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Neighbors can be the best or worst thing about where you live. Th3 old saying of good fences make for good neighbors is partly true, distance, measured in miles makes for even better ones.

Not all boat ladders are the same. Before you arw willing to bet your life on it during cold weather, give it a whirl in warm weather. Some have that lowest step so high I would have to lose 20 years and 30 lbs to be able to get my foot in it and do anything. I have demonstrated the version of riding the cavitation plate up into the boat at work, it will work but at the best you are gonna get dumped rather unceremoniously into the back of the boat, if the motor swivels sideways yiu are likely going back into the water.

Given the conditions that nothing to do with COVID I agree with your wife also.

Fire is one of the many tools available, like any tool it can be well and do god things or used poorly and cause problems. Some critters do better with occasional burning. Timing is critical depending on what is being burned and for what purpose.

Some doctors only speak in medical terms and others are pretty good at putting it in regular speak. Fortunately my wife is a nurse so sometime I just set quietly and watch as she and the doctor "talk", feel like a dog at the vet. Recently since she usually isn't allowed in she has to listen via speaker phone, or if it's a normal visit she just get a Marco Polo, and she checks all the labs etc on line. Hell I am just the test dummy! The days I do infusions I always look around at the others there and think to myself, ya know I aint doing too bad, I suspect when I went through more rigorous stuff others looked at me and though the same thing.

Yep the lower 9 inch MLL on Pomme and Truman and LOZ no big crappie coming out amongst the super heavy fishing pressure. Has probably been one of the best crappie years here. Seems to be a bit of a gap in year classes, either are big ones or short fish. Plus the white bass which have had a tough go the last decade or so are looking big and strong, hope that continues. High water springs seem to be the key for big year classes, 3 years later they are wait in for the skillet. I have never seen a 17 or 18 inch crappie here, I have seen a couple 15 inchers, and they are huge. Have seen pics of a 15 and 17 together from elsewhere and the difference in that 2 inches is amazing.

Well I haven't eaten them so I would try. I have cut off and thrown a thousand of them in a bucket. But I always like a good sammich.

I don't remember any issues after the shingles shot. But I can guaran-dam-tee it's still better than shingles. Been there done that. Haven't been to get my flu shot yet but wife is beginning to nag about it.

I would eat them, or at least try them.

Mitch, rent him out. He can clean and cook at my house for a couple weeks. I like Chinese food, as long as he doesn't cook up th dog that lives in the house. I would even happily provide a few oddball items for him to fuss over, tongues, hearts etc. I don't speak Chinese so anything he says would be like a dog barking, staring at me will have zero effect and he can prowl around the yard and pasture picking weeds to eat.. And as someone said we could communicate via voice inflection and body language works well. When done i would even deliver him to the next household who rents him.

Cacer is one of those weird things in which all types are similar and completely different. Some types are very treatable and others are not. Sometimes the treatment works for many years aka remission and then one day it spreads through the whole body. Lots of clinical research going on as to how much chemo/radiation for how long etc., rotating treatments to keep it from learning (for lack of a better word) how to beat the treatment regime. I lie it to spray for weeds, eventually weeds and grass develop a certain amount of immunity to things like roundup, but hit them with a different chemical and bam kaput. Likewise radiation is similar to spot spraying, you target a very small place, chemo is more of a boom spray approach whn it is wide spread in the body. All of them have some effects on the human body and are similar in that the attempt is to kill cancer cells faster than you kill the host (person). If chemo, Bone Marrow Transplant, etc. gain me 5 years or 15 years of usable life life to spend with my wife, kids, grandkids, fishing, and enjoying life, even if at a reduced level then I will happily sign up. I can still do most of the things I used to, maybe not as well and certainly not as energetically but can still do them. Last Dr. Visit at KU basically confirmed Mercy Dr, said we could either continue current meds which are working and should for another year, or go through another BMT now, with no real medical evidence to suggest one is better than the other, I opted to continue current treatment and delay the inevitable 2nd BMT for as long as I can, because it sucked, doable but not something to put on a bucket list to accomplish. Waiting for one of those medical breakthroughs that change the game.

One benefit I have is Drs that arw in completely different systems. KU and Mercy so when they agree it makes me think maybe they are doing the best job they can. I have never heard of anyone in the final stages being pushed toward another chemo or radiation treatment, usually at that point it is pain control and keeping them comfortable. I remember my grandmother who developed leukemia way late in life saying nope not gonna do another treatment. I think she was 86, was never a question how it would end and she decided she would go her way and did. I hoping for several more years and to keep my remaining factory original parts, and be able to retire and even enjoy it not just survive.

There is a LOT of research going on for treatments. Some of them are radically new such as using measles genes to attack cancer cells. Others are merely refining the various options of chemo and radiation with regard to how much, how long, combinations etc. For stuff that is already out there refining the treatments is relatively simple, for new drugs it's quite a bit longer and for the radically new stuff it is years before it can make it through the trials, tests, insurance companies, and into common use. When I went through my Bone Marrow Transplant one of the Drs. who did a lot of research work said, "in 10 years you won't even recognize the treatment regime", that was 5 years ago and so far it's basically the same still.

I seriously doubt any state agncy will be planting th invasive Hydrilla, in MO it is being very actively hunted down and eradicated. Small amounts of it make fishing great, unfortunately Hydrilla is an invasive. Many lakes in MO have tried several times to plant various types of aquatics, but the fluctuating lake levels kill it off. Extended high water seems to be worse and more common than low water years.

I used to eat a lot of carp, scored and friEd or canned. Ain't bad eatin.

Nearly every mass produced crop and or species is a result of cross breeding and selective breeding. Now this doesn't mean I am in favor of everything WE do to HELP nature. Just yesterday I caught a limit of nice big true white bass, forgot how much fun it is, crappie reel screaming, light rod all tied in knots.

Well not quite the same things. Grass carp and Hybrid/wipers are triplods and basically sterile like mules but some are capable of breeding, they must be stocked. Mean mouth and many other sunfishes are natural hybrids and happen frequently on their own.

Here is a lot of things that go it deciding length limits and bag limits. Reproductive success, quality and quantity of forage, life span of the species, number of years it takes to make MLL. Too many things to change it on a yearly basis, but stockton and TR with the 10 inch limits already don't seem to price more or bigger crappie than LOZ, Pomme, or Truman. I belive most MLL are targeted toward a 3 yr harvest size based on growth rate. Comparing raising hogs that have a much longer life span to crappie is a bit of apples to oranges.

Very Nice! .350 Legend rifles (mostly Ruger bolt guns) have been everywhere I look recently. Considered one, not really found a use for it for me, which hasn't stopped me in past. Am trying to thin some out and not add to the arsenal.

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A Stanley coffee thermos and a 2 sided place o crappie box full of jigs, on the back bumper of my truck. I make it a point anymore to not put anything on bumper or top of car. One benefit of chemo brain and getting older is if I have left something else there I forgot about it.

Yamaha, 90 HP stroke, I believe it's a 2009?

Gumboot, what plugs did you put in? My Yama ha has the originals in it and has always been cold natured. Once started and run a little it is easy starting. Kind of like my Honda 4 wheeler!

Always seems like when you find the whites there are hybrids mixed in. Always fun to be catching whites and set the hook and suddenly yu have a screaming drag headed for open water. Buddy says "what have you got"? Don't know but if I can turn him we might find out.

Hope you get to put a thumping on that thing.