I remember those days so well. My 6 brothers, two sisters and I knew how to shoot and had firearms safety drilled into our heads well before the age of seven. Nearly everyone in the family enjoys shooting, and a number are proficient with archery, knife/ax throwing and various other grear sports. I just sent my son-in-law a well balanced throwing ax for Christmas. I pity anyone who grew up wirh no one to teach them how to enjoy life by learning something new, whether a skill or knowledge or how to think critically. The list goes on. I love learning new things and the Gulch is one place I can be sure to do just that.

Ah the Friday memes lighten my soul. Thanks, Carl, for a great run this week. Each built on the other and by the time Ms. Leavitt finished her first press meet, the mainstream mudballs were a coyote/roadrunner disaster! Hallalujia!

Love it!!

Enjoy! 😊

Nice thinkin'! LMAO

For sure, Rex_Little, like London Bridge, Ring Around The Rosie, and the Pied Piper Of Hamlin. At the risk of being risque here's a take on Jack And Jill I heard a very long time ago:

Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Each one had a quarter,
Jill came down with fifty cents.
Think they went up for water?

Edit add: I like that it ends in a question in keeping with OUC's themes of the memes for today.

The only thing constant is change.
And that includes the freakin' weather!!!

Enjoy, Suzanne43. After working out in the snow I'll be having a 3-way conversation with Jack and Ginger, LOL.

They only do such things in video games where there are no actual penalties for deadly mistakes.

Had to +1 the whole thing, dino. Maybe we're on our way into the next ice age so enjoy the heat while we can. The climate - it's a-changin' just like it always did, LOL!

Love 'em all, but the last one is priceless! LOL!

Thanks for another home run, OUC!

Uh.. hell yeah!

Even later when I was an assistant scout master I would go with the boys, including my son, to a summer scout camp up in the mountains that included activities like .22 shooting and double axe throwing! All gone now and the little darlings of today have no idea of what they are missing!

I can usually hit at what I am aiming....... :)

I'm a pretty good shot now. So are my two grown sons. They have learned safety too.

Don't know what happened there - left a good bit off of what was in the response.....
Started on .22's but had a .30-.30 by the time I was 12 - and of course shotguns. But along with that came learning safety -

and how to take care of them....

The president of Columbia got a big laugh from me, too.

I’ve finished my housework and ran some errands, so it’s about time to pour a glass of wine and talk to it.
Another great bunch…I do look forward to Friday Funnies!

OK, and I wasn't considering .22-cals.
BTW, my transplanted into Alabama now deceased Yankee parents would not even let me have a BB gun.
Presently I own 6 assorted firearms. Marines taught me how to shoot as well as the Alabama Department Of Corrections.
I can reach a choice of a 12-guage shotgun loaded with double-aught buck and a 357 Magnum from my bed.
Either will definitely make my ears whine if forced to shoot cornered in my bedroom.
Also BTW, guess what's the last long gun I bought so far. Guess that makes 7 guns.
Hey, parents, are you looking down? Finally got me that air gun. Isn't that a Daisy?

Three Blind Mice is far from the only nursery rhyme that's pretty grim. Consider the words of Rock a Bye Baby, or Jack and Jill.

Oh Wow ... these are GREAT! I look forward to your posts. It's one the highlights of my week. Keep'em coming.

Favorite this time around is the press conference with Karoline. Watched that one and laughed most of the way through it. She smoked 'em bad. Good.

Course that was long guns - not 50cal scoped Beretta's...

Come on Dino - how many of us were handling long guns well before we hit our teens.... Back then it was responsible upbringing!!

Well stated, FFA!