Fitnessman's 2009 Fishing and Rambling Thread 3.0

[DAVEZILLA]

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She has talent. :D

my imagination is running wild right now wondering how she learned to do that:D

[fitnessman]

Fitty look like ally McBeal yet? :D

Nope not yet!

Yesterday:



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[Geno]

Nope not yet!

Yesterday:



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Dammit!!!!!! Ally got hairy!!!

[blkbelt42]

nice wheels fitty.

[One More Time]

That's what I say. Last weekend was in the 70's, warmest I've ever seen it since I moved here back in 95. This coming weekend is supposed to be in the 20's and 30's with snow.

That's good for Deer Hunters though.......not good for me.

Send it my way...


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She has talent. :D

Yes...very talented indeed


Nope not yet!

Yesterday:



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Nice (no homo)

[Mindripper]

Saw this in the misc earlier.

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In case that doesn't interest you...

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When's lunch? I'm starving? :p

[blkbelt42]

boing boing boing boing :D

[longball06]

[QUOTE=Nainoa;240968871]

LOL... Fitty must have edited my post?

See we still have actual forests here... Not just some woods in between the highways and suburbs. Sometimes you get deep enough into them that you need to cut your way out!

;)
:D

Hey, i didn't say that. All my old ass can carry anymore is my bow and climber. I bought the summit climber before they made them light enough to carry comfortably.

[Nainoa]

[QUOTE=Nainoa;240974261]

Hey, i didn't say that. All my old ass can carry anymore is my bow and climber. I bought the summit climber before they made them light enough to carry comfortably.

That was part of a convo I was trying to have with Fitty... But he was frackin' up his Mod Edit Feature!

[PLANETGETLOW]

Some solid ass legs fo sho!!

[Skunk]

In case that doesn't interest you...

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[GREENFEATHER]

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She has talent. :D

Yea, but how many times did she have to practice to do that? :eek:


Fitty look like ally McBeal yet? :D


I loled. :D

[jwdjrs]

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When's lunch? I'm starving? :pDaddy likey :)

[GREENFEATHER]

I would suggest that anyone that wants a military rifle to get it now, high capacity magazines as well. That is all.

[blkbelt42]

Monring Ramblers

[Mindripper]

I would suggest that anyone that wants a military rifle to get it now, high capacity magazines as well. That is all.


Roger that!

Morning Ramblers...

Strange weather here; had to put my son back in his light jacket.

[PLANETGETLOW]

I'm shocked actually........don't know what to say or feel

[jwdjrs]

I'm shocked actually........don't know what to say or feelCan't blame anything on Kentucky......just sayin

[PLANETGETLOW]

Can't blame anything on Kentucky......just sayin

LOL.....

BRB, going to work out the frustrations in the gym

CURL TIME!!

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[longball06]

This morning sucks. Feels like the day after 9/11 for some reason. All I can say is to work on food storages and ammo storage and prepare for what will come. Hopefully what will come will be roses, I just feel the need to prepare for the worst though.

[fitnessman]

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[Nainoa]

This morning sucks. Feels like the day after 9/11 for some reason. All I can say is to work on food storages and ammo storage and prepare for what will come. Hopefully what will come will be roses, I just feel the need to prepare for the worst though.

Now I understand that you guys are from Brickhouse Red states... And as such the majority of what you've heard is negative rhetoric; that just came out of the most negative campaign that I've ever seen run, since my Father plopped me down in front of the TV and told me to "Pay Attention" to the 1984 electoral race.

But the reality is that if America is going to get fixed, it's going to come from all of us working together to fix America...

The President is still little more than the Job Supervisor... It's up to "We the People" to bring the tools, lumber and nails to start rebuilding our country...

Our Father's and Grandfathers fought wars on Foriegn soil to preserve the cause of Liberty... Because in those times the tyranny and oppression of other nations was the greatest threat. Now the greatest threat is in Apathy, and that Apathy is rooted here on our soil... It's the thing that keeps Brothers from being Fellow Americans... It's the thing that tells corporations that greed is okay... It's the thing that tells people to slap some more money on their credit card, and take out a **** loan.

******

"America is a great pick up truck that has 4 flat tires..." -Ted Nuggent

We need to spend our time not whineing about how to fix the engine or who's gonna drive...

What we need is people who want to roll up their sleeves and change the goddam tires! And none of that is ever going to be accomplished if 47% of the population simply says "I'm going to take my ball and go home!"

[longball06]

We have no choice but to give him room to work and hope for the best. What we have been getting bombed with down here is the taking of ammo (making it unaffordable), hunting rights, shutting down business with the wealth distribution.
I employ 35 men, over half are minority. They all think I have to pay them more now, right now. Obama will pay for their mortgage and gas and I have to make their pay equal to mine. WTF! This is the crap that will come to a head by mid next year, once the uneducated finds out that those promises were just hear say that they kept believing and passing on.
I have some mexicans, and they think Obama will keep them here, buy them a house EACH, and have me work for them. They all think I will work for each of them while they sit inside and watch soccer. Honestly, stupid should hurt!

[Nainoa]

We have no choice but to give him room to work and hope for the best. What we have been getting bombed with down here is the taking of ammo (making it unaffordable), hunting rights, shutting down business with the wealth distribution.
I employ 35 men, over half are minority. They all think I have to pay them more now, right now. Obama will pay for their mortgage and gas and I have to make their pay equal to mine. WTF! This is the crap that will come to a head by mid next year, once the uneducated finds out that those promises were just hear say that they kept believing and passing on.
I have some mexicans, and they think Obama will keep them here, buy them a house EACH, and have me work for them. They all think I will work for each of them while they sit inside and watch soccer. Honestly, stupid should hurt!

That's a product of Mis-Information... More generated by the Republican Attack Machine, attempting to turn away affluent voters like yourself from voting Obama.

I've watched this campaign ridiculously close. (I mean I even followed the candidates on their stance about hunting in National Parks!)

And there was nothing generated in Obama's Message that made those outlandish claims.

*****

Personally... I don't think the people making under 250K need a tax break... However... The 250K+ bracket's Tax Break, I think needs to go.

That was ultimately put in place by Bush in 2003 to curry political capital for his 2004 re-election campaign.

And if there's one thing I stand against, it's corruption, and 2 things I stand for... Truth and the re-empowering of America.


******

I think back to a piece of wisdom once shared with me, that's become a way of life... (From a story I shared in this thread before.)

"When the darkness gets around you, to chase the shadows away, you've got to turn your light up."

Now for each of us, regardless of political stripe, our light gets turned up in a different way.

And each of us to a man has to seek that solution within his life... Whether it's you adjusting your business strategy, or me writing a book, or Fitty publishing a recipe for Turtle soup that cures cancer. ;) :) (You can do it!)

We're at a point in history now, where we can't just "Talk" about how we're going to change the 4 flat tires of this country... We have to actually take out the tire irons, and spares, and down to the work, in our own way, playing to our own strengths... To bring this grand old lady of America back to life.

*****

The reality is that America "Fell Down" not because Bush is a retard. It "Fell Down" because We the People, let it fall down...

We focused only on our own interests... Our own lives, Our own goals... And we did it on all levels of this culture...

We stopped becoming the writers of the story of our lives, and allowed ourselves as a Culture to let the story of America be Read to us...

It's time for each of us to do the hard work... Pick up the pen again, and start writing the story of the America to be.

Because when we do that... It matters less about what political party the president is from, and more about who you are as a father, a son, a husband, a boss, a person, and an American.

[PLANETGETLOW]

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[longball06]

Fights are starting in some of the schools around here now. The black kids are trying to make the younger kids bow down to them when they wall down the halls. This won't end well.

[One More Time]

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Have you had a tragic boating accident and lost your guns yet? I am sad to say that I did yesterday....they are all gone now :(...they sank straight to the bottom.


This morning sucks. Feels like the day after 9/11 for some reason. All I can say is to work on food storages and ammo storage and prepare for what will come. Hopefully what will come will be roses, I just feel the need to prepare for the worst though.

I feel bad too, not as bad as 9/11 but close. Especially after hearing the "I will do some things that will be unpopular (or something to that effect)" in his speech last night. I feel very threatened/raped.

[AlbinoGerbil]

Fights are starting in some of the schools around here now. The black kids are trying to make the younger kids bow down to them when they wall down the halls. This won't end well.

WTF?!?

This is the kind of b.s. that foments hate.

[longball06]

WTF?!?

This is the kind of b.s. that foments hate.

and in Mississippi it will hit the fan hard!

[Nainoa]

and in Mississippi it will hit the fan hard!

I'm curious as to where you're getting this info?

There isn't one bit of that happening up here, nor a single shread of it being reported on any of the news agencies that I just flashed through on my lunch break.

Not saying you're lieing at all... But it makes me wonder if it isn't more of a local thing?

[fitnessman]

Seems Sportsmen in general are not happy about this.

[AlbinoGerbil]

Seems Sportsmen in general are not happy about this.

I would have to say that makes perfect sense.

[FlyingV]

Well I'm sorry to see I don't agree with a lot of you guys today. I'm a sportsman and I'm very happy about the huge win last night.

I mean after 8 years of Bush/Cheney, and 6 years of a GOP dominated legislature, we're waging 1 war, one occupation, both failing, the economy has tanked, we're trillions in debt, people are losing jobs, and their healthcare, and their civil rights, our standing in the world is the worst it's been in your lifetime......

...and you're bummed about a electing a Democrat?

I just don't get that.

IMO Obama/Biden was the better ticket by far, and this is a great day for my country. I'm real happy about it!

[Nainoa]

Seems Sportsmen in general are not happy about this.

Yeah when it comes to gun Policy... I disagree with much of Obama's Policies... However, it's one of his weakest pushes, and it's one of the strongest constitutional ammendments...

So really... At this point no one sould go Yiaper in their Diaper.

*****

The one aspect of Obama's gun Policy that I do agree with those is his Policy for keeping Hunting Banned in National Parks. (A Policy that McCain Vehemently opposed.)

The reason Obama feels this way, and I agree... Is that National Parks are also recreation areas for families...

So if I go visit Yellowstone, in the fall, and go hiking, and my kid is wearing a brown coat, instead of blaze orange, it invites disaster.

[AlbinoGerbil]

Well I'm sorry to see I don't agree with a lot of you guys today. I'm a sportsman and I'm very happy about the huge win last night.

I mean after 8 years of Bush/Cheney, and 6 years of a GOP dominated legislature, we're waging 1 war, one occupation, both failing, the economy has tanked, we're trillions in debt, people are losing jobs, and their healthcare, and their civil rights, our standing in the world is the worst it's been in your lifetime......

...and you're bummed about a electing a Democrat?

I just don't get that.

IMO Obama/Biden was the better ticket by far, and this is a great day for my country. I'm real happy about it!


The only good thing I can think of in all of this is Obama's got four years to ensure that Hillary doesn't stand a chance in 2012.

[fitnessman]

Well I'm sorry to see I don't agree with a lot of you guys today. I'm a sportsman and I'm very happy about the huge win last night.

I mean after 8 years of Bush/Cheney, and 6 years of a GOP dominated legislature, we're waging 1 war, one occupation, both failing, the economy has tanked, we're trillions in debt, people are losing jobs, and their healthcare, and their civil rights, our standing in the world is the worst it's been in your lifetime......

...and you're bummed about a electing a Democrat?

I just don't get that.

IMO Obama/Biden was the better ticket by far, and this is a great day for my country. I'm real happy about it!

I have voted democrat before. That's a little judemental V. I voted for Clinton the first four. He single handedly did more against guns rights then any pres. in history. *See Brady Bill* and the fact that now someone the has a violent MM May not own a gun.

The dems got a bill through that is: If you are a vet and have been treated for PTS, you may not own a gun.

Having a Son in harms way serving his country I will vote:

1. Pro Military

2. Pro gun.

[fitnessman]

I dunno guys if we should even keep the R&P chat up in here.

You tell me.

[AlbinoGerbil]

I have voted democrat before. That's a little judemental V. I voted for Clinton the first four. He single handedly did more against guns rights then any pres. in history. *See Brady Bill* and the fact that now someone the has a violent MM May not own a gun.

The dems got a bill through that is: If you are a vet and have been treated for PTS, you may not own a gun.

Having a Son in harms way serving his country I will vote:

1. Pro Military

2. Pro gun.

Weren't there stipulations to the PTSD relating to violent tendencies?

[Nainoa]

I dunno guys if we should even keep the R&P chat up in here.

You tell me.

Well I don't think anyone is flaming anyone in here...

