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I haven’t used cool breeze, but I have used John’s Prop Shop in Ozark, MO. I have been quite happy with his work and his prices.

Put up some pictures and I’ll share it with someone that is looking for a boat.

I made the mistake of planting jalapeños and bell peppers next to each other this past year and ended up with tiny bell peppers. Definitely not going to do that again.

Tires are expensive and the price is rising fast. I have replaced all the tires in all my vehicles and trailers in the past year (18 tires in total) and I have seen a dramatic increase in price since May. Hopefully I’m done buying tires for a while. I’m pretty sure I have singlehandedly kept the local tire shop in business through their renovations.

I was really hoping to get out today for the last day of the Missouri quail season, but Mother Nature had a different idea. I didn’t get out as much as I would have liked to this season, but I did manage to get my pup (a 10 1/2 month old German Shorthaired Pointer) on some preserve birds a few times as an early season warm-up, then we got her into some wild quail in Kansas, finally after walking countless miles in Missouri I finally found several coveys of wild quail here in our own state. We managed to bag 16 of those wild quail in the past two weeks and left tons more to repopulate for next year. I don’t know if I’ll make it back to Kansas before their season ends or not, but I’ll probably hit up another preserve hunt or two to allow Brownie (my pup) a few more bird contacts before we hang it up for this year.

For me it was cotton bolls. We had a cotton field up against our yard as a kid and we used to throw the cotton bolls at each other. About the size of a walnut and pretty hard/firm when they are still green. Not quite as bad as getting hit with a rock, but worse than getting hit with a dirt clod.

Getting close for sure.

I finally got out yesterday and broke ground at our new house for the first time. I haven’t lived where I could garden since I moved out of my parents house nearly 20 years ago. I’m pretty excited to get a garden going even though it has been a long time since I’ve done one and my wife never has. I tilled a plot about 15’ x 40’. I’m planning to put in zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, jalapeños, bell peppers, corn, and green beans. I’m considering buying some extra topsoil and working it in with what I’ve got tilled already before planting everything. @oneshot where did you get your dirt? Did you find a decent price for it?

Seriously. Who would want to loan their boat to somebody that just did that? Certainly not me. Maybe they loan the boat, but don’t give him a key and he only gets to use the trolling motor.

Wily, you can definitely do it. I, with zero prior experience, managed to find a YouTube video about 10 years ago and do this very thing. It isn’t super hard. You got this!

You like it better than shimazaki dry shake? I like that stuff and it works well, but your fly comes out white. It is the best stuff I’ve used though. I’ve never tried frogs fanny though.

Give me a ring when it is on. I want to get up there and try some of that this year with you.

Best night of trout fishing I ever had was at the very beginning of January one year when I was in college. It was 4° at Taney that night. It was cold, but I was in a spot where the giants were stacked. I caught so many big fish that night. It was awesome. I think I still have an unfinished disposable camera with pictures on it from that night somewhere.

No. I went to high school at Ozark. I lived at LOZ for the past 11 years before moving to Lebanon this summer.

You probably went to school with my little brother. He was 10 years old in 2000. I don’t know how safe or unsafe they are now, but I’m one to be overly cautious. Especially when I can just go elsewhere and catch fish I have more personal confidence in eating safely.