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August 13, 2006, 12:14 AM
Phil Carson was asked about not long ago.
Had coffee with the boy, and he is doing fine and said to tell ya'll...





Blueberry vs Cornbread.

There is more to responsible firearm ownership than firearms . -sm

This includes sharing with kids how to cook in six inch and eight inch cast iron skillets.

You take one aunt, add one niece, add one nephew that are brother and sister, Blueberry Muffin Mix , Sweet Cornbread Mix, Un-Sweet Cornbread Mix, a timer that decides to quit timing, sprinkle smoke detectors – and you have a Recipe for stepping and fetching, ear ringing, smoking ovens, kitchens and

Toothpicks breaks when poking to check it – hard.

Fling like a Frisbee and won’t break - hard

Yep- sure fire winners of the Ellie Mae Award

Now some folks would view this is a disaster, a situation where the kids did not learn any lessons.

I beg to differ, the Aunt understood the presented opportunity, and the kids understood the opportunity…

I seem to be the only to view this as shooting opportunity.

“Good! You figure how to get the durn things out of the skillets , and pass on some of that “Adopted Uncle “ stuff you do”

Head tilt – Arms folded- Smirk Ladies Do

“Yeah!”

Two sets of soulful eyes looking up at me, with grins…

“Woof” “Woof”

Make that three with the added “paw to the nose” bit -which means
“ I ain’t gonna try to eat ‘em, but it sounds like fun this playing with ‘em stuff”.


“Do we need guns like for Mutant Zombies?”
“Maybe <giggles> Ultimate Shotguns that shoot Roman Candles?”
“ I know , we need to use Fire Breathing Dragon Ammo”.

“Ya’ll been reading the Forums again haven’t you? “

Angelic Faces of Denial looking away.

“Yeah, some Adopted Uncle been known to peruse the forum with them, Last Estimate these two have about a Million dollars in shotguns picked out from pictures”

---JohnBT posted them pictures- I just showed them to the kids. I want the record straight on that. –

Guns:

I keep telling you folks to Simplify! Ya’ll don’t listen to me…

Teal Blue .22 single shot rifle, kids sized – the little ladies gun.
Wood Blue .22 single shot rifle, kid sized – the young mans.

Psychedelic, Tie-Dyed .kid sized .410 single shot shotgun , on a bright yellow background.
Did I mention this thing is YELLOW?

You get one guess as to who looks really good shooting this thing and is responsible for its being.


So, I prop up the Burnt Blueberry Specials on a box, with tin cans full of water behind them and …

…oh yeah, they stayed upright on edge, like a big old wooden nickel they did…

…just , well, this being the serious learning lesson it was and all, add the fact I had spied the food coloring in the cabinet, food coloring works in water…
hey, thing might be a neat special effect – don’t know, but for the sake of Research & Testing…

See? Ya’ll just don’t appreciate what all I do for ya’ll do ya?

Did ya’ll know that Electrical Tape will stick to a Burnt Blueberry Cake? It does in case you ever need to know that for Trivial Pursuit or something.

Anywho, taped a playing card for a target and let the games begin.

“GentlePersons – Start them Twenty Two’s! “

Hey, young man is into NASCAR, I thought it quite original myself…
The Aunt snickered and turned away…

Three shots each and we stop, I mean we gotta see….
Yep, darn tooting- all shots on the playing card and nice shooting.

You know how when you use a .22 to shoot plywood the backside splinters?

Yep, surprised me too.

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August 13, 2006, 12:34 AM
See the deal is folks, baking cups are fine and dandy for making six muffins. More fine and dandy is making one BIG Muffin! I mean there is that learning to use and care for Cast Iron, and not worrying about "do we have baking cups ?" stuff...

" Only ate ONE muffin ...". :D

Hey this works for kids, and adults. Kids are honest , I mean they only ate "one", whaddya mean by "ruining supper"....

....oh these muffins are healthier an have more food value than "Heart-Attack In a Nuke Box" in the frozen section...

...and one can inform the bathroom scale "look sucker, quit bouncing around, it was only ONE muffin, got it?".

Keep tellin' you folks this "Thinking out of the box" is a good thing, but will ya'll listen to me?

No.

