Saturday, November 29, 2008

You know you're in Orange County when...

Pow! Bam! Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a new gun!:
Business is booming at gun shops around Orange County. “The first two weeks of November have been extraordinary,” says Randy Garell of The Grant Boys in Costa Mesa. “Sales are running about 60 percent over last November.” … “The reason I keep hearing is that people are concerned that their rights will be taken away,” says Tony Alvarez, gun department manager of the Army-Navy Store in Orange. … “We’re selling everything we can get our hands on,” says the Grant Boys’ Garell. “The other day, a husband and wife came in to buy Christmas presents. He bought a gun for her and she bought one for him.” There’s another fear at play, too: Fear that if recession turns to depression, civil unrest may follow…. (OC Register, yesterday.)

Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos

Tiger Ann, pining after her mom, who returns in the morning.

Prowling this morning.

IVC's recent veterans' ceremony

Ditto.

PAC at left, Beefsteak at right, Vet's tents in middle.

My bro and Catherine.

Natalie.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...