The Surls

The image above was captured from an ultra unsecret transmission of the heretofore possibly infamous Crubble Helloscope, offering extraunordinary highly uncrisp images of some of the deepest darkest regions of the unknown universe. While the starship HRIGOAGN was passing thru the CDLCMI region, the Helloscope managed to spew forth this collection of illuminous features. In the mostly incredulous image above you can see the galaxy MSDUSO in the upper left. The lower center of the image offers an excruciating horrific glimpse of the all to uncommon GOTOGET1 nebula. And then what to our wandering i’s should appear, but that most rare astronomical event MTBJEN in the upper right, radiantly bathed in the flatteringly hellish glow of the nebula’s emission field. We are thankful to have almost obtained this image from the second rarest of gastronomical delights, but alass unable to obtain a image of, MATUSTNK the illuminus gas gloud. It was emitting in the invisible but deadly spectrum.

Wait a minute… click, click, click, fiddle, fiddle, kick. YES! The image above IS an image of the second rarest of gastronomical delights emission field.
By ajusting the specturilizer gain of the Crubble Helloscope , we are able to witness a most unusual event and survived to tell the tale.

The last 4 weeks have been filled with illness. Seems we are haveing some sort of epidemic here in Calhoun county. Each time we get over some version of the flu, another round hits. Of course the unseasonably warm weather seems to have everything out of whack. It rained last night! Hard rain…this is February for crying out loud, it’s not suppose to rain. I’ve been in the north for 10 years now and this has been the warmest winter so far. But, it has not been that nice. It warms up to 40 to 50F for two days and then shifts back to 10 to 20F for 4 or 5 days. Just enough to keep you off guard. And the mud! Living on a dirt road is the pits! Or perhaps I should say the ruts! Each time it warms up the road turns to mud. The melt water from the hills use the road as a ditch. Our cars are so beautiful…not! You just sort of wallow down the road and pray you do not get bogged down or stuck. Perhaps 4WD is in order.
Well, that should be enough Northern Cheer for now…stay warm. Michael

Daniel bought a 410 gauge Remington 1100 to shoot skeet.
So Santa brought him a MEC 600 Jr Mark 5 410 guage reloader for 3 inch shells.
We then converted it to reload 2 1/2″ shells as we were trying to keep costs to a minimum.

Here is an image of the first seven shells off the reloader.
As you can see it takes a bit of effort to get it right.
Careful adjustment of the crimp depth is essential.
Even though the shell looked good, it would not eject properly.
Suspecting everything, we were ignorant of the proper course to take.
After reading we new we needed to measure the powder and shot weight thrown by the reloader.
But without an accurate scale…
My BEST friend Matt Simerson blessed us with a RCBS 10.10 scale…accurate to 1/10th of a grain.
After measuring the shot weight, we found it necessary to add 4 extra #7 1/2 pellets to reach the required 1/2 ounce.
This simple change made the gun eject the shell as required.
It’s like they say…it’s all in the details.

Sunday Dec 20 was warm and very foggy. We awoke Monday morning to a frozen world. Overnight the fog had frozen and everything was coated with this cotton candy like frost. Unfortunately the wind picked up as morning turned to day and the delicate frost was blown away.