The Wandering Minstrel

The Better Half took some ideas from one of the Food Channel chefs and whipped up this wonderful chicken/zucchini/asparagus fettuccine Alfredo. Excellent meal for watching football! And healthy too. Clickable image.

The Wickenburg area Boy Scout District is holding a Camporee on the weekend of October 15, 2011. As a part of the weekend activities, approximately 30 Boy Scouts will be at the Wickenburg Sportsman’s Club for instruction in gun safety. After the safety briefing, they will be given instruction in Trap Shooting.

The event already has access to several shotguns, but they were asking to borrow a few more. They also need volunteers to donate some factory shotgun ammunition for the event.

I called the gentleman in charge of organizing the event and offered my Remington 870, The Better Half’s Remington 870 Junior and 100 rounds each of 12 and 20 gauge number eight shot shells. He was happy to accept our offer and we made arrangements to deliver the items.

We’re proud to support any event that gets kids interested in sport shooting. After all, they are the ones that will have to carry on the never-ending fight to protect our right to keep and bear arms and the Second Amendment itself. The Better Half and I will be attending the event and she, as usual, will have some images to share when I report on the day’s activities after it’s over.

For Saturday and Sunday FOOTBALL!

I set out a few years ago on this blog and on the other blog to post something daily. We had a Thursday night college football game this evening that absorbed my attention before I had a chance to post something.

Now, even though this post isn’t about politics or the Obamination or firearms, it IS a post and therefore qualifies.

Football and this delicious meal dominated our day today. Please do not drool on your keyboard.

Pre-season NFL Football returns to the tube tonight. The Seattle Seahawks will play against the San Diego Chargers in San Diego at 8PM eastern (5PM Arizona time) on ESPN. The Better Half and I plan to tune in an hour early for the pre-game show. There will also be televised games tomorrow evening, Saturday and Monday.

Before we terminated our California DirecTV service, we had the full-on NFL Sunday Ticket watch-anything package. We did not opt for it in Arizona since our viewing habits changed due to time at the shooting range and other weekend activities. Plus, it was expen$ive.

We’re huge football junkies, so watching the games is a time sink that takes away from blogging. It will continue intermittently right up through Superbowl Sunday in February.

I was on the computer this afternoon looking at the Maricopa County Assessor’s interactive parcel viewer. The map has an aerial map mode, so, out of curiosity, I scrolled across to Constellation Road to look for the Wickenburg Sportsmen’s Club rifle and pistol range. I captured this (clickable) image of the facilities.

Our facilities feature a 100 yard rifle range, 1- 50 yard rifle/pistol bay, 2 - 25 yard pistol bays as well as Trap and 1-5-stand. The longer ranges are near the center with the pistol bays just below. The 5 stand and trap ranges are near the bottom of the image across the clearing from the clubhouse and restrooms. The facility at the upper left is for the archery club which will soon be merging with WSC.

We figured a little outdoor grilling would augment our enjoyment of watching the NFL Conference Championship Games this weekend. To that end, we marinated some chicken breasts in soy sauce for a couple of hours in the refrigerator and grilled them to a golden brown color over charcoal. The Better Half served these over a bed of white rice with stir-fry vegetables for a delectable Asian-style supper. Clickable image.