For my part, I think I summed up it up best in a rep I gave to OMT, when he and I disagreed... "I Respect you as a man, I admire you as a Husband and father, I love you like a Brother, and remember you always in my prayers."

That goes for all the regulars of the Ramble.

People might disagree... But there's always a sense of Brotherhood here... And I think that's the central thread that keeps this thread so strong.

The reality is that this campaign did a lot to create divisions amongst all the branches of the American people... Mostly by political *******s bending the case of the half truths to their own whims...
And I believe it's far better to disagree with someone and still respect them, than it is to simply take your ball and go home.

*****

10,000 years ago, *** and G-Tok-Tok argued around the fire place about whether it was right to trade Elk Meat for Grain...

But when the enemy tribe came over the hill they both took up their spears in the common cause to defend their village...

It's just now *** and G-Tok-Tok, have been replaced by Flying V and Longball...

Elk Meat and Grain is now Tax and Gun Policy...

And the Evil Threatening to come over the hill, is the bankruptcy of the American culture...

It's time we found a way to pick up the spears of our willingness to be our brothers keeper and slay Apathy for the sake of Liberty and Honesty.

[fitnessman]

I am not here all the time to edit/delete/ban the uggs and torks that may find thier way in here.

None of us regulars would dare flame another as we know all so well.

[Nainoa]

I have voted democrat before. That's a little judemental V. I voted for Clinton the first four. He single handedly did more against guns rights then any pres. in history. *See Brady Bill* and the fact that now someone the has a violent MM May not own a gun.


But that's inaccurate to a point... "Brady" was/is a Republican... Who was shot during the Regan Assassination attempt.

Clinton Agreed with his legislation and signed the Bill into Law... The Bill got to him though only after a Republican Majority Congress put it on his desk, 10 months after Clinton Assumed Office.

And I could be wrong on this, but I believe that John McCain himself Voted For the Brady Bill when it was introduced into the Senate the first time under the First president Bush.

[fitnessman]

But that's inaccurate to a point... "Brady" was/is a Republican... Who was shot during the Regan Assassination attempt.

Clinton Agreed with his legislation and signed the Bill into Law... The Bill got to him though only after a Republican Majority Congress put it on his desk, 10 months after Clinton Assumed Office.

And I could be wrong on this, but I believe that John McCain himself Voted For the Brady Bill when it was introduced into the Senate the first time under the First president Bush.

It the part the the dems slipped in after the fact with voilent misdemeanors, that get me.

[Skunk]

Damnit!!! This morning really sucked! I went out fishing, started out really good... caught about dozen fish within the first hour, but then I had a tragic float tube accident... lost all of my damn guns. Crap!!

[Nainoa]

I am not here all the time to edit/delete/ban the uggs and torks that may find thier way in here.

None of us regulars would dare flame another as we know all so well.

Okay...

So now as you guys know... I've coined my life style as "Living Forward."

And follow the Matra of a Piece of advice given to me many years ago... "When the darkness gets around you, all you have to do to chase the shadows away is Turn Your Light Up."

I think all of us regardless of political stripe feel that America is in a tough place right now, and that she needs our help.

So I think instead of looking at the Bull**** divisions created by political parties that have Hog Washed truth in both directions...

I think we should focus on what each of us can do in our own way to try to help America "Turn the Light Up!"

Obviously each of us has our own path, our own circumstances.

So rather than talk about what's missing from the picnic basket... Let's talk about what we all can do/intend to bring to the Pot Luck that is America's future... And maybe we can do what we do best in this thread and "Redistribute the Wisdom."

******

In my own case...

I'm currently looking into buying one of 3 forclosed homes... (Which getting them bought up helps the economic base Massively.) They all need $10-50K, in materials, and work...

As such I'm researching contractors and supply companies that sell American products.

*****

I'm also going to start working again with student groups at my old college.

AND... I've been educating myself on more green Alternatives in the promotional Products industry.

-Just this week, I found one company that owns the rights to a new type of plastic that is made from recycled plastic, which in the regrind, they have a proprietary process that makes it so the plastic when put into a landfill with actually biodegrade.

-Then I also ordered a sample yesterday of a special type of hooded sweatshirt, that is made in a Zero Landfill Factory... From 70% recycled cotton (From Old Jeans) and 30% Poly made from reground plastic bottles.

^^^^The problem I run into is that all of the "Non-Green" competitive products cost 15-20% less, so it's a hard sell.

[jwdjrs]

For my part, I think I summed up it up best in a rep I gave to OMT, when he and I disagreed... "I Respect you as a man, I admire you as a Husband and father, I love you like a Brother, and remember you always in my prayers."

Sounds good Nainoa.........Just to let everyone know, Nainoa has told me some of these same things to me in a PM, Telling me that he prays for all of us every night, Everyone knows I drink way too much beer, and Nainoa has offered any kind of help that he could give if I needed it


I am not here all the time to edit/delete/ban the uggs and torks that may find thier way in here.

None of us regulars would dare flame another as we know all so well.There are some very Good people in this thread, people that I have a hell of a lot of respect for, I have had the privilege to speak to Shane (Albinogerbil) a few times on the phone, and have text each other numerous time, He seems to be a very honest man

Several really good ''family'' men in this thread

[FlyingV]

I have voted democrat before. That's a little judemental V. I voted for Clinton the first four. He single handedly did more against guns rights then any pres. in history. *See Brady Bill* and the fact that now someone the has a violent MM May not own a gun.

The dems got a bill through that is: If you are a vet and have been treated for PTS, you may not own a gun.

Having a Son in harms way serving his country I will vote:

1. Pro Military

2. Pro gun.

Elections and the process of evaluating candidates are appropriate occasions to use and express political judgment IMO.

Hey I vote promilitary, hell everyone I know is pro military, people just disagree about what that means. I feel have a higher standard for sending them into harms way and keeping them there than some other people.

I just think we are facing so many more imminent and urgent problems....that it's hard to see how retroactively "blaming" Dems for changes to gun laws that may or may not affect a tiny minority of the population.....is justified and justifies witholding support for the rest of their platform, to the point where 4 more years of Bush politics looks like a better choice. Nobody is coming to take anyone's guns away. I repeat, no one is coming to take anyone's guns away.

If you mean H.R. 2640... Shrub, a Republican signed that bill into law, including the amendment, and it passed both houses, unanimously in the Senate. That was as much a GOP and a Dem action. And I would take issue with that assessment and the wisdom of that ball.

Hey just for the record I'm OK with disagreeing, I respect your opinion and everyone else here. We all want what's best.

[Nainoa]

Elections and the process of evaluating candidates are appropriate occasions to use and express political judgment IMO.

Hey I vote promilitary, hell everyone I know is pro military, people just disagree about what that means. I feel have a higher standard for sending them into harms way and keeping them there than some other people.

I just think we are facing so many more imminent and urgent problems....that it's hard to see how retroactively "blaming" Dems for changes to gun laws that may or may not affect a tiny minority of the population.....is justified and justifies witholding support for the rest of their platform, to the point where 4 more years of Bush politics looks like a better choice. Nobody is coming to take anyone's guns away. I repeat, no one is coming to take anyone's guns away.



Very true... If you look at Historically... Most Presidents have a hell of a time getting even their high priority stuff enacted in their first year... And the Gun Control aspect of Obama's platform, while mis-understood by many... Is also a Low priority.

[One More Time]

Well I'm sorry to see I don't agree with a lot of you guys today. I'm a sportsman and I'm very happy about the huge win last night.

I mean after 8 years of Bush/Cheney, and 6 years of a GOP dominated legislature, we're waging 1 war, one occupation, both failing, the economy has tanked, we're trillions in debt, people are losing jobs, and their healthcare, and their civil rights, our standing in the world is the worst it's been in your lifetime......

...and you're bummed about a electing a Democrat?

I just don't get that.

IMO Obama/Biden was the better ticket by far, and this is a great day for my country. I'm real happy about it!

The people elected a Democrat, that has a Democratic senate & house.....that is what I am worried about......whatever they want, rubber stamp it.


Have you had a tragic boating accident and lost your guns yet? I am sad to say that I did yesterday....they are all gone now :(...they sank straight to the bottom.


Damnit!!! This morning really sucked! I went out fishing, started out really good... caught about dozen fish within the first hour, but then I had a tragic float tube accident... lost all of my damn guns. Crap!!

You too? Man we need to be more careful. :D


I dunno guys if we should even keep the R&P chat up in here.

You tell me.

I am done now. IMO, it will only drive a wedge between us (even though we may not intend to)......especially since some agree with Obama. On a good note though, I now know what my Christmas present will be......a reloader and all the accessories for the guns that I lost.

[GREENFEATHER]

This morning sucks. Feels like the day after 9/11 for some reason. All I can say is to work on food storages and ammo storage and prepare for what will come. Hopefully what will come will be roses, I just feel the need to prepare for the worst though.


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/jediryan22/Obama-Communism.jpg

I'm liquidating most of the extras I have right now, I do have 100 mags on order so I'll be set. I'm also ordering a ****TONNE of ammo tomorrow. If the **** hits the fan I want to be PREPARED. I DO NOT trust Obama, never have, never will. I don't trust EITHER Shrub or Slick Willie. The last president we had with any sort of moral character was Ronald Reagan.

As for that $250,000 tax bracket, I fall smack dab in that bracket. If the taxes get stupid, I'll shut down operations and head for the Keys. I'm just about done with the gullability of my fellow Americans. Fitty, you hit the nail on the head with that pic my brother.

[FlyingV]

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[Nainoa]

The people elected a Democrat, that has a Democratic senate & house.....that is what I am worried about......whatever they want, rubber stamp it.



Yeah I don't like the Combo of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President, anymore than I liked Rep Congress and Rep President...

In fact I agree most with Jessy Ventura who believes that belonging to a political party should be illegal!

At the very least though the Dem's did not get the 60 seat Veto & philibuster Proof Majority. The existance of which I believe should be legally challenged in the first place.

Ultimately I think it will be short lived, as the Rep's will re-tune their platform for the Mid-Term elections in 2 years.

Just like how I voted against R-Coleman for his hand in the Bailout bill... The same political bullets are loaded against D-Klobuchar.

[longball06]

I'm curious as to where you're getting this info?

There isn't one bit of that happening up here, nor a single shread of it being reported on any of the news agencies that I just flashed through on my lunch break.

Not saying you're lieing at all... But it makes me wonder if it isn't more of a local thing?

So far it's been 3 schools I know of. My secertary's kid is at one and the cops are there (Caladoini) the other is New Hope that is where the older black kids were making the younger kids bow down to them. Thus, older brothers and friends get involved. The other I don't remember where it is but one of the guys that work here had his wife pick up their kid because the black kids were surrounding the weaker white ones and yelling Obama Obama Obama and causing the teachers and cops to get involved.
Yesterday I talked to a salesman I know in Pa and the news about the black panthers blocking the polling station was blacked out. He had no idea and he was in Philly. As this election proves, the media sucks.

[PLANETGETLOW]

I just stumbled on this.......

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[Nainoa]

I just stumbled on this.......

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5865/image001tr8.jpg

Where's the Puppy? In his acceptance speech last night he said that the kids had a new puppy...

This is total BS...

[longball06]

On an outdoors note, did anyone see the 86 lb salmon found in Ca. That would have been cool on a fly rod. They found it spawned out and dead, fish and game dept estimated it to have probably been 90+ lbs before it spawned. they were praising the new regulations for salmon fishing allowing it to live a full life. I see 60+ lbs of meat that could have been in somone's freezer.

[Nainoa]

On an outdoors note, did anyone see the 86 lb salmon found in Ca. That would have been cool on a fly rod. They found it spawned out and dead, fish and game dept estimated it to have probably been 90+ lbs before it spawned. they were praising the new regulations for salmon fishing allowing it to live a full life. I see 60+ lbs of meat that could have been in somone's freezer.

On the one hand...

Damn that's a monster...

On the other hand...

I don't know that I want to eat meat from a fish that big...

I'm imagining something that's about as touch as a boot soaking in mop water, that smells a little bit like Phylis Diller's Pussy!

[FlyingV]

On an outdoors note, did anyone see the 86 lb salmon found in Ca. That would have been cool on a fly rod. They found it spawned out and dead, fish and game dept estimated it to have probably been 90+ lbs before it spawned. they were praising the new regulations for salmon fishing allowing it to live a full life. I see 60+ lbs of meat that could have been in somone's freezer.

