sigh.

The mail basket on the ruckus works perfectly. I tried to put some eggs in there to carry to the neighbors but because it's hard mounted to the bike it vibrates way more than I would like. The basket doesn't but the eggs rattling around, so I held the carton in my hand and just rode down one handed.

We got the fig trees planted, and reused the garden cover things a 3rd or 4th time... this time to keep the deer off the trees until I can figure out something better.

Sean went on another island trip with the Land Cruiser club, sent this photo back. Pretty much a 80s or 90s LC brochure picture.

Picked up some new gloves too. The one ones were literally falling apart and were starting to cause problems. Jammed my thumb a few times because the padding is getting so out of shape and in the wrong places as the seams fail. Worth $35.

Hate to be all gun focused, especially since I've not fired anything since the last match (daily dryfire though) but other than some odd work crap no one cares about there isn't much going on right now.

First up is the Mantis Blackbeard, a dumb name for a cool product. You replace the BCG and charging handle with their laser widget and pop in the rechargeable battery magazine and now you have a laser that triggers with each trigger press AND it mechanically resets the trigger. You get to use your rifle, your sights and your actual trigger for dryfire. Safety works the same, trigger break/reset is all the same. It's just a little solenoid that when the hammer hits it will push the hammer back to fully cocked. Then you let off the trigger for a normal reset. Now that I think about it, I bet it works with full auto or a binary too, it's just pushing the hammer back like the regular BCG would during live fire. The result is I've done more AR dryfire in the last week than I have in the last year, it's just way more fun running and gunning with a gun that will let you 'shoot' as much as you want without resetting between shots or using a dead trigger.

Second, is that I finally got a PSA Dagger. It's mostly just a clone of a Gen 3 G19, but with "better" ergos and coming in at $299 (total was $365 with tax, shipping and transfer fees). Haven't shot it yet, but fit/finish wise it's not quite a glock, but it's way nicer than the more costly 3rd party poly80 finish kits. Machining looks solid, finish is good, metal sights and such don't look like I made them in high school shop class, etc. The trigger mechanism is 100 0lock clone, but the trigger itself is hinged like an M&P trigger; no blade dingus like a Glock. If someone handed you the pistol without telling you what it was, you would think it's an M&P 1.0... with some strange Sig slide and 1990s style 3 dot sights. If the damn thing runs as it's reported to do and doesn't fall apart, it's going to rank above Taurus and possibly Ruger.