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daepp · 01-31-2023, 04:38 PM

NOLA last weekend for a wedding:

daepp · 02-01-2023, 11:42 AM

Our 2014 pilgrimage to Molokai and the St. Damien's Leper Colony - both my son and I graduated from a high school named in his honor:

About to start the hike down the pali cliffs:

Next stop, the Leper Colony and Fr Damien's work.

daepp · 02-01-2023, 11:53 AM

It's truly a special place.

jcwade · jcwade's Garage

Some IR shots...highly processed.

monoflo · 02-02-2023, 10:50 AM

coupla my boys circa 1989

p911dad · p911dad's Garage

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coupla my boys circa 1989

Reminds me of some epic father/son camping trips in the NY Adirondacks we took for many years. The kids almost killed me on this hike!

monoflo · 02-02-2023, 01:20 PM

love it -- those guys in my shot are full grown men with kids that age now.

They really aren't smokin and drinking I think Strohs --- but its wonderfully incorrect today .

Hope the boys keep on keeping on

porsche tech · 02-03-2023, 02:11 AM

Back in the day...

Eric 951 · 02-03-2023, 03:50 AM

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Originally Posted by monoflo

coupla my boys circa 1989

cool pic--looks like "Moosehead" and a nice XJ Cherokee Chief

porsche tech · 02-03-2023, 11:44 AM

Seahawk · 02-03-2023, 12:01 PM

vvv I cannot not tell you how cool that picture is.

I love the lawn chairs and th 'tudes. Perfect.

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Originally Posted by monoflo

coupla my boys circa 1989

The rules are a pic, so, the boy getting the hay in many moons ago:

monoflo · 02-03-2023, 12:21 PM

Big family camp from back then.
The ladies needed seating --hence lawn chairs. There were significant numbers of Moms and daughters.

That old Chero was a 5 speed stick --4.0 still miss it.

The big guy in the photo is now approximately 300 lbs --6.8. Time does .............

rcooled · 02-03-2023, 01:55 PM

Saw this beautifully machined gear lever/handbrake assembly in a Lotus at a recent C&C.

juanbenae · juanbenae's Garage

heading up the hill some to find some snow tomorrow in the new to me rig. got around 4-5 guys gunna go make tracks...

will be nice to be in a hardtop jeep with full doors, good heat, and no soft top draft...

Skip Newsom · 02-03-2023, 07:34 PM

Great shots and narrative about Molokai David!

Access to the leper colony has not been open to the public since the pandemic, I'm hoping it opens and we can go see that area in a month or so!

Skip Newsom · 02-03-2023, 07:36 PM

Skip Newsom · 02-03-2023, 07:41 PM

More Molokai

CurtEgerer · CurtEgerer's Garage

Skip Newsom · 02-05-2023, 07:37 AM

masraum · 02-11-2023, 04:52 PM

I started learning to shoot after Christmas. I'm doing what they call "instinctive" right now, no sight or anything (gap, stringwalking, etc...) just pointing and thinking "I want to hit the bullseye."

I'm only shooting from about 12 yds. Once I improve and get more consistent, I'll move back to 15 and eventually 20yds.

I've been shooting "split" (one finger above the arrow on the string, and 2 below the arrow) which is what felt the most natural.
Between cold and/or rainy weather and a cold, I ended up taking off 2 weeks. When I got back to it, I was shooting better than ever.

For this one, I switched to "three under" so all three fingers are under the arrow. The arrows didn't go where I wanted, but that's to be expected. Changing your fingers on the strings changes where the arrows go (should only be up/down). But I was very happy with the grouping.

While ^that day^ (first day back after the break) was mostly very good, it was also a bit of a fluke.

I'm switching to 3 under because I like some aspects of it better. It's tough going from shooting reasonably well to shooting much worse and trying to get into a new groove.

From today, not bad. I'm seeing consistent improvement after switching to 3 under.