Wow, I didnt think they got that big actually. Damn....I mean dam. (sorry)

http://i35.tinypic.com/2qmlmop.jpg

[Nainoa]

Wow, I didnt think they got that big actually. Damn....I mean dam. (sorry)

http://i35.tinypic.com/2qmlmop.jpg

We really gotta get you PhotoShop, so you can get back to your roots of Chopping together pictures of yeast infected Koala's holding tubes of Vagisil!

[FlyingV]

We really gotta get you PhotoShop, so you can get back to your roots of Chopping together pictures of yeast infected Koala's holding tubes of Vagisil!

ahahaha, I remember that day vividly. I was working at my last job, thinking "I'm going to get fired for this and then, when everyone asks why I got fired, Im gonna have to say because I spent 45 minutes combing the net looking for THE perfect cottage cheese image so it would look like a yeast infection was coming out the koala's cootch."

[blkbelt42]

Morning Ramblers

[Mindripper]

Morning Ramblers

Morning Ken!

Beautiful day here... To bad its spent inside my corporate cage.



'Nother day on the farm.

[blkbelt42]

Morning Ken!

Beautiful day here... To bad its spent inside my corporate cage.



'Nother day on the farm.
x2 man, looks like a nice one here as
well. and yeah, workin for "the man" is
the suck. :D

[PLANETGETLOW]

ahahaha, I remember that day vividly. I was working at my last job, thinking "I'm going to get fired for this and then, when everyone asks why I got fired, Im gonna have to say because I spent 45 minutes combing the net looking for THE perfect cottage cheese image so it would look like a yeast infection was coming out the koala's cootch."


Morning Ramblers


Morning Ken!

Beautiful day here... To bad its spent inside my corporate cage.



'Nother day on the farm.

Morning all........thursty Thursday

[longball06]

Mornin ramblers. Anyone hunting this weekend? I think its youth gun season, so I think I'm going to stretch the law a little and take my little girl out so I can carry my rifle. She is 5 and hunts with me, she's just not quiet. She thinks all deer make that blowing noise all the time, thats how you know they are there.

[PLANETGETLOW]

Mornin ramblers. Anyone hunting this weekend? I think its youth gun season, so I think I'm going to stretch the law a little and take my little girl out so I can carry my rifle. She is 5 and hunts with me, she's just not quiet. She thinks all deer make that blowing noise all the time, thats how you know they are there.

What happened with the Obama crap yesterday at your school?

[Nainoa]

ahahaha, I remember that day vividly. I was working at my last job, thinking "I'm going to get fired for this and then, when everyone asks why I got fired, Im gonna have to say because I spent 45 minutes combing the net looking for THE perfect cottage cheese image so it would look like a yeast infection was coming out the koala's cootch."

LOL!

I mean really... Who hasn't gotten written up at least once in their life for faking a Koala with a yeast infection!

[fitnessman]

LOL!

I mean really... Who hasn't gotten written up at least once in their life for faking a Koala with a yeast infection!

*Raises hand*

[storm1507]

Good morning ramblers!!!

It's been pretty busy lately, but is getting ready to slow down. :)

No fish for me last week on my trip.


Mornin ramblers. Anyone hunting this weekend? I think its youth gun season, so I think I'm going to stretch the law a little and take my little girl out so I can carry my rifle. She is 5 and hunts with me, she's just not quiet. She thinks all deer make that blowing noise all the time, thats how you know they are there.

Let the kids have a weekend to themselves. I would have thought better of you.

[Nainoa]

*Raises hand*

Ohio... Tis a Strange Land!

;)
:D

[Nainoa]

So Fitty... And or anyone else knowledgeable...

Speak to me on the difference between a 7.25" Sliding Compound Mitersaw, and a 10" Sliding Compound mitersaw.

Is it really just as simple as the 10" having more teeth for a smoother cut?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around the $80 difference in price between the two units.

[fitnessman]

So Fitty... And or anyone else knowledgeable...

Speak to me on the difference between a 7.25" Sliding Compound Mitersaw, and a 10" Sliding Compound mitersaw.

Is it really just as simple as the 10" having more teeth for a smoother cut?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around the $80 difference in price between the two units.

2 and 3/4 inches.

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!

[fitnessman]

Really though get the 10"

It will handle bigger Material and give you better cuts.

[Nainoa]

Really though get the 10"

It will handle bigger Material and give you better cuts.

I'm looking at this one:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00921237000P?mv=rr

Or This one:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00921194000P?mv=rr

[Savonadego]

Ohio... Tis a Strange Land!

;)
:D

ohio land of the flat
home of the stupid

lol

[blkbelt42]

Really though get the 10"

It will handle bigger Material and give you better cuts.
good advice, I almost got the smaller one and decided
to go with the 10" for exactly those reasons. It also has
the nice laser sight as well as an added bonus.

[longball06]

What happened with the Obama crap yesterday at your school?

Just a few thugs trying to scare some of the younger kids. There were fights at nearly every mixed school yesterday but they were isolated. Our school had one and it was a black guy and a white girl yelling and pushing over the election. The other schools I know of are quiet now. Just 1 or 2 fight here and there. The worst was New Hope, not much of a fight but the older black kids were making the younger ones bow to them or get their asses kicked.
Nothing today so far. Hopefully its over and everyone has their checks for gas and mortgage in the mailboxes as promised.

[longball06]

Good morning ramblers!!!

It's been pretty busy lately, but is getting ready to slow down. :)

No fish for me last week on my trip.



Let the kids have a weekend to themselves. I would have thought better of you.

I'll let her shoot. I just try to get her in the woods before the masses get in there. Not for me, I've killed them. She wants to get one. She shot a rabbit a few weeks ago and thinks she is the Nuge now.

[One More Time]

So Fitty... And or anyone else knowledgeable...

Speak to me on the difference between a 7.25" Sliding Compound Mitersaw, and a 10" Sliding Compound mitersaw.

Is it really just as simple as the 10" having more teeth for a smoother cut?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around the $80 difference in price between the two units.

Now ask yourself this question....would you rather have 7.25" or 10"? lol (no homo)

[jwdjrs]

everyone has their checks for gas and mortgage in the mailboxes as promised.Hellz yes, I didn't even go to work today, I'm waiting by my mailbox for teh check to arrive, I needz me some beer moneyz :D :p

[fitnessman]

Well at least we aint Brittish:

WcU4t6zRAKg

[blkbelt42]

Well at least we aint Brittish:

WcU4t6zRAKg
too funny........

[jwdjrs]

too funny........The front fell off :D

Nothing out there but birds, fish, and the front of the vessel

[storm1507]

I'll let her shoot. I just try to get her in the woods before the masses get in there. Not for me, I've killed them. She wants to get one. She shot a rabbit a few weeks ago and thinks she is the Nuge now.

Great. I thought the way you wrote it you were going to go hunting yourself and let her tag along.

Does your state have the "adults can't touch the gun" rule?

[fitnessman]

Great. I thought the way you wrote it you were going to go hunting yourself and let her tag along.

Does your state have the "adults can't touch the gun" rule?

Mine does.

Taking GF's boy Nov 22nd.

[storm1507]

Mine does.

Taking GF's boy Nov 22nd.

Nice, but what does Barb think about you having a GF this early into your engagement? :) KY's regular gun season opens Sat. I am waiting on a call from a kid that I have taken before to see if he can go. I haven't made up my mind if I will go if I can't take a kid.

I guess this means I'm a meat hunter. Between my wife and I we have taken 4 deer. I have my buck tag left, but it really hasn't interested me yet.

[fitnessman]

9bCuEXrU-yQ

[One More Time]

9bCuEXrU-yQ

I saw that in the misc. I lolded.


Next weekend is my annual Oak Ridge bow hunt. We should be hitting right around the kickoff of the rut. I have seen some of the biggest deer that I have ever seen there. I haven't gotten a shot yet though :(

[FlyingV]

I saw that in the misc. I lolded.


Next weekend is my annual Oak Ridge bow hunt. We should be hitting right around the kickoff of the rut. I have seen some of the biggest deer that I have ever seen there. I haven't gotten a shot yet though :(


Hey good luck on the hunt, take some pics post up a report.

Yeah that video was funny. Nothing to talk about? It's amazing that there are really people that think this. Do they live in a cave?... I think, what, just about every news outlet in the world has multiple stories about Obama and the transition of power right now? He's the top story on Fox and Free Republic for cryin out loud.

Someone get these people a newspaper and unplug their radios....they're like the Japanese soldiers hiding out in caves after WWII who didn't know the war was over.

[fitnessman]

Hard Cider

I have five gallons fermenting as we type.

Pound and half sugar per gallon.

Placed in a five gallon GLASS car boy.

Air lock in place.

Tube from air lock to gallon jug of water.

Ferment for two months.

Bottle around Christmas time.

1/2 will be apple wine.

1/2 will be hard cider (fizzy) by adding a little more sugar prior to bottling.

Age at least six months before drinking.

Approx. 14% alc.

Will be ready for fitty fest 09 in July!!!

[blkbelt42]

Hard Cider

I have five gallons fermenting as we type.

Pound and half sugar per gallon.

Placed in a five gallon GLASS car boy.

Air lock in place.

Tube from air lock to gallon jug of water.

Ferment for two months.

Bottle around Christmas time.

1/2 will be apple wine.

1/2 will be hard cider (fizzy) by adding a little more sugar prior to bottling.

Age at least six months before drinking.

Approx. 14% alc.

Will be ready for fitty fest 09 in July!!!
nice work, sounds good.

[Nainoa]

Hard Cider

I have five gallons fermenting as we type.

Pound and half sugar per gallon.

Placed in a five gallon GLASS car boy.

Air lock in place.

Tube from air lock to gallon jug of water.

Ferment for two months.

Bottle around Christmas time.

1/2 will be apple wine.

1/2 will be hard cider (fizzy) by adding a little more sugar prior to bottling.

Age at least six months before drinking.

Approx. 14% alc.

Will be ready for fitty fest 09 in July!!!

Now if you can just get your hands on an apple wood barrel to age it in!

*****

I tried my hand at a great deal of home made wines... For some reason I just never seemed to take to the hobby.... Even though I've got some bottles that would turn you blind!

[fitnessman]

Now if you can just get your hands on an apple wood barrel to age it in!

*****

I tried my hand at a great deal of home made wines... For some reason I just never seemed to take to the hobby.... Even though I've got some bottles that would turn you blind!

Ya I wish. But I will age in the bottles.

Have a good supply of Grolsh bottles.

[C. Griswald]

i need cidar help, i posted my questions in the other thrad

[MISSINGLINK]

I hope that Obama stays behind bullet proof glass and has his protection on because if he gets shot/ and or killed there will be the biggest race war ever to be seen. It will be bigger than the L.A riots a few years back.

[Nainoa]

Ya I wish. But I will age in the bottles.

Have a good supply of Grolsh bottles.

Okay... So here's another question... Up here if it's Apple and Alcohol, we drop a cinamon stick in it. (Such as our Everclear & Cider "Apple Pie.")

When I asked about it during Apple Pie Pass-The-Bottle... The only explanation I got was that it's the same thing that Budweiser does with Beachwood aging.

So I'm curious if this is a regional thing or if it's done everywhere... Cinamon situation in Ohio?

[Nainoa]

I hope that Obama stays behind bullet proof glass and has his protection on because if he gets shot/ and or killed there will be the biggest race war ever to be seen. It will be bigger than the L.A riots a few years back.

Actually I noticed "Pre-Victory" the stage at Grant Park was bare...

The second that they declared Obama for Cali, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington simultaneous... That the next scene of Grant Park had bullet proof glass at the head of the Dais... With the camera's positioned inside the glass infront of the podium.

He was also the earliest secret service required candidate... Usually a candidate doesn't get SS until their convention... He was issued SS shortly before he became the presumptive nominee.

[fitnessman]

Okay... So here's another question... Up here if it's Apple and Alcohol, we drop a cinamon stick in it. (Such as our Everclear & Cider "Apple Pie.")

When I asked about it during Apple Pie Pass-The-Bottle... The only explanation I got was that it's the same thing that Budweiser does with Beachwood aging.

So I'm curious if this is a regional thing or if it's done everywhere... Cinamon situation in Ohio?

Not with the hootch!

[One More Time]

Awesome! It begins...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27576931


His combative style as political director in the early days of the Clinton administration earned him the nickname "Rahmbo," after the flame-throwing movie character Rambo. He didn't always produce results, though. Emanuel lost that job but stayed on as a senior adviser and oversaw some of Clinton's top initiatives, including NAFTA and an assault-weapons ban.

[GREENFEATHER]

Hard Cider

I have five gallons fermenting as we type.

Pound and half sugar per gallon.

Placed in a five gallon GLASS car boy.

