May 2013 - Argghhh!

...a Whatziss! No tricky angles. No gimmicky trick shots to distort scale. In fact, there is an actual US Government scale.

This piece has an interesting history. It's an early 1900's "Double W" board that shows all the ammunition products Winchester was producing at the time. As it was made at a point when the technology was shifting from black powder to smokeless powder, it's really a priceless asset in documenting the cartridge tech of the era. These are physical cartridges, not just embossed pictures as in the much more modern boards (though some companies still make 'em like this!). This...

...and you meet interesting people and I find I'm still learning things about SWWBO. I got to meet some Capuchins yesterday. And learned something new about Beth. A colleague of mine has a large man-made koi pond in his back yard. He has a great deck - koi pond, tiki bar, great shade, and privacy even in the middle of a large, long-established development. He's got three-foot long feed-a-family sized carp in there, and the industrial filtration required. And he needs to cull his numbers...

Two or three times a year some of us older folks get a bit tangled up in memories (or memories of memories). Late April and much of May are my primary dates.

Ruh-roh. I was also sure that someone *was* looking hard. Like I said before - what you see depends on where you stand. Heck, whether or not you see it at all, depends on where you stand, I suspect. I don't like seeing military personnel being used this way at all, regardless. But it does speak to the power of a photograph, and the context. Especially when the subject is already a focus of animus. I knew that someone was going to find pics like this. The common theme seems to be "speeches...

Heh. Every place I ever lived (or served) in Germany (and France, for that matter) is closed, returned to the Germans or French, and most of it bulldozed, though our quarters in Augsburg and Frankfurt still exist and are privately owned. I was pleased to see the Germans kept Elmer Fryar's name on the road in Augsburg . First the last M1s left . Now the last Hog has sortied . What a difference from when I went over as a Lieutenant, and we had two heavy Corps in Germany, and stored equipment for...

"YOU WANT THE BACON? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE BACON!" Charlotte and Fern teach Wilbur about the Second Amendment, and how Mr. Browning can be a equalizer with Farmer Zuckerman.

What you see depends on where you stand, I rather suspect. Obama gets a helping hand during his rainy Rose Garden press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo: ABC/Mark K. Bruce