DAC - A Rabbit A Ground Hog And The Bicentennial

A person who applicates a practices preparedness one better any bank the West that only utine that is a crappy We are a proper broadcasting network. Hello everyone out there on the internet radio, and this is Dave Jones, the NBC guy. Holy cow, do I have got some news for you. Gosh, it's gonna be hot the next few days. Yeah, the fourth of July is gonna be bacon bacon. We were. We're just gonna have a real low key fourth because Alex, these girlfriends are coming over, so we're we're just gonna stay in and we do have fireworks, so I don't know if we're gonna set those off or not. We'll see, we will see. So that's the plan for the Jonstead. Originally we're gonnavite a bunch of people over, but Alex is kind of shy, his girlfriend's kind of shy, and we're just happy to get to see him. We haven't seen him since I think New Year's So when I was thinking about the title of this daily audio cash, I said, gosh, it sounds like a like the beginning of a joke. You know, A groundhog and a rabbit walk into a bar our rabbit showed up last night. Yes, our white which I thought was gone, gone gone. She showed up right next to the greenhouse and we got her back. She was so starving, so happy to be back, so thirsty. You know. I thought for sure something got her. I think it was Maria just left the cage door open, but that's my own opinion. And I did secure. The cages much better, matter of fact, so good that she had a hard time getting one locked back shut. So I had to redo the thing. I put eye hooks on it and a carabaner. So like I said before, if you don't have a posable thumbs, you're not getting this thing open. So that was great, But what really got me. We don't see this very often. As a matter of fact. Gosh, the last time we had groundhogs that the jonesstead was probably eight years ago, maybe ten. We had a family move in and I quickly took care of them. So Deanna. Wants to take it upon herself to get fit, and she gets up at six o'clock in the morning, which is good, we all should be doing it, but. We haven't got there yet. And she's taken off. Well. Her earbud case fell out of the little pack that she was carrying. She saw it fall. Out and they poof into the grass where she found the case and one earbud. So then she comes and gets me and says, Dad, do we have a metal detector? And I'm like, yeah, yo, PBN family. I have illusions of actually going metal detecting on a beach or you know, a civil war battlefield or somewhere. And this one was on special years ago half price. I think I got. It for under one hundred dollars, like seventy eight seventy nine dollars. Now, it's not the cheapest basic one, but it's not the hoop dee duty. You know. It has a discriminator and a depth thing and it's rated very well. Let's see, it's called an ACE two point fifty. It's sitting right here in the office with me because we used it and we found her earbud. Well, when we came. Walking back up the driveway, we turned the corner and there I saw the biggest groundhog I think I've ever seen. It was so big that Deanna grabbed me and like pulled back like WHOA, what the heck is that? And I said it's a groundhog. Now for those of you who don't know, sorry, drain nature. Groundhogs are particularly terrible in that they will not only destroy your garden, they will eat everything in your garden in short order. They dig. I have had groundhogs in Pennsylvania, and they dug under my driveway and cause sinkholes. They dug under my shed and almost it, you know, knocked it off its support. Things. These things can dig next to your foundation of your house and collapse a wall. They're incredible diggers. They dig holes more than any other animal. They dig so many burrows that other animals don't have to, like possums and fox. Fox will build a little nest, but they don't dig a hole. Now, groundhole will dig a hole and. A fox will move in. So other animals live in groundhog holes that they've dug. They just continually dig holes. So I have made them my mortal enemy. Whenever I see a groundhog. Maria always talks about this. She said when she first came to this country, I woke up one Sunday morning, and and it's true, it's true. I was throwing smoke bombs down this hole and yelling. I was saying, your days are numbered. It's not I mean, I understand groundhogs. I just can't stand them. I have to kill them. It's me or them. So yeah, no, and. Don't don't get me on that caddyshack. But groundhol you know. That's what you're thinking. Probably no, anybody that knows Groundhols knows that. I'm right. The farmers hate him. They'll dig so many burrows, they tear up their fields. It's just they're evasive, and they are rodents. They're a rodent, part of the rodent family, and you got to get rid of them once you so, like I said, there was one here about eight years ago. A family moved in and one day I think I got them all. It's just just a lucky day. And they haven't been back since. But this sucker he's up back somewhere because when we came up around the driveway, he disappeared. And I have not found his den because I. Will go get smoke bombs. We will be at war again. Okay. I returned from the Middle East and I'm tearing the floorboards up in my shed and I'm shouting, and I said to myself, if anybody hears this, they're gonna say I have PTSD that I'm after this groundhoul to kill it. And man, man, that was. But my house in Pennsylvania was in the middle of a farmer's field, so there were groundhogs everywhere, and I would dispatch them. Before they got close to the house. But yes, they did dig next to my house. They dug under the driveway, caused the driveway to collapse, so I had to dip in my driveway. I had to fill all that in and repave it and dug under my shed. So you gotta get them anyway, Patriot Power. Our guys are coming back on yep, and let's see. Oh we got a phoenix. Phoenix showed up yesterday, so did the Intrepid Commander. And I liked his. Show about the gear that you never use. Some gear you never use, but you're glad it's there. Okay, I do. I must confess I have tons of radio communication gear that some of it is still in the box. Yeah, now I'm glad it's there. Some of it. They are still in the box, and I wrapped in aluminum foil, you know, because it's a short wave radio and I want to be able to have the Internet when the Internet's gone, you know, because that's that's going to be the Internet in global thermalonuclear war shortwave. You can get on there and listen and know what's going on. Anyway, should I tell you about the