Air lock in place.

Tube from air lock to gallon jug of water.

Ferment for two months.

Bottle around Christmas time.

1/2 will be apple wine.

1/2 will be hard cider (fizzy) by adding a little more sugar prior to bottling.

Age at least six months before drinking.

Approx. 14% alc.

Will be ready for fitty fest 09 in July!!!


1.75 lbs per gallon will yeild a higher alcohol content if you use champagne yeast. I wish you'd have said something, I would have brought some yeast out with me the last time.:( I have a barrel cooking out too, actually M does too. Ya gotta stay legal with the revenuers.

[Nainoa]

Not with the hootch!

See now I'm actually getting tweaked up for Ice fishing, and drinking "Apple Pie."

*****

Looks like we still might end up back on Mille Lacs again this year... My Buddy Spazz has a 50/50 chance of getting a job up in Duluth... And Mille Lacs is pretty close to "Half Way" for him... But Minnewaska is WAY too far.

[fitnessman]

1.75 lbs per gallon will yeild a higher alcohol content if you use champagne yeast. I wish you'd have said something, I would have brought some yeast out with me the last time.:( I have a barrel cooking out too, actually M does too. Ya gotta stay legal with the revenuers.

I don't use yeast bro. 1.75 of sugar makes way too sweet for me!


See now I'm actually getting tweaked up for Ice fishing, and drinking "Apple Pie."

*****

Looks like we still might end up back on Mille Lacs again this year... My Buddy Spazz has a 50/50 chance of getting a job up in Duluth... And Mille Lacs is pretty close to "Half Way" for him... But Minnewaska is WAY too far.

I wish I wasn't so poor. I'd love to ice fish up there :(

[Nainoa]

I don't use yeast bro. 1.75 of sugar makes way too sweet for me!



I wish I wasn't so poor. I'd love to ice fish up there :(

You just use natural airborn yeast?

*****

Yeah 31 days from right now I should be staring at 6 to 10 throbbing hard inches of ice!

I've already got 3 fishing trips planned.

*****

Someday we'll get you up here...

Probably looking like a tough bite this year anyway... And if you're going to come this far, I'd prefer to get you on an epic bite!

[fitnessman]

You just use natural airborn yeast?

*****


There is no need to add yeast to apple cider. Plenty of yeast in the apples.

There may be no air contact while fermenting. That would allow bacteria to take hold. Hence the airlock.

[|ceman]

I hope that Obama stays behind bullet proof glass and has his protection on because if he gets shot/ and or killed there will be the biggest race war ever to be seen. It will be bigger than the L.A riots a few years back.

Yeah, things would get ugly real quick.

[One More Time]

There is no need to add yeast to apple cider. Plenty of yeast in the apples.

There may be no air contact while fermenting. That would allow bacteria to take hold. Hence the airlock.

Did you ever kill a deer this year?

[FlyingV]

Probably looking like a tough bite this year anyway...

Well that sucks. What do they base those kinds of forecasts on, I wonder?

[Mindripper]

Well that sucks. What do they base those kinds of forecasts on, I wonder?


Chicken bones and ****. :D

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr329/mindripperTM/KungFoFail.gif

[One More Time]

Chicken bones and ****. :D

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr329/mindripperTM/KungFoFail.gif

ahahaha. What is that from?

[Nainoa]

There is no need to add yeast to apple cider. Plenty of yeast in the apples.

There may be no air contact while fermenting. That would allow bacteria to take hold. Hence the airlock.

Yep... That's the same thing I'm talking about...

On the one hand if you add packaged activated yeast... You'll get a slightly faster Alcohol production... BUT... Your Method of "Natural Airborne Yeast" will yeild much more natural flavor.

It's actually the same process that allows all sour dough breads to taste different based on region... And "Fermented Pickles in Crocks."

Even if I used your exact recipe with apples picked locally from here... And we each followed the same steps exactly... Then put a glass of each next to each other... They'd taste a little different from each other.

The same thing makes the difference in taste between San Fransico Sour Dough... And Say Detroit Sour Dough... Or Why New York Bagels are considered superior to all other locations etc...

[Nainoa]

Well that sucks. What do they base those kinds of forecasts on, I wonder?

Well in the case of ML... They do a Spring/early summer netting survey, and a fall netting survey, that let's them know forage base and year class strengths...

But the problem in ML is still the 2007 Perch Spawn. Every time there's a massive spawn you get "Class Buffering." Where it takes 2 years for the little perch (Walleye's favorite food, and closest relative) to finally grow large enough to not be seen as an easy meal.

2007 was the largest perch spawn in recorded history since they started keeping track in 1983-ish...

And as such last ice season was THE WORST bite seen since they started keeping track in 1983.

So while a chunk of the problem has been cleared out... It's still there...

AND then in the lake's natural cycle, the Walleye population is down... and working on a rebound...

But it's not that down... ML has just moved from 3rd in the nation in Walleye per acre to 5th!

The fish are there... You drop a camera down in all the right locations and all you see is Walleye CHOWING on clouds of small perch...

Put your minnow down, and they're just too over fed to want to give a damn.

*****

So this year we're debating between Alexander and Minnewaska...

Alexander... I know I can put us on fish... And there are 2 strong year classes of Walleye that are 14-17 inches... However... I have no connection to ice services there, and no one to watch the house for me... Completely on my own.

Minnewaska...

While it's a decent Walleye lake (#15 in the state) and highly stable... AND managed by perhaps the best lake management association... It is none the less better for Bull Blue Gills, and Slab Crappies... With some Lunker Pike in the mix.

The bigger factor for "Waska" is that my Buddy's Dad Retired to that lake...

He moves around the good lakes in the area... But always wished he had a Fish House sitting right out his front door.

So he basically said "If you move your fish house out here and let me use it during the week days... I'll take care of it for you, and do my best to keep it plowed out.

Drive time wise... For me...

Mille Lacs: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Alexander: 51 minutes
Minnewaska: 1 hour and 20 minutes

From Duluth:
Mille Lacs: 1 hour 25 Minutes
Alexander: 1 hour 29 minutes
Minnewaska: 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Do my buddy Spazz would prefer ML (And hope we can get on a better bite, now that we're in with the locals) but he'd settle for Alexander.


*******

One final HUGE factor is what the weather is like at Ice Up...

If the lake first freezes solid on a windy day, you're ultimately going to have a tougher season... And then if the lake Ices Up on a calm day...

The longer you have green weeds and clear ice, the better the bite will be in on the structure, and the longer it will last... Before you get to February and you have to scratch around out on the main basin.

[FlyingV]

One final HUGE factor is what the weather is like at Ice Up...

If the lake first freezes solid on a windy day, you're ultimately going to have a tougher season... And then if the lake Ices Up on a calm day...

The longer you have green weeds and clear ice, the better the bite will be in on the structure, and the longer it will last... Before you get to February and you have to scratch around out on the main basin.

That's pretty interesting. Sounds like your DNR is on top of it there, with all the net surveys and such, that sound like a well managed operation.Totally different ballgame than saltwater in a lot of ways, and just like saltwater in a lot of ways. When there's too much bait around, it almost doesn't matter what you throw at them, they're not interested.

I take it you cant net or use small perch as bait?

CA DFG recently posted a pdf of their survey results which was pretty interesting, # of each species caught, and where, when etc

Here it is: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/pdfs/crfs2007review.pdf

[GREENFEATHER]

There is no need to add yeast to apple cider. Plenty of yeast in the apples.

There may be no air contact while fermenting. That would allow bacteria to take hold. Hence the airlock.

I know that, but using the champagne yeast makes it all fizzy and **** for lack of the correct term, lol!! :p Definitely use an airlock or you'll have some REALLY good cider vinegar! :mad: Been there, done that. That's the way I was taught to do it, I'll throw a barrel on your way for my dad. ;)

Here's a link I think we can all enjoy. I know a lot of you younger guys don't remember many of these shows or movies, but I have quite a few on 8mm film reels! :eek:

http://www.oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm

[Nainoa]

That's pretty interesting. Sounds like your DNR is on top of it there, with all the net surveys and such, that sound like a well managed operation.Totally different ballgame than saltwater in a lot of ways, and just like saltwater in a lot of ways. When there's too much bait around, it almost doesn't matter what you throw at them, they're not interested.

I take it you cant net or use small perch as bait?

CA DFG recently posted a pdf of their survey results which was pretty interesting, # of each species caught, and where, when etc

Here it is: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/pdfs/crfs2007review.pdf

Wow... yeah... That's a lot more of a mixed bag than I'm used to seeing... In land waters are a lot more predictable than the ocean, from what I've gathered...

Yeah our DNR is one of the most progressive in the country... Kind of has to be, as our Angling, along with Agriculture is the basic backbone of the state.

I mean the entire country is going down hill.. But we're going down hill slower than almost all, simply thanks to the revenue generated by recreational, commerical and consumtion use of our natural resources... And it's managed so well as to creat a Surplus in almost all populations.

We even have a college up in Ely... Bigger than your average technical or community college... All they teach is Ecological science... For the upper midwest.

There are swiss finishing schools that are easier to get into than it's ecological sciences program, and placement programs for the best students always starts in Minnesota and branches out from there to our neighboring states.


****

Yeah no game fish can be used as bait...

Now there are some places up north where guys with breeding tanks have gotten bored... And they've cross bred minnows to have the same stripes as perch fry... But the closest one that I know of is still like a 2 hour drive, half ass the wrong way from any lake that I know well.

Someday we're going to get you up here to for an ice fishing season...

Hell I'd love to get the whole damn Ramble up here for an ice fishing 3 day weekend, so you all could get a the surreal experience of living on the ice, floating 30 feet above the bottom a lake, 6 miles from anything called shore, 3 degrees out, and having a blast.

[FlyingV]

Wow... yeah... That's a lot more of a mixed bag than I'm used to seeing... In land waters are a lot more predictable than the ocean, from what I've gathered...

Yeah our DNR is one of the most progressive in the country... Kind of has to be, as our Angling, along with Agriculture is the basic backbone of the state.

I mean the entire country is going down hill.. But we're going down hill slower than almost all, simply thanks to the revenue generated by recreational, commerical and consumtion use of our natural resources... And it's managed so well as to creat a Surplus in almost all populations.

We even have a college up in Ely... Bigger than your average technical or community college... All they teach is Ecological science... For the upper midwest.

There are swiss finishing schools that are easier to get into than it's ecological sciences program, and placement programs for the best students always starts in Minnesota and branches out from there to our neighboring states.


****

Yeah no game fish can be used as bait...

Now there are some places up north where guys with breeding tanks have gotten bored... And they've cross bred minnows to have the same stripes as perch fry... But the closest one that I know of is still like a 2 hour drive, half ass the wrong way from any lake that I know well.

Someday we're going to get you up here to for an ice fishing season...

Hell I'd love to get the whole damn Ramble up here for an ice fishing 3 day weekend, so you all could get a the surreal experience of living on the ice, floating 30 feet above the bottom a lake, 6 miles from anything called shore, 3 degrees out, and having a blast.

Yeah that would be a cool experience (sorry about the pun). Well who knows in which direction the fickle chili spray of fate will blow next? Lets just hope it doesnt go for the face.

The only time I've icefished, it was so long ago and so lame it shouldn't even count. I went with my buddy and his crazy disciplinarian uncle. Stuck with his crazy ass in that red Monte Carlo because of the bitter cold. It checks the tip ups or ir gets the hose!

http://i33.tinypic.com/14obx4h.jpg

[Nainoa]

Yeah that would be a cool experience (sorry about the pun). Well who knows in which direction the fickle chili spray of fate will blow next? Lets just hope it doesnt go for the face.

The only time I've icefished, it was so long ago and so lame it shouldn't even count. I went with my buddy and his crazy disciplinarian uncle. Stuck with his crazy ass in that red Monte Carlo because of the bitter cold. It checks the tip ups or ir gets the hose!

http://i33.tinypic.com/14obx4h.jpg

LOL!

For this one we'd rent some deluxe houses on ML... Out of Lybacks or Appledoorns, where basically you just drive out to something that feels like a real cabin with a holes in the floor, and bathrooms... And then there are shower houses back at shore...

As I've learned... There are some Minnesotans who can't handle the rugged living on the ice with just a bucket for a bathroom and a wood stove in a hardened camper... Let alone guys coming from sunshine states.
*Probably have to give you guys hand warmers and a hot water bottle to make it from the terminal door to the curb side truck!
:D
;)

******

Okay... Learned Valueable lesson... Don't do cardio & Heavy Bag night the same time that you're watching Rocky IV...