Well the blueberry muffins were fun, decided to start chipping away assisting the kids with the Psychedelic Tie-Dyed Shotgun.

Did I mention this thing is YELLOW!

Aw man, outta see thing under a black light, and ambience of a Seafoam Green Lava Lamp...

Err...umm...oh yeah...Blueberry Patterning Muffins.

Hey some folks worry about Mutant Ninja Zombies, and some of us Pass Forward how to Pattern a shotgun. Just nobody "sez" ya gotta use paper...

Being the Adopted Uncle and all, and having seen enough patterns in my day...add this gun has been patterned...

If I say the shotgun shot great patterns - it shot great patterns.

'Cause ain't no way to count the holes when them Blueberry Patterning Muffins decide to bust aloose...

You can count the blueberries on the ground, but you ain't gonna count the holes.

"Yeah! Now we get to test the Cornbreads!"

Made perfect sense to me...

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August 13, 2006, 01:15 AM
Art & Science to this Cornbread Testing bit...

"whirrrrlllll" *crickets*

Did you know attempting to drill a hole with a battery operated drill is a great idea? Only deal is the battery pack needs to be charged up.

"Nobody" did it. I am sure most of you have met "Nobody". Oh the battery pack was in the charger, just the charger was not plugged up.

Aunt "swore" she plugged it back in after using that outlet. The kids "swore" they had plugged it back in after using that outlet.
The dog can't reach it, but he did bark at something the other night.

Powers of Deduction : "Nobody" unplugged the battery charger.

Got a electric drill plugged in, and kids hands on mine we drill a hole atop each one.

Put ropes thru the holes and ...Cornbread is used for patterning moving targets, I gotta teach you folks "everything"?.

I'm so proud, young man is not big enough to shoot a shotgun by himself, so with my assistance he swung and slapped trigger and shot the rope.

Okay so he shot over the Cornbread, but he had speed angle all down pat...

"Klunk!" Oh yeah, cornbread dropped like a rock - literally. Still intact, just a new piece of rope and back in business...

After his chest swelling, and the rest of laughing our butts off...

Did ya know shooting Cornbread Pattern Plates...
You know how steel plates show where the shot pellets hit?

Yeah, surprised me too...

"Slugs!"

Boy, do these kids know how to warm an Adopted Uncle's heart or what?

Young man with my assistance went first. He being smaller , I hold gun and he slapped trigger and we busted a "chunk" off the Cornbread.
We used #6 shot to "finish that sucker off".

<Puff Chest Moment # 2>

Little lady wants to try a slug all by herself. "And I want the Cornbread moving just a wee little bit".

First shot, she nailed that sucker.

"It was not even at me and I got it!"
"I...It didn't kick me, I was "keyed up and focused"...

Gun fits her pretty good too...

Yep, the Cornbread was at an slight angle and she still kept focused and hit it about 2" up and to the right.

#6 shot with a stationary target and she "busted it up".

"All that practice with a BB Gun is paying off!"

Oh yeah, she still does repetitions with her BB Gun, shoots ping pong balls, and small balloons , tied down on the ground and moving with the breeze...

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All guns put away,kids all cleaned up, and fed...
... the smells of blueberry baked in the cast iron skillets,wafting in the air as they cool and cornbread baking...

"Okay, something has been bothering me" Ask the Aunt.
"How did the kids know which cast iron skillet was theirs and which cornbread was sweet and un-sweet?"

See I gave the kids each their very own cast iron skillet. Adopted Uncles do stuff like this.

'Little ladies has a Copper ring going thru the hole in handle, you did not see as she often keeps a handle mitt over hers. Young man's does not have a ring on his.

On Your bigger skillets, I just put a put a peice of solid copper from a discarded peice of wire thru the hole in the sweet cornbread handle. I gave the kids these and shared this old tip back when I gave them their skillets.

She jumps up checks cornbread and sure enough one has a copper ring and one does not. Check the blueberry and sure enough, one has a copper ring.

"Huh! More to this Shooting Stuff than just Shooting for sure!"

"Yep. What I keep trying to tell folks and pass forward".


Copyright 2006 - Phil Carson

the naked prophet
August 13, 2006, 08:57 PM
You certainly have a unique writing style! Always a good read.