aim a couple feet high and to one side :)

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I hauled a free load of apple trimmings destined for my smoker...

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I'll be able to see that smoker from here. :lol::lol:

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Yea no kidding Larry, I grabbed a load about the same size last fall from the same friend. Pretty good deal two loads of Apple cost me a rack of ribs next time I smoke. Those loads of Apple will last a few years easy, as much as I smoke anymore. Today was a productive day actually, got the wood, worked on my shed with my pappy in law, and bought two rust free, straight, square bodies to flip.

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I watched a fine UK Wildcats team win the national championship over Texas in Women's Volleyball.
Championship is in Omaha, I was able to make 2 games. My wife and neighbors went to at least 6.
I'm starting to become a bigger VB fan than football, these ladies are pure athletes!
Greg

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Cutting all that up looks like a job for a pair of garden shears ;)

I cut a little bit more juniper and one little pine on our new adjoining property. I'm trying to get the turn-around wide enough that somebody could get a big pickup camper or a ~25' trailer or motorhome around the circle. There's a fairly big pine right in the middle that I'm planning to leave standing.

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I own several .22's and .22 Mags but this Savage Model 93 BTVS is the most accurate out of the box rifle I've ever shot. Consistent 100 yards on squirrel's as long as there is no operator error.:no:

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I think kitchen scissors would have done a lot of it:lol: it’s perfect for my smoker because the heat doesn’t get out of control.

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That's a nice gun. I also own several .22's and .22 Mags But operator error is my middle name these days. The squirrels are pretty safe around here. I'll never hit them. My eyesight is not what it used to be. Getting old sucks.

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I guess it's worth it for that. I drag stuff a lot bigger than that to the slash pile.

I hate cutting logs for firewood less than about 8-10 inches diameter but of course I need to use the whole thing as much as possible. I go down to about 2" before I give up, mostly to reduce the amount of brush left over as much as possible.

Cutting small green trees just to clear space is the worst. Seems like you cut and stack brush all morning and end up with a couple wheelbarrows worth of firewood. The pines will take over the whole place if you don't keep after them. And I need to attack the juniper regrowth around the house with the brush saw. The stumps never seem to die :(

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Sold my house! Not really but it is under contract and after the 5 day option period!!!!

45k over asking price.

-klb

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Cool! :metal: But what is a 5 day option? I've never heard of it and I've bought and sold a bunch of houses.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. Which is entirely possible with me.

Once we execute an offer ( accept ) the buyer has 5 days to back out for any reason. During that time the buyer does the inspection and puts in a repair order or gets out of the deal.

-klb
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Not wishing any bad mojo on you but I had 3 buyers back out on me on the sale of my last place.

I got the impression that the buyers would put in a offer on my house and I would accept it. Then they would keep looking for another place and dump me if they found one. It didn't cost them anything. It just cost me time. I finally got disgusted and took it off the market. Then sold it 2 years later for more money.:)

I doubt that will happen now with the housing market being what it is today. It wasn't like that when I was selling.

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We had a buyer that quibbled over a sewer issue, agreed to a certain fix paid for by us, and then backed out after we had spent several thousand dollars to have the job done.

But then a few weeks later we sold it for almost $30K more than his offer. :metal:

He was another realtor making a cash offer and I think he was just playing around trying to tie up houses. :devil:

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Finally sold my car trailer...didnt need it anymore and it was taking up space....

Brought my landscape trailer for some much needed repairs....fixed some side panel damage, couple blown light bulbs, greased the wheel bearings and replaced the front lift wheel mechanism.....

Am going to reposition the spare tire bracket to the center of the front rain inside the A frame to give me more turn clearance....

Lick of paint and it is as good as new....

Contemplating putting a small winch on the trailer soon...I seem to be getting lots of enquiries regarding broken ride on lawn tractors and zero turns and am too old now to push them up the ramp....

:chevy::chevy::chevy:

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It's a real concern. Especially given the fact that when a house returns on market after it's been under contract, regardless of the reason, it is often much harder to sell.

