What's on your mind? (2024)

Not About Food
923

Happy birthday!

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924

Happy birthday :confetti_ball::champagne::birthday:

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925

Did you buy apples to go with the crossbow? :woozy_face:

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926

Happy birthday! I hope you have an excellent pizza pie.

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927

Happy birthday! Will there be a special birthday pizza to celebrate?

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928

Could be . I made dough last nite for Saturday. 48 hour fermentation.

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929

Could these two magical things be related? :wink:

Happy birthday, John!

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930

He was a guy with a true heart of gold and endlessly youthful ambition. Alas, that came along with a youthful appetite for booze which lead to a lot of starting things, not a lot of finishing. For instance, the crossbow was not in a usable condition when I found it, and I strongly suspect that’s the condition he found it in. Someone deciding they didn’t want to keep up with the hobby enough to fix their equipment. My brother picks it up for cheap or free, intending to have the repairs done. And it gets put on the table, then put on the chair next to the table, then into the corner of the hallway, as whatever new shiny thing happens along captures his attention.

There was a LOT of evidence of this sort of thing. Half completed mechanical sculpture kits, broken toys or small appliances that needed a small but non-trivial amount of skilled work to become functional, but were never attended to.

It’s simultaneously amusing at the variety and randomness of it all, and rather saddening considered in its totality.

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931

hunting snakeheads w/ a crossbow in the Chessapeake

Hmm. I wonder if I can transport it in checked luggage? I like a nice grilled fish as much as the next bloke.

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932

Well happy birthday!!

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933

I am rather ashamed to say that it had not occurred to me to do so 'til you mentioned it.

I must be slipping in my dotage.

I wonder if my 30-something daughter will consent to hold still for target practice? I suspect not.

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934

ADHD, perhaps? Not sure what generation you or your brother are, but that diagnosis is still relatively new.

Or neurodivergent in other ways, and self-medicating with booze? My buddy in Berlin is about to go into rehab on his GF’s orders, whereas I and other friends of his think there’s deeper issues.

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935

Happy birthday, John! Enjoy every minute!

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936

HBJ! (Or to spell it out: Happy Birthday, John!)

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937

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938

Happy birthday! :partying_face:

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939

Thanks for all of your birthday wishes . I have waited forever for this this red poppy to bloom .Today it bloomed.

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940

đŸ©·To you.

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941

my son had a cross bow - type uncertain.
he shot a fiberglass shaft arrow into a chunk of oak from 20-30 feet . . . the arrow penetrated at least 2 inches - it could not be pulled out - wound up breaking off the shaft


those things are not toys!

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942

No they are not, hence my proceeding carefully, even though I really REALLY want to set up a piece of plywood in the back yard and take a couple.of shots.

A reusable crossbow target runs between $60-100 on Amazon depending on size etc. They have to be super dense to stop the bolts from simply ripping straight through a regular archery target and burying themselves in whatever’s behind it.

I have tried pulling the string back to almost cocked. It is NOT trivial to do. (Also, I was warned repeatedly that I should NOT dry fire the thing, so I’m sticking to that. )

It has a firearm looking stock so I treat it the same way as any other. No “screwin’ around.”

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