Thank you all for the kind words about my Mom. She may have to shuffle around with a walker but she has recovered amazingly well and is mentally still sharp as a tack. She and my Dad were married for 65 years and he made it to 91 before he passed away 4 years ago. They were both the children of immigrants (all four of my Grandparents came from Italy at the turn of the 20th century) and were fiercely patriotic Americans. My folks are both part of that generation who spent almost all of their childhood years "making do" with very little during the Great Depression...and then, as teen agers and young adults, being shrouded in the swirling maelstrom of the Second World War. My Dad went to war in the Pacific at the ripe old age of 17. Yet they were always happy, positive, optimistic, generous, kind, and hard working. There was never any hint of "victim-hood". No "woe is me I've had such a hard life". And most certainly they did NOT feel anyone owed them anything because they had had a rough go of it. In fact, they always shared what little they might have had with others and would never accept anything they didn't feel they had earned. They were not "snowflakes" to be sure.
Sorry....off topic I know....but as I watch my Mom at the close of a life almost a century long, I am even more impressed by my folks faith, their spirit (you should her her rant when the news is on TV
), their patriotism, and their fight. God bless them all.
Back on topic....in descending order from the things I dislike the most when building a Dragoon type pistol, 1) inletting a spurred butt cap, 2) inletting a pistol trigger guard, 3) inletting the rear ram rod pipe. One of the things my Mom always said about any task was "Worst things first"....then everything else seemed to go easier. I had done the butt cap and rear ramrod pipe during previous work so I started in on the inletting of the trigger guard. I will post some pictures later today.
Again...thanks for the kind words.
