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phideaux said:
Today is our anniversary :heart:
53 years ago we walked the isle.
2 kids just out of high school.
I wouldn't change anything that we have done.
3 daughters, 6 grandkids.
It's been a great life.

Today we just go shopping , she loves to shop.
Then we have a good meal , at Outback Steakhouse... tradition for us , except the milestone years , 25, 50, and 60 ....then we get away for a week somewhere special.
Yeah, there are better places, but that's where we started celebrating years ago.

So I'm looking forward to today and hopefully many more.


Jim
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Guests, guests and more guests. In between I have started the preseason maintenance on the snow removal equipment. I never had training and most of my jobs were office related, so I depend heavily on YouTube. When that goes down, I will have lost a major asset. It saves me a lot of trial and error
 
The Innkeeper said:
Guests, guests and more guests. In between I have started the preseason maintenance on the snow removal equipment. I never had training and most of my jobs were office related, so I depend heavily on YouTube. When that goes down, I will have lost a major asset. It saves me a lot of trial and error
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Hubby just used it the other day too. He had to find out why the air brakes on the 5 ton army truck blew. He managed to get it back into its parking spot but it was a close call.
 
phideaux said:
Today is our anniversary :heart:
53 years ago we walked the isle.
2 kids just out of high school.
I wouldn't change anything that we have done.
3 daughters, 6 grandkids.
It's been a great life.

Today we just go shopping , she loves to shop.
Then we have a good meal , at Outback Steakhouse... tradition for us , except the milestone years , 25, 50, and 60 ....then we get away for a week somewhere special.
Yeah, there are better places, but that's where we started celebrating years ago.

So I'm looking forward to today and hopefully many more.


Jim
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:great::thumbs: :presents: And many more .
 
Loaned a new rifle to a newbie shooter friend. I wanted the rifle broken in and he wanted some experience. He had a few failure to feed. Probability user caused but...plan on going to the range this morning to see if it's the rifle or magazine. Ready to leave before I thought about checking their web site. Range is reserved for the day. Mowed yard instead, watered the new grass and chicken chores. Swaged several hundred 5.56 cases too.
 
It's been over a year but I finally got the chance to do the scheduled test on my CDV-700 low-level radiation detector.
FIL had a nuclear radiogram done on the blood-vessels in his heart today. Perfect source to test all 3 scales on the meter.
It easily picked him up from over 10 feet away on the lowest scale.
He was a little hotter than I was after the NS test. He pegged out the meter on highest scale with the tube 3" from his body:eek:.

Oh, in the name of being prepared, everything functioned flawlessly, and it only took 14 minutes to get it out, batteryed-up, and running.
Test=PASS
 
Bacpacker said:
If you can you should run the same test and record data for the next several days to see how fast it decays.
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It's already online.
It decays very fast. Loses down to about 50% at 6 hours and 5% at 24 hours. Very short shelf-life:rolleyes:.
Add that to the fact that most of the isotope is eliminated from the body within 24 hours, there won't be hardly anything to measure tomorrow:(.
This is why it is 'safe'.
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"Tritium (hydrogen-3) has a half-life of only 11.2 years, meaning that half of it decays every 11 years. It is highly radioactive - but not nearly as radioactive as some isotopes used in medicine, such as Technetium-99 with a half-life of only 6 hours. A unit of Technetium-99 emits 16,000 times as much radiation per second than does Tritium, which in turn is 7,000,000 times as radioactive as Plutonium!
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Of course the Samarskite I have is different. It has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
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Talk about the Energizer Bunny!
But it is also very weak.
 
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The Lazy L said:
Loaned a new rifle to a newbie shooter friend. I wanted the rifle broken in and he wanted some experience. He had a few failure to feed. Probability user caused but...plan on going to the range this morning to see if it's the rifle or magazine. Ready to leave before I thought about checking their web site. Range is reserved for the day. Mowed yard instead, watered the new grass and chicken chores. Swaged several hundred 5.56 cases too.
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Did you clean it when you got it. When I got my rifle, it was throwing rounds clear out of the chamber. I learned they grease them up extra good for shipping in order to prevent rust. Had something similar with a pistol but it had a wacky firing pin too.
@phideaux Congrats to you both! You're an inspiration:)
 
What cha harvesting there SG? Soybeans? Crop looks good. Like that tractor too.
I've drove across a few places in the midwest over the years, both during planting and harvesting. Always wished I could spend some time out in the fields like that. Biggest field I ever worked was about 30 acres or so. Working 500 at a time would have been awesome.
 
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