There was about two inches of pine needles on the rear slope of the roof. I don't think it's been done since last spring. I missed the last trip up do to an extended hospital stay. Again.
Wild weather, rain, wind, snow and more rain. We spent a couple hours burning up some .22s on Friday. It was raining, but still pretty warm.
No.1 stepson brought a couple of guns his dad has recently given him. The guy had a stroke about 6 mos. ago and isn't recovering well.
Most of the stuff he gave Quentin is various styles of AR kit guns. Two of the more interesting guns though were a 9 shot H&R revolver that is almost new in the box condition and an H&K GSG knockoff. I know next to nothing about the GSGs, but this one seemed to be pretty well put together and functioned flawlessly through 400 rounds or so. Quentin really liked shooting it and took to it much more quickly that I would have guessed. He makes do with his disability as best he can. It's always interesting to me, what makes sense to him and what just doesn't click sometimes. Anyway, big smiles the whole afternoon and all weekend. I'm pretty sure he didn't want to come home either.

I put a bunch of rounds through my old Yugo single shot training rifle.
Probably the biggest excitement for the rest of the weekend was a small tree that came down across the road. I figured it would be Monday morning before any of the oil company trucks that work the hills to the east of us and clear the road. I got out my cordless sawsall and tow strap and made it at least passable again. The tree doesn't look like much, but that sucker was heavy.
Can't wait to get back up there!
jb
