While the Hobbit Wife is Away...

The residents of Michael Delving have taken to kicking the Hobbit Wife/Mommie out of the house on Saturday mornings to the strains of N'Sync's "Bye Bye Bye."  The Mayor and hobbitlings put that time to good use, such as making cardboard tanks...

 ...re-purposing out-of-use respirators to make fighter pilot masks...

 ...and the Mayor maaaaaayyyyyy have introduced a seven year old warrior trainee to shooting an air rifle in the backyard.

The Mayor has to add that he violated none of the cardinal gun safety rules as part of the training, and to top it off, the Mayor has substantial evidence from his teen years that while this .177 cal air rifle is capable of taking down a sparrow, it does no real harm to beer bottles or cats.