Verna and Bob's Weblog

April 2008

The Baby Boomer is BACK!

boomerMy beautiful Para Warthog is back from the factory! She’s been gone for a couple of months, but we just got her back today. Our gunsmith had to send her back for repairs after the recoil spring assembly broke.

It turns out that the recoil spring assembly was manufactured incorrectly; the larger of the two springs was installed BACKWARDS! I’m surprised that I was able to get over a thousand rounds through her before it gave up.

Anyhow, I’m going to be able to make some more boom this weekend. This is a still frame from a video Bob took at the range a while back.

April 24, 2008 by Firearms

Cactus Spirals

Verna recently bought this interesting cactus at Lowe’s garden shop. She took this picture of it shortly after we got it home. When I looked at it just a few minutes ago, I noticed that you can clearly see the Fibonacci spirals in the pattern the spiny nodes make.

spirals

April 23, 2008 by Home & Garden Nerdliness

The Cosmos Are Back

center of the cosmosYesterday, you saw a preview of the return of the cosmos flowers to the patio flowerpots when I posted the lady bug close-up. Today, I took a lot of pictures of flowers. It was hard to pick one, but this tight shot of a pink cosmos shows the beautiful structure of these colorful flowers.

Click on the thumbnail for the full-screen version.

April 22, 2008 by Home & Garden Photography

Lady Bug

A little more than a week ago, I bought a couple of Cosmos flower plants at our local garden emporium. I was taking some photos of the nice flowers when I saw this little ‘lady bug’ beetle land on one of the white flowers.

lady bug

I’ll have more about the flowers soon.

April 21, 2008 by Critters Home & Garden

Red, White and Blue

We went to the indoor shooting range today and did some target practice. Afterwards, I cleaned the revolver up and took a picture of the nice, clean cylinder. The reflections are from a fold-up canvas chair with a pattern made to look like a U.S. Flag.

colors

April 20, 2008 by Firearms Photography

Falcon

This handsome hunter occasionally swoops through our yard in quest of small game. Today, we saw the bird land on the TV antenna briefly, only to swoop on to another yard. I managed to get this shot as it flew within a mere ten feet or so.

falcon

April 19, 2008 by Critters Photography

Avalon 1998

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