bersaguy

About 4 years ago I had an issue with a kerosene heater and it ended my use of them. Kerosene prices have gone out of sight now also. I purchased a Sun Rite made by Mr Heater that fits directly on top of a 30lb bottle of Propane. It has a single burner on top and I tested it that winter when i got it and I live in a cabin that is 1050 Sq feet and it kept my house warm on a day when temps outside was 10 degrees above zero. Since them I have purchased 5 more 30lb tanks and will get another one this year. The tanks work on my gas grill also. I also found out that instead of exchanging tanks when one runs out I can get a 30lb bottle refilled at Tractor Supply for 10 bucks so I just keep them refilled that way. The only thing is says on the Mr Heater is to make sure there is adequate ventilation which is 3 windows open two or three inches in different parts of the house. I actually got it for emergencies in case of power outage because I heat with natural gas on central unit but blower does not work with power out.  I am looking at buying a Coleman camper cook stove that operates on the 1 lb bottles just for emergencies if power goes out. Been planning on doing that for a couple years now and keep forgetting to get one but going to make a point of it this month. I already have 4 Coleman  propane lanterns and 10 1 lb full bottles for them and extra mantles. I guess I'm trying to be a Boy Scout and trying to always be prepared.......... :rock:  :rock:  :rock:  :rock: 

Smart snake for sure. Knows a great whiskey when it tastes it............. :rofl: :rofl:   :rofl:

This subject is too deep for me to comprehend. Just reading the thread made my head hurt............. :ugh:

I'm not so sure Hillary is as close to shoe in as many folks think. Back in 08 a Black President was actually a novelty and no one really thought he would get elected. They all got a surprise and in 2012 election it took rigging the election with getting people to vote several times and no one trying to stop it or even prosecuting the people that even told the news that they voted several times and still nothing happened to get him re-elected plus far to many Conservatives not going to the polls gave him the election. It has been investigated and proven that people that have been dead for over 100 years voted for Obama in last election. Anyone could win that kind of election. I don't think that will work again with Hillary. Also after trying something new like electing a Black man to the office I think or at least I hope and pray that the American people have learned enough to not experiment again and put a woman in the White House right now. I know ObamaCare is a train wreck coming and coming fast but as most can see he set it up for most of the worst part of the wreck to kick in after he leaves office. The right people put in place can still stop a lot of the damage if we can just get the right people in place in midterms in 2014 elections. If the Conservatives can keep the House and get enough seats in the Senate to strip Harry of his power then there is still a chance. If that happens Hillary may even decide not to run in 2016 because she would possibly be a Lame Duck her first two years..................jmho

Thanks to the folks willing to step up and help and I bet there are a lot more that have not read the thread yet so if she does end up needing the Surgery send me your address and I will send funds to help. This is a very large site so I know dog lovers will step up and help.

Ok I am sending prayers for her to get well without the surgery but If it will get folks involved here on the site I will chip in the first $15.00 towards her surgery. If we have as many dog lovers he as I think we do and everyone gives something even just a few bucks we might be able to help cover most of the surgery cost. I mean she a Rescue Dog nd deserves nothing less then to be rescued...............jmho

 a tact driver is someone you don't want to be shooting at you................jmho

Like I said in my earlier post. I know some blind guys that I would not want to be shooting at me as long as they can hear me even breathing the least bit heavy............JMHO

Lets face it folks, cannot anyone see that Obama struck a deal with Putin at that private little dinner they had to get this done to save face and his a$$ for his own stupid Red Line statement. That is why all of this is in play now and moving at light speed. It has to be done before the speech tomorrow by Obama. I have no clue what Obama promised Putin but you can bet it was big for sure...........JMHO

An ice cold bottle of water , comfortable chair and watching the hummingbirds doing their aeronautics in large numbers all around me this time of year and when they are not around then tinkering around in my bait making room experimenting with new colors and styles of soft plastic fishing baits....

I had to laugh a few years after i moved here and first put out a few feeders. I had been gone a week and when i got back the feeders were empty so I went out and got them and filled them with food from the fridge and as I was walking back out to hang them up I had one in each hand and two birds  on each one drinking while was toting them back to hang them back up. I had to laugh about that for a few minutes. I think the climate changes are having some effect on them since they are a migratory bird and I think that the drought all over the west is making it harder for them to make the migration from Brazil and Latin America where they winter at back up to Maine, Canada and Nova Scotia where most of them summer. I know a great number of birds into the thousands spend all summer in Eureka Springs Arkansas each year because everyone in that town has at least a dozen feeders up on every house and tree in town. Been there to visit a few times and see thousands of birds there every time I go there. We should have birds here in middle Tennessee till at least end of September to mid October depending on the weather.........jmho 

Back several years ago I was given the learning experience of my life when I watched a friend of mine shoot. He was in training for United States Marshals Service .He wanted to be a U.S. Marshall more than life itself. He was a Marine Sniper before he sit his eyes on that. I went and watched him qualify. He amazed me for sure. This was a closed shooting course and the targets were in the form of human outlines. Each man testing was given 24 hours to learn the 7 different sounds that each target made when it stood up. One target was a woman with groceries in her arms, another one was a uniformed police officer. One was of a little boy with a toy gun and 4 were bad guys and each bad guy had a different sound then the next. My buddy Butch shot expert and killed all 4 bad guys and never shot any innocent person and folks he was blind folded. He had been practicing shooting at noises for over a year because he knew that passing the blind fold test meant you got the job or you didn't. He would have buddies come by and they would hide behind walls behind him and pull ropes on different sounding targets. He was so good he was scary. He even had special hearing aids made to make sure he heard every sound around him. Now with that said, In my past I have known several blind people. Some from birth and some from war and I often wondered how true it was about other senses making up for senses lost. I have seen a few of my old friends that lost their eyesight in war that I served with and one of them can hear a finishing nail drop on a carpet and tell you what piece of furniture it fell near in the room. I have little doubt he would miss an intruder in his home if he had to shoot one. Especially in a dark house when of course the blind person will have the full advantage. You can bet if I went to visit my buddy Phillip and I knew he had a gun I would not stand out side his door and call him on the phone and let him know it was me coming in your crazy. I know he could hit me at least twice before I hit the floor. Now with that said to allow a totally untrained person that has never been around a firearm and is blind to get a gun and a carry permit, That is a really scary thought for sure. Don't know that answer..............JMHO

Extremely explosive or unreasonably and extremely scared of his job and either one of them is a recipe for serious trouble

  I didn't think I was going to have very many this year either but I am guessing right now I have about 50 to 60 resident birds that will stay till it's time to migrate but up until a month ago I only had about 5 and they all showed up here about same time and I had to put out more feeders to make sure they all got fed. I sit out there on my patio and they will buzz all around me and i love it when one will get about 3 feet from my face and just sit and hover there looking at me. I have had some do that for as long as 1 minute before another one comes in and distracts them and away they go...I have had folks tell me about one flowering Vine that grows up a piece of laddies if you plant it at the base of it in early spring and it will come back every year but I can find out the name of it. It has little horn type flowers on it and they say Hummingbirds love it and when I first moved here there was some here but it finally died that year we had that really late freeze and frost. 

I sure wish you knew the name of that bush/vine. There was one here when i moved here and it would come back every year on it's own and had birds on it all the time. It finally died and I have not been able to find out what it was so i could plant more of them........I know what you mean out filling the feeders but I don't really mind. Gives me something to do and I keep it mixed up in the fridge in gallon containers.

  I have heard many different discussions on this very issue and it was even covered in my class when i was applying to get my carry permit. While our instructor carried open he also stated it was an individuals decision whether to do so or not. It is what ever that particular person feels comfortable with. Your correct about the stats on how many crimes may be prevented by the presence of a person with an open carry. Could be hundreds or thousands. That we will never know. I just know that if I'm in a store or a parking lot or anywhere else I want the element of surprise to be on my side. If a person does not know your armed and he is going to harm someone else or do something else stupid he will most likely take his eyes off of you to continue to his objective. I want that few seconds that he/she is distracted if I plan on getting involved..........jmho

Thanks and I make misspell that word quite often and i do appreciate it when it is brought to my attention. Comes with age I guess and I know he was not trying to be smart to me. It was my ignorance...... :up:

There back in late Spring early summer I thought we were not going to have any this year. I always put up one or two feeders early for early travelers passing through going up east. I finally in mid July got two regulars so I put out 3 more feeders and still only had 2 for about two weeks. Now I guess most folks took their feeders down thinking they weren't coming. About 3rd day of August I had about 25 birds fighting over 5 feeders so I put up 3 more for a total of 8 nd now I bet I have 40 to 50 birds buzzing all over m house and yard. I just came in from watching them feeding feuding and fussing and they are really funny to watch. I laugh all the time I am out there sitting and watching. I have to fill the feeders every 2 days since they all have shown up. I sure do enjoy watching them. Does anyone here enjoy feeding and watching them?

back when i had my bait business up and operational to general public I paid for advertising on a couple of the larger fishing sites and then paid yahoo for my web site and domain but that's it. I would pay here if I was planning on selling anything and would go lifetime but like OS I'm afraid to buy green bananas and don't make plans farther ahead then a loaf of sliced bread molding.

    Your not going to get any argument out of me on that. Unless your a LEO in uniform or a detective in plain clothes with badge on belt your just asking someone to challenge you is my opinion also. Many times depending on where i might be going I will have two concealed weapons on my person and always have backup magazines along. 

  I stand corrected.  a 40 caliper projectile  round inside him.

That is why I never carry open and that is why I won't even go to my mail box in front of my home unarmed. You cannot trust anyone any more. Let me rephrase that. you can now trust the guy with the 40 caliper slug n his body cause he is now harmless..........jmho

I have no clue what his teleprompter writer will put on it for him to read but the words will not be his own as they seldom are. The few times he tried going it alone he put his size 12 shoe with foot installed right directly in his big mouth. I think he was told right after that to never ever speak for your self again. His puppet masters that pull his strings tell his writers what to put on the prompters. What ever he says will not change my mind on this issue. It is like the slogan on squad cars that quotes  " Just say No to drugs" I say "Just say no to war.".............jmho

I think it must have been a rookie but even if he was seasoned officer he needs to know he is a police officer that lives in a state that allows people to be armed and it really should not have been that much of a surprise to him. I don't know how many folks here in Tennessee know it but when a LEO stops you 99.9% of the time they run your car plates any times before the stop but almost every time after the stop before they approach your vehicle. Your license plates inform the officer that you do have a carry permit and you may be armed. I didn't know it till I had a Trooper stop me about 2 year ago for a minor infraction for which I was not even ticketed. When the police Officer approached my door I had my window down. He requested my drivers license. Proof of insurance and if I was armed at the time he requested to see my carry permit. I provided him with all he requested. He told me that I had a tail light not working and needed to get it fixed. I told him I would do so the following morning. He handed me all of my papers back and actually thanked me. I asked him why he thanked me and his reply was for taking the responsibility to assist us in protecting you and your family and with that he returned to his Squad car. Super nice LEO and did it by the book but that was when i learned that if you have a carry permit it is tied to your license plates of your car or truck also alerting the officers so they will not be caught off guard at the sight of a gun. I think that might be something all states might want to look into doing..........jmho

China also has ships moving into the area in was is suppose to be war games along with Iranian war ships and Syrian shore batteries testing the new toys the got from Russia. War games can turn to war with one wrong shot. As far as China goes if we don't stop importing any of their food products they will end up killing us with poison being imported in cans. I also think it should be made mandatory that any food being imported from China be clearly marked on the label Product from China so people can make their own minds up whether to buy it or not. Last week I read that the FDA said it was going to actually ease up on items having to be labeled made in China. I think I will begin looking for farmers here that will sell their meat and vegetables to me and buy directly from the source when at all possible...........jmho