centennial by centennial? Fifty years ago? I was a young artilleryman in Anchorage, Alaska, and our artillery battery we were we were one oh fives, which is the small howitzers. Okay, So these are the ceremonial ones that you'll see firing salutes and things like that. So that was our unit, and we went downtown and fired a thirteen gun salute in this park. There was fireworks and my job, this is funny, My job. Was to go to the ammunition storage facility and get the blanks that we were going to fire. Now, these are brass cartridges, okay, Because in a one oh five you have an actual brass cartridge and then the shell goes on top of it, and there's different bags of powder. This is how you fire an artillery piece, and that the different bags of powder that you either add leave in or take out will depend upon the range of the round. Yeah, it's very technical. I think there's seven bags, five or seven bags, I can't remember, but. My job was to go to the AMMO dump. And I was all by myself, nineteen years old, right out of high school, and all the sergeants said was make sure you take two fire extinguishers. You gotta have two fire extinguishers, one in the trailer one and I'm like, oh, okay. So I go there and these old krusty I think one guy was the retired army guy and civilians that are working at the AMMO dump and they look at me like, oh man, this guy is brand new, and I was. I was. They get me the rounds and everything, put the placers on, they take. Care of me, and they said what are you doing. I said, well, we're firing this salute downtown and they were pretty impressed. But I remember driving down town. This is before GPS, yep, before you had, you know, a phone talking to you. I had to know where to go to get to this park. We were going to do this, and I'm all by myself and I have the AMMO placards on the jeep and this is the way it was. Okay, nineteen years old. I don't know of any nineteen year olds that would have this kind of responsibility. And boy, I often thought what. If I had a flat or what if something happened, you know, because there was no way, you know, we didn't have cell phones. I would have to go to a payphone and call the unit, and the unit would have to call some one that was in charge of the whole thing. But none of that happened. I got there, they got the AMMO. The salute was fantastic. I think I still have pictures of it somewhere. If you don't know or have never seen, when these howarzers fire, of course, there's no recoil because it's a blank. Big plumes of smoke go out the barrel and you know, a big. Bang in this. I mean it's like black powder, and it was. It was very impressive because we practiced this, and practiced this without blanks. We practiced the timing of it because it has to be one right after the other, right after the other, and because there's no recoil. Okay, usually a howitzer, if you're really really good, the guy will have his hand on the breach and the will open it up. As the howitzer comes. Back from the recoil, the breach opens and the brass around the brass cartridge gets flipped out. But there's no recoil, so as soon. As the gunner fires, the assistant gunner has to open up the breach and pull that canister out. Now, there are six guns in a howitzer section, so if you're firing a thirteen gun salute, okay, everybody's gonna fire twice and one group is gonna fire three times. So you have to get that right. And it has to be boom, boom, boom, you know, thirteen times. So it went well. And you know, if I lived to be one hundred and nineteen, I'll get to see the tri centennial. And they'll ask me, what did you do for the bi centennial. And I'll say, well, as in a jeep all by myself anyway, PBM family, that's my bi centennial story. I remember that when the coins came out, the coins came out the quarters, the commemorative quarters, and this was the first time I had ever heard. Now, they did make the Kennedy half dollar, Okay, I remember when that was announced. After Kennedy's assassination, they wanted to take Eisenhower's picture off and put Kennedy on. And I think this was for a limited time. I can't remember, but I do remember the news announcement that they were going to make a Kennedy half dollar. And then the very next time the Mint was going to do something special was the bi centennial quarter. And they're still out there. You'll see them. You know, you got the what is it minuteman on the back and I think a Betsy Ross flag. I have to look. Yeah, they minted so many of them that they're still in circulation. I think they're somewhat collectible. I know I got some somewhere anyway, TBN FAM now they do quarters and see that. The government has figured out that there's a certain amount of coinage that will never be put in circulation if you do a special minting. So to prop the dollar, they have been doing these commemorative The Mint has been doing these. You know, they did states, they did presidents whatever whatever there that some people you know collect them and save them and they will not be in circulation. So that's a way to prop the dollar up. So they figured this out. So now it's pretty commonplace. But back back then those were the only two times I remember the Mint doing something, you know, commemorative. So there you go. PBN family man I talked for nineteen minutes and didn't really say much anything. Just just an old guy, just an old guy remembering things. Okay. PBN Family, Oh hey, there's a new U I did not get to. I have to watch them. Uh. Sarah Hathaway, her changing her with audio drama is now a video so I can't listen to it. I gotta watch it. And I'm the I'm the Viking. I'm gar. Right now. I don't know when I'm do. I heard myself the other day. Is the General? I thought the general was dead, but he's being held hostage. I guess. Anyway, you gotta listen to Sarah Hathaway's audio drama and on YouTube. She animated it, and each time she does a new episode, it just gets better and better. I mean there's more action, animation. And it's just great. It's it's very very cool, and I'm glad that it's going to be a television show. Yeah. I haven't heard anything lately. Gosh, I wonder if I can get an audition. Yeah, maybe I could play the general because I was the general I mean in the audio drama. Yeah, I could be a general anyway. PBA Family, old guy rambling Jonstead. Let's see next week after the fourth of July is going to be Butcher week, so hopefully i'll get some video and we'll get prepping up with the Joneses on YouTube. Yeah, I'll let you know, take care and prep on