MOPanfisher

Made strawberry jam this spring, wife made some apple butter today. I like the jams better than jelly too.

Oh yeah!

This brings up a good question. Why do store bought cookies start out hard and crisp then get ft and soggy if left out. Home made cookies start out soft and gooey and get hard as a rock if left out.

That is where I will be as well. Remember if yiu can't shoot well shoot a lot! Got to get rid of those lead shot loads before next year it sounds like.

I am gathering my gear for our annual dove season opener on Saturday. Will be plenty of hunter but the large area we go to needs lots of hunters to keep them moving. Usually have plenty of birds for the obligatory bacon wrapped grilled dove breast lunch, followed by a short afternoon shoot and a low country boil. Might even spend the night and go again sunday.

You may well be right as to the correct term. Silica does indeed adsorb water molecules, however the tiny little packets are not going to do much unless there is a lot of them. We have some larger canisters at work, maybe a quart or bigger in size that keep moisture of of hydraulic fluid.

What they do is absorb moisture.

Chief, I put some in the smoker on New Years eve last year, they were fabulous.

Walls, was the name of the store in Blairstown, don't think I was ever at the cool Carls. Walls had nothing like that, but the entire upstairs was literally stacked to the ceiling with new firearms in boxes. Otherwise it was a dump of an old store.

Local store had some nice thick pork chops on sale. Grilled hot, the Boletes from yesterday all sautéed (way over cooked for my liking but wife likes them that way), and some late zucchini sautéed as well, side of cottage cheese, and some cooked apples from the orchard. Nothing fancy just good eats.

Do you remember the shop in Blairstown? Blairs maybe?

We have A10s over head pretty regular, I would never describe them as quiet! They are very easy to hear and identify, would be too late if you were their target but quiet they aint. They used to fly a lot lower until that little incident at Stockton Lake with the powerlines. Occasionally see/hear a B2 as they sound different, and once in a while up around Warsaw would see one version or another of the C130's. Only once did I get to see them streaming flares though. Have been in a couple of silos in KS that were sold instead of destroyed.

They are not all the same either. I found a butt load of them in my pasture one year, same sponge looking underside but a tan instead of the red top. Sliced off a piece a tasted it, bitter as all get out. They also get wormy fast.

Out mowing the yard this evening and picked a hat full of Boletes. Not sure the exact name of them, but they are the ones the turn blue underneath when you tough them. Other than morels they are about the only wild mushrooms I care about. Usually slice them thick about 1/4 inch and sauté in butter with some seasoning. They are almost meaty in texture.

Second year I haven't grown any corn. Love corn on the grilll all charred up.

As much as I to badmouth muskie, I hope that SOB lost his license and got a serious fine.

IT guys and carp snobs, peas in a pod. 😂 OK That was maybe a bit too harsh.

Good on Dennis, but yeah lots of good folks around. Sadly they don't make the "news" much.

Muskie are unique in that they avoid those who fish for them and haunt those of us who don't fish for them and don't want them to bite our lures. Fortunately except when I am walleye fishing I am not in their normal haunts. I think muskie are the invention of lure companies, so they can sell replacement crankbaits.

I just figured FW must be independently wealthy, had a terminal disease, and no prenuptial agreement.😆

That sounds bad, can you vaccinate against it?

Mmmm spam. I had some hot spicy spam the other day and it was pretty tasty, well at least for spam.

As much as I let MoCarp occasionally get to me (sometimes I can just laugh and move on), I don't even remotely support banning him. If we as members simply ignore the drivel and not reply, (very tough some days) then he has no audience. I am one of the worest thinking he will magically begin giving friendly, useful advice, but sadly not the case. What I need is not a way to block his posts I need a way to block me from getting sucked in. 😆

You know when I was a kid we had a dog that chased cars, I sat down and tried to explain to that dog what he was doing and how it would go bad for him. Eventually a car won, I think I had a better chance with the dog.

Most tailwaters have enough regular flow to prevent much of a thermocline or at least mix the water. A fish has no clue that better water is a 100 yards away, imagine if a cloud of invisible poisonous air decended around you, you would have no clue which direction you could go to get out of it, and a fish has little no reasoning power. The majority of fish kills in lakes there is little or nothing that can be done, it simply has to run its course. BUT the next one reported might be because a golf course dumped 40 gallons of old herbicide not realizing the drain empties directly into a small creek and then into the lake and killed a few thousand fish, that would be something to be investigated even if only to make sure it doesn't happen again.