jdmidwest

Brave man, I don't drop my shields until the bees are far away.

It's a niche market. Most beekeepers extract the honey and use the comb again. It is an expensive way to make honey when you make comb honey. But I have seen those little dribbles at Harp's, I toss about $100 of those dribbles on the ground when I work hives and scrape off comb that they have stuffed in cracks and between frames. Bees clean it up and put it back where it should be.

Just about the right size. We would butcher a feeder pig on occasion growing up about that size if something crippled one before we hauled them off. Those little pork chops would melt in your mouth.

Funny little Pic from today. Tornado air pressure change popped the caps off pipe bollards but did not take them. It touched down on hillside behind this building in Poplar Bluff

Funny, I was thinking about how the Dustbowl Sucked too. SEMO today in New Madrid area. Been choking on sand and dust all afternoon to come home to idiot cable crew that could not read dig right markers and cut water lines again. Second time this month. Power flickering from ice storm lines that are still weak. Going to Poplar Bluff tomorrow to survey more tornado damage.

Maybe they wanted you to go out and release the valve and help out... We drove to the upper Current River one year on a day like this. Drove down to Parker Access to Trout Fish. Wind blowing all day, had to cut a tree to get out with a handsaw in the truck. Driving back enjoying a beverage, we noticed a glow, the Great Fire of Council Bluff. Took a side road and enjoyed some more beverages while watching the fire jump from pine tree to pine tree. It was a sight to behold, my first up close wild fire. We piddled around long enough and it was getting late. Hwy 32 was opened, but there was still embers and stuff burning away, we hopped out to relieve ourselves and get ourselves smokey. Had a good story for the wives to explain our lateness. "We were fighting a forest fire".

Ruger makes some top notch stuff at a working man price. My first rifle was a 10/22, I own about a dozen of them now and kids or grandkids get them as first guns. Many Ruger pistols, Single Sixes, Marks, Wranglers, American 45 and Security 9's, and a Blackhawk, A Ruger American .17 hmr. I have always wanted a Red Label Shotgun or a nice Ruger No.1 single shot... Just never had one hit me at the right moment.

Sitting at farm on generator tonite. Long path out of Van Buren did a touchdown again 1/2 mile down road. Totalled a house and went off into MDC land. Crossed and hit campground on Castor. Poplar Bluff whacked pretty good. Clearwater Lake area under curfew tonite from damage there. I had some quarter size hail, no damage on farm. Power will be off a few days.

They clear cut a section of the Little Frederick off the 11pt many years ago. The creek ran dry in the area that we used to catch nice fish. Losing streams get clogged in the outlet or the inlet and parts run dry for years. There is some flow again there now.

When I am tired and broke down after a day of fishing, I tend to fillet like you did. But when I wake up and have alot of fish, I can tilt the knife a little and avoid that extra step. Nice white fillets with no red lines. I use one of those green electric ones. And cut the red off like you did with knife. But that extra step is a PITA. We hammered them down in TN at Satillo Saturday. Probably caught 65 in 4 hours. Limited out in an hour, back to ramp and iced them down. Went after Sauger and played with boat running knife edge up a crooked creek for a while resting our arms. Then back to mouth of creek to hit sauger with jigs, started catching more white bass. Finished day off with phrase, next fish we catch that is not a double, we go home. I caught one, buddy did not. Flicker shads in chrome finish.

Get out of bed and enjoy this wonderful spring. The good Lord made doctors too and give them the knowledge to heal like the Herbalist. I have possibly witnessed the miracle of Ivermectin curing a Stage 4 Prostate Cancer, or maybe it was the Chemo along side of it. Its a tough decision, hope it works well for you. Above all, keep up the faith and trust your instincts. It has kept you going so far over many obstacles

But my local County Highway Department has been permitted to mine gravel out of my creek at several locations. They have applied for the Corps permits and met the requirements of the Dept of Nat. Resources. We have never received monetary benefits from it. It just pools up where the current slows down. Gravel mining in some locations is not bad, it offsets the poor land management from others upstream that allow the runoff to come down stream and settle. A nice buffer zone from fields and pastures to the creek with trees and other land holding structures are needed in all waterways. Clear cuts on hillsides seem to cause the most issues with gravel in streams, disturbing the delicate cover of the thin soils in the Ozarks..

Planted Raised Beds today with lettuce, spinach, and sweet snow peas. Cleaned out asparagus bed and put some fertilize on. 75 here and bees are flying. Looks like early spring. May till some of the garden this weekend if it does not rain much and plant some taters and onions

I looked at one of those when I was hitting Alaska in 44 mag. All I could think about was my fingers going numb after a sesson with my 6" 686 357 mag with full power 158 gr hollow points. But they feel great and handle well, probably could squirt a few round out on target before I give up......

I was thinking Handicap, but I have slept since then. Turkey Bluff came to mind too. I did get some bait guys caught from Fish and Game there one time possessing more than a limit from a Catch and Release area. Bag phones came in handy then.