Day 81

We got up at 8:15 to go to Capitol.  That was a waste.  It was 35 degrees and raining hard.  There was no way I was going.  The weather map showed that it was worse at Capitol.  It also indicated that things might get better later.  They did, so at 10 we left.

When we got there it was still raining very lightly.  We got on a squad right away.  I shot like crap.  Ellen shot OK.  The mud was incredible.  It caked our shoes.  There was a layer on the soles thicker than an inch.  The wheels on the cart had a greater than inch thick layer on them, too.  The guy we were shooting with had a real shooting cart.  He had to take the front wheel off because the mud jammed it.  All in all it was miserable, but the targets were good.

Lunch was too old salad and chicken noodle soup.  It ranks as one of the worst gun club lunches I've ever had.  After lunch Ellen used the Weatherby on the skeet field.  It worked like a champ.  After that we went straight home.

Cleanup was a problem.  I had to spend quite a bit of time washing mud out of the car's wheel wells.  There was mud on the side of the car that the hose wouldn't remove.  I had to get a towel and use it to wipe down the sides.  The front mats are bad, but I'll try to clean them tomorrow after they dry.  I had scraped off a lot of the mud on the cart tires at the club.  It stuck like cement, I almost had to chisel it off.  When I got home I had to use a wire brush on the rest.  The hose wouldn't touch it.

The new cart worked well, except that the middle boxes slide sideways.  The don't fall out, but they slide.  I can fix that easily and probably will tomorrow.

After that I was tired.  So the rest of the afternoon and evening was surfing and football.