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Some personal history about custard and the second of the seventh cavalry.
I arrived in Saigon in January 1966 and the next day I was signed to the first Calvary division and put on a caribou and flu to the central Highlands. Then assigned to Charlie company second of the seventh cavalry. I was ...

Interesting question. How big is the tank on your compressor?

Given sufficient volume in the compressor tank, I suspect the best bang for your buck is to increase the size of the piping/hose to the whistle. A large volume in storage won't help if the delivery system is too small. The key is how ...

Red Dave wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 7:10 am

GeneMO wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2026 6:59 pm OK, who did Dead skunk in the middle of the road?

Gene

Louden Wainwright Jr.

He also appeared on a couple early episodes of MASH TV Show

I sure didn't know about the MASH connection

Maybe this year I will break into my black powder supply and fire off the home made cannon for the 4th. Another project, I have an authentic, brass steam whistle that came out of a local factory that closed. Meaning to hook that up to the Air compressor. Paul might could help with this. I was ...

We-too-low, Korean pilot. copilot was Sum-ting-wong.

Gene

OK, who did Dead skunk in the middle of the road?

Or " Please Mr. Custer, I dont wanna go"

Every hear of "Milk cow" Now Milk cow was on the back side of the 45 rpm, the reverse side was pretty popular. Front side was talking about Spirit in something or other.


Gene

I just took a wild assed guess. Based on your Doctor hint. I dont think I ever ever heard that song. I had to look it up on Google.

Gene

So my beekeeping story. I got the bright Idea to get into the craft. I had planted a 1/2 acre pollinator patch, then I had 12 or 14 acres of native grass, with quite a few wildflowers and forbs in it. Plus the creek bottomi s there and just lots of timber and habitat in general. Well I trolled some ...

I kinda like " Even a blind hog will root up an acorn every now and then". Then my old standby, " I haven't had so much fun since the hogs ate up my little sister"

Guess my country raising is coming out.

Gene

We just re-watched the TV series "Justified." It is filled with good characters and quotes, but one quote hits me as both funny and true...a good way to judge yourself. At one point, the main character Raylan Givens says:

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. But ...