RUBbette Wives & Housework, si man

[Petition2252 7]

I do the small handy work, clean floors, and do wash.

My wife does everything else quoting I am too slow.

We have a rule the person who cooks, does not clean dishes.

[TBoneTX 45,659]

I've been meaning to report that we have approximately 8 hotmats in the kitchen, none with a matching mate. Approximately 6 of these hotmats have scorched burn-marks in them, eeee man. Anyone else the same, huh man?

It's good that I buy hotmats at the resale shops whenever I see them, si man.

[natty bumppo 297]

I've been meaning to report that we have approximately 8 hotmats in the kitchen, none with a matching mate. Approximately 6 of these hotmats have scorched burn-marks in them, eeee man. Anyone else the same, huh man?

It's good that I buy hotmats at the resale shops whenever I see them, si man.

restocked my kitchen with new hotmats and dish towels pre-wife

let's just say i'm not the one that added the dark racing stripes to the hotmats/ dish towels ....

[slim 1,530]

I love a refrigerator full of soup pots.

[TBoneTX 45,659]

let's just say i'm not the one that added the dark racing stripes to the hotmats/ dish towels ....

Si, man; no, man...

[TBoneTX 45,659]

I love a refrigerator full of soup pots.

All uncovered, with inches-thick gelatinous glop atop, huh man?

Same thing on the stovetop and elsewhere on the kitchen counter, huh man?

Never one inch of usable or dry space on the huge kitchen countertop, which is otherwise covered with ants (the wife's obvious pets) and diapers in various stages of their life cycle, huh man?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

restocked my kitchen with new hotmats and dish towels pre-wife

let's just say i'm not the one that added the dark racing stripes to the hotmats/ dish towels ....

And anything is left? I think there is virtually nothing left in this house "pre-wife"...or in Slim's case, "antebellum"

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I love a refrigerator full of soup pots.

Yes and most of them have...what is it?

"For soup"

But WHAT is it?

"Water which I boiled the pork in"

When will you make...

"Leave it alone, do not throw it out!"

[natty bumppo 297]

And anything is left? I think there is virtually nothing left in this house "pre-wife"...or in Slim's case, "antebellum"

there is actually quite a bit left pre-wife ... while she may not have made the same choices I made ... she can live with it. besides it costs lots of $$$ to replace the stuff.

new stuff she chooses.

i just share my opinion and she either listens and modifies to a more middle ground (no mans land) ... or not (she has already told me what is going to be)

man cave stuff (the room she lets me think is mine) which includes tools, firearms (she hasn't added her own yet ... is currently content with what i have to shoot), etc. she lets alone

[slim 1,530]

or in Slim's case, "antebellum"

That is correct.

[TBoneTX 45,659]

man cave stuff (the room she lets me think is mine)

Where's the +1,000 button, huh man?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

there is actually quite a bit left pre-wife ... while she may not have made the same choices I made ... she can live with it. besides it costs lots of $$$ to replace the stuff.

new stuff she chooses.

i just share my opinion and she either listens and modifies to a more middle ground (no mans land) ... or not (she has already told me what is going to be)

man cave stuff (the room she lets me think is mine) which includes tools, firearms (she hasn't added her own yet ... is currently content with what i have to shoot), etc. she lets alone

I have my gun room/reloading room in the basement, Nice room which was added when they added the enclosed porch to the house, kind of a separate room. I do not think Alla goes in there much, almost never when I am here. Maybe just to get some ammunition if she goes shooting by herself. She does not clean it, that's for sure. The whole ammunition reloading thing still kind of amazes her. I think more that Americans have all this stuff stashed in teir basements and garages to make ammunition and that we DO make our own is still a strange concept to her.

[natty bumppo 297]

I have my gun room/reloading room in the basement, Nice room which was added when they added the enclosed porch to the house, kind of a separate room. I do not think Alla goes in there much, almost never when I am here. Maybe just to get some ammunition if she goes shooting by herself. She does not clean it, that's for sure. The whole ammunition reloading thing still kind of amazes her. I think more that Americans have all this stuff stashed in teir basements and garages to make ammunition and that we DO make our own is still a strange concept to her.

i do miss basements. everything here is on a slab.

reloading ammo can be therapeutic and a bit of a QC challenge as well. being able to get the best accuracy by tuning the load to the firearm is also a strange concept to some people. nothing like showing someone how a different load can change the POI without messing with the sights. that and dialing in a load to get the group from 1-2 MOA to connecting the dots ....

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

i do miss basements. everything here is on a slab.

reloading ammo can be therapeutic and a bit of a QC challenge as well. being able to get the best accuracy by tuning the load to the firearm is also a strange concept to some people. nothing like showing someone how a different load can change the POI without messing with the sights. that and dialing in a load to get the group from 1-2 MOA to connecting the dots ....

