’twas the day after D-Day, and we celebrated our freedoms by attending an opera fundraiser at Mia Nipote winery, which is, in fact, run out of the owners’ house.
Outdoors opera is fun. Over the years I’ve noticed that songbirds will line up on a branch overhead and sing along with the sopranos. Typical day in paradise, really.
Fortunately my friend John Shirley, veteran of the Anzio steel sleds, was at the event. I can’t carry a cop in my pocket, but a WWII vet is handy in case trouble breaks out.
All that’s missing on the paradise front is for Cali to have shall-issue CCW permits (or “License to Carry” as Calgunners have started calling it, to avoid scaring the sheeple) shoved down its throat by the courts. So I’ll be at the 9th Circuit in two weeks to watch Gura and Clement do their thing at the en banc hearing in Peruta. The fight’s still on, folks.
( I was really digging these rolling umbrella stands. I keep finding things for Phil to weld up for me. Knowing a good welder is expensive!)
Looks like 24in x 24in x 1/2in plate steel with radiused corners.
Easy enough.