Get a a good calligraphy book.  Practice a lot.  Eventually, it will all soak in!

Trust me!  I couldn't draw flies on a hot day, but I can do pretty fair calligraphy.  Just takes a little practice, and a little patience.  And do not ask The Darlin' Daughter if the calligraphy version of Kipling's poem "If" is for sale.  It isn't.

"If" is a dammed fine start in educating a youngster in the more important aspects of character, if you don't mind my saying so.

Of all the truly amazing people I've ever met, my grandfather is still my hero.

Your Grandfather sounds a bit like Ira Johnson.
By any chance, is your hair red?

Your Grandfather sounds a bit like Ira Johnson.
By any chance, is your hair red?

No, but my daughter's hair is.  And some of the Minions are red heads, as well.

The Youngest Minion is a strawberry blonde, with freckles that look like she got a suntan through a screen door.  Don't piss her off, she can run that Vaquero like nobody's business!

The choice of gift says worlds about their personalities.  And yours...

Happy birthday.

 

No no, it's good... 

Imna take your word for it!  And I've discovered that I can use it in *delay* mode.  Set it, leave it, and a few minutes later, there she goes!  The Boss has already threatened me with violence and bodily harm if I don't quit leaving it under her recliner when she's watching a movie!

(Kinda reminds me of the story of Sir Issac Newton and his dog, Diamond.  Seems the dog chewed up a paper that he'd worked on for about two years, calculating the orbit of something-or-other, and Diamond demolished it the night before the presentation.  Newton's only response was "Diamond, Diamond!  Little do you know the trouble you've done!")

This weekend... I spent the weekend on the couch recovering from a motorcycle accident that gouged a leg bone and tore some muscle.
No surgery or cast required, and I can walk.  Slowly and painfully... but I can walk. 

Spent the weekend praying for my friends in the Houston area.  They got hit hard and it's still coming down.

Went through that as a ground zero hometown survivor  (28 foot storm surge, 17 feet of water three miles inland), responder/relief and recovery volunteer with Katrina 12 years ago today.

It's gonna take them several years to dig out of this one, folks.  The coastal towns north of Corpus Christi got the high winds, but the rising water is a force of nature no one appreciates until its up to your waist and you have no place to go.  Evacuating a city as large as Houston is not really possible, nor did objective evidence suggest that the flooding would be so widespread.

If you can help in some way, please join in being a part of the solution in some meaningful way.  Those folks are hurting and are just now figuring out had bad it will be.

No expert, but as the insurance commercial says . . . "I've seen a thing or two."

Agreed. 

Not much for bragging but I just can't help myself this time. Shot a MAG 40 this weekend and beat the old man in his game!

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Sighted in a new red dot (Sig Romeo) on an AR to replace the EoTech that was on it.  Went hiking up the local "mountain".  And I caught up with an old friend I hadn't seen in person for over a month - we only live 30 minutes away from each other.

Our big outdoor event for kids.  Coffey County OK Kids (www.okkidscc.com).   
Registration point we had over 600 t-shirts just for the kids.  gave out all of them by 2 pm.
Events included,  camping Friday night.  Breakfast Sat. morning. Fishing tournament. Lunch. events during Sat. afternoon included, trap shooting, pellet gun shoot, archery, sling shots, water cannon fight, rope bridge, milk crate climb, bouncy castles, horse back rides, disc golf, pedal cars course, paint ball shoot, bird house building, MOPS (mothers of pre-schoolers) had sidewalk chalk, changing and feeding stations and activities for the littlest ones, balloon lady, magician, hay rack rides, supper, prize drawings,  movie and popcorn,  camping again on Sat. night, with breakfast on Sunday morning and a non-denominational worship service after breakfast.   over 1200 people total at the Corp of Engineers park (John Redmond reservoir) and every bit of it was free. 

This is put on by our emergency services, Sheriff, Fire, Police, EMS, emergency management, Parks and Wildlife, Federal fish and game, Corp of engineers, Recreation center, quail forever/pheasant forever,  and a host of sponsors and everything is provided.
basic idea is to get the kids outside for a day, give em a ton of stuff to do, and the parents don't have to spend a dime on food or entertainment.
This was our 17th year of doing this.