Had a good afternoon yesterday . Jiro picked me up and we took a bunch of leftover material up to the farm . We decided to hit the shooting range being that it was a nice afternoon. We tried out the Springfield EMP 9MM and I also had the Hi Power along. The EMP Ronan model is a good looking piece of hardware ,and it feels good in hand. It has a 3 inch barrel, 9 round magazines , fiber optic front sight and two dot in the rear . The Ronan had no malfunctions of any kind. It has a decent trigger . I did notice I tended to hit to the left side of the target ,and the grouping opened up some as we got farther from the target. But a pistol with a three inch barrel is harder to shoot accurately than a longer one. My friend let me try out his Canik ,it is a Glock clone and I did not shoot that one very well, the trigger pull was just too funky. Pull ,pull some more, ok pull a little more ,...finally it goes bang ! The trigger safety is not my cuppa tea . Then after all of that I pulled out the Hi Power and proceeded to pummel the targets, Damn that pistol shoots nice !  

 It was an interesting day at work yesterday , we had a 7.5 Horsepower motor fail that drives part of the ventilation system in the black oxide department . When I got to work the day shift crew had gotten a pretty good start on removing the old motor. It is about 20 feet in the air outside on the north end of the building, and it was cold and windy ,so that made the job even more fun. We hauled the wreckage into the shop area and changed the sheave and bushing over to the replacement motor. (Not a new motor , a used spare with unknown hours on it .) I showed the boys how to remove a Taperlock Bushing   "Just smack it with a hammer right?" NOPE ! it was a teaching moment ! Teaching the new dogs old tricks ! That's what us old dogs do !

 

 Had to run to town and visit the grocery store do the weekly resupply . Some items are always going to be on the list. Milk, butter bread, fresh fruit and veggies & meat those things are usually needed at least every trip , then we have stuff I have to pick up on a less frequent timeline. a big bag of Dog food can last 2 almost 3  weeks  bird seed and cat food and litter are the same. Paper supplies are also on the infrequent list ,and I get really annoyed every time I have to purchase toilet paper, because it says right on the package that the manufacturers think I am an idiot. Well , not in so many words, but on each and every package it says something like Six rolls EQUALS twelve . Huh ?  Nope . Six rolls =  6 rolls SIX  not twelve not eighteen SIX . Six is the number of the rolls in the package. How good do you think it would work if when I went to pay I told the checkout person "My three dollars is equal to six ?"  they would laugh me out of the place. 

 

                                                                   Who's a Good Boy ? !

 

 

 The spare magazines for the Springfield 9MM arrived today. They got here fairly quickly considering that Monday was Presidents day . I have read a bunch of reviews and am looking foreword to trying out the new pistol . As of this morning it looks like spring , most of the snow has melted , and the temperature is warm , but that is going to change . Friday its going to get ugly again, rainy colder and snow , but the days are getting longer and we are almost into March , it'll soon be time to put away the snow shovel and fire up the rototiller!