Pay it Forward

I was one of the lucky winners of Rachel's Pay-it-Forward exchange and

am now doing my duty to pass the good fortune along.

Here is the deal: I will send a handmade/homemade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange.

I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week,

but you will receive it within 365 days, which is my promise!

The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward

by making the same promise on your blog.

Sound fun? Then leave a comment!

Thanks Rachel!

Crayon Abuse

Okay, so I was in my bedroom trying to get L to go down for a nap while K was playing harmlessly in the living room. Or so I thought. When I went in to get lunch started this is what I found.




Apparently K didn't think there was enough color on her play kitchen. The sad part is that of all the washable crayons she has, she was able to pull out one of the few crayons that isn't. Not only that, but it is black. I have tried to scrub it off, but it won't budge. I have heard that Mr. Clean magic sponge works good on crayon. I will have to get one and see. Needless to say, I took away K's crayons indefinitely.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was especially good this year because I have two beautiful daughters and a wonderful husband to share it with. M made me a delicious breakfast in bed to start off the day.

The girls got me a wheat grinder so I can learn how to make homemade bread with our food storage wheat.

Right before church we went outside to take pictures in front of our blossoming Dogwood Tree.

At church the Mother's received a dark chocolate truffle from Euphoria's Chocolate. It was wrapped in a bag tied with a metal key chain tag that M had made at work.

K made me an adorable little flower with her handprint in Nursery.

Daddy Daughter Day

Saturday was a beautiful clear warm day so Daddy took K to Spencer's Butte. I was out of town with L and it gave Daddy and K a chance to hang out together. Daddy said it didn't take a terribly long time and they enjoyed the hike. K only fell a couple of times but didn't get hurt.

K's Butterfly Dress

K got a cute butterfly dress from her Great Aunt for her birthday. We finally had a warm Sunday when she could wear it. Doesn't she look all grown up sitting in her chair?

3 Months Old Already

Sunday the 4th was L's three month birthday. I can hardly believe it has been that long since I had this little one. Although she isn't so little any more when compared with the new babies popping out all over our ward.

The Spatula Incident

I left L playing in her floor gym for only a couple of minutes when I heard her start screaming. I went to see what was wrong and saw K standing over her with her toy spatula. When I asked her what happened she said "I didn't hit her!" I said, "What happened, why is L crying?" K then showed me using actions that she had scraped her spatula across L's face but then informed that "She'll be okay." This is something we tell K quite often as she is a drama queen when she gets the slightest owie. L, however, was quick to recover.

Shooting Steel - The results are in

As you may recall, sometimes I wonder things and I have something I want to shoot.

Well, the 3/4" mild steel plate successfully stopped all rounds fired at it.
Both the .308 and 300wm penetrated about 1/2" to 5/8". But the 300wm made a considerably larger dent in the back side. I think that if the range was much less the 300wm would have made it all the way through.


The sides of the holes are very straight, like they were drilled.



I turned it around and shot it twice with the .308 at 200 yards. The divot it made was much smaller than when shot at 100 yards. It is only a little over 1/4" deep.



I also had a 3/4" thick piece of stainless steel courtesy of Tony and Brian. As expected it held up much better than the mild steel. Penetration was about 1/4". All shots were with the .308 win at 100 yards.



It barely dented the back.




One hole looks deeper than the rest because two shots hit in almost the same location.
To establish scale, the red dot is a little less than an inch in diameter (I traced the rim of a 12ga shell).So, I guess this answers the question that started me wondering about this...
I wanted to know how sturdy a steel plate target intended for a minimum range of 100 yards would have to be. It looks like at least 3/4" thick mild steel is required but the stainless is much more desirable.