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Since the weather has delayed the opening of the Fort...

By The Armorer on December 8, 2009 | | Comments (19)
...and played havoc with my internet access, here's a brief Castle Pr0n post.

First up - Farmer SWWBO, on one of those days where being a farmer isn't nearly as much fun as the Yuppie Farmer magazines make it out to be...



Second - I really did spend the weekend on the road, gun-running.  The Arsenal of Argghhh!'s latest addition to the Indirect Fire section.  The 4.2 mortar tripod (yes, tripod) is laying on the garage floor behind the 3 incher.  There's a "kit" 2 inch mortar in one of those green boxes.  Kit in that it's all in pieces and I have to assemble it.



The hay you see is the overflow from the Goat Infirmary, which currently has two patients.

Yes, we have goats in the garage.  Talk to SWWBO.

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By AW1 Tim on December 8, 2009 9:49 AM

  If the Goats were radioactive, would they be "Gamma-Goats?"       :)

  Heh... looks like my place, what with all that lovely glow-bull warming laying about.

 
By Beth on December 8, 2009 9:51 AM
 FYI - I am wearing at least 10 layers of clothing in that photo, I'm round ,but not nearly THAT round!!


 
By Boquisucio on December 8, 2009 9:52 AM
Goat Infirmary?  And here, for a fleeting moment, I thought you were making a Manger Scene.

Four Deuce there could be one of the Shepherds, PIAT could be The Little Drummer Boy, and VIS could be the Babe-in-the-Manger all swaddled in white.
 
By Russ on December 8, 2009 10:06 AM
My innocent son is just dying for it to snow here in Central California, which happens once every 10 years or so. I'm going to show him this picture to remind him why we live in California where we just turned the heat on last week. Good luck with winter.
 
By AFSister on December 8, 2009 10:54 AM
SWWBO-
That picture reminded me of "A Christmas Story".... "WHAAAAA.... I CAN'T GET MY ARMS DOWN!!"  "Oh, don't worry about it- you can put them down when you get to school."

HAHA.  Love that movie.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 8, 2009 10:58 AM
Russ - SWWBO and I see seasons (with snow) as a feature, not a bug.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 8, 2009 11:00 AM
Oh, and for those among you who were kinda tilting your heads at AW1 Tim's comment.

GAMA Goat.
 
By fdcol63 on December 8, 2009 11:01 AM
Flashbacks of a February Graf.  LOL
 
By Casey on December 8, 2009 1:34 PM
...And here I was thinking of "Doc" Bruce Banner, belted by gamma goats...

 
By Fishmugger on December 8, 2009 6:25 PM
What is SWWBO carrying? It can't be a watering can' it's a little too late for that. It also looks like a super death ray laser blaster.
 
By Justthisguy on December 8, 2009 11:09 PM
Is that a 2" British mortar, like the one in that movie, "Bridge on the River Kwai", in which  the theme was that everybody except the fraudulent Houston survivor was a lunatic of some sort or other?  

Being a lunatic of some sort or other meself, I've always wanted one of those things.  Major Unger said I'd prolly make a good mortarman, being too scatterbrained to pay attention long enough to learn how to work the big serious artillery.
 
By Justthisguy on December 8, 2009 11:21 PM
P.s  If that really is the Brit 2", it's my kind of weapon. None of yer bipods, firing tables, or any such intellectual nonsense.  Elevation and Azimuth determined by the formula, "That looks about right."
 
By Russ on December 9, 2009 12:26 AM
John, I grew up in W. Kentucky with 4 seasons but mild winters. However, I did spend four years in Omaha from which I am still trying to thaw out. I managed to drive a panel truck from Omaha to North Platt during a blizzard with the temperature at -20 and going down to -50 with the wind chill. I know California is the land of fruit, nuts, and flakes, but I can drive to the snow in 90 minutes or the coast in two to three hours. I will content myself with looking at the pretty pictures you post while I walk around in my shirtsleeves enjoying the warmth.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 9, 2009 7:18 AM
John, I grew up in W. Kentucky with 4 seasons but mild winters.

And yet you give all that up for... California. 

Wuss.  Give all that up for... warmth.  A poor trade!

11 degrees (Farenheit for you insufferable metricals) this morning.  As for your description of Nebraska in winter... there *is* a reason we don't live any farther north than we do...  The wind chill is twitching between -4 and -7

Heh.  Of course, if there'd been work I was willing to do that wasn't only in Colorado Springs, we'd live in the mountains.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 9, 2009 7:24 AM
Oh, and SWWBO is just carrying a bucket 'o bird feed.
 
By threadbndr on December 9, 2009 1:28 PM
Yep - I chisled the moto-mobile (v.2) out of the ice this morning.   We don't get blizzard conditions all that often here in Kansas, but when we do, there's usually ice involved somewhere in, under, over the snowpack.

BTW, I am getting transfered to Tulsa this spring.  I'm not going far enough south!
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 9, 2009 1:37 PM
Yeah, instead of snow, you'll just get ice storms.
 
By Russ on December 9, 2009 2:13 PM
Brrr
 
By threadbndr on December 9, 2009 3:10 PM
Oh joy.   (puts "covered parking, prefer attached garage" on the must have list for new house/condo.)