Katrine Raffle, we have a Winner!
 

Over the weekend the granddaughter was here and picked a number out of the hat.

The number is ....

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... Number 26, held by Ron Smith!

Rogues Gallery Photo inserted by Admin-JS :D

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Ron if you will get in touch with me we can arrange shipping and transfer.

(I'll be away from noon Wednesday until Monday morning for the long week end.)

A bittersweet Congrats to Ron... you lucky dog! (I already had plans on cleaning and enjoying it :D )

And a special thanks to "unspellable" for his generosity and labor to pull off this raffle for such a worthy cause! Kudos my friend!

Excellent, Ron you dog!! Congrats buddy!!!

:)

Ed

Another envious congrats to both Ron, the lucky winner and to No�«l for running the thing...Jerry Burney

Hey Guys Thanks!!

I just got here. I almost didn't check the post. I have never won anything in my life, outside of a cheap flashlight in the first grade.(back before there was color).

Man! I don't know what to say. I'm almost embarassed.


John thanks for the posting that could make a freight train take a dirt road. :D

Thanks again everybody! Ron :cheers:

ALLL RIGGGHHHTTT RON!!!

You should'a played the lottery today, too!!! :)

Nice going!!!

Outstanding cause - with an OK winner.. :) :)

Heh!!!

John D.

Thanks John,

The only time I ever bought a lottery ticket. I didn't get the powerball(why pay a dollar more), got 5 numbers and won $12.50. If I had gotten the powerball, I would have won $11,000. Go figure.....



I was just informed by my wife, that since she donated $200 out of "HER", house and garden fund to the Katrina relief aid first. The Luger belongs to her. :(

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I was just informed by my wife, that since she donated $200 out of "HER", house and garden fund to the Katrina relief aid first. The Luger belongs to her.

OH MY GOSH, The addiction is spreading!

I'm thinking that if I fold up on this one. The Luger will become trading stock for garden tools.

"Congrat's Ron could not have happen to a nicer guy"

Excellent, I have a wide assortment of gardening tools I can trade her! I bet MY wife would never miss them! :p (not if I replace them with those eXpensive ones :p)

Thanks Richie, not so sure about that , but thanks anyway.

Ed,

I gave her a firm, "Oh Yeah!!" She's reconsidering. You can't let 'em push you around......much. ;)

Ron,

congrats on winning the Luger, I was hoping it would come to the northwest but I was thinking a little farther north. oh well there is always next time!

Tell your wife I have an old shovel and a rake around here and I can deliver!

Best to you,
Bob M.

Thanks Bob, I'll give you visitations.

Ron

Congrats, Ron. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

The rich get richer....

Hi Rod,

I wouldn't know about the rich. The closest that I ever came to rich was when I was 16 and ran into Robert Mitchum. Literally ran into him. I bounced off and would have fallen , but he grabbed me by the shoulders. It was like hitting a tree. He was a big dude. Should have picked his pocket.

:D Ron

Hi, Ron, don't mind me. I was just paying tribute to your many fine collectibles and photos!

Robert Mitchum, eh? My only brush with greatness from movies was running into a semi-well known western movie actor when I was four or five. I had seen the movie with my dad and we were walking back to the car when he appeared going somewhere. He was a big disappointment to me I recall because he wore a suit. No self respecting cowboy wore a suit! (I lived in cowboy country.) He was pretty jaded, but he spoke briefly to us and gave me a cartridge of some sort.

Guess what? I don't even remember who he was for sure! Not one of my favorites for sure, I know that.

Congratulations again on your new Luger and let us know how you like it. :bigbye:

My wife's close friend has one of those semi-famous western actors for father-in-law. I've met him at get togethers. Problem is, while I recognize the face from the movies or TV, I can't place any of the westerns he was in.

They filmed "The Way West" in Oregon. The scenes of the river crossing were filmed about 10 miles from here on the Willamette river.

A friend of mine was a busboy at the old Eugene Hotel, where the cast and crew were staying. I went with him to get his paycheck early on a Saturday morning. We were walking in the front entrance when I was looking at something over my shoulder. A girl, a car, a girl in a car , or something that really caught my attention.

I turned to walk in and I slammed into something really hard. I bounced back and was about to fall when a big hand grabbed each of my shoulders and held me. I looked up to see a big square jawed guy with a weeks growth of beard, really shaggy hair, and wearing sunglasses. He just said" Better watch where you're going son."

I apologized and he just stepped around me and walked away. My friend was standing there with his mouth open. I asked why they would allow someone who looked like that stay in the hotel(this was the mid sixties, and clean-cut was still in, here in hillbillyville). He just stammered "That was Robert Mitchum!"

My only claim to fame...