Going to curl up in chair and vomit now...

See you guys in the morning.
:D

[blkbelt42]

TGIF....... I'm all outta lotion! :)

[Mindripper]

Morning Ramblers!

Its Friday. Rainy, gray and cold but Friday none the less. :D

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning Ramblers

[storm1507]

Good morning ramblers.

Finally my busy time as come to an end.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

[Nainoa]

Oh my God am I sore today...

Learned my lesson there... Never schedule Heavy Bag Cardio night on the same night that AMC is playing Rocky IV.

I wonder if my wife would get upset if I had the cut little intern here at the office rub me down with Ben Gay?

[PLANETGETLOW]

Good morning ramblers.

Finally my busy time as come to an end.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Morning man!!


Oh my God am I sore today...

Learned my lesson there... Never schedule Heavy Bag Cardio night on the same night that AMC is playing Rocky IV.

I wonder if my wife would get upset if I had the cut little intern here at the office rub me down with Ben Gay?

Dood, 50 inches of snow just west of us!!

[fitnessman]

I wonder if my wife would get upset if I had the cut little intern here at the office rub me down with Ben Gay?

Theraputic reasons only, no issue.

Doing my 225 BP vid Sunday for Universal. Should be in the 30's.

[jwdjrs]

Theraputic reasons only, no issue.

Doing my 225 BP vid Sunday for Universal. Should be in the 30's.Dude, your going to be too weak to do that video in St. Louis, you need to reconsider that :p

[Nainoa]

Dude, your going to be too weak to do that video in St. Louis, you need to reconsider that :p

Nah... The saying is "Women Weaken Knees"

Doesn't say anything about shoulders and pecs!
;)
:D


I say do the lifting first and the Frisky second...

I don't know about you guys, but I get done with a big lifting session, and something animalistic turns on inside me, and the wife knows there's a better than average chance she's going to end up in the bedroom.

[Nainoa]

Morning man!!



Dood, 50 inches of snow just west of us!!

Pffft... Might have to use 4 wheel drive!

When I look up at the clouds outside... It looks like and Ice Storm is in the works...

But it's still in the High 40's here.

What's going to happen though... Anytime there's a strong Snow pack West-Southwest of us, it drops our temps down...

Westerlies blow over that snow pack and cool down... Then blow over us, and draw out our ground heat.

If you've got anything sticking in the dirt right now, like say old tomato cages, today is the day to pull them.

[PLANETGETLOW]

Pffft... Might have to use 4 wheel drive!

When I look up at the clouds outside... It looks like and Ice Storm is in the works...

But it's still in the High 40's here.

What's going to happen though... Anytime there's a strong Snow pack West-Southwest of us, it drops our temps down...

Westerlies blow over that snow pack and cool down... Then blow over us, and draw out our ground heat.

If you've got anything sticking in the dirt right now, like say old tomato cages, today is the day to pull them.

No doubt, temps are predicted to continue to fall throughout the day

[longball06]

Mornin ramblers, started raining here in Missisippi. Can't hunt or fish. Looks like I'll mount the two bass I have left in the freezer and get ready for the deer to come in.
Anyone got any ideas for a cool base for a largemouth or spott bass? I'm wanting something clean, differernt, but cool. I'm going to do a pedistal mount, which means no seam, so I can put in on a table or shelf or something. I have Ideas of what I want to do, just want to see if you guys have an idea that would expand my thinking a little.

[One More Time]

I don't know about you guys, but I get done with a big lifting session, and something animalistic turns on inside me, and the wife knows there's a better than average chance she's going to end up in the bedroom.

ahhhhh...the beauty of being a newlywed :(

[Nainoa]

Mornin ramblers, started raining here in Missisippi. Can't hunt or fish. Looks like I'll mount the two bass I have left in the freezer and get ready for the deer to come in.
Anyone got any ideas for a cool base for a largemouth or spott bass? I'm wanting something clean, differernt, but cool. I'm going to do a pedistal mount, which means no seam, so I can put in on a table or shelf or something. I have Ideas of what I want to do, just want to see if you guys have an idea that would expand my thinking a little.

Don't think it's the idea you're looking for... But the coolest mount I've ever seen is of a Musky swimming up under a piece of Drift wood, to grab a baby duck. All suspended by what looked like Flourocarbon, from the drift wood log.

It's not unheard of for a large bass to eat a baby duck.

[Nainoa]

No doubt, temps are predicted to continue to fall throughout the day

Yeah it's bouncing back and forth between sleet and rain here...

Sucked... I'm sore as hell and beat up... And "Super B*tch" just got in a truckload of merchandise for her one clients massive employee christmas program...

So of course she was no where to be found...

I offered to pitch in... Because hey... "Love your enemy as if they were your brother" applies in ways that logic doesn't always glue itself to.

So the office staff also pitched in...

Frackin' out of shape, never sweated for anything in their goddam lives pencil pushers!

All of them standing around cutting off pieces of tape and finding dumb ass little things to do, while they watched me break down the pallets and load the carts.

Holy Christ do I work with a lot of lazy ass weaklings!

/Rant

[longball06]

Don't think it's the idea you're looking for... But the coolest mount I've ever seen is of a Musky swimming up under a piece of Drift wood, to grab a baby duck. All suspended by what looked like Flourocarbon, from the drift wood log.

It's not unheard of for a large bass to eat a baby duck.

I saw a mount of a Largemouth bass swimming down with baby duck in its mouth. The duck's head was sticking out. Its sounds tacky but it was the coolest thing I had seen.
I have a 5-6 lb LMB to do for the showroom area and a 5# spott to do for a customer but I want to use it for a taxidermy competition / show in April. I want origional but that is tough to come by.

[longball06]

Holy Christ do I work with a lot of lazy ass weaklings!

/Rant

I think we all do. Whenever the office has to go out and help the shop do something physical there is always cells, ipods, watchers and the paper pick up person while the shop guys are still doing the work with one person from the office helping and 5 standing around playing pocket pool. 100% of the time the laziest person in the group will have an important phone call that will consume the entire length of time work is being done. It is typically their first and only time during the day they have needed the phone.

[AlbinoGerbil]

Yeah it's bouncing back and forth between sleet and rain here...

Sucked... I'm sore as hell and beat up... And "Super B*tch" just got in a truckload of merchandise for her one clients massive employee christmas program...

So of course she was no where to be found...

I offered to pitch in... Because hey... "Love your enemy as if they were your brother" applies in ways that logic doesn't always glue itself to.

So the office staff also pitched in...

Frackin' out of shape, never sweated for anything in their goddam lives pencil pushers!

All of them standing around cutting off pieces of tape and finding dumb ass little things to do, while they watched me break down the pallets and load the carts.

Holy Christ do I work with a lot of lazy ass weaklings!

/Rant

Been there done that too many times bro. It's bad everywhere, esp in the military. Anytime we'd need to load/unload conexes or pack and put away equipment we'd have 30+ people in the motor pool but only 3-5 of us were doing any actual work.

[Nainoa]

I think we all do. Whenever the office has to go out and help the shop do something physical there is always cells, ipods, watchers and the paper pick up person while the shop guys are still doing the work with one person from the office helping and 5 standing around playing pocket pool. 100% of the time the laziest person in the group will have an important phone call that will consume the entire length of time work is being done. It is typically their first and only time during the day they have needed the phone.

Yeah it was kind of ridiculous... I don't mind doing the lion share of the work... One of the Many reasons I transformed myself into the 2 legged Moose I am today is so when stuff like this comes up in life I can haul ass at it.

I don't even mind that it took 3 other people to equal what I was doing... The only thing that really pissed me off was the people who were "Trying to look productive" and then pretty much just got in the way and slowed me down while they neatly balled up the tape, or changed the razor in their knife after every 5 boxes opened.

But hey, they bought my chinese food for lunch... I still had to go pick it up, because the roads have some sleet and ice on them... And while everyone else fears slipping around... I love the fact that it gives me an excuse to use 4 wheel drive!
;)
:D

[jwdjrs]

Opinions anyone ?? http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=111810271

[Nainoa]

Opinions anyone ?? http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=111810271

Pop da hood it's time for action!

[FlyingV]

"Shipping Weight: 450.00 pounds"

Damn buddy get yourself some assistance when its time to move that stonehenge beast.

[Nainoa]

"Shipping Weight: 450.00 pounds"

Damn buddy get yourself some assistance when its time to move that stonehenge beast.

Holy Christ... I missed that part... The freight charge on that one is going to be fun!

[GREENFEATHER]

ahhhhh...the beauty of being a newlywed :(

You need to rub her down with some androgel or something bro. Mand I have been together 23 years and I still burn the hair off it almost every night. If she's on the pill, you need look no further than that right there. It killed M's libido, I got snipped and we've been swingin' from teh chandaliers ever since!:eek: :p


Opinions anyone ?? http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=111810271

I posted for ya.

[Nainoa]

I got snipped and we've been swingin' from teh chandaliers ever since!:eek: :p
.


You gotta watch out for that swinging from the chandeliers stuff Bro... I ripped the hell out of my Groin a few years back getting too freaky with this crazy chick on my power rack!

[GREENFEATHER]

You gotta watch out for that swinging from the chandeliers stuff Bro... I ripped the hell out of my Groin a few years back getting too freaky with this crazy chick on my power rack!

The power rack is fun with soft cuffs, just sayin'..... ;)

[FlyingV]

The power rack is fun with soft cuffs, just sayin'..... ;)

I love a big soft power rack also. 36-D.

[GREENFEATHER]

I love a big soft power rack also. 36-D.

Every chick I banged when I was younger that had a big rack was FUKN HORRIBLE IN TEH RACK!! My ex was, well, just like bangin' a sack of potatoes. :eek: Just laid there and did jack ****, her friends that were in the B-C range were wild thangs in bed.

[Nainoa]

Every chick I banged when I was younger that had a big rack was FUKN HORRIBLE IN TEH RACK!! My ex was, well, just like bangin' a sack of potatoes. :eek: Just laid there and did jack ****, her friends that were in the B-C range were wild thangs in bed.

Well as long as I've had five Keystones and 2 whiskeys!
;)

Actually... It's strange for me to think... Starting out I was a small Rack guy... It's fair to say that I had me some good times with a lot of B cups and even A Cups... Hell I even had one time where I thought there were a pair of flesh colored wood ticks with nipples on their butts that were having a hell of a feast... And I was totally cool with that...

Then from like age 26 on... It's been nothing but D and Double D cup women... Hell my wife... I damn near need a shoe horn to get her into a D cup bra.
Granted when I slipped the engagement ring on her finger she looked like a sandy haired Lanny Barbie... And if she keeps up at this pace by this time 2 years from now she'll be delta burke. ;) :D

So I have no clue how I started out in feating woodtick land and ended up in the watermelon patch...

[FlyingV]

So I have no clue how I started out in feating woodtick land and ended up in the watermelon patch...

All we have here is this Italian Lemoncello I've got with some Diet Coke. Where can I apply for a new man card now that I've violated the Terms of Use?

LOL, that's classic about the wood tick. Is there any nice/convincing way to say, honey just put your shirt back on, it's sexier.

That may have been how it rolled for Greenfeather. Maybe he got unlucky and I got lucky. But then, he's been with his girl for 23 yrs so he's been out of circulation awhile? Perhaps? I dont know, but for me the perpetual bachelor I've had good and bad with big and small and there's no real correlation.

However, when I think back to when we he and I were in our 20s, boobjobs werent like they are now, as easy and common as getting pierced ears. Back then a woman was something special if she a big rack. There was rarely a question of real or fake. She was special. So, she didn't have to try so hard and never developed skillz or personality because she didnt have to. Why would she? If you didnt like it, all it took was a tight sweater and an errand to run and she'd have another guy chasin after her. She may have been a bore, but with every guy leering at her everywhere you go, you couldnt contemplate dumping her without thinking you'd just be kicking yourself the next week. You just couldnt. Hey, it feels good to be with the girl all the guys want. They dont have to know she's lousy in bed.

But things changed. As we entered the Internet age and people went online, they got bombarded with sexual imagery whether intentionally or not; dabbling in Internet porn was like a cyber right of passage at some point. The decency bar got lowered. The threshold for sexy got raised. Big boob girls no longer enjoyed the priviledge of being exclusive, of being rare - just by virtue of having big boobs.

During the same time, all the stigmas and financial hurdles toward plastic surgery fell away. Any girl who could make something smaller than a typical car payment could have big boobs. And so they're a dime a dozen now. The net effect is that it's just not special anymore to have big boobs, and hasn't been for awhile. There's no reason to stay with a girl just cause she looks great with her big rack. So I think that's why some guys may find that boob size doesn't reveal much about the girl's skills.

