Thanks you everyone, for the kind words and well wishes! I got home late Tuesday from my trip to NC. I had a very nice time, and made a huge mess for people to clean up. Of course, I was hoist by my own petard, since I had to do a lot of that cleaning up myself at the end! But I got to meet a lot of very nice people, and spent two evenings with Randy McKinney of Vega and our own Mike Stafford, regaling one another by turns with stories true and some not so.
I took a detour through the mountains of WV to visit my aunt, and got to spend my birthday with her, as well as my mother and youngest daughter, who were also visiting her. I finished up the trip by driving over three hours in the wrong direction to pay a visit to the nice people at the Woodcraft Corporate headquarters in Parkersburg, and then home from there.
It is good to be home, if only for a little while. And I got me a very nice birthday present too.
It is a Ruger Single Six, a single action revolver in .22/.22WMR. It is more for contemplative plinking than sending lots of ammo downrange in a hurry - sort of like those finishing cuts on a bowl instead of hogging out. But it is a beauty.
Bill