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Pleasant Hill Bobcat !

2012-01-25T14:22:21.187-06:00

I finally caught a pic of a Bobcat I've seen running the property:

Bunny:

Doe:

First shed of 2012

2012-01-24T08:39:04.859-06:00

First shed of 2012 ! This is the second one I've ever found, so I feel pretty lucky ! Found this in the bottom of a creek bed on my property.

Yote

Doe sneaking through creek:

Ruger SP101 22lr

2012-01-14T13:46:23.546-06:00

As usual, Ruger seems that it can do no wrong, LCP, LC9, LCR, 10/22, Scout Rifle and now the SP101 chambered in 22LR !

This is another one of "the greatest things to come" from Ruger. The SP101 is their small frame revolver. This one have a 4" barrel with fiber optic front sight and adjustable rear sight. Also has the wood insert rubber grips. Is all stainless and a 8 shot cylinder. I found this one for 525, so I couldn't pass it up, hopefully the wife will forgive me...

I prefer Smith and Wesson revolvers, as their triggers are a dream, but with the addition of a Wolf Spring kit from Midway USA, it brings the Ruger in-line.

Ciener 22 conversion for the Beretta 92fs

2012-01-14T13:34:21.046-06:00

If you have a 92 or 96 you have to have one of these. The Ciener kit converts you Beretta to a 22LR in just seconds (It took me 10 seconds !). I got these from a police department who used them for training and was selling them off. Comes with two 15rd mags and the 22 upper. No FFL transfer was needed. Very nice, not near as expensive as the Beretta conversion.

I think If you can afford the Beretta conversion, it is better. The Ciener is different in two ways, the last round hold open does not work, and it does not have the decocker / safety. The Beretta kit does have the last round hold open and the decocker safety. The price difference was $300, so I'll live without it. Also the Beretta kit only has one 10 round magazine, the Ciener has two 15 round magazines.

Accuracy is excellent on both, and 22LR is ammunition is cheap.

Mulberry, Pear, Paw Paw and Pecan

2011-12-30T10:37:24.755-06:00

Got some nice temperatures the past few days and managed to plan a few more trees I received from TyTy nursery (www.tytyga.com). These were probably the best bare root trees I received, and the cost reflected that:

1 6 foot Northern James Pecan

2 Super Mulberry

1 Gelato Red Mulberry

1 Paw Paw Tree

2 Keiffer Pear

1 Bing Cherry

1 Black Tartarian Cherry

Update Map (does not include Orchard area, i still have to map that).

Growing Pecan and persimmon trees in Missouri

2011-12-27T14:18:58.068-06:00

Well, we're about to find out how difficult it is to grow pecan trees in missouri, specifically Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Cass County.

I ordered several varieties from different nurseries, trying to see what will do best.

8 Pecan from ArborDay.org (pencil size about 18 inches)
4 Pecan (Native Hardy Seedling) from WillisOrchards.com (Thick as your thumb,2-3 foot)
4 Osage Pecan Tree (grafted) from WillisOrchards.com (Thick as your thumb,2-3 foot)
4 American Persimmon from WillisOrchards.com (Nice size, about 2-3 foot, thick as a pinky or ring finger)
1 Hazlenut from ArborDay.org

I have a Northern James Pecan which just came from TyTy Nursery, I'll plant that tomorrow and update the map below. Also from TyTy were some cherries and mulberries, I'll have to post an updated map of the orchard that is being planted.

For Spring planting I have ordered an extra large nut tree bundle from the Missouri Department of Conservation: nut tree bundle
species includes 5 each of :
Shellbark hickory (see species 331)
Pecan (see species 301)
Hazelnut (see species 422)
Black walnut (see species 300)
Butternut (Juglans cinerea)

I'm also wanting to plant some Paw Paw trees but they may have to wait until next year.

Unhandled Exception

2011-12-13T13:22:50.34-06:00

This is nothing users dislike more than an Unhandled Exception, an I agree.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Express 2008 (patched with SP3), recently began giving this error to a user of mine, every time they clicked on the "New Query" button. "Microsoft .NET Framework" Unhandled Exception has occured in a component in your application.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ShellCodeWindowControl.CreateCWWindow()
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ShellCodeWindowControl.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs a)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ShellTextEditorControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************

The user recently received from patches for Visual Studio 2010 and then things stopped working.

