I just had a conversation with a friend in Germany. He has recently bought a Lister engine to run a generator in his house. Naturally this also makes heat. So I asked where do you get the fuel in the long run to run the generator? The answer was that he is an elevator repair man and every building in Germany has an elevator that uses hydraulic oil. The elevators are often overfilled and the oil must be changed periodically. Hundreds of liters of oil in each elevator. The best part about it is that the government is housing a lot of illegal immigrants in multi story apartment buildings and he looks forward to disabling the elevators in those buildings when shit hits the fan. https://youtu.be/dpu320oGniM

Fire drill: how many can openers do you have? Two is one and one is none.

Fire drill: Your well pump just failed. Do you have the parts to pull it? Pipe unions? Waterproof splice kit? Spare pressure switch? Spare pump? Teflon tape?

https://youtu.be/Jz8l5sAChpk check check and oh yes, check.

Ok , lets try this again.... using a pitless adapter with a hand pump.

We went to the Mormon food bank today. There are 110 of them across the USA. Lots of dehydrated foods stored in number 10 cans for good prices. Powered milk that lasts 20 years. Most everything else is 30 year life. https://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/food-storage/?lang=eng

Just received my ATN Thor scope today. Its the lower resolution one, but magnification is listed at 4.5x-18x. The first look thru it was just before sundown... it is thermal so it doesn't matter if you use it day or night. I looked across the field 300 yards away and saw a doe and two fawns... she was licking one and the other fawn was jumping around. I couldn't have spotted them with my own eyes but they popped out like crazy in the thermal view. Went out after dark and scanned the yard. It was like daylight... the trailers, the truck... a reflection in the side window of one of the cars. Turns out feathers are a great insulator.. couldn't see the chickens except for their eyes (heat emitting from eyes).

I mounted the laser range finder on the end of it at first, but it made the whole thing damn near as long as the barrel of my AR.... so I side mounted it. I have not calibrated it or paired to the scope yet. It speaks bluetooth to the scope and the scope will display the range and do all the point of impact calculations on screen. The default brightness setting of the screen is high enough that it blinds me in one eye when I put down the scope.... I finally found where to dim it in the menu. Changing the color palette (black is hot or whitehot or rainbow colors) is not quick to get to... I guess that's ok because once you get used to it, you'll never change it again.

The bad... it's the heaviest scope I've ever owned. You are going to need a bipod. They sell it as a zoom scope such as 4.5x to 18x.... but there is NO optical zoom.... the image sensor is 384pixels and all they do is digitally zoom the image. Once you get about 1/2 way thru the zoom factor, the image becomes very pixelated. There must be some special lenses inside the thing... if you look at window glass you see the temperature of the window... but the sensor must see thru a magnifying set of optics that are invisible to IR light.... that's amazing. Anyway, if you buy this (or any other mid-level) scope don't expect much out of the zoom function. I was able to ID the horses and those three deer at 300 yards easily on 4.5x base level zoom.

Pistol shooting diagnostics.

Sundown at Coffin Rock. Worth the read.