I used to handload everything I shot. I went decades without a factory load going through any of my guns. Now, I reload shotshells because we use so many that it is silly not to. I keep the shotshell loaders set up for ONE target load for each guage and never changes anything except perhaps shot size. I use mostly number 9 shot for skeet. I have a framework arrangement on my bench that a corresponding base board on the loader slides into. It locks with a pin. All home made in my woodshop, of course. Pull out the pin, slide out the loader and slide in another guage loader. I have 5 machines and they store under the bench. 12, 16, 20, 28 and .410. I actually have another 16 ga loader, a very old one, 1950's style for paper shells originally. I have a Browning A5 Sweet 16 that needs 2-9/16" shells, very old Browning, 4 digit serial number. I slide shells into a piece of 3/4" copper pipe, cut to that length, trim off the shell and load them on this machine, but I rarely use it. The gun and the loader are hand me downs from my Dad, he was a 16 ga. nut!

I handload for obsolete calibers for obvious reasons. I also handload for competition shooting because I am an uber-####### SOB about match ammo for no good reason other than my own confidence. But for "blasting ammo" and for "SHTF stock" I have bunches of Wolf and Tula cheap factory ammo in the more popular calibers. I have three single stage presses. An RCBS Jr., my first press dating from about 1970, an RCBS Rockchucker, circa about 1980 and a Lyman Orange Crusher for the really long cases like the .45-2 7/8". I use the Rockchucker 90% of the time.

We were out the other day and Alla says "I need to stop at the gunshop for a box of 9's" 9's? "Yeah 9mm ammo" For what? "I am trading this guy in class for a book I need and he has a 9mm pistol, he said he would trade it for a box of ammo" I can load 9mm, I have the dies, but I have no 9mm pistol anymore, so I have no components. I bought a Berreta M9 when they came out with them, figuring if it was good enough for Uncle Sam, it was good enough for me. Wrong. Uncle Sam does some stupid sh*t! I used it as a down payment on the Kimber Ultra CDP .45

[natty bumppo 297]

I used to handload everything I shot. I went decades without a factory load going through any of my guns. Now, I reload shotshells because we use so many that it is silly not to. I keep the shotshell loaders set up for ONE target load for each guage and never changes anything except perhaps shot size. I use mostly number 9 shot for skeet. I have a framework arrangement on my bench that a corresponding base board on the loader slides into. It locks with a pin. All home made in my woodshop, of course. Pull out the pin, slide out the loader and slide in another guage loader. I have 5 machines and they store under the bench. 12, 16, 20, 28 and .410. I actually have another 16 ga loader, a very old one, 1950's style for paper shells originally. I have a Browning A5 Sweet 16 that needs 2-9/16" shells, very old Browning, 4 digit serial number. I slide shells into a piece of 3/4" copper pipe, cut to that length, trim off the shell and load them on this machine, but I rarely use it. The gun and the loader are hand me downs from my Dad, he was a 16 ga. nut!

I handload for obsolete calibers for obvious reasons. I also handload for competition shooting because I am an uber-####### SOB about match ammo for no good reason other than my own confidence. But for "blasting ammo" and for "SHTF stock" I have bunches of Wolf and Tula cheap factory ammo in the more popular calibers. I have three single stage presses. An RCBS Jr., my first press dating from about 1970, an RCBS Rockchucker, circa about 1980 and a Lyman Orange Crusher for the really long cases like the .45-2 7/8". I use the Rockchucker 90% of the time.

We were out the other day and Alla says "I need to stop at the gunshop for a box of 9's" 9's? "Yeah 9mm ammo" For what? "I am trading this guy in class for a book I need and he has a 9mm pistol, he said he would trade it for a box of ammo" I can load 9mm, I have the dies, but I have no 9mm pistol anymore, so I have no components. I bought a Berreta M9 when they came out with them, figuring if it was good enough for Uncle Sam, it was good enough for me. Wrong. Uncle Sam does some stupid sh*t! I used it as a down payment on the Kimber Ultra CDP .45

I also used to handload everything. for the more common calibers, did a quick evaluation of available time to reload, component availability, and current pricing for factory ammo and decided to simply keep a good inventory of factory stuff on-hand and watch pricing. just had to find something the firearm(s) liked to digest. still have the ability to handload the common stuff if the mood hits me. I can either use the rcbs rc or crank it out on the dillon.

now for the obsolete or bpcr … that is strictly handload on the rcbs. a friend has made a bp drop tube setup for her dillon to load 45-2.1 and 40-2.5ss. it's pretty cool. got to use it a few times and it does a decent job of getting the powder into the case. having the case cleaned + de-primed and ready to begin is a must. do need to pay attention and make sure the wad is placed over the powder (it's that extra step not used in smokeless … ).