Basically the user was using SSMS express. I Unininstalled SSMS Express 2008 (and the SQLExpress instance) and installed SQL Server Developer Edition 2008. In the process of installing developer edition, the installation was aborted due to missing Visual Studio 2008 SP1. I applied Visual Studio 2008 sp1 and then restarted the installation of developer edition, the install was successful. The user was able to open SSMS and launch a new query window without error. I wonder if applying VS 2008 SP1 would have corrected the original error, but at the point I realized VS 2008 sp 1 was missing, I had already installed SSMS Express 2008.

I hope to never see this error again, but I've been trouble shooting many issues related to having Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 and SQL Server 2005,2008, 2008r2. I can't even imagine throwing sql 2012 into the mix, but I guess it's coming....prepare for more compatability issues.

Hen down!

2011-10-03T09:21:36.242-05:00

Finally got out back for the Fall turkey firearms season. A nice little 10-12lb hen, taken with Reminton auto-loader 11-87, 2 3/4inch shells, pretty far shot, almost 50yards, Grandpop's gun still working fine...

Hotfix

2011-10-02T19:29:02-05:00

I must be forthright, I've dedicated far too much mental energy to a full consideration of Germanic Goddess Jordan Carver as we move closer to Oktoberfest.

This has caused me to be slack in my duties of continuously patching sql server. I had decided to "sit and wait" while SP3 for SQL 2008 finished it's CTP and not apply any more cumulative updates.

Of course that has now caused me to be burned by two bugs, both of which are patched in either a Hotfix or a cumulative update.

The first was a security patch for something with an XML Editor, I love when other people find my unpatched vulnerabilities in sql server, makes me feel really good.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494089

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-049

The other was an issue with a Microsoft Cluster, the remote registry service kept stopping. If you haven't noticed you can't connect to cluster administrator if this service is not running, and you can't remotely monitor Perfmon counters without this service. Of course this is not a sql server problem, so I sent it to the engineers, the engineers were non too pleased and after much needling on my part they did begin to try and figure it out... they were nice enough to show me that sql server was causing this service to fail and that I did not have it patched to the correct level, argh, i love when an engineer points out that we don't have sql patched correctly and it's causing the service I put a ticket in for to crash. Absolutely lovely.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2159286

Also be advised that without the remote registry service running, the sql server cumulative update will fail. You can research the message endlessly or just start the remote registry service, set it to restart every time it fails and try again. The exact error message is the following message:

SQL Server Setup failure.
------------------------------

SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:

Failed to retrieve data for this request..

SQL Server Last date / time a password was changed

2011-09-13T13:40:27.312-05:00

I don't know why, but this simple request for SOX Compliance took me a while to find. There is a function that retrieves login properties, LOGINPROPERTY, duh! Of interest is the PasswordLastSetTime.

It also has many other useful properties, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345412(v=SQL.100).aspx . It now becomes very easy to drop into any query, below is one of many sox queries we run that is now required to include this:

SELECT --l.sid, loginname AS [Login Name], loginproperty(loginname,'PasswordLastSetTime') as PasswordLastSetTime, dbname AS [Default Database], CASE isntname WHEN 1 THEN 'AD Login' ELSE 'SQL Login' END AS [Login_Type], sl.is_disabled, sl.is_policy_checked, sl.is_expiration_checked, CASE WHEN isntgroup = 1 THEN 'AD Group' WHEN isntuser = 1 THEN 'AD User' ELSE '' END AS [AD Login Type], CASE sysadmin WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [sysadmin], CASE [securityadmin] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [securityadmin], CASE [serveradmin] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [serveradmin], CASE [setupadmin] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [setupadmin], CASE [processadmin] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [processadmin], CASE [diskadmin] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [diskadmin], CASE [dbcreator] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [dbcreator], CASE [bulkadmin] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [bulkadmin] FROM master.dbo.syslogins l left outer join sys.sql_logins sl on l.sid = sl.sid ORDER BY[Login Name], [Login_Type], [AD Login Type]

Fishing

2011-09-11T09:14:34.446-05:00

A good day of catching some green sunfish in the back pond.

Aaron with a monster fish:

Thomas has a live one !

EJ Fights this one, but reels it in.

Dearborne 2 bottom plow

2011-08-29T14:13:57.093-05:00

I finally found a plow for my Ford 4000 tractor, I'll take pictures once I have it hooked up and working...