Reflections on the week just past

This was taken on Halloween morning in Newland, NC. The town businesses were having daylight trick or treat.

I think it sucks that Halloween is becoming so dangerous that the evening trick or treating that I enjoyed as a child is becoming rare.

The reason that posting has been light for the past week is that a friend has been visiting from the New York area. I have been keeping up with my work and spending time with him and his brother (who lives down here).

He brought some guns down with him, there not being many places in New Jersey to shoot any more.

He prefers that I not post a picture of him on this blog due to his surpassing ugliness (the same reason I don't put up any pictures of myself). That is why I cropped him out of this shot taken at the Pond Mt. Range in TN.

This is the road leading up to the range, which is across the road from Watauga Lake.

This is one of the guns he brought down. It was custom built by Bill Laughridge at the Cylinder & Slide Shop. I would put up a better picture, but he is afraid that the government men would come and take it away from him if they got a good look at it.