Phil Lilley

PROSSER, Wash. -- Apparently, even a dead snake can bite. A man said he was bitten by the decapitated head of a rattlesnake on his property near Prosser, Wash. Danny Anderson and his son saw the 5-foot rattler Monday evening while feeding horses.They pinned it with a pipe and cut off its head with a shovel. When Anderson reached down to pick it up, he said, the snake head twisted around and bit his index finger. In the 10 minutes it took to reach Prosser Memorial Hospital, the venom spread through his body and his tongue had already started to swell.He was treated with shots at the hospital. A state Fish and Wildlife Department biologist said it's possible the snake had the heat-sensing ability to make one last attack -- or it may have been a reflex.

Had an inquiree about Big River and placing it on the forum. Can someone tell me about it?

""""Stay at Lilly's Landing - we have free wireless internet"?""" We already do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5D6nex12PU

My son in law in Denver has the premium X-Box. Listening him tell me what all it does and will do makes my head spin... and I thought I was "up" on most things. But this thing DOES alot including manage movies, which you can download, games of course, TV and more. Probably keep your check book balanced. I'm not a gamer... I played the old video games along time ago but can't justify the time, nor can I play these new games. He has guitar hero which I did poorly at AND the new Tiger Woods PGA. Josh beat me bad- but I challenged him to get out oon a REAL course and he declined. I shot an 87 playing with Greg on Monday (only 2nd time out this year- not bad). Anyhow- anyone else own one of these?

Ever shopped at Micro Center? Denver had one. I've never been in a computer store you could literally buy all the components for any computer, plus tons of other pieces and parts. I picked up a web cam- a Swann Maxi Day/Night Cam for $129.99. And a KWorld DVD Maker which is a video interface for video into a PC. I've been trying to figure out the best way to connect a camera to a PC without cards- cause I don't have enough space for the cameras I need. I'll have to figure out an adaptor for the camera to the PC- shouldn't be too hard. May have it up and running by the weekend... we'll see. Still have the software problem on my main PC with the webcam program- will have to try another box for it. Problem is the extra box has windows 2000 on it which some software programs don't like. Too many varibles. But I'm working on it.

I honestly am thinking about changing to a MAC. My new son-in-law is a MAC-man... my old buddy Greg in Denver just converted and is glad he did. I work with graphic alot and video some and I know the MAC is supperior in both. It'll be an expensive transision if I do- have to do alittle at a time. What say you?

They didn't tear the engine down- no reason to really except to find out what happened. They may call me at some point if they have time to. Yes- 24k miles. It ran fine coming home. Got 2 mpg better gas mileage than the old one.

Never will know... picked up the van and it runs fine. Heading home in the am. yeah!

Sorry Michael I didn't post this in the article section before- went ahead and posted it so it's there for everyone to learn from. If you have anymore you want me to post in the way of articles, let me know and I'll take care of it. Phil

About a dozen times a year, we host some kind of dinner and I put on the chicken and beans. It's so easy and everybody raves about it- thus the reason I fix it so often. First I used an electric smoker. Get one at Wal Mart, Lowes or Bass Pro- a Brinkman. No settings to mess with- just plug it in and go. I can fix up to 6 full chickens in one smoker- I have two smokers. After washing the birds, I pack them in the smoker, load it with soaked hickory or applewood chips and water in the pan. It I get adventurous, I load the pan with mushrooms too. Before I put the chickens on, I cover them with lemon pepper and season salt. First the pepper cause it doesn't stick if I put it on first. I don't spare any part of the bird nor do I spare any spice. They're covered as thick as possible. This insures the spices get cooked into the meat. Time- about 3.25 hours for up to 4 birds, 4 hours for 5-6 birds. You can over dook and dry them out so be careful. The mushrooms come off at the same time. Beans- I use Bush Baked Beans, usually plain, not with bacon. I put in canned Jalapeños with juice in the mix, about 8 ounes per large can. You can put in more or less depending on your taste. I cook them in a crock pot for 8-10 hours before serving at low temps (150-175 degrees). You can overcook these too if you try to cook them too hot too fast. There- see not fancy at all. But when I serve it up, people rave about it and think it's something complicated. It's so easy a caveman could do it... if he had a smoker.

Back in the late 70's, I organized a club called the Christian Concert Club where people paid a membership fee annually and we brought groups to town for concerts. We brought in Tim Shephard, Paul Clark and a few others before I left the area. While I was over Greg's house, he shared with us a video of alot of the old pioneers of Christian Music of the early 70's - here's the tapes: http://www.amazon.com/First-Love-HIstoric-...s/dp/B000AS1Q3W I've ordered it. We only got to listen to a couple of the artist. Brought back alot of good memories. I met Chuck Girard in the 80's and have emailed him a few times since. Would love to have him out for a concert but it's alittle pricey cause he's in CA, although he doesn't charge much, travel expenses would be high. I also know Phil Keaggy- I think he's still in Nashville but I haven't seen him in over 20 years.

Wishful thinking... I haven't followed them as well as years past. They still have some great players with playoff experience. Going to a game on the 22nd... winning or not, they're fun to watch.

