fishinwrench

They've moved now, thankfully, but there is a place at the top of a long hill, and the people renting it at the time had an enormous St.Bernard and 3-4 little ankle biters. The st.bernard was a good boy, stayed in his yard, usually barked lazily a couple times but never bothered anyone....until one day after pumping up the hill and trying to recover from the climb, a couple of the little jackass terriers took in after me. I didn't have enough left in me to get away from them so when one got too close to my ankle I hauled off and kicked it in the head. Hard. This pissed off the big boy....and here he came. I got off the bike and kept it between me and him while 2 of the little fartasses nipped at the back of my legs about 17 times. Luckily a dude fresh out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist came running out of the house next door, grabbed a snow shovel, started yelling and swinging the shovel.... and basically saved my life. I ended up with 4 bites total, one on the back of each knee, one on my right calf (that was the worst one), and one on the back of my left ankle. Ended my ride for the day. After that I started carrying a can of carb cleaner for awhile. But now I've learned that anytime a dog takes in after me to just get off the bike right away and make friends. A few pieces of jerky (which I always have with me) is all it takes. 😊 Even onery pit bulls are suckers for that.

Ronnie Moore pics are always SO freakin' cool. 👍

I have forgotten now, but there is a small band of channels 6-7-8 or 7-8-9 that have more power (distance capability) than the rest. A Google search on the topic should unearth the answer. But yeah, cellphones are way better, especially with the option to text. Nothing more irritating than somebody keying you up demanding that you reply immediately when you're right in the middle of something. I'd rather text than talk on the phone or a walkie talkie any day.

Wow! That is crazy cool. Thicker than the shad in LO. So much for Didymo suffocating them to extinction, hu?

Typical Karen!

Oddly enough the keels on my 16 year old OT Guide show very little damage. I brushed the bottom with a propane torch 5-6 years ago to smooth out the poly-link. Worked great. That sucker is still plenty fresh. It may outlive me.

Depends on which ramp and where. The access here by me was seldom crowded until COVID hit. It's been so crowded this year that I hesitate to pull a boat down there before I run down to check the crowd first.

If it was fresh I wouldn't be above slicing the backstraps out of them. The coyotes and buzzards can have the rest.

I have 2 high dollar sets of Motorola FRS/GMRS radios that we used to use while fishing/hunting/camping, they are basically line of sight. If there is a hill between you the usefulness goes to hell. If both of you are on hilltops or along a riverbed then 5-8 miles is doable. I still use them for the weather radio function.

I was tempted. But the keel reinforcement patchwork and the drive to the St.Louis area didn't appeal to me. Glad they got adopted to a good home. 👍

Where's everybody getting these mini fat bikes? Those are way cool. My 11 y/o won't ride, I've bought her 3 bikes so far (as she grew out of the previous one) and she has no desire to learn to ride....which bums me out. We unload them, good as new, at a yard sale every other year. The other kids love to ride. Who ever heard of a kid that doesn't want to ride a bicycle? Art, badminton, and swimming are her big things, that's all she ever wants to do. She wanted a skateboard for her birthday, got her a nice one, she spent 5 minutes with it, got spooked, and I bet she never touches it again. It'll be in the next yard sale. 🙄 I tried to ride it.....and Woah, there's a skill I've completely lost. Scary. If you're in your 50's and think you still have your $#!t together, just try getting on a skateboard. I dare you!

On the roads that Amish travel, you'll see these lines of horse turds that go on for 100 feet or more. Apparently they won't even let the animal stop to take a crap.....they gotta poop on the fly. It's like an obstacle course if you wanna keep the horse crap off your car. If you're driving a loaner though it's fun to see if you can squash all the road apples.

Well if you have more to say about snakes or bikes, let's hear it.

Rolling up sod, connecting trench, and hand digging holes for road boring. Moving dirt and busting up granite doesn't require much quality. 😅

We had a dude on our crew in Atlanta that was so strung out on crank that on some Mondays and Tuesdays he would walk around picking up and tasting tiny white rocks on the ground.....as if he thought dope just fell out of the sky everywhere. One day I asked him if he had EVER found rock just laying in the street. "Phuck yeeeeah boey, down by da bus station all da tiiiime". Freakin' weirdo! I wonder if that cat is still alive? He was a worker though, that dude could get stuff done!

We rode BMX and did some wicked jumps as a kid, nobody wore helmets for any of that, and it was extremely rad. Rode bikes to school with no helmets, nor busted heads. Then all of a sudden one day somebody decided that it was possible to get a head injury in a bicycle crash, or maybe someone somewhere actually did.....and now you're seen as an idiot of you don't wear a helmet. I honestly come closer to busting my head while mowing, moving boats around, or getting a beer out of the fridge, than I do while riding a bike. What I really need a helmet for is getting in and out of the middle kids 09 Dodge Avenger.

Dude.....like you freely cavort with sharks, stingrays, crap like that 🙄 GTFOH! 😂

I don't do helmets, pads, or gloves(unless it's jerseys when it's cold). But I do have to change underwear before a ride. Bikini Briefs are a no-no. I prefer cargo pants, boxers, and sturdy tennis shoes.

Whatever. "Sorry ma, I can't get to town today....Nellie has explosive diarrhea and is running a fever". Nobody can get anything done if they're dependant on malnourished critters.

Yep, when I really stop to think about it I'm afraid of alot of crap. I won't ride a horse. Not AFRAID of horses, I enjoy petting one on the nose. I just kinda feel like they don't necessarily WANT me sitting on their back....so why force the issue. I have my own legs so should use those instead of the horses legs. Only a jackass rides another animal. What kinda power tripping $#!t is that anyway? 🙄 People that ride other animals only do so because they are too stupid to build a machine to carry their lazy @$$. You don't see people strapping beavers to their canoes, and whipping them up a riffle !

I actually identify as the best looking, most sexy man alive. And I am severely oppressed and discriminated upon because women aren't fighting over who gets to grab my butt and give me head next.

If race doesn't matter then why are they even mentioning it? Nothing black about that woman, and if I was a black person I'd be offended ....but whatever 🙄 If boys can identify as girls, and girls identify as boys, then why not identify as black....if you want to. I don't think Mrs, Harris ever wanted to until now.

Orion snatched one of the campground reds while we were at Hidden Valley and ate that sucker, head, tail and all. Then of course he puked up the tail while everyone was eating, totally killing the women and children's appetite. 😅 Extra kabobs for the guys! 👍

I want to rig up a scabbard for my air rifle. Not sure what would be the best way to do it. Ideas?