Blade Show is coming to Indy next year…

Some of us might have to make a trip over there?!

Leftovers!

Of course I HAD to stop for some of these.  Their booth had leftovers from the sauerkraut festival.  I had wanted a few, but was too full to eat anymore when we were there.  So, I got my meals for the week here!❤️ 

Saw this place on the way home…

Look like it would be a good meal and dessert some day.

Long distance target practice

On the left shows the setup I was using and the targets off in the distance.  I decided it was time to make sure everything was still good on my 30-06.  Turns out it was still nicely dialed in.  On the right you can see a zoomed in shot of the targets. There are four distances, can you see them?  Red, white, blue and orange.  100, 200, 350 and 400 yards!  I got all the red, white and blue on the first try each.  I got the orange one three out of five times.  I was pretty happy with that.  It was an 18”x24” steel plate. 

Such a pretty time of year and a perfect day for a ride!

Blazing new trails with a friend from the range

He gave me the chance to explore some of the woods and fields on his property before we did a little target practice.  Perfect day and time of year for it!

A cool, foggy, fall day

I was off on an adventure for a day of target practice and exploring with ATVs on a foggy day last week.  

I like the way Julie is using her new table

Julie’s new end table

We managed to find something that fit the spot well and was really cool at the same time. This is is a set of storage drawers for an old Addressograph machine.  The plates were used to print addresses for mass mailings back in the mid to late 1900’s. This cabinet was used to organize and store all the plates. :)  

Fun with Andy’s tools

Andy got this set of forming dies to recover the ends of copper pipe if they get banged up.  He made up a test and they did an amazing job.  The big orange thing is a part I found for him during out antiquing.  I had sent him a picture of a huge display of tools, and he spied this in the mix.  He sent me back to grab it for him.  He needed one to go with the threader adapter for 2”-4” that he’d been contemplating on FB Marketplace, but was hesitant since it was missing this piece… Not any more!

I remember shopping from displays like this

We used to buy Life Savers, gum, and candy out of shelves like these at the local grocery store and probably the Lakeside Newsstand too. :)

Limitless aisles of collectibles…

I realized that flea markets and antique shops are just the same as storage centers…. Haha.  Probably worse.  I’m guessing the cost per square foot is higher, but at least you have the “hope” that someone happens to to buy something of yours.  I like my method of selling it at the street better 🤪 So far, I’ve kind of managed to stay out of the storage center trap…

Antiquing with my girl

Julie decided she wanted a second end table so we hit up some Springfield area antique places (couldn’t find any on FBMP and Waynesville was bombed by the sauerkraut festival haha).  These are some of the cool things we saw in the process.  My favorites were the cabinet maker’s tool box in the lower left and the hardware store bolt organizer in the lower right.

The process of replacing my Jeep wheel studs…

It took a decent amount of patience and a LOT of force to get these guys pressed into place in order to replace my broken wheel studs. You have to stack up several washer with just the right ID (some that let the threads pass through on top and some that let the larger swage diameter through on the bottom), upper left pic.  Then you have to tighten it enough to swage (smash) the splines into the axle hole (upper middle pic).  I had to apply about 1,200 foot pounds of torque to make it work and that was after chasing the threads of the stud and lug nut with a tap and die AND lubricating them.  Upper right pic shows one of the old studs where you can see how the splines smoosh down.  Lower right shows a new stud, where it fits, and how it compares to an old stud already in pace.  

To give you an idea of how much force 1,200 ft-lbs is… The lower left pic shows the first lug nut I tried it on.  That little stip of metal that look like a wire is where the force was high enough that it pulled all the treads right out of the nut!

In the end, I got them all in place and didn’t break anything.  It was a fun learning process really put my tools to the test too.

Trying out the “walk-thru” at McDonald’s

Andy and Sophie had fun walking through the drive through at McDonald’s during the sauerkraut festival. It was kind of fun.  McD’s put tables out in the parking lot and catered to the foot traffic all weekend. Pretty fun.  

They even had Grimace and the Hamburgler available for a meet and great! Hahahaha.  They were in the area for the grand opening of the new location that replaced our old Burger King in Beavercreek that same weekend.