It missed last weekend’s pickup apparently by hours, but came up today by an unusual channel. And I don’t know who to thank for this by name, there’s a name on the return address but it doesn’t connect in my memory with any known handle. So Thanks, Whoever You Are!
LED flashlight and headlamp, thoughtfully including extra batteries! And by total coincidence I just opened my last package of four AAAs for my digital thermometer.
You can never have too many flashlights if you’re off-grid. In fact just the other day I gifted to Landlady an old Mag-Light somebody else had cast off. I retrofitted it with an LED and better lens, then never really had a use for it. But sooner or later circumstance will reward your having kept the batteries up in that extra flashlight in the junk drawer.
As for batteries, I confess a deep hatred for anything requiring CR123A batteries. They’re expensive, not universally available – not available at all in the little town nearest where I live – and in my experience they fail without warning which is grounds for divorce in any flashlight, period. Some folks like them, but I don’t know why. I much prefer old-fashioned alkaline batteries if I can’t get rechargeable. But rechargeable is best, and the nice thing is there are plenty of rechargeable NIMH batteries interchangeable with alkalines, so we have the best of both worlds. Delenta est CR123A. Thus endeth today’s sermon.
Snacky goodies! Always a pleasant surprise. Also, LB asks me to mention that he likes leather bones. I don’t know why he keeps saying that. But I’m going to take a hacksaw to these and cut them in half before he gets them. Too much kinda binds him up. 🙂
OMG ammo components. 50 – 50! – brand-new .44 spl cases, never fired, and some 240 grain hardcast SWC bullets. .44 special cases are harder to find every year, and they do wear out. Thank you so much.
I got a kick out of the money bag they came in. These imbeciles keep it up, we’ll be using ammo like currency to round out barter trades, see if we don’t. John Wesley Rawles may be vindicated in our lifetimes, yet.
Don’t know who, but one thing is for sure: Somebody cares, and somebody put a lot of thought into that box. That’s a nice thought for a Thanksgiving morning.