Recent content by Rbeckett

Ya can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can adapt, improvise and overcome. Since I fell in Oct and broke my hip it has added another dimension to things that I have to deal with among them is chronic pain from the surgery to put in a pin and rod and the loss of my ability to stand...

I call BULL****..... Nothing is better than beer, a happy dog is just icing on a great cake!!!! And like Forest says "life is all about good times and happy dogs" (just made that up, but said in true Forest Gump fashion).

Have been considering using one to break Dixie from raising so much hell at the front door when guests arrive. She has that ominous big vicious dog bark and it tends to scare the home health aides that I have coming all the time lately. Don't want to break her spirit or stop her completely but...

Since I got 100% disabled and confined to a wheel chair I have a service dog named Dixie. She is trained to tune in on my breathing and if I am struggling with low blood pressure. Don't ask me how she knows, but she has saved my life twice already. The first time by BP was 54/33 and that...

Working with my Service Dog. She has started an annoying habit of threatening the delivery people through the front window and that has got to stop. So I have a couple of the neighbors planning to just stop by a couple of times over the weekend so I can work with her to get her to stop that...

Life kind of got in the way for me lately. Spent most of June and July this year in the hospital and have been working hard on recovery. Also been very busy training my service dog and taking care of her 1/2 sister. Unfortunately we lost her to a freak accident when she got kicked my one of...

Not really waking the dead, just applied and had other good answers for my "why" research... Wheelchair Bob

Darn. The last two batches I brewed were way over bittered even with just using the packet in the kit and following the specific timing instructions, and they both produced a large number of overcarbed bottle bombs that blew up in my kegerator. I checked and rechecked everything and still cant...

What Union said and yes you will be very flatulent if you drink a good bit of Hefe. You can strain it to get a Crystal Hefe but it will no longer conform to the correct Hefe Weizen profile if you do that. When I rack from the fermenter to the bottles I always use extra care to allow as many of...

Just spent another week in the hospital and both of my full blooded German Shepherds are pissed at me. My Service dog Dixie is especially pouty and has been seeking to make up for a week of lost moments with nudges and outright demands for my complete and undivided attention. Indi my East...

Not brewing but installed the drip irrigation system and the sun shade netting to keep the burning sun off of the young plants. I used a soaker hose run down among all of the holes so they all get the same amount of water and I let it run for a couple of hours already. The sun shade cloth is...

I decided that I had bragged too much about the other two girls in my life, so I posted a pic of them chillin with me on the couch. The dog on the couch is Indi and she is a family pet that we rescued. The dog on the floor is my Guardian Angels Service Dog in addition to a companion. Dix and...

Been enamored lately with high powered air rifles. I started with a 149. dollar cheaper model, the a 209 dollar .22 and finally a 300 dollar Pre charged Pneumatic that uses 3000 PSI compressed air to propel a pellet at the speed of sound and even faster. All three will knock a tree rat out of...

Sub, Dude I feel your pain too. I lost 2 in about 2 months and that was devastating enough. 2 in a day has got to really suck... Bob

Working on zeroing the scope on my magnum air rifle. and looking for parts for a frankenrifle which will be loosely based on a Benjamin .25 but with projectile speed of over 1000 SPS and a bunch of impact energy without losing accuracy...That will be an ongoing bench project for a while...