alduckhunter

12/23. Will to go back to the office on 1/5. I will probably have to take some random calls and emails, but nothing crazy.

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Time to teach some gun safety to the kids. I keep a loaded one in my nightstand next to my bed. My 6 year old son has never touched it. He knows NOT to touch it either.

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This right here! I have had loaded guns strategically placed throughout my house my son’s entire life.

I have taught him gun safety since he was 4 years old shooting a Red Ryder. He shot his first flying duck when he was 6. There has never been any “mystery” or curiosity about firearms to him. He knows exactly what their purpose and potential is. I can assure you that there is no person alive that I would rather have beside me in a blind, dove field, or if an intruder was in my house.

His college education and his upcoming grad school has/will be paid for by his proficiency with a firearm. If I had hidden all my guns from him until he was an “adult”, none of this would have been possible.

I suppose other kids may be different, but an unloaded gun in a home invasion situation may as well be replaced by a rock or baseball bat.

I recently bought a Browning safe and there is no hole for a power cord to run out. I see there are battery powered light kits and dehumidifiers available online. I'm just wondering if anybody has a recommendation for any you have and really like.

My older safe has a hole and I've had a Goldenrod dehumidifier in it for 26 years now. I really don't want to drill a hole in the new safe, nor do I want to have to move it around. It weighs almost 1,000 pounds. I felt sorry for the delivery guys, therefore I don't mind changing batteries/charging periodically.

For years, I used to have spots of it on each side of my nose, between my eyebrows, and on my chin. I tried everything. Creams, dandruff shampoo, laser treatments, etc. My dermatologist ended up prescribing me two different creams to mix together, plus an anti-fungal cream of some sort. This helped some, but never really made it go completely away.

About four years ago, I decided to grow a beard for the first time in my life. After a few weeks of having the beard, I noticed the red spots were gone. When I went for my annual visit to the dermatologist, she was stunned. She had no explanation for why the beard would have made it go away. I had not used any of her prescribed stuff in months and still haven't used any more of it to date. The Dr is a family friend, and she had really tried hard to fix the problem. On that visit, she went and got her partners to come into the exam room. None of them could explain why stopping shaving would "cure" it. Other than the spot on my chin, I had not been shaving the problem areas.

I was able to get it ordered online this morning. I will run pick it up sometime over the weekend.

I don't have one, but the circular said the price for Club Members with the card is $630.00

How are the crowds typically at Bass Pro on Black Friday? I saw their circular in the firearm sales thread, and would like to buy one of the A300 Ultima's they are supposed to have for $749.00

We don't have a BP locally. There are two within a 2 hour radius though. Do any of you happen to know if I would be able to purchase online and then pick it up at my convenience?

If I have to drive two hours, stand in a long line, and still maybe not get one, I would rather just pay full price somewhere.

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Every crew building a home n the 70's was working for a small business owner who was also a lead/master carpenter. We framed the home, installed the roofing, gutters, sheetrock, finished the sheetrock, installed the cabinetry, trimmed out the interior and in some instances even painted the interior and exterior.

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That's the way my grandfather did it. He (or his guys) pretty much did it all except the HVAC and cabinets. From digging the footers with a shovel, to the finishing touches, they did it all. I worked with him in the Summers from the time I was 13 to when I went off to college. This is the way the truly high-end builders in my area still do it on the cost-plus houses. You won't find a single hispanic on any of these jobsites. Unfortunately, these houses are few and far between these days.

I built my house in 2004. Not a single illegal on the site. I had to have a new roof put on in the Spring of this year. I hired the most "local" roofing company with a nice shop location I could find. Good ole boy owner. The roofers showed up and not a single one of them could speak English. I was pissed. I asked and was told they were illegals from Atlanta. They come down here and stay for several weeks at a time. They do as many roofs as possible during that time and then go back to Atlanta.
I went out yesterday on a measure and quote for some custom cabinetry. While I was in the neighborhood, I saw a roofing company sign that said "Call Kilo". I kid you not. :lol:

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I worked construction in California for years... Plenty of Mexicans slam six packs of beer on their lunch breaks and/or sneak beers. When we went to convenience stores near job sites on lunch breaks, there were always lines of Mexican laborers buying six packs and 12 packs.

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I have made a good living in the residential construction industry in SE AL since 1999. I can tell you that the illegal Hispanics came in and pretty much took over every trade that only required a truck and some basic tools. They came in and undercut the price for all the trades that didn't have high overhead. Once they ran off all the "good ole boys" who used to do those jobs, (and refused to do it for basically nothing) they demanded the same pay, if not more, and they got it.

I can also tell you that I never saw empty beer bottles on jobsites, especially in quantity, until this happened. I see them all the time now, and the GC's actively go around and pick the bottles up to prevent the homeowners from seeing them. I'm not saying that the SE AL rednecks who used to do these jobs didn't drink or do drugs on jobsites. I am saying that they had enough sense to hide the evidence. These hispanics have no fricks to give.
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What the government needs to do is arrest/fine the EMPLOYERS of these illegals and the problem goes away. I can't tell you the last time I saw white or black guys on a jobsite doing concrete, masonry, framing, sheetrock, painting, trim, roofing, siding, etc. Pretty much the only trades that are unaffected in my area are HVAC, P&E, and Custom Cabinetry.

I'm just thankful that my specific niche has barriers that prevents the illegals from taking over.

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How do you get 50+ days? The first missed paycheck for ATC was October 28th, less than 2 weeks ago.

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My wife is not ATC but is deemed an "essential" Federal employee. She got 1/2 of a normal (two week) paycheck one week into the shutdown. Other than that half check, she hasn't been paid in 47 days. That's obviously not quite 50 days, but it ain't far from it either. IF the shutdown ends this week and she gets paid on schedule next week, it will be 56 days since she last got a full paycheck.

We are not frivolous spenders and I'm blessed to have a good private sector job, so it has been more of an annoyance to us than a real hardship, She told me it has been a big deal for several of her co-workers though.

I know there is a LOT of fraud and wasted taxpayer money in the things the government does. There are undoubtably redundant and unnecessary Federal employees and probably whole departments. As a taxpayer myself, I want that stuff stopped! I certainly don't think any Federal employees (my wife included) should be getting $10,000 bonuses for doing their jobs. Having said that, it is remarkable to me that most of them have stuck it out. If I went out on the floor this afternoon and told all our people that they weren't going to get paid for 7-8 weeks, but I still expected them to show up and work every day, I don't think very many of them would be here tomorrow morning.