What does? Now that's some food for thought....

[JIGSAW]

Theraputic reasons only, no issue.

Doing my 225 BP vid Sunday for Universal. Should be in the 30's.

Jake Long, (Howie Long's son) did it 35 times at the NFL combine..............jus sayin........

[blkbelt42]

Jake Long, (Howie Long's son) did it 35 times at the NFL combine..............jus sayin........
nice number, got 28 last time
I tried it.

[storm1507]

nice number, got 28 last time
I tried it.

Hey Kong. 28 reps is real good. I got 5 the last time I tried it, but will be lucky to get one now. I'm down to 151#...hope my BP is down as well.


Deer hunted this morning with my handgun. I debated on whether to go or not, and finally couldn't stand it. Enjoyed the morning, but didn't see anything.

Dang, the Wildcats lost another close one to Georgia. :(

[GREENFEATHER]

I'd rather look at a set of WELL FORMED, NON-SAGGY tits than a set of pendulous tits with hyooge nipples looking at he floor. <throws up in mouth a little.>

[Mindripper]

I'd rather look at a set of WELL FORMED, NON-SAGGY tits than a set of pendulous tits with hyooge nipples looking at he floor. <throws up in mouth a little.>

LOL - hopefully talking of the female side of things. :)

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr329/mindripperTM/bfeed.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr329/mindripperTM/Stairs_boobs-60f.gif

[Nainoa]

All we have here is this Italian Lemoncello I've got with some Diet Coke. Where can I apply for a new man card now that I've violated the Terms of Use?

LOL, that's classic about the wood tick. Is there any nice/convincing way to say, honey just put your shirt back on, it's sexier.

That may have been how it rolled for Greenfeather. Maybe he got unlucky and I got lucky. But then, he's been with his girl for 23 yrs so he's been out of circulation awhile? Perhaps? I dont know, but for me the perpetual bachelor I've had good and bad with big and small and there's no real correlation.

However, when I think back to when we he and I were in our 20s, boobjobs werent like they are now, as easy and common as getting pierced ears. Back then a woman was something special if she a big rack. There was rarely a question of real or fake. She was special. So, she didn't have to try so hard and never developed skillz or personality because she didnt have to. Why would she? If you didnt like it, all it took was a tight sweater and an errand to run and she'd have another guy chasin after her. She may have been a bore, but with every guy leering at her everywhere you go, you couldnt contemplate dumping her without thinking you'd just be kicking yourself the next week. You just couldnt. Hey, it feels good to be with the girl all the guys want. They dont have to know she's lousy in bed.

But things changed. As we entered the Internet age and people went online, they got bombarded with sexual imagery whether intentionally or not; dabbling in Internet porn was like a cyber right of passage at some point. The decency bar got lowered. The threshold for sexy got raised. Big boob girls no longer enjoyed the priviledge of being exclusive, of being rare - just by virtue of having big boobs.

During the same time, all the stigmas and financial hurdles toward plastic surgery fell away. Any girl who could make something smaller than a typical car payment could have big boobs. And so they're a dime a dozen now. The net effect is that it's just not special anymore to have big boobs, and hasn't been for awhile. There's no reason to stay with a girl just cause she looks great with her big rack. So I think that's why some guys may find that boob size doesn't reveal much about the girl's skills.

What does? Now that's some food for thought....

It seems to me that the older I've gotten the more and more I hate "Hot Chicks."

A life time of playing little miss weakling as guys help her self validate on all the meaningless vapid topics of a life... Ick!

My Wife might drive me frackin' nuts in this small little house, as she's constantly in my way... But at least when it comes to the real topics of life she has real things to say, and think and feel...

[Nainoa]

So my wood working adventures continue... I had so much fun building that microwave stand from scrap wood... Figured I'd push forward. Really... Now that I'm done with the Microwave stand... I'm remembering just how damn much fun I had wood working in the past... Really helps clear the mind...

I've kind of plotted out a Winter Wood Working "Master Plan."

Currently I'm updating my "Wood Joint" skills... It's been a while, so I figured I'd start with a Lowered Expectations project... Jointing some Quality Cut Sierra Pine 2X4" into 2" thick by 24" X 36" boards... Then build a box out of them, Sand and stain... And make it into a utility cabinet to keep my boat batteries and stash my ice fishing gear, "Out of the way, but still upstairs."

Once I'm comfortable with having shaken my rust off... I'm going to bring my wife's coffee table back to life. (It was veneered crappy particle board on a metal frame.) So I'm going to bring it back to life with some artistic wood working flare.

By this point I think I'll have my skills dialed back in-full...

So I'm going to turn towards building that custom picnic table and chairs... (I'm thinking I'm going to go with a nice cedar)

Once I have the picnic table finished... I'm going to put it upstairs and take the kitchen table down to my dungeon woodshop.

There's nothing wrong with the solid oak kitchen table, other than the fact that the finish is fracked to high hell, with little scratches and the odd cloud or fade.

So I figure we can live off the nice picnic table for a while, and I can take my time sanding and refinishing the oak table.

Right about this point the snow should be melting...

******

And then in the "See what happens category" I'm going to try to put together a couple of dinner parties...

There are actually a lot of people I know these days who are complaining about how they need a picnic table, or some lawn furniture etc...

So set them down over a nice meal and see if they'd be interested in hiring me to build them a picnic table!

*****

Then in my down time this spring... I'm going to build an outdoor arbor, with trellis and removeable screen frames.

[Nainoa]

Damn...

Lump Charcoal is kind of hard to come by up here, as is fruit woods...

At least that's how it used to be... Now if you keep a keen eye out for it you can find both.

Wife brought home a bag of Lump Hickory... So I grilled up some chicken wings, despite the freezing rain (Carhart Exclusive Rain Jacket FTW!)

Holy ****... Forgot just how much flavor Lump imparts...

I mean how in the sweet fracking hell am I going to go back to regular charcoal briquettes.

[jwdjrs]

The net effect is that it's just not special anymore to have big boobs, and hasn't been for awhile. There's no reason to stay with a girl just cause she looks great with her big rack. WTF ??


It seems to me that the older I've gotten the more and more I hate "Hot Chicks."

WTF ?? You guys can send all the hot big tittied women my way, DADDY needs all the lovin I can get lol :D

And you may need some therapy !!!!!!! :D

[Nainoa]

WTF ??


WTF ?? You guys can send all the hot big tittied women my way, DADDY needs all the lovin I can get lol :D

And you may need some therapy !!!!!!! :D

Well when I started dating my wife she looked like Lanny Barbie with sandy brown hair and blue eyes.

Now she's kind of letting herself go... And I can't figure out how to turn the tide back the other way!

[blkbelt42]

Morning Ramblers...

[GREENFEATHER]

Hmm, Tuesday the Illinois state lottery 3 digit number was 666. Monday my Spirit Guide left me a warning of impending doom. I thought it was just him being elected, but several visions last night say that it's more complicated than this. It's not very often that the Christians and Natives are on the same page.

[|ceman]

Hmm, Tuesday the Illinois state lottery 3 digit number was 666. Monday my Spirit Guide left me a warning of impending doom. I thought it was just him being elected, but several visions last night say that it's more complicated than this. It's not very often that the Christians and Natives are on the same page.

It was actually Wednesday : http://www.illinoislottery.com/subsections/History/Win2008.txt

Does this change anything?

[GREENFEATHER]

It was actually Wednesday : http://www.illinoislottery.com/subsections/History/Win2008.txt

Does this change anything?

I looked atthe wrong date, it's still creepy as hell for 2 "signs" to come like that.

[Nainoa]

Hmm, Tuesday the Illinois state lottery 3 digit number was 666. Monday my Spirit Guide left me a warning of impending doom. I thought it was just him being elected, but several visions last night say that it's more complicated than this. It's not very often that the Christians and Natives are on the same page.

I've come to understand that in the storms of life that first storm comes to prepare you for the true challenges of the second.

We should never fear disaster... Because it's that "Come Back" where you learn the skills to take you to the next level.

The Great Spirit is always trying to make us stronger... Always encouraging us to take the next step on our personal path of power. Because in the end, he who has done the hard work to earn the command of his own destiny, is never a victim to the Devil in the Details.... For he has broken the chains of a normal life to live "Truly free."

^^^^At least that's what Healing Bear has been teaching me...

[Mindripper]

Morning Ramblers!

Looking kind of bleak here...

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr329/mindripperTM/Mornin.jpg

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning ya'll.........start of a new week

[blkbelt42]

http://s132607273.onlinehome.us/ar/blogimages/Crowdtankandotherrambling_1FEA/Stivers11606Aquarium4.jpg

[jwdjrs]

Morning gentlemen

[PLANETGETLOW]

http://s132607273.onlinehome.us/ar/blogimages/Crowdtankandotherrambling_1FEA/Stivers11606Aquarium4.jpg
LOLOLOL......

Morning gentlemen

Hey bro......how'd the weekend go?

[storm1507]

Good morning fishermen and hunters.

[One More Time]

Morning fellas....so muzzleloader season closes yesterday and I wake up to a big frost today...............arrrghhhhhhh :mad:

[PLANETGETLOW]

Headed to a 2 hour staff meeting bleh........

[Nainoa]

Kind of funny...

I couldn't get myself added to any hunting partys this fall... At least none yet, with only 1 weekend to go. (Only so many beds, and not being "In the family" puts me last on all lists.)

However... Almost everyone I know who got a deer, needs help processing it, as they're processessing themselves...

So last night my phone was ringing and people were stopping in Asking "What are you doing next weekend? Wanna help me butcher, and I'll give you some meat?"

[PLANETGETLOW]

Kind of funny...

I couldn't get myself added to any hunting partys this fall... At least none yet, with only 1 weekend to go. (Only so many beds, and not being "In the family" puts me last on all lists.)

However... Almost everyone I know who got a deer, needs help processing it, as they're processessing themselves...

So last night my phone was ringing and people were stopping in Asking "What are you doing next weekend? Wanna help me butcher, and I'll give you some meat?"

LOL........KARMA!!

[Nainoa]

LOL........KARMA!!

At this point... By Rough estimates... I'll have about 30 pounds of various venison in my freezer, by thanksgiving, and I won't have to load a single bullet!

[jwdjrs]

Hey bro......how'd the weekend go?Weekend was good man, just as always too short


Good morning fishermen and hunters.Hello neighbor, my wife and her aunts have started getting some funeral arrangements started for her dad


Morning fellas....so muzzleloader season closes yesterday and I wake up to a big frost today...............arrrghhhhhhh :mad:Hey buddy


At this point... By Rough estimates... I'll have about 30 pounds of various venison in my freezer, by thanksgiving, and I won't have to load a single bullet!I wish I could find a way to get free beer like that :)

[Nainoa]

So last night was chest-tri day... and wouldn't you know it... Another semi came in for Super-B*tch's big holiday company store program...

I unloaded 10 pallets on Friday for her because she was too busy at home watching the Oprah Replay...

Another truck today... 11 Pallets of camp chairs this time... No Lift gate on the truck... Again she's gone... I'm left with my Boss... Who took 5 breaks in 2 hours... The Accountant, who's a 50 year old stick figure pencil pusher... The secretary and the 105 pound intern.

No problem... I just hit it as hard as I possibly could...

Super-B*tch shows up half way through pallet #10 of 11... And starts telling me how I should unload them for her, so it will be easier for her to grab... "Uh Project has been going along for an hour now just fine... Maybe it's you that needs to get with the program, instead of the program adjusting to you!"

We get it all done... And I'm soaked to the goddam bone with sweat, despite the fact that it's 26 degrees outside.

Arms are throbbing and numb... Elbows ache... But I'm feeling good...

And what does she say... Well she did say thank you... Which she didn't after the first truck... But then she follows it up with "In a Way... You guys should be thankful that I get this big order... I keep the lights on here!"

This is the same woman who I have to clean up 70% of her paperwork on a daily basis...

*****

Hmmm... I wonder what will happen when this next truck comes in, with 21 pallets on it, and she has to unload it all by herself, while I stand at the back door flicking the light switch and giggling!

[Nainoa]

I wish I could find a way to get free beer like that :)[/QUOTE]



Meh... You'd be amazed what you can do with a Lasso and an F-150!

[longball06]

no deer this weekend. Brought my 5 year old like I promised her. Let her walk around the woods and find us a good spot. We sat down, she got in my lap to be warm and fell asleep. I had to carry her and my rifle out. She told everyone she saw she got to go huntin' with daddy. Didn't see anything but she had a good time. That counted most. I was afraid to see one, I know I would have shot and that would have been a hell of a way to wake up a 5 year old girl.

