I had a nice day. This morning Kathleen and I picked up some seedlings from Valley Verde: cabbage, lettuce, parsley, broccoli, sugar snap peas, and Brussels' sprouts. We transplanted them in one of the beds where the kale seeds I planted never germinated. (I don't know why the never germinated. The seeds in the other bed are doing well. It is a mystery.) We also pulled out the last tomato vine and the last three zucchini vines. We won't taste those again until next summer. Right now, in addition to the seedlings we got today, we have pumpkin, acorn squash, melon, spaghetti squash, cucumbers, bell peppers, eggplant, and Thai chilis growing.
The last time I went shooting with Kathleen my shotgun malfunctioned. I went, today, to the hardware store, bought a special screwdriver, and took the whole thing apart, I mean the whole thing. I had already cleaned it and blasted it with a powerful solvent a couple of days ago so it was clean, but it still wasn't working. Therefore, today, I did EXTREME maintenance on it; probably, the first time since the old side-by-side was made in 1944. It works perfectly now. I heartily recommend Birchwood Casey's "Gun Scrubber" solvent. (It's so good you can't ship it into California without a license.) and Hoppe's #9 Black Gun Grease.
My whole shooting life, since I was a 17 year old private in the Army I have only used Break Free CLP on my guns but this job needed something a more powerful. I will still use Break Free CLP for regular cleaning and lubricating but it's nice to know there are other products available when my regular product isn't enough.
A note about this shotgun: Long ago I used to share this Blog with Jeff Miller. This gun and two others were his dad's guns. When Jeff's dad I bought the guns from his widow. I have one and each of my brothers has one. When my dad died and I inherited his library I gave many of the books to St. Katherine College but the most important of them I gave to Jeff Miller. He has our dad's books. We have his dad's guns.
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