The Week ended with a gun complete, tested, sighted in, packed, and waiting for confirmation to ship. A great way to end the week.



My twin grandsons, Chance and Bryce, visited for the day ... while their Mom was out. Nana gave them a bath and dressed them "Friday Casual" ... hahah.



I had help with dinner on the patio ... a break between projects. (The dining canopy is "down" because it takes the wind gusts better that way ... seems we get one each time I extend the legs ... and they get torn up ... bummer. We had these canopies up for years ... no problem. Then, we've had several ruined with little mini bursts". It's also nice to go in under there for privacy when the legs are down. hahaha.



What kind of bug is this? It walked a mile around this plastic cup rim .... haahah



Some years back ... I ran across some ornate steel fencing material at Lowes. It came in sections. Interlinked with the inserted steel post. It had gate units .... had a nice look ... was affordable. I got a bunch of it, installed same around half the back yard. It matched the gardens well ... and began to rust. It peeled, and rusted. I wire brushed and spray touched it up. It responded by flaking and rusting. Big curled hard potato chips of paint/rust hanging on by one end. I countered by scraping, heavy wire wheeling, and painting. We went round and round like this, for about the last five years. ENOUGH!!!!!

So; I've been installing a picket fence around the yard. Kelly tells me we have to "maintain" the place. Hummmm.



And, so went the weekend.

It was a good one. Hope yours was too.

Gary



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Gary,

Those kids are not properly attired, those should be "Barnes Pneumatic" shirts.

That bug looks like the rare, deadly West Nile Spider. It's an invasive species that leaves a deadly toxin on it's trail as it walks.

Nice pistola! Love those.

Lon

Love the combination of pics. Very creative. Family, guns, working in the yard, a WEIRD looking spider....too cool.

Nice looking yard there, Gary.

The best part is the "pants optional" casual Friday dress code.

I suspect that Kelly just might not let you post that on the internet if it applied to the proprieter.

Yeah ... the baby blue sweat band is nearly all anyone can stand, as it is. hahaha.



Gary

Gary, I couldn't help but notice that the sweatband matches your jeans, and the gloves match your shirt. Great colour coordination!
Nice post, and I bet it feels good to have another Barnes masterpiece out the door.
Cheers
Neil

Gary used to runway model before he moved to ballroom dancing and then the knife gig. Did you notice how he accessorized with a tape and level in contrasting yellow? Some people just get style!

-- Jim

That's OK Jim ... I'll bet YOU noticed that my pocket Sharpie ALSO matched my headband.

By this time in life, ONE can recognize JEALOUSY when ONE sees same ....



Gary

OK ... to close that loop ... here is that same area where I was planting the fence post, today .....






As another curious topic, for some ... our trees go nuts with surface roots. They love to grow up under walkways, and heave them skyward. I think the moisture under the walks must attract the roots to the surface? Anyway ... they are a pain, and tripping hazard. Note the size of this pest.



I built this blade to go on my heavy hand grinder. Couple of rough teeth in a heavy smooth edged flywheel disc of 1/2" steel. The teeth are welded in and set to just take a bite of about 3/16" as they come around. The teeth are heat treated to take the abuse. The blade does not grab as a blade of all teeth would. 99% of the circle, the blade is riding on the smooth rim. When the tooth comes around, the flywheel keeps it smoothly turning.



It just eats wood ... planes off the wood ... throws truckloads of shavings that looks like a beaver made them. My theory is this: Since the life of the wood is just below the bark ... and this removes the bark and half the wood into the heart ... then I hope the root will not regenerate in this removed direction. (Can't wait until Dory reads this .... hahaha). We'll see. But - for now ... the roots are planed down, and the walk is patched.



Hey ... the Fireman's Carnaval was this week. Wed. night was the parade. Here is our town's brand new state of the art firetruck!!! hahah,.

Gary



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Just FYI ... the shield is removed in that pic of the grinder and blade. All the normal safety rules apply. Read and understand all the safety rules provided, in six languages, with all your tools ... Stay safe. Don't do this at home.

Gary

Evening ... in the garden ...

Gary,

I took one look at that grinder and it reminded my of a news story down here a few years ago. Youg guy tried to trim a tree with a circular saw blade attached to a grinder. The grinder bucked when it touched the branch and traveled down his chest. He was alive when the paramedics rolled up and they commented that it was the most gruesome thing they had seen to date.

Icuidado!

Lon

Now Lon ...

I find that difficult to believe ...

Living in Miami ... a little thing like THAT ... cannot be THE most gruesome thing they'd ever seen ....



Gary

They were rookies..

Lon

I was thinking more of ... South Beach. haha. I've seen more gruesome stuff than you describe, on "Miami Ink".

Gary

OK I'll bite.

Yeah, my driveway has a couple of places of root lift. I just keep filling the cracks in. Some day I'll have to make the decision of surgery or raise the whole section of the driveway with new asphalt.

I just redid my patio with new paver's. So hopefully it will be several years before I have to lift it.

I don't have monster cherry, just large trees.

Depending on species of tree and how big root is, and how close, to trunk. It can eventually cause heart rot in your tree.

I'm only a tree hugger when there used for shade and landscaping. Otherwise trees are money. Dory

Dory.

show us your trees!

OH Gary!

Lucky you; I see that you already got the latest fire truck model. We are still using the steam powered ones… I love that tree with the face. Nice idea and picture.

Julio

Hello Julio,

What face? I was just fiddling with the camera's menu, and it went off ....