[Nainoa]

no deer this weekend. Brought my 5 year old like I promised her. Let her walk around the woods and find us a good spot. We sat down, she got in my lap to be warm and fell asleep. I had to carry her and my rifle out. She told everyone she saw she got to go huntin' with daddy. Didn't see anything but she had a good time. That counted most. I was afraid to see one, I know I would have shot and that would have been a hell of a way to wake up a 5 year old girl.

Again... You'd be amazed what you can do with a Lasso and an F-150!
:D

*****

Sounds like a good time...

When it comes to introducing children... And adults really... To the great outdoors, that it's more about them having a good time and learning than it is about my success.

I figure you've got thousands of opportunities to kill a deer... Only a handful of chances to introduce a kid to the outdoors and instill them with the passion to want to learn more.

[Nainoa]

LOL...

So my Boss and his son got back from their hunting trip...

My Boss told the story of the 97 pound deer he dragged out of the forest.
And what a horrible drag it was with his shoulder harness etc...

And then his son shows me a picture of his 170 pound deer slung on his shoulders like a fallen comrade.

[AlbinoGerbil]

Afternoon Ramblers.

[Mindripper]

Afternoon! What's cracking? Work truly sucks today.... Oh wait; it sucks everyday. :D

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr329/mindripperTM/SupCat.jpg

[larkinforce]

LOL...

So my Boss and his son got back from their hunting trip...

My Boss told the story of the 97 pound deer he dragged out of the forest.
And what a horrible drag it was with his shoulder harness etc...

And then his son shows me a picture of his 170 pound deer slung on his shoulders like a fallen comrade.

Nianoa, my dad lives up in Bemidji and got a 6x on Sat and was sitting watching the football games yesterday and saw a doe walking in his backyard and went on the porch and shot that. A couple of hours later another doe walked into the backyard and had my nephew shot that one. A little while later my niece came home from hunting with her boyfriend and she had shot a doe.

[Mindripper]

Nianoa, my dad lives up in Bemidji and got a 6x on Sat and was sitting watching the football games yesterday and saw a doe walking in his backyard and went on the porch and shot that. A couple of hours later another doe walked into the backyard and had my nephew shot that one. A little while later my niece came home from hunting with her boyfriend and she had shot a doe.


Wow... Deer, It's what's for dinner. :)

[Nainoa]

Wow... Deer, It's what's for dinner. :)

Yeah from the sound of things it's pretty much raining monster white tail up here in the northland.

The population around Bemidji is supposed to be the largest in the nation right now...

[PLANETGETLOW]

Yeah from the sound of things it's pretty much raining monster white tail up here in the northland.

The population around Bemidji is supposed to be the largest in the nation right now...

That's insane.......

[Nainoa]

That's insane.......

Not really... We always have monster herds...

Chippewa National Forest allows the herds to live as they're intended to, without all the pressures human civilization stressing them out... And our DNR is one of the best in the nation at population management.

There's also Another Powerful herd West of Brainerd.. And another one in the South East...

But those are all Shot Gun Regions...

Up around the Chippewa Herds, it's Rifle.

*****

Unfortunately I wasn't able this year to get tagged along with any group...

Usually I get to take "Old Uncle Phil's Spot" or "My Brother Lou isn't going etc..."

But this year, with the tough times everyone is wanting to pull venison for the freezer.

[longball06]

bow season has been in since the 1st of October here and the local processor has only taken in 50 deer and 4 hogs. Once the dogs hit the woods next week it will be a free for all. I hope people still have some $ left to get their big ones put on the wall. I'll stay out of the woods myself if I have a freezer full to mount.
I still want to shoot a good solid 10pt though.

[GREENFEATHER]

Kind of funny...

I couldn't get myself added to any hunting partys this fall... At least none yet, with only 1 weekend to go. (Only so many beds, and not being "In the family" puts me last on all lists.)

However... Almost everyone I know who got a deer, needs help processing it, as they're processessing themselves...

So last night my phone was ringing and people were stopping in Asking "What are you doing next weekend? Wanna help me butcher, and I'll give you some meat?"


LOL........KARMA!!

I was thinking Karma myself, lol!! Nainoa, I just got in some Chinese bird's eye peppers, 100,000 HU. They kill at one end and I'm guessing you'll be looking for an icicle to shove up your ass the next day, I'll let ya know tomorrow afternoon. I'll send ya a few when I get the rest of the order in, there's some other goodies I picked up for me, you and fitty.

[Nainoa]

I was thinking Karma myself, lol!! Nainoa, I just got in some Chinese bird's eye peppers, 100,000 HU. They kill at one end and I'm guessing you'll be looking for an icicle to shove up your ass the next day, I'll let ya know tomorrow afternoon. I'll send ya a few when I get the rest of the order in, there's some other goodies I picked up for me, you and fitty.

Sweet... Let me know...

I destroyed my heat loving buddy Spazz with that last batch... Then kept the seeds and dried the rest for hot pots and such.

[FlyingV]

I was thinking Karma myself, lol!! Nainoa, I just got in some Chinese bird's eye peppers, 100,000 HU. They kill at one end and I'm guessing you'll be looking for an icicle to shove up your ass the next day, I'll let ya know tomorrow afternoon. I'll send ya a few when I get the rest of the order in, there's some other goodies I picked up for me, you and fitty.

LMAO...that's pretty descriptive!


do I understand that correctly that they are hot?

[GREENFEATHER]

Sweet... Let me know...

I destroyed my heat loving buddy Spazz with that last batch... Then kept the seeds and dried the rest for hot pots and such.

Those Bird's eyes are a tiny little thing, but GODDAMN they kick like a fukn mule, lol! :eek: I'd guess you could get some of the seeds out of them and save them. I might try sprouting a few and see what happens. If they don't work, I'll send off an email to the place I get my heirloom seeds from and see if she's got any.

[jwdjrs]

Do any of you know where you can find the values of old guns ??

[Nainoa]

Those Bird's eyes are a tiny little thing, but GODDAMN they kick like a fukn mule, lol! :eek: I'd guess you could get some of the seeds out of them and save them. I might try sprouting a few and see what happens. If they don't work, I'll send off an email to the place I get my heirloom seeds from and see if she's got any.

Yeah as a rule of thumb the smaller the pepper the hotter the pepper... Learned this the hard way did I... Underestimate a bowl in Chili in South San Diego, with a little baby pepper on top... Not a mistake I will make again!

[blkbelt42]

Do any of you know where you can find the values of old guns ??
http://www.armchairgunshow.com/gunvalue.htm

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning all!

[blkbelt42]

Morning all!
sup bro..... is it friday yet? :D

[Mindripper]

sup bro..... is it friday yet? :D

Sup? Busy day on the farm here... 12 hours of work to get done in 7.5. :D

Morning Ramblers!

[jwdjrs]

http://www.armchairgunshow.com/gunvalue.htmThanks Ken, I'm in charge of possibly having to sell some of my father in law's guns to help pay for his funeral, Hopefully it won't come to this but I've been told it's a BIG possibility

Some of the guns you can't read hardly anything on them :(

[PLANETGETLOW]

sup bro..... is it friday yet? :D
LOL......story of our lives


Sup? Busy day on the farm here... 12 hours of work to get done in 7.5. :D

Morning Ramblers!
Morning meng........kinda wierd, no work hate references..............YET :D


Thanks Ken, I'm in charge of possibly having to sell some of my father in law's guns to help pay for his funeral, Hopefully it won't come to this but I've been told it's a BIG possibility

Some of the guns you can't read hardly anything on them :(

Morning!!

[jwdjrs]

Morning!!Morning, Raining and cool this morning

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning, Raining and cool this morning

20's here........winter is officially here!

[Nainoa]

20's here........winter is officially here!

Yeah Frackin skim ice everywhere!

If it keeps up like this I'll be ice fishing the morning after Thanksgiving!

Just gotta hope it doesn't do that bull**** it did last year, when most of the lakes iced up, made an inch or two and then we got a heavy snow...

[longball06]

you guys can keep the snow and ice. I like it when I bitch about the high 30's. Its supposed to rain all week again then get colder. Cold would not be too bad right now but the wind will lay down the deer so its worthless to just sit in the tree and sleep. I could have my phd by now if I would have spent the idle time in the treestand more useful.
I posted a link to a couple of things. the bass is odd marked, kinda like a yellow pearch. One side only, the other side is fine.
The other pic is a shadow box I've had to do. It had a black crappie, white crappie, bluegill. the reels are all 1950 era with the newest one a 53 Shakespere. The lures are also antiques, I don't have any info on them other than they are heavy and old.
Sorry, I can't inbed for some reason.

[storm1507]

Good morning ramblers.

I've got a dermatologist appointment tomorrow afternoon and then off to the lake. It's supposed to be rainy all week which won't be bad unless it is windy. The cloudy weather keeps the stripers coming to the top later in the day.


Morning, Raining and cool this morning

Sorry to hear about your FIL. If there are any old Winchesters in his collection let me know.

My MIL was in the hospital last week (bleeding from her bowels) :( They took her off her blood thinner and aspirin and finally sent her back home. She just keeps on ticking.

[storm1507]

Nice work longball. How much would it cost to mount or make a replica, let's say of a 42" striper? Just dreaming right now. :D

[longball06]

Nice work longball. How much would it cost to mount or make a replica, let's say of a 42" striper? Just dreaming right now. :D

For me to skin mount a striper is $7.50 per inch. and put on a driftwood or something.
A reproduction is more expensive. I haven't done one but they usually go between $10 and $13 per inch.

[longball06]

here are a couple more I just finished
a bass pedistal hitting a crawfish, a 15" shellcracker and a decent buck.

[PLANETGETLOW]

Damn nice LB!!

[storm1507]

For me to skin mount a striper is $7.50 per inch. and put on a driftwood or something.
A reproduction is more expensive. I haven't done one but they usually go between $10 and $13 per inch.

Thanks. Do the repo's look good? What measurements are needed?

[longball06]

Thanks. Do the repo's look good? What measurements are needed?

Repros are perfect as long as the guy painting them knows what they are doing. No fin seperation or shrunken spots. I don't have my catalog that has some in them but its good to stay with Arp reproductions. go to Wasco website and run a search for reproductions and find the striper size you want. they are fiberglass casts of real fish and even have good mouth detail and gill raker inserts and stuff. Some guys are sick at reproduction. I've not had the call for any right here. People that bring me fish want their own fish so I do a skin mount. I'll probably do a couple during the winter between deer heads hopefully.

[longball06]

Damn nice LB!!

Thanks man. I have another good bass I'll post in a few weeks. I want to make one look like it was just pulled off the bed. I take so many pics of bass to get them lifelike when I'm done I'll surely get one right.

[FlyingV]

Real goodlooking mounts there Longball. Pedestal mount with the crawfish is particularly awesome.

FWIW I use tinypic for embedding photos in posts. Seems to work pretty good.
http://tinypic.com/

[longball06]

Real goodlooking mounts there Longball. Pedestal mount with the crawfish is particularly awesome.

FWIW I use tinypic for embedding photos in posts. Seems to work pretty good.
http://tinypic.com/

thanks. I'll try it. I'm usually at work when I get on a post so I'm either on the phone or just staring at the wall.

[jwdjrs]

Sorry to hear about your FIL. If there are any old Winchesters in his collection let me know.

My MIL was in the hospital last week (bleeding from her bowels) :( They took her off her blood thinner and aspirin and finally sent her back home. She just keeps on ticking.Best wishes for your MIL

I know that there is a Winchester 9mm model 36 shot gun, USA patented Aug 29, 1899

Meriden model 15, 22 short/long rifle, Pat May 28, 1912

Several others Remington, Jostam MFG, Norinco, Hopkins & Allen, Russell arm co,

[Nainoa]

Best wishes for your MIL

I know that there is a Winchester 9mm model 36 shot gun, USA patented Aug 29, 1899

Meriden model 15, 22 short/long rifle, Pat May 28, 1912

Several others Remington, Jostam MFG, Norinco, Hopkins & Allen, Russell arm co,

Sorry to hear about your FiL...

Is there no other means to find the burial money...

I take it no will, and everything stuck in Probate?

[jwdjrs]

Sorry to hear about your FiL...

Is there no other means to find the burial money...

