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Sorry, Gene, but, we have been assured by the usual suspects that the climate is changing, and cold weather isn’t real anymore. The ‘chirens will no longer know and understand snow or ice.

So, it is just your imagination that it is cold.

We hit 25 or so, today. We had a run of subzero high temperature days with -10, down to -20 degree nights. I don’t actually need a whole lot of that in my world.

Hope it warms up for you, Gene. Hope it warms up for me, too.

Best,
Ted

Gene & Ted, absolutely!
Karl

Just be thankful it wasn’t a horde of Somalis opening learing centers.


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Palm Springs

Learing centers? 🤣🤣🤣

It's leering, dude.

Try to keep up, Stan.

https://babylonbee.com/news/is-this-minnesota-daycare-actually-a-fake-somali-front-know-the-signs


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Macbeth

Ain't having to keep up. I'm already two steps ahead of U.

Don't drop the "n" next time, Lo--y.

As for me, just magazine articles mainly. Don't have much time to sit and read. I guess I gave up reading years ago.

Cannery Row, short and quite enjoyable.

Very interesting book on the re-introduction of the grey partridge on a Sussex estate. Readable, lots about clever habitat building and getting our indigenous English game bird back into our countryside.

"The Return of the Grey Partridge" by Roger Morgan-Grenville.

And one further good read for those interested in English sporting game guns, which I notified on here last year, is Stephen Grist's book on the Wilkes gunmaking firm. 15 years ago this would have found a ready audience on both sides of the Atlantic and have been printed beautifully, much like the Donald Dallas books on gunmakers. Now, as Stephen writes in his forward, there is a realisation that the readership for this specialised subject is getting ever smaller, such that the economics of publishing a book do not make it worthwhile. His answer, one I suspect we shall see used increasingly, is to self-publish online. Not everyone's favourite way to read an excellent coverage of his subject, but nonetheless a very well researched and written work.

Here is a link to it, which I found on the Craig Whitsey website: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.craigwhitseygunmakers.co.uk/John_Wilkes_Gun___Rifle_Manufacturer_March_2023.pdf Craig used to work for the Wilkes brothers at their iconic Beak Street workshop before it closed.

Tim