These cancelled sale scenarios happen around here an awful lot, so much in fact that we were ready to not accept bids/offers from the type of buyers that seem to be doing most of the backing out. The sense is that these buyers are going into multiple contracts without regard for the damage they are doing to the sellers. We were fully prepared to deal with this but, alas, we didn't have to deploy our anti-get-F***** countermeasures! LOL. The big offer scared me off for a number of reasons, chief among them were this issue of getting tossed like bait-fish back into the sea just before closing.

We ended up with 7 offers, only one of which was at asking price. The largest was 50k over asking next 35k over and the rest were 30k, 30k, 20k and 17k over. The big offer was also all cash but from an unknown agent and our agent had zero contact with him other than a few texts about how high the offer needed to be and then his client's offer. We simply negotiated up on one of the lower offers because we liked the family ( this family was one of two that wrote us a "love" letter and included pics of themselves ), they had been in constant contact with our agent throughout the entire period and they had proof of a lot of funds going into their down payment of nearly 50%. These buyers seem to be solid.

Only time will tell now.

-klb

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I don’t have a truck for these so I guess it counts . Polished up my treasures as my wife says every time I find something at a swap meet.

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Buddy of mine sold his '65 Chevelle SS convertible at Pate yesterday!

-klb

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Sorry to hear that :lol::lol:

Hope he got what he was looking to get. I could have sold my truck anytime at Carlisle this weekend .

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Oh...he did. Buyer fished him on Thursday then came back Saturday and took it home. It is a small block automatic car, don't think it had the original 283 or 327.

-klb

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My “TOT-ROD” stroller project fell by the wayside last summer so I jumped back on it today and blended in the round rod surrounding the “stacks”. The hood area got painted satin black to enhance the gasser vibe and save as much of the original patina as possible. I’m going to cover the interior with roll on bed liner and unbolt the chassis for a coat of fire engine red. It looks like there’s going to be some shows this year so I have to get it ready for the grandkids...

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That's what we were worried about. When we got the new offer we specifically told them what was "wrong" and what had been done about it, and that if they weren't okay with it "as is" just go look elsewhere right now. We put that right in the contract. They didn't even make us re-do the front lawn. Nevertheless I heaved a big sigh of relief when we finally closed and the settlement wire transfer came through.

Our realtor was a high school classmate and daughter of a close friend of my mom's. She helped us tremendously to get a good price. I was ready to just sell it cheap to some house flipper.

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Serviced my two tankless water heaters. Cleanded burners, blew out heat exchanger, cleaned inlet water filter.

Put the wood frames on the bathroom mirrors the wife had been wanting me to get done and also fixed the exhaust fan in the master bath water closet.

Walked over to the neighbors pond and caught a few fish.

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Got my "Hog" ready :lol:

Replaced the rear inner tube and got the mount for the trailer set up. And of course, had to wash the wide whites.

Ready to take little man out on some trails.

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That is a Cool set-up:metal:










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pulled out a diesel engine and trans in a 1998 C2500,what a job

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Thanks, I really like this bike. It was a reproduction Schwinn beach cruiser you could buy at walmart like 10 years ago, plus it's my favorite color combo on just about anything. It's a nice riding bike.

Little guy is big enough now to sit up and go for rides. He really likes car and stroller rides, so fingers crossed. We're going on a test run this weekend.

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I brought my old Schwinn "Corvette" home before we sold my mom's house. I dunno what I'm going to do with it as the roads out here are too rough to ride, not to mention my legs can't handle climbing hills with a one speed coaster :(

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Is there a screen that prevents debri from being picked up by the tire and tossed back onto that carrier in the infants face?

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:lol:

Yes! You can kinda see it thrown over the top. In addition to the screen, there's also a clear cover too that you can roll down that snaps in place. This was the highest rated carrier I found.

I wonder how many times I'll forget he's back there and run through a mud hole :devil: :lol:

Looking at it again... it really needs some old school wire spoke wheels.

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And air ride too! Heyyyy. ;)

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I used to have a Burley Trailercycle, which was for once your child gets bigger. It's his own bicycle without a front wheel that hooks to your seat post. It makes your bike a bicycle built for 1 1/2 :lol:. I'm sure other companies make them now. They are cool because you can go on rides that would be too much for the child on their own little bike

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Nice. He can even help push the old man up hills a bit :lol: