Northern Lights, Guns, Motorcycles, and Monster trucks - Or.....Shabbat in the Ozarks

"Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money" - Warren Zevon

Hey,

Guess what we saw Friday night?

The Northern lights decided to drop by and visit us for a few hours. Kinda cool huh?

So…. I’m sitting there relaxing in my chair about 9 o’clock when I get a message from The Boy who’s out camping with his friends. “The northern nights are out” he says. I decide to take a look ‘cause maybe something cool is happening…or…maybe he’s getting into the “Northern Lights”. I mean he’s a good kid, but 18 ya know?

The pictures are his.

Yeah, the Aurora Borealis was out bigger than shit. I guess the sun had a giant fart and sent a massive G4 solar storm. Check this out.

I hear tell it was visible in parts of Florida. So in my rush to get out the door and look at the awesome celestial lightshow that I’ve been waiting to see like ALL MY LIFE (at least since my Uncle Kimball told me about it up in Alaska back in the day ) I forgot to put on boots. Chiggers laid me to the bone man. I mean ASSAULTED. The little bastards bite you and the saliva dissolves a little bit of your skin I guess. Itches like hell. I mean it’s bad enough that the treatment of POURING ACETONE on open wounds is the better option. My feet look like I’m a meth head or a late term AIDs patient. How’s that for a mental image? Nasty huh?

Earlier in the day I went to the range with the Wife. She got to put a box of .45 through her carry piece. Practice is good yeah? I think so. I also worked on getting a good zero on my rifle.

Ragged holes indicate multiple bullets in the same hole. At 100 yards. The rifle is capable of more than me. I need to work on that. Oh darn, I guess I need to shoot more….but then again, it’s like 1.50 a shot.

Then….we cleaned stuff.

Saturday I took the Wife out for a bike ride. We did the tourist thing and headed up to Dawt Mill.

The Wifey is finding out quickly that wearing armored clothing in the 80 degree sunlight is hot. So we had ice cream. Getting hot is better than not wearing it though. Besides, I like fancy rich people strawberry ice cream with the little bits of fruit in it.

We swung back to town on the 181 and saw Hodgson Mill. That one is cool. Next time we go I’m going to bring my suit and swim in the mill pond. I mean…..adventures right? Besides, there is no sign.

That evening……MONSTER TRUCKS!

No it was a truck pull. The Wife wanted to go and it was Mother’s Day weekend. Ok, good enough for me. Grab your ear protection and a sweatshirt.

So for those of you who have never been experienced in this kind of thing, let me break it down for you.

In America we like to race stuff. Bonus points if it has a motor. If you can take an ‘84 Chevy and pump 40k into the motor, transmission, and most importantly a really cool paint job - its been done. Nothing like straight headers on a 800 hp motor when you are like 15 feet away. Its loud.

So they take these loud ass uber trucks and hook up this steel and concrete trailer. The goal is to pull the trailer farther than the other guy. Its redneck Olympics. Fun time though. So we hung out and watched that for a few hours.

It rained on Tuesday.

And Wednesday we had a little thunderstorm.

But the sun came out after about 20 minutes.

We started eating greens out of the garden on Wednesday night with dinner. Soon we will have tomatoes.

The other kids finish up school for the year on Thursday. Apparently both of them hate school so much that they are signing up for summer school just so they can graduate early. I can certainly sympathize with their feelings about school. I didn’t have the foresight to go extra and get it over with.

We did our “Amazon influencer training” today. We will start pimping for Bezos next week In the mean time, get your credit cards warmed up.

Well That’s about all this week. See you next time.