Guess what punters, it's cold and raining here in the wilds of North Central Texas. Not unlike an English Spring, when you think of it, or a Welsh summer. That in mind, I finally got 'round to cleaning up the Compound and reorganizing its upstairs rooms.
Part of this sizable project involved adding books to the gun room, turning it into a handy theology library as well as a place to put the few firearms which weren't lost in a tragic boating accident. You see, there were all these theology books, good ones too, lying about in a guest room, doing nothing. Useless. So move all those books to a place of action, let them be with the guns.
Net result you can now sit down and read Etienne Gilson, Berdyaev, Jacques Maritain, Aquinas, Farrer, Mascall and all the rest Then take a break, clean a gun, drop a trigger group into an AR, or whatever, and after you've washed your hands read something edifying. Maybe Belloc's Europe and the Faith, your call, there's no shortage of books.
Who knows, maybe it'd make sense to put a screen in between the bookshelves so theological gunmen can watch videos off the internet, a third potential activity in just one room. In other exciting news, I have to sort out the guest rooms.
Not that they're a mess, but they need organizing, for example, where to put an absurdly large science fiction collection? Good question. Likewise, would one room benefit from an antique desk/drawers/bookshelf sitting idle in Dallas?
Perhaps, we'll see. In the meanwhile it's all going on in the cold, wet Texan steppe.
Ex Libris,
LSP
16 comments:
You're getting the front(s) that we had last week. Go an inch of much needed rain, and maybe 2" of snow in multiple flurries that didn't last long.
Real books? How quaint.
What a fine project for a rainy day. It's best that I don't have some sort of visual distraction playing when I'm doing gun stuff. I much prefer some sort of task music in the background. My tastes vary a bit--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEg4ZUT8MFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw
Maybe some simple roll-up/roll-down screens or drapes or table clothes that are attached to the bottom of the worktables to hide the mess underneath.
Other than that, a nice polished brass Colt Bulldog in God's own .45/70 would make a striking addition to the room.
Nice pile in that corner but it needs a L1A1 clone and perhaps a genuine short-lever Martini hmmm?
"And thrice he heard a breech-bolt snick tho' never a man was seen."
It's cold, drjim.
I know, it's eccentric, WSF.
Great links, RHT!
I totally agree with all of that, Beans.
Wild, now you're talking!
That is one tidy room, throw rug is perfectly squared up…and the workspace is appropriately “cluttered” — a super neat desk is an unproductive one.
You should see my workbench! I must be the most productive guy in FoCo!
You can put the sci-fi collection in a guest room. Or spread it out among two guest rooms. Guests will want to read.
You and me both…but slowly clearing the project related accumulation with the rule: Enter shop, put 10 things away, even of only one screw.
We keep a shelf of Louis Lamour in the Bunkhouse.
Make "Sloshing them with Martinis" a good phrase again. Would work quite well against those Stop Oil or Extinction Idiots people, wouldn't it? A whole new generation of unwashed fungusy fuzzie wuzzies to fight against in a rifle line or square! Call the Color Sergeant!!!
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