Spring came to western Ohio over the weekend, and in some cases with a vengeance. Celina and south got plenty of rain, my guess is we received an inch or two at the house, those folks like Rick in northeast Indiana, Fort Wayne and northwest Ohio like, Van Wert, Delphos, Lima, and especially Findlay to our north and Northwest got dumped on, probably 4 or more inches and more on way for tomorrow...the steams, rivers, and roadside ditches will be overflowing...hopefully the promised dry weather after tomorrow will take root.
In addition to the rains, we saw plenty of warm weather, Saturday reached 72, and yesterday, despite heavy morning showers, got into the 60s...cooler for today(50) with north winds...60 tomorrow with heavy rains, then back to sunshine and the 40s for the rest of the week.
Both Fort Wayne(55 miles) and Lima(35) had gun shows over the weekend. I met up with Pearson at the Indiana location Saturday morning, we stuck around for 3 hours..Rick bought some boots, I was going to buy a handgun for my collection but forgot about the "home state" rule...If I purchased one, being from Ohio, they would have to take my money and send me the weapon...Hell with that I thought, and didn't purchase...plus the registration of these is something I would rather not do. We headed up north to Rick's Ranch...he has 17 acres complete with ready permits, electric, 3 car workshop, garage, and a large pond...{see photos from the first blog post of 2009}, he plans on building a new house there down the road, within the next couple of years...it was kinda muddy but with the gravel drive we headed back, parked the vehicles, walked the property and smoked a cigar, while bullshitting for an hour or two....I left about 4pm for Celina, got home to sunshine, and warm weather, and fired up another cigar, and popped the caps on a couple of Miller Lites.
I got home, watched the Duke/UNC basketball game, where my Blue Devils dropped a 8 point decision to their hated rivals, in what in reality was a boring ass game...something rare for those 2 schools...I went outside fired up my 5th cigar of the weekend and tossed down a couple of cold ones....and that ended the long weekend for me..except some tube time.
Today I have a board meeting at noon, and Sam and I will meet up in Schumm tonight for the North vs South(us) Dartball All Star game....Sam, Cowboy, and I are the representatives from St. John, and will meet 9 other guys to go 12 on 12 against the north boys at 7:30pm.
That should top off a busy day, and give us time to get ready for tomorrow's predicted downpour.
back later>>>>
photos-The Taurus .38 Special w/2" barrel... 4 shots from Hal and friend's Red River Gorge Hike this past Saturday...(11) Hal sitting on the rock overlooking the Gorge...(2) Levi(the Dog), Nick, Styer, and Hal...(3) Hal holding on to a dead looking branch over looking the Red, and(4) Styer standing on the road, making the fall, look mighty far.
6 comments:
good song, I like my s&e 357 but it is too heavy for me now, old finger joints suck, my wife has a lady smith 38 that i carry, it will do the job
Glad to see the weather getting better for ya'll. It was 84 on sunday and we did a good BBQ. Nice hike and good pics.
Great pics, but you DO know, a fall from a place like that nearly killed Hank Jr...
I think Hank was pretty well boozed up Fred, but there is no way in Hell I would get that close to the edge sober....like the boys did.
Good pics of the hike, looks like Hal and friends had a good time! But...I wouldn't get that close to the edge either - it's dangerous. Rock and soil can give away.
Kind of reminds me of Providence Canyon is S. Ga - I haven't been there in years - but back in the day the only way down into the canyon was by rope or long tree root. And yes, I use to walk the edge, because at certain places that was the only way to get grab the root. lol
I wouldn't do it now!
Damn...I can't stand to look at those photos...makes my belly squirm and my head swim.
Don't like heights or even the pretense of falling!
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