Our family writing on the Tea Party Express.
I’d add “except for the 16th amendment” if I had to write it again.
Note that we are above the “gun toten redneck radical from Overton, NV”
How little did that radical know that I was probably packing bigger heat than him (-:
Brian explains to Santa his wish for a scorpion free world.
(showing him where a scorpion got him on his finger)
Dec 2001.
A rare photo of me, taken by my brother. Not a bad position, my left thumb is a little high, eventually it could get into the slide and cause a jam. I’ll watch for that. This was in CA, so I’m shooting a Glock 34 (9mm) with silly 10 round magazines. What a silly state. Too bad they have such nice weather.
While in SoCal the month of July I introduced my brother to the sport of Practical Pistol shooting. Here we are in Norco, CA at a USPSA match.
My Townie bike parked on a kickstand as we watch planes fly low overhead on approach to San Diego airport. Location: 1st and Ivy.
Other pics from that bike ride can be found here.
This guy balances rocks at Seaport Village. The rocks are taken from rocks lining the harbor. I’d passed by here about 1/2 hour before, and he hadn’t started. I got there just as he placed the last rock of the 2nd from the left pile.
July, 2010
San Diego’s Seaport Village
A famous photo, now a statue on the harbor front in San Diego (near the Midway carrier museum)
6 July 2010
Jenny at the Montshire Museum in Norwich, VT
Summer 2001
This is a bread cutting box I made for my Uncle Ray. At this point it wasn’t done yet, I still had to sand it and stain it. You cut bread on it and the crumbs fall in the box and you can dump them easily. It sits on a bread boarded cherry table I made for his RV. His RV was old and tired but had the nicest table around!
The bread cutting box, btw, was made entirely with hand tools. No electricity used. The wood came off our farm in Vermont, again hand cut, ripped with a hand rip saw, hand planed to size with a 100 year old jointer hand plane. I then joined it using dove tails cut with a chisel and Japanese pull saw. I made enough wood for two boxes this size, and then went back to power tools. The entire project took months (mainly for drying the wood).
Brian eats fresh peas
Royalton, VT
July 2001
Captain Raymond Nelson receives his first Bronze Star, Republic of Vietnam.
Notice the salt encrusted uniforms – Vietnam was hot and humid.
Ray played a part in seeding the Ho Chi Min trail with clever listening devices used to detect enemy movement. These devices looked like natural fauna. He served 2 years in Vietnam.
His internment is today, at Riverside National Cemetery, with full military honors, even a live bugler. If you plan on attending be at Staging Area 3 at 1230.
Uncle Ray at US Army Jump School, Ft. Benning, GA
His memorial is today.
