How are the dogs doing, Lizzie? Our snow cover was about 100% when you asked, but is now down to just the deep shadow areas, a few days of 50-60 with lots of sun will do that.
Nice project, Cindy. Let's see the completed photos! We had all those "disappearing" fixtures in the house my parents built back in 1957. I still like them, but something other than chrome would be better (no finger prints). Caulking is an acquired skill. I've found it's better to "push" the new caulk bead rather than "pull" it as it's applied.
I've been busy with everyday things and don't get on the PC as much as I was doing. I bought an IP camera to monitor the front yard because of ...... "off roading" through our, and three or four neighbors, front lawns. The first camera I got was OK, Loftek Nexus, but it developed problems and after a month of trying to get support from Loftek, with not even an acknowledgment, I opened a ticket with Amazon and they agreed to take it back (Thank you Amazon). I just put up another camera, Grandstream, with far better resolution, better night vision and better software. Now it's a trick of balancing the sensitivity of the motion detection to catch real events versus leaves blowing by. The Grandstream was more expensive, but well worth the price difference for 1080p resolution. I just hope the support is better than Loftek, it couldn't be worse so....
Terry, if you want to try shooting something that is less expensive to shoot than a .22, get a break action .22 pellet rifle. The way it works is a piston compresses air in a cylinder under the barrel to fire the pellet. The thing that makes it a challenge is the recoil is very different than that of a powder fired gun. The piston pushes back, like regular recoil, but then when the piston hits its end of travel, the recoil reverses and actually recoils forward. Then there is the torque factor caused by the spring that powers the piston decompressing very quickly which has a tendency to make the gun rotate. You don't hold the gun in a "vice grip" like a regular rifle, but rest it firmly against the shoulder and cup the forestock with your offhand. With a little practice, and a scope, I can get 1" groups at 70 yards, but it takes a lot of practice and maintaining the exact same "hold" for every shot.
If you missed "Sunday Morning", Bill Geist did a piece of the Museum of Bad Art. If I did any art, it wouldn't even qualify for that place!
As far a vaping goes, I'm enjoying my Vamo(s), a VTR and a 134. I'm waiting for a Cool Fire 2, have to have a grenade to go with my mini-gun. I use Protanks and iClear30's on the 510 mods and the battery life on an 18650 is great! But even with all of that I still use my good old 78mm autos with CE3s every day when my hands are busy, nothing can beat them for convenience. I do rebuild the Protanks and CE3s, handy since SI discontinued the CE3, but haven't tried rebuilding an iClear, yet. Those will probably get converted to single coils for simplicity. I still use Spinners and X2s as well, with T3s that I also rebuild (I'm cheap!).
Nice project, Cindy. Let's see the completed photos! We had all those "disappearing" fixtures in the house my parents built back in 1957. I still like them, but something other than chrome would be better (no finger prints). Caulking is an acquired skill. I've found it's better to "push" the new caulk bead rather than "pull" it as it's applied.
I've been busy with everyday things and don't get on the PC as much as I was doing. I bought an IP camera to monitor the front yard because of ...... "off roading" through our, and three or four neighbors, front lawns. The first camera I got was OK, Loftek Nexus, but it developed problems and after a month of trying to get support from Loftek, with not even an acknowledgment, I opened a ticket with Amazon and they agreed to take it back (Thank you Amazon). I just put up another camera, Grandstream, with far better resolution, better night vision and better software. Now it's a trick of balancing the sensitivity of the motion detection to catch real events versus leaves blowing by. The Grandstream was more expensive, but well worth the price difference for 1080p resolution. I just hope the support is better than Loftek, it couldn't be worse so....
Terry, if you want to try shooting something that is less expensive to shoot than a .22, get a break action .22 pellet rifle. The way it works is a piston compresses air in a cylinder under the barrel to fire the pellet. The thing that makes it a challenge is the recoil is very different than that of a powder fired gun. The piston pushes back, like regular recoil, but then when the piston hits its end of travel, the recoil reverses and actually recoils forward. Then there is the torque factor caused by the spring that powers the piston decompressing very quickly which has a tendency to make the gun rotate. You don't hold the gun in a "vice grip" like a regular rifle, but rest it firmly against the shoulder and cup the forestock with your offhand. With a little practice, and a scope, I can get 1" groups at 70 yards, but it takes a lot of practice and maintaining the exact same "hold" for every shot.
If you missed "Sunday Morning", Bill Geist did a piece of the Museum of Bad Art. If I did any art, it wouldn't even qualify for that place!
As far a vaping goes, I'm enjoying my Vamo(s), a VTR and a 134. I'm waiting for a Cool Fire 2, have to have a grenade to go with my mini-gun. I use Protanks and iClear30's on the 510 mods and the battery life on an 18650 is great! But even with all of that I still use my good old 78mm autos with CE3s every day when my hands are busy, nothing can beat them for convenience. I do rebuild the Protanks and CE3s, handy since SI discontinued the CE3, but haven't tried rebuilding an iClear, yet. Those will probably get converted to single coils for simplicity. I still use Spinners and X2s as well, with T3s that I also rebuild (I'm cheap!).
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It's a shame you had to spend big bucks to catch these hooligans.
Live and learn. This learning experience was "pay more attention to the photo". 
