A friend of mine that I participate in Skype group chats with mentioned a quicker way to cook up a frozen pizza. The subject came up because on Thursday nights cooking is relegated to fast and easy and not exactly a square meal. Pizza is a usual fall back at my house. There is a faster way than the ...

Somebody posted this on facebook about today.. New Years day. And... I couldn't have said it better.

I don't know anything about flying an airplane of that vintage...or any other...but didn't the pilot need legs to move some pedals that had something to do with flying the plane? Must have been some special controls set up for him if that were true. Guess when there is a war on there is no such thin...

Saw this on facebook and wondered if it shouldn't have been in Ripley. Seems like the Germans took a shine to the legless Ace and worked out letting his British buddies drop him a spare leg, by German arranged consent, on the way to bombing the crap out of some part of German territory. However it a...

Checking out some old photos take at Battleship park a year ago. Time does fly. Seems like only a couple or so months ago. However, since it is Christmas eve at the moment I thought I'd post these images.

Once upon a time one or more of the main C&R merchants in the US offered the surplus No. 5 bayonet. Seems like about $50. More than I wanted to pay for a surplus bayonet at the time. Then later, a knife merchant was offering a reproduction for something a little more than $50. Just now found thi...

There is also the old question to bring up about nose cap or no nose cap on the hand grip. Of mine, both dated 1946, one with a serial number starting BH has no cap and the one with a serial number starting BJ has the cap. I think both of mine came from some place deep in South East Asia. Sumatra co...

The coolest Enfield of them all. Hard rubber butt end does nothing for the recoil though. I have two of them from the era of milsurp collector jubilee when there were loads of exotic war surplus coming on the market all the time..... and all of them relatively cheap....in the US anyway. Looks like S...