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0.3" over 3 days hasn't caused any run off/flooding here at the farm, and it looks like the next 3 days has about 50-60% chance of getting another 1/2", Elk went over 100CFS this morning (~200CFS normal) and L.Sugar is up to ~45CFS from ~30, when normal is ~65CFS. I don't think the county burn ban is has been rescinded yet either.

So far, that forecast has been a bust; we got one lightning flash and three claps of thunder, even though the radar showed it raining hard here, it totals about .3 over the last 3 days.

yes!!! Actually, we got a welcome rain Wednesday night, ~2" and that was the first measurable rain here in about three (or four?) months. Somehow the past showers have forked around our place. Our last good rain may have been the spring floods. Elk R. is at ~93CFS now after a spell of ~65 or so. Biologist said it's been too low all summer to run a shocking inventory on. So, yeah another shower will be nice.

I always knew that gray fox could climb trees, but had ever realized how well until a number of years ago; on a trapping forum one of the members had been photographing bald eagles and in editing a photo of an eagle perched in a large tree discovered that just a few feet below the eagle was a gray fox asleep on a large limb. It must have been 30'-40' off the ground and looked comfortable there. My guess is that ability to climb is why they do better with coyotes than red fox do. Aided in climbing by their claws that are curved and I have read semi-retractable. I've also read that they can rotate their forearms to aid in climbing limbless tree trunks up to 50'.

Neither of those are mandated by the government. The whole world could operate very well on Zulu Time. Actually they did that in about half or two thirds of businesses when I was kid. But the Congressmen wanted to play golf after work and found it two much trouble to change session times when hired people could just reset the clocks. I recall though that one town near the Or/Id border had four times in use during the summer; MST, MDT, PST & PDT because the time zone line bisected the town. In construction we always started at 0630 or 0700 and season didn't matter that much as we were often using lights at both ends of the day. So if the DST has an advantage as you think, why not retain it year 'round? It would be impossible to calculate, but given several time pieces per person and dozens to hundreds in businesses and schools, I'd not be surprised if each seasonal change cost a $billion or three. Throw in the missed appointments by the million people that missed the bulletin and you have another few $billion.

No you can't. Nothing can be more pointless and at the same time more irksome.

But you know that there will be just as many daylight minutes regardless of the clock setting. Changing clocks seasonally is the silliest thing modern man does.

Not so sure about that, as I can think of several instances of bridges built adjacent to existing bridges and the roads being moved to the new bridge after completion. The location being at "Fishtrap Ford" implies there was an existing road nearby the proposed bridge, even if it was a narrow dirt road, as named fords only occurred where roads existed. I can even think of one place where the road bed for a US highway and bridge approaches was completed ~40-50 years ago and the bridge was never built, nor the road built. Elections change those kind of plans. And 1929 was the beginning of a decade of the "Great Depression" which along with the "Great Wars" gave my folks generation the moniker of "greatest generation". I think it's remarkable that they found funding to improve/build the road approaches in 1934, which was not only the middle of the depression but also the beginning of he dust bowl years.

Well it was poorly designed, it collapsed in the first major flood, and the inflation would bring the cost to ~$444,090 in today's money for a bridge on a dirt road; so not much has changed. I remember seeing that broken bridge the summer before the dam was built, and hearing the story. Mom's cousin took us down there for a day of touring the river from there to War Eagle for the last time. A long hot day over mostly gravel roads, must have been ~125-150 miles round trip, very scenic and lots of stops for pictures and rock collection as she was an amateur geologist and avid rockhound. I liked that river valley better as it was then than as it is now.

I couldn't stand being confined to a boat for half a day. So, my advise is to do what your friend will enjoy most, ask the guy, if he's not able to choose, skip the fishing trip. If his dementia is so advanced that he can't tell you what he'd like to do, then he probably won't enjoy doing it. Or remember doing afterwards.

Given that the ~80A next to me just sold for ~12 times what I could have bought it for 30 years ago, I'm not surprised at that price for the location, structures and business. $$$ just ain't worth much these days.

I've probably caught more stream bass on my fly rod than I have trout especially over the past 30 years, before that there weren't many stream bass where I lived. I know I've caught all my large smallmouth on flies. I prefer the fly rod for a few reasons, not least because I'm far too lazy to use a reel that has to be cranked on every cast. But then I know that some folks like to increase the difficulty of any undertaking, I got whupped enough times as a kid for doing things the easy way to ever forget that.

He lives near me and his mom taught my kids in school, long time ago. I used to stop into his shop a lot before the wind took it down. But, haven't seen him for a few years, I keep thinking I'll stop up there for a shoot, but then Sunday comes and I forget.

Doug is nice guy. Didn't realize he'd gotten so famous or so old looking.

Transitions are the sunglasses (photochromic lenses) that lighten up indoors and turn dark in bright sun. My son in law always buys those and they quit working after a few months.

Boil them longer, about an hour in they get softer.

I could not wear trifocals with the image jumps. I've had cataracts almost as long as I've needed glasses, I think it was about ten years after diagnosis until the doc suggested surgery and that about three years ago. There hasn't been much change over that three years either. They don't hurt and really only bother me with glare, which polarization helps, night time driving if the oncoming cars have LEDs and slightly lower degree of color vision.

The key to progressives is to move your head, rather than your eyeballs; and to wear them every waking moment. They suit me much better than bifocals when climbing ladders or creek banks because with bifocals I always misjudge the step down distance and get hurt. but that first couple weeks had me getting seasick from watching a cashier counting back money or looking at trees beside the road as I drove, simply because my eyeballs kept zipping back and forth through the varying powers. 14-15 years now, with both and I still fall down when wearing bifocals unless I think about each step.

If you don't need prescriptions for distance, these are pretty affordable and to be honest worked just as well as my prescription polarized bifocals that cost more money. Until age made me need stronger, and distance correction too. I like the amber. Available in +1.50, +2.00, +2.50 in the magnifier part. https://renegadeeyegear.com/mike-"ike"-iaconelli/ols/categories/renegade-polarized-bi-focals (scroll down) Also on Amazon and can sometimes be found at Walmart.

I've worn progressive lenses for years, with a couple of bifocals interspersed, but, the ready readers work best for me in those hard to see areas. I knew a guy years ago that that had "upside down" bifocals made for doing auto mechanic work under the hood.

Barnacles? I thought they were strictly salt water critters?

Yep, every single stream was sampled in 1874 and all those specimens are still usable. I get it.

From small streams in Co.? It's not the species identification that makes it native but the species being identified on a particular location prior to any restocking.

I don't think this is bad thing, and it might work. The damage was done when the CPW introduced the brook trout long time ago. And I don't believe that they can restore the "native" species anyway, because they never did DNA studies on what was native back in the 19th century and by the time they figured out that natives were "good" in the 21st century, they had juggled species here and there and stocked mixed or subspecies in so many places and with such poor record keeping that it is just guesswork to say that this species or that species is the true native in this stream. It might be cheaper to rotenone the streams and then stock the chosen "native" exclusively, but this is an interesting approach. Wonder if it would work with carp? or snakeheads?

Oct 1 report on Sept 27? time travel?