I take it no will, and everything stuck in Probate?Yes there is a will, but since my wife has a good job and a nice home, he's leaving everything to her deadbeat brother, he won't keep a full time job and has no teeth because of meth. That's why my wife's aunts are trying to get as much stuff (guns)out of the house before he passes, because they know once my FIL passes the son with pawn everything for drugs and they need some of this just to pay for the funeral

[Mindripper]

Yes there is a will, but since my wife has a good job and a nice home, he's leaving everything to her deadbeat brother, he won't keep a full time job and has no teeth because of meth. That's why my wife's aunts are trying to get as much stuff (guns)out of the house before he passes, because they know once my FIL passes the son with pawn everything for drugs and they need some of this just to pay for the funeral

Wow... Truly sorry to hear that man. Rough in a whole bunch of different ways.

[Nainoa]

Wow... Truly sorry to hear that man. Rough in a whole bunch of different ways.

Damn... Gives me an appreciation for my parents...

They pre-bought their own gravesites, pre-set all their arrangements, and set aside an account for burial money, so that I have the absolute least to worry about and deal with as possible.

[jwdjrs]

Look at this guy getting negged, well deserved IMO :D

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=244190501&posted=1#post244190501

[blkbelt42]

Look at this guy getting negged, well deserved IMO :D

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=244190501&posted=1#post244190501
Airborne Neg delivered.

[Mindripper]

Look at this guy getting negged, well deserved IMO :D

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=244190501&posted=1#post244190501

He's gone down 20 reps in the last few minutes....

[blkbelt42]

He's gone down 20 reps in the last few minutes....
Negs from ABOVE!!!!!!

[FlyingV]

Look at this guy getting negged, well deserved IMO :D

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=244190501&posted=1#post244190501

That's so pathetic it's hard to know whether he was a) flame baiting, or, b) so clueless he'd thought he'd get sympathetic responses from like-minded posters.

[Mindripper]

That's so pathetic it's hard to know whether he was a) flame baiting, or, b) so clueless he'd thought he'd get sympathetic responses from like-minded posters.

LOL - fatal flaw it seems.

[GREENFEATHER]

Negs from ABOVE!!!!!!

HOOAH, I gave him some HALO neggz! :D Wait till fitty gets in here tomorrow, I see some SERIOUS red in his fyooture!!

Oh hai guise, spent the day with teh Colonel and watched the changing of the guard in DC this am.

[FlyingV]

HOOAH, I gave him some HALO neggz! :D Wait till fitty gets in here tomorrow, I see some SERIOUS red in his fyooture!!


I am gonna wait, in stealth mode, building up my neg power. I've set up a reminder in Outlook....then, months from now, when he's forgotten all about this post and is posting some LOLcat or something, I am going to come down from the sky in a red deluge. The Mods, even the hardened ones, will look at the carnage, shake their heads, and say "what kind of human being does this to another poster? wtf!"

You might call it an IND: Improvised Negging Device.

[|ceman]

I am gonna wait, in stealth mode, building up my neg power. I've set up a reminder in Outlook....then, months from now, when he's forgotten all about this post and is posting some LOLcat or something, I am going to come down from the sky in a red deluge. The Mods, even the hardened ones, will look at the carnage, shake their heads, and say "what kind of human being does this to another poster? wtf!"

You might call it an IND: Improvised Negging Device.

LOL....who sets an Outlook reminder to neg someone? Really?

:D

[Nainoa]

LOL....who sets an Outlook reminder to neg someone? Really?

:D

Meh... One must have goals...

You'd be amazed what you can do with a lasso and an F-150!

[storm1507]

Best wishes for your MIL

I know that there is a Winchester 9mm model 36 shot gun, USA patented Aug 29, 1899

Meriden model 15, 22 short/long rifle, Pat May 28, 1912

Several others Remington, Jostam MFG, Norinco, Hopkins & Allen, Russell arm co,

Yea, I would be interested in the little 9 mm shotgun. I even have a couple of shells for it already. Wouldn't shoot it though.

The way I read it earlier, I thought your FIL had recently passed away. I wish my wife and MIL would go ahead and get her arrangements ready. My wife thinks it would be morbid.

[storm1507]

Look at this guy getting negged, well deserved IMO :D

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=244190501&posted=1#post244190501

Dang...I screwed up. :) If anyone hasn't negged him yet, do so for me.

I still haven't lost my neg virginity. LOL

[Nainoa]

Yea, I would be interested in the little 9 mm shotgun. I even have a couple of shells for it already. Wouldn't shoot it though.

The way I read it earlier, I thought your FIL had recently passed away. I wish my wife and MIL would go ahead and get her arrangements ready. My wife thinks it would be morbid.

I don't think it's morbid in the least... If your MIL dies without a will, and there isn't a single clear Executor... Then the estate automattically goes to probate court...

Which for one blows donkey cock, because it's sure to start family in-fighting in some way or another.

But the thing that really would matter most to MiL is that once it hit's probate... Then all of a sudden the state is taking little pieces of her estate... To cover legal fees, and inquest fees... And whatever other little bull**** "Dinkity Fees" they can extract from the estate she spent her life building.

It's best to set it all in order, to preserve what you leave behind... And also to let that passing not be a drawn out wound of loss...

Makes it a whole lot easier, when that inevitable day comes to lay her to rest with the honor she deserves, and the peace of mind she left behind for her loved ones.

******

I'm very glad my parents did it... Granted they did put me through some morbid conversations... Especially the one where my "Around the Bend" Mother wanted a clause that I'm the one who pulls the plug out of the wall on the life support machines... And then to "Save some money... Just shove me in a sack and toss me in the river."

So we had to explain to her that it's just turning off machines... No Melodramatic yanking the cords out of the wall like a Vaccum cleaner that's gone too far across the room. And that it's actually Illegal to just toss dead bodys in the river.

The look on the attorney's face when she told him all that must have been PRICELESS!

[FlyingV]

I don't think it's morbid in the least... If your MIL dies without a will, and there isn't a single clear Executor... Then the estate automattically goes to probate court...

Which for one blows donkey cock, because it's sure to start family in-fighting in some way or another.

But the thing that really would matter most to MiL is that once it hit's probate... Then all of a sudden the state is taking little pieces of her estate... To cover legal fees, and inquest fees... And whatever other little bull**** "Dinkity Fees" they can extract from the estate she spent her life building.

It's best to set it all in order, to preserve what you leave behind... And also to let that passing not be a drawn out wound of loss...

Makes it a whole lot easier, when that inevitable day comes to lay her to rest with the honor she deserves, and the peace of mind she left behind for her loved ones.

******

I'm very glad my parents did it... Granted they did put me through some morbid conversations... Especially the one where my "Around the Bend" Mother wanted a clause that I'm the one who pulls the plug out of the wall on the life support machines... And then to "Save some money... Just shove me in a sack and toss me in the river."

So we had to explain to her that it's just turning off machines... No Melodramatic yanking the cords out of the wall like a Vaccum cleaner that's gone too far across the room. And that it's actually Illegal to just toss dead bodys in the river.




It is?

Awwwwww ****.

[storm1507]

My MIL has a will...it all goes to my wife. But, she doesn't have much, just a small run down house and a small amount of cash. I have tried to get my wife to get my MIL to go to the funeral home, pick out everything, and pay for the funeral ahead of time. Then she (MIL) can spend whatever she has left on whatever she wants. The house will be a problem...my wife wants to keep it, not rent it, blah, blah, blah. Oh well, I do have my gym in her basement.

Mom and Dad are just the opposite. Dad said the only thing left for us (8 kids) to do is decide if we want to order pizza to be delivered to the funeral home. :D I'm almost ready to make my arrangements...we don't have kids to make the decisions for us.

[GREENFEATHER]

EVERYONE NEEDS A WILL!!! If you have anything worth anything, IT NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR!! If you have someone in your life that you give a **** about, then you need to have your estate directed to where YOU want it, not some fukn douchenozzle judge. :mad:

[Mindripper]

EVERYONE NEEDS A WILL!!! If you have anything worth anything, IT NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR!! If you have someone in your life that you give a **** about, then you need to have your estate directed to where YOU want it, not some fukn douchenozzle judge. :mad:

Strong advice... I used my company's EAP (worthless besides that) to get a living will in place. Need to protect my son.

Morning Ramblers!

Fine day day here; crisp and cold but sunny. :D

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning Ramblers!!

[fitnessman]

Morning gang!

Back in the land of OH-HI-OH here again.

Bow hunting and duck hunting this weekend :)

[JIGSAW]

Morning gang!

Back in the land of OH-HI-OH here again.

Bow hunting and duck hunting this weekend :)

Get yo ass back on the treadmill son!!!

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning gang!

Back in the land of OH-HI-OH here again.

Bow hunting and duck hunting this weekend :)

20's and 30's up here. You guys get any snow?

[fitnessman]

20's and 30's up here. You guys get any snow?

Not sure, I have been outa town. I think we got some lake affect over the weekend.

[Chipman]

Morning troops, glad to be back after a two month vacation, walk about, spirt quest, and gun bying binge.

[jwdjrs]

and gun bying binge.My best friend (ex police officer) Told me yesterday, He's been doing the same thing

[JIGSAW]

My best friend (ex police officer) Told me yesterday, He's been doing the same thing

we starting a revolution? Count me in....:D

[PLANETGETLOW]

Morning troops, glad to be back after a two month vacation, walk about, spirt quest, and gun bying binge.

Damn man.......two months!!

[Chipman]

we starting a revolution? Count me in....:D

I think it starts one second after 12:00 noon on January 20, 2009. Don't be late.

[JIGSAW]

I think it starts one second after 12:00 noon on January 20, 2009. Don't be late.

Glock cocked and ready to rock..... :D

[Nainoa]

Morning troops, glad to be back after a two month vacation, walk about, spirt quest, and gun bying binge.


Nice to see you back Chippy!
Did you actually go on a walk about?

[jwdjrs]

Nice to see you back Chippy!
Did you actually go on a walk about?He just kept walkin (forrest gump)

[Chipman]

Nice to see you back Chippy!
Did you actually go on a walk about?

Not so much in the Australian term but I did spend time with lots of relatives I had never met before. All in all I covered 9 states. I learned a lot about myself, my parents, family history etc. Some of these people were just hilarious. I would mention a story I had heard about someone and they would say something like along the line of, well now I will tell you the real story.

[Nainoa]

Not so much in the Australian term but I did spend time with lots of relatives I had never met before. All in all I covered 9 states. I learned a lot about myself, my parents, family history etc. Some of these people were just hilarious. I would mention a story I had heard about someone and they would say something like along the line of, well now I will tell you the real story.

Yeah that's sounds like a Walk About to me...

Any extended journey outside of your comfort zone for the purpose of personal growth = Walk About to me...

The fact that you didn't choke out a Kangaroo MMA style, doesn't diminish the experience... Though a quick stop at a Zoo's Marsupial exhibit to finish one off, would have probably enhanced the experience!

[longball06]

Mornin ramblers, got some good news for me yesterday. A bigger taxidermist in Columbus just contracted me for his fish. We have talked on and off about doing them but nothing ever final. He just got hit with a bunch of deer to process so he gave me 8 customer bass and one big redfish at my price to do. I'll post pics in here as I finish them up. I'm getting them 3 at a time for now. I pick up 3 + deposit, go finish them (2-3 weeks) drop them off, get $ then pick up the next 3. And so forth. If it works out good I'll probably get all his fish and all he will do is turn them over. His prices are a little higher than mine and he hates to do them. Don't bother me, I put on some rubber gloves, turn the stereo up and have at it. No blood, guts, or mess. Just a little smell that is off of me when I take the gloves off. I only expect to get about 20-25 whitetails in for some reason. Eventhough its Mississippi and a guy will miss his light bill to get his deer out of the taxidermist. I think it might be slow.

[PLANETGETLOW]

Mornin ramblers, got some good news for me yesterday. A bigger taxidermist in Columbus just contracted me for his fish. We have talked on and off about doing them but nothing ever final. He just got hit with a bunch of deer to process so he gave me 8 customer bass and one big redfish at my price to do. I'll post pics in here as I finish them up. I'm getting them 3 at a time for now. I pick up 3 + deposit, go finish them (2-3 weeks) drop them off, get $ then pick up the next 3. And so forth. If it works out good I'll probably get all his fish and all he will do is turn them over. His prices are a little higher than mine and he hates to do them. Don't bother me, I put on some rubber gloves, turn the stereo up and have at it. No blood, guts, or mess. Just a little smell that is off of me when I take the gloves off. I only expect to get about 20-25 whitetails in for some reason. Eventhough its Mississippi and a guy will miss his light bill to get his deer out of the taxidermist. I think it might be slow.

Awesome!! Congrats meng!!