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1. Good work guys!

2. First and foremost, a beautiful picture of the Avalanche Lily. Thanks for sharing.
   With as much rain as we’ve received lately you’d think I reside in a temporal rain forest, but I do not. What we get in the Southeast is moisture off the Gulf of Mexico. It is common for this time of the year, but it also brings with it severe storms that create tornados. I live in what is called Dixie Tornado Alley so we are always watchful for these bad storms and have to be prepared for the worst. Yesterday evening we had a really bad cell develop on top of us and it flooded for about an hour. No hail this time so that is good, but plenty of strong winds and rain. Sometimes with these heavy down pours our shop in the back gets flooded. We’ve all but cured this with a few modifications, but looking at the small pond that formed around the building last night I’m afraid it may have flooded again. I’ll have to go check it out shortly. It is currently raining today, but it is a slow steady rain with no wind or storms associated with it. The good thing is this helps the crops grow. The bad thing is the weeds like it too.
   Yesterday, during the 98 degree temperature preceding the storms, I spent the day at the gun show in the air-conditioning away from the heat. People are surprised when I tell them that I do make a day of it, but I really do. I spent six hours there and spent a few hundred dollars too. The first purchase was some ammo cans. The man I normally buy them from was finally back after missing several shows. The bad news is that he is terminally ill and has been in and out of hospice. He told me that this was the last of his ammo cans and that he has been selling off all of his guns and ammo too. It made my heart sink when he told me his situation. I purchased from him one M19A1 can (the small one) for $6, one M2A1 .50-cal can for $8, and one slightly larger can stamped PA108 (Roughly 7”x12” and 8.5” deep) for $10. Later I found another ammo can dealer and purchased two of the .50-cal cans and one small can from him and he had the same prices. Other people had ammo cans out too, but they were priced at the standard of $14 to $16 dollars. My friend that accompanied me to the show works on a military installation and he said a DOD memo came out a while back indicating that there will be no more selling of the used ammo cans. They are now sending them back to the manufacturer for refurbishing and for reuse. So if you know where to get the used military ammo cans, you may want to get them now.
   Personally I can’t go to a gun show without picking up ammo. I ran into the vendor that I tried to get the Remington bucket of bullets in .22-cal from last time he was there, but someone bought all four cases that he had before I could get back to him. This time I got my bucket of 1,400 rounds of .22-cal LR bullets. The price was the equivalent of $.06 a round or $30 for a brick. It’s not a great deal, but I wanted my bucket-o-bullets. I also purchased 500 rounds of 115 gr 9mm ball ammo for $80 form him as well.
   I found another vendor that I normally get my PMAGS from and purchased two in Olive Drab Green (ODG) and another brand in Flat Dark earth (FDE) because he had no PMAGS in any colors other than black and ODG. When I inquired about the FDE color in PMAG he told me that MAGPUL was not making any more colored mags and were only making black. That is why he had the other brand there. I went to MAGPUL’s site and while they do offer the Gen M3 30 round mag in Black, Medium Coyote Tan (FDE), and Sand, when clicking on the ODG or other colors they have listed nothing comes up. It does appear that they are phasing out the colors on their PMAGS. Kind of disappointing as I wanted to build a 6.5 in the grey and wanted the mags to match. Oh well I know there is more than just MAGPUL out there.
   Lastly I spent some time with a vendor that deals mainly in military surplus items. I picked up some knee pads (needed these when working on the toilet a while back), two boonie hats (one for me and one for the wife) a canteen in the molle carrier pouch and a small backpack. I went with the woodland digital camo on the pack and boonie hat for me as this seems to blend real well into the woodlands that I hunt. I personally cannot stand the Urban Digital camo (ACU) as it sticks out like a sore thumb and unfortunately this is what a few of my bags currently have. I need to start selling these to get rid of them. I love the new Multicam pattern, but it is way too expensive right now so I’ll just stick with the tried and true woodland pattern or the woodland digital patterns.
   My plans for pulling the mower blades off my rough cut mower are out today due to the rain, but I may slip out back and pick a few tomatoes to add to the others on the window seal.

3. Be carefull. We have had bears kill people who have grown up in bear country here in Alaska. Black bears have been the more deadly. Attacks are happening very quickly.

   https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/06/19/really-odd-two-fatal-maulings-in-two-days-blamed-on-alaskan-black-bears/

   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/26/two-brown-bear-attacks-reported-in-alaska-on-same-day.html

   https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2017/06/14/3-injured-by-brown-bear-at-eagle-river-campground/

   http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elliot-clark-alaska-boy-shoots-bear-charging-family-members/

4. would love recipe for the fly spray and the chicken feed mentioned above.

5. Ditto on the fly spray. Our horses are constantly molested by regular fly’s and horse-fly’s. The commercial products work fair, but put a dent in the budget! Perhaps you could write it up as an article?
   Thanks.

   – K in Tenn

6. Pleasse please the recipe for the fly spray. Thanks Loyce from Georgia

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