Merry Christmas fellow dudes!
I got up around 9 and mom was in the kitchen making here famous Italian Soup....take two days to make this.....
and I ran trough the kitchen real fast and said, "Oooooooo can't wait to open AAAALLLLLLLLLL of my gifts".....I blew past her to the living room without a tree or gifts and walked back with my head hung low exclaiming, "well, it looks like I bought too many guns in 2019......again!

Ha! Christmas 365 and 24-7 around here.
Oh Lordy....THAT made my day Jay! When I was putting those labels on the grips, my inner dialog was telling me, "yea, some day after I go the great Winchester & Colt hunting grounds, Jay will pop those grips off and get a laugh."

Yea...that is a nice Flattop....much nicer than my 4 and 5/8ths.....I figure when you sell something, you want the owner to be happy and not sell him something that needs work or is all scratched up.
I still hate myself for selling John Taffin that like new 4" 1950 Target S & W 44 Spl some years back, maybe 20 years, for a stinking grand.....it's a $3500 gun any day of the week now...but.....I only paid 4 something for it.
Tom......yes, charcoal brickets will work but so does oak coals and they are a lot cheaper but that is a good idea on the "scooping out" of the stump but.....depending on the root system you still need to get those out as the ground is raised.
I think I'm gonna take a break today and load .223's with the 80 grain Bergers I've been talking about for a month. I just HATE doing fun stuff before the real work of stump removal is done. It makes me feel good to do physical work....especially mentally....I have terrible nerves and work or accumulating large piles of cash that no one else knows about (my wife) calms me down.
WHERES THE MASTER OF THE SOFT STUFF...THE "GRAND MASTER OF PLEASURE".....Mr Old Savage?
Oooohhhhhhhhh Pleasure man...Where are you????????????-----6 aka Super Stump