Terrierman

First world problems. God bless us.

Glad you good people all had a good time. SWMO is a fine place to live.

No point in getting all fretted up about things that you don't control.

Good trip. Next time just say yeah, it's a pretty tight spot and he snores really bad.

Its a good thing there was a follow up post to this or somebody might have called shenanigans.

There are wake boats and thunder boats on Stockton too. People have different ideas about what's fun. It's great that we have so many opportunities. I wish my neighbors didn't like those noisy four wheelers but guess what. Not my call.

Net monkey is growing.

They're in a fence row. I mow right up to them. Stickers are enough, no need to add chiggers and ticks.

I have seldom seen blackberries loaded on the vine like this year. They are not huge, but they are LOADED. Just now getting red. So it will be a few days.

I cook on a Komado Joe all the time. Not a junior. Precise temp on the one I have. For a long time,

I grew up in Nevada. Fished a few strip pits along the way. Rich Hill has good blue gill fishing too.

Probably Saturday. We've got crappie and a few walleye and white bass too. Actually kind of enjoyed it - the no time pressure helps and so did the new knife. Set up a nice high table in the shade, got out the hose and went to town. Honest to gosh about halfway through I took a break and put the knife in the freezer.

There were some humpies in there but nothing like that copper nose you took a picture of.

We put somewhere around a hundred nice bluegill in the boat today. Slow start but it got better about 4:00. Found them close to the bottom in 12 to 20 feet of water where there was shade and around docks. Crickets and a piece of night crawler. Long Creek around Big Cedar but it should work anywhere. I'll be tired of cleaning fish by the time that job is done.

My beloved grandmother always served strawberry short cake with a layer of berries and juice first, split the cake and put a layer of berries and juice in the middle, with the top of the cake also spread with berries and juice. Then came half and half or in my really younger days, cream from the top of the jar. Short cake is definitely best wet. With the crunchy bits to remind you what a good cook she was.

Only if the hook, head shape, weed guard and (kind of) paint matter to you.

effin Chopin.

Jameson rocks, It's always Friday night when retired,

Love the UK. Great trip.

OK. So I went to play golf today for the second time in 35 years. Going to walk nine by myself. But there's this old man in the pro shop and he asks me if we can play together. He had a US Navy WWII hat on. I said sure, so we got things going. Turns out the guy is 93 NINETY THREE years old. Served on an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific for the duration of the war. Chief Aircraft Mechanic. He was on the USS Manila Bay. At the end of the war the Manila Bay was among the first ships to sail into Tokyo Harbor. Their job was to "make darn sure those japs didn't fly anymore - and they didn't!" Told him I was USMC and that was all it took. We are now friends from now on. What a day. Had to remind him several times what direction to hit the ball and that we were playing golf not just hunting lost golf balls. His favorite saying was "I hit the ball, and if I can find it, I hit it again" How lucky can one guy get?

How long do you guys brine? I'm thinking for a 12 or 14 pound ham two days. Rubbed, garlic and so on and resting a day then cook. It's going to be a process!

I'm going to go whole hog on the first cook. Brine - sweet and salty, rub (partial to Byron's Butt Rub), insert garlic but never cloves in fresh ham, let it rest a day or so in the fridge and then put it on the egg low and slow over a pan of water with an apple sliced up in it, a fair bit of thyme, some rosemary and sage. My only issue now is whether to go with Hickory or Cherry to supplement charcoal. I'm thinking of treating it like I do brisket, 12 hours open, then another 8 in foil with au jus.

I frequented a fish house near Jefferson City years ago. Top of the menu was buffalo ribs, fries and sweet / sour cole slaw. And beer. Lots of beer. They fished the Missouri with hoop nets. Good times.

How did you prepare it?

Pre-bait a hole with feed corn that has soaked a week or so and gotten sour. Bait the hole three days in a row before you fish. Save a little of the sour corn for bait. Four or five kernels on a hook. Your arm will get tired.