Monday, January 18, 2010

Returning to Earl and the homeboy...



Get you behind the shooting line, for sure we (the candidates) did get to shoot and coach and teach and practice all over and over again. There were tests daily, looking to see if we had found the knowledge, skills and positive attitude to conduct NRA training with firearms safely. Two days of Rifle for the five of us, two instructors, and then the Home Firearm Safety course, too. Covered lots of material, two notebooks full of information and notes, a zippy bag of handouts and pamphlets. An interesting idea, headhunting for new and renewing NRA members, ten dollars for the new, five dollars for the renewal, interesting. Scheduling is a challenge, of all the resources that one needs for a mission, class or an adventure the one that can't be borrowed, stored up, nor forgotten is Time Marching ON! So, the archery folks were coming in on us at six promptly. Kenmore Gun Range is a very nice facility and is an asset to the community, I won't tell you the story about King County looking for a place for sewage treatment plant, but the club held them off.

Long drives, and Sunday evening got almost as exciting as the Friday commutes on I-405 East of Seattle, Lake Washington. I really don't know what happened on the news all weekend, have no idea of the world I will meet today. My wife wants to walk, for exercise, and finish scheduling our trip to Hawaii and work on cleaning up the yard from the constant waves of wind and rain that we have been beaten down by... it is Winter in the Northwest, the raining season.

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