Does that mean a new engine or can it be fixed?

It's a 3.3 L The shop in Estes said it was locked... and they don't do motors. The dealer here in Denver said the same thing. They're supposed to check out the old engine for me and John cause everyone wants to know what happened. The new engine is from a salvage- only 24k miles. So we'll be keeping this one for awhile.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?view...b40cf5a13cea6ca

Greg Thompson, a pastor here in Denver, always turns me on to new Christian artist when I come to visit. This group lives here in the area and some of the band goes to his church. http://foolishthings.com They have a good sound. So many groups sound the same now a days- even secular groups. It's nice to hear something alittle different- and they do. Enjoy.

That's what the dealer and their engine specialist said. We had just climbed a one lane road to the top of a summit in Rocky Mtn National Park- to the Alpine Visitor's Center, the highest paved road in North America, so they say. The van did fine- no problems. We stopped and went to the center, bathroom breaks and all. It had started to rain and it was foggy, about 45 degrees. I had all my people in my van and we were waiting on the others to get going down the mtn. I had the motor running, heater fan on. Then when I went to go, the engine had died and I didn't know it. No lights, no clanging, just stopped. Tried to start it- nothing, just a click. We spent the next hour eliminating things that could be wrong. The battery was fine, fuses, belts, no vapor lock... just would turn over. Starter? We thought that was it. Got towed a couple of hours later. The people at the shop said the motor was locked up tight. We'd just had the oil changed before we left- the oil level was fine- so was the coolant and water. I'm hoping to fine out what made the engine seize. It had 115,000 miles. The dealer, good friend John Johnson of Kingfisher, OK, said the engine should go over 200,000 miles, seeing how we used it and took care of it. Thoughts?

I've had some time today to do some work on the forum. I've combined some rivers and taken a couple of lakes off because of lack of traffic. No biggie... But I've been doing alot of thinking about the community we've created here on OAF... there's been topics brought up here on the General Discussion Forum that are way outside of fishing. So I thought I may as well expand the field of subjects on the forum... instead of creating a whole new forum dealing with other topics. They are located at the bottom of the page under two headings- Ozarks' Community and Our Hobbies. OAF has brought together a unique group of people. Many friendships have been created and more will be in the future. I believe we all have skills and tallents that we can share with one another here. This is just another avenue to share with each other. Enjoy!

May do that... thanks! Golfed today with a guy I grew up with, Greg Thompson. He's a pastor of a Vineyard Church here. Marsha and I have a free day tomorrow. May go exploring. Head back Thursday. Sure if nice out here but there's no place like home! Even though it's HOT and HUMID there and it's only HOT here (dry).

Funny that you brought this up... I was in Bass Pro here in Denver the other day and was looking at their flies. The cracklebacks were tied on a 200R hook, not a 100 or another dry fly hook. I thought all BP stores ordered from the same lot but I don't remember the MO stores making this mistake... and I do call it a mistake. This crackleback would ride as well on the surface and would act differently when retreiving. The fly shop in Estes Park (Kirk's) recommended a fly that was tied exactly like a crackleback but it wasn't called a crackleback. I bought 6 just because the gal said they'd work and they did. They had a light hackle and fl red bodies, #18. Lots of variations and names in the fly world. Who's right? Everyone and no one. ??

Sounds like we got a good rain... thanks for the report!!

No fishing yesterday. Friday we hiked starting at the Bear Lake Trail Head and hiked to Dream Lake where we caught some green back cutts. Caleb, Marsha, Josh and Jimmy all caught fish. Most on elk hair caddis. Saw a huge mayfly hatch and fly right in front of us, got an inch off the water and a trout jumped and ate it. Great sight- told the boys they wouldn't see that again in their lifetime... it was so close and clear. Marsha and I are staying in Denver will Thursday now... waiting on our van to be fixed. New motor. Our daughter and son-in-law Josh live there as well as a old friend who pastors a church so we have plenty to do and see with them. Maybe somemore fishing!!

Well... yesterday our van broke down in the parking lot at the visitor's center on top of the mountain in the park. 3 hours later, we were heading down in a tow truck. We found out today the engine seized up. Glad it was in the parking lot and not on the narrow pass we drove up to get there!!! Renting a car tomorrow. All is well! The van put a damper on fishing any streams or lakes in the park. Did fish Lilly again today. Caught one green back cutt on a elk hair caddis again. It was pretty windy. Going to try the park again on Friday.

The people at one of the fly shops in town pointed out the Marrain, Glass and Loch and they're on our list... but there's 17 of us and I'm the only fly fisher but everyone wants to hike so I have a chance a one or two. I bought a map so I'm good. I wasn't sure about Lilly Lake... wasn't sure if there was very many fish there but now I'll pay more attention. I didn't bring waders- thought I'd just wet wade everywhere- so I was on the bank today. When we hike, I'll take wading boots and wet wade the small streams anad beaver spillovers. I'm looking forward to that! Hopefully we'll haave some great pics for everyone. Thanks!