Hospitals, and guns, of all things

Yeah, yeah...this picture is NOT my wife, I know.

Well, my wife has been in dire straits before, and once again, she of multiple blood transfusions in three days, and now on dialysis for kidney failure, is still cooking along, among the many other complications. She, Cruz, is an absolute trooper! God Bless her sweet, sweet heart. We are there with her every single day, you betcha. I watched the end of the LA Laker basketball game with her (they LOST!), and she is really doing so much better....though not quite "out of the woods" yet.

Before the Laker game and all...I was able, in the midst of all the turmoil, to somehow get away a bit....my wife was simply getting the "process" done (dialysis), so, I went to the shooting range on a day off (Sunday), with her sweet blessing. We encountered many things there, including my first EVER chance to shoot an M1 Garand, the main battle rifle of US infantry in WWII. We also encountered a...CANNON! It was a black powered apparatus, that fired...of all things...BILLIARD BALLS....like as in POOL TABLES!

Thus the photos and video I post.

Long live the right to bear arms, by the way.

A very surgical hole in the paper target by an extremely fast moving billiard ball at 50 yards!Then, a photo of life at home, as the family continues with the grandson and his aunts (my daughters), without his dear grandma....we trust she comes home to us soon.

And finally, a fine picture of Cruz (not current, but from the archives, She was in the French Quarter with me (New Orleans) in 1984, just outside the door where my own Dad was born in 1925!...we want to see her home, and want to see her well...

--Dan