Oh I tried to make right over the years with the fella that sired me - really did - just didn't pan out. Not too long ago a serious situation with him in hospital (he being 76) and I did the right thing.
This also exposed me to other folks with same last name or kin.
Damn sure not easy, but I did it. Sure did turn some head and get some eyes wide and jaws to drop too.
Grin as you emerge from the smoke; drive folks crazy and they wonder just what the hell you are up to next... - Dave Robecheaux.
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Now about true friends...
Got a tight knit bunch I hang and do some things with, like some kids and all. They read THR along with me, mom, parents, grandparents ....
Some have had a rough row to hoe - gonna be all right.
Why I am still getting Mentored always will be.
Seems some of the kids feel I need to get my skills to where I can hit a itty bitty black jelly bean , sitting atop a crosstie at a "bazillion yards".
No excuse I am getting older, eyes not what they used to be...the fact I cannot see the bean...
<giggle> "You said we were supposed to learn correct basic stuff with a iron sighted .22 rifle - so show us how. "
Seems I "cheated" on this first lesson - they set the jelly bean atop a tin can and said "knock it off".
So I used a shotgun and "knocked it off" - fact I hit the can to do so...
Kids picked up the lesson on "what is said" differs from " what you mean".
Kids run way out yonder - about 80 yard, sets this itty bitty jelly bean on a cross tie and "hit the jelly bean".
I got more practicing to do on this...tried everyone of the kid's guns, from Pink Crickets to a old single shot painted Teal Blue...not even the one with a Pink Floyd "Dark Side of The Moon" sticker on it seems to work...
Seems the kids snicker when they hand me .22 shorts to use " these are cute, try this one..."
Cross tie end is facing me, I can walk the shots in...you would think by now Lady Luck would assist.
My theory is she is laughing too hard and Mentors & Elders that have passed on - won't let her assist me and most likely egging her [Lady Luck] on.
"We know - we need to set it out further - that way you will concentrate harder..."
I hope they give me a hint as to where the cross tie is ( whatever they set this bean on) if they do...
Another thing that goes w-a-y back is - "A stick of beef jerky in your pocket - makes one a better shooter". I have passed this on as well.
About that itty bitty jelly bean...
My back pocket keeps getting beef jerky stuffed into it..."he needs more beef jerky!
My back pocket looks like I have a side of beef shoved into it...
It ain't just the guns - it is the whole shooting match young 'un - Mentors