jdmidwest

Giving him crap about something is easy enough.

Nice catch. I dealt with numbnuts all day and looking at rain for my 3 day weekend. Yeah.....

He does have a point about that MGD, you need to try it sometime.

I saw that advertised and thought it looked good. My buddy is at Warsaw this week, but I was cleaning up flood damage at the farm. I thought a fly fishing expo in that area kinda of odd, normally you see that in the heart of trout country. Most associate fly fishing with cold waters.

You put soft plastics together in tackle box, they start degraded in one lump of goo. Zman melted a seat cover on a boat in a few minutes

Friend sent this of hatchery from road

Mine were just popping up, gonna let them grow some

Made it into farm today after 8" of rain. Bridge held up, not a "RECORD" flood this time. Had to cut off rootwad. Finish the job next weekend, hopefully not sleeting then...

https://www.imbodenlive.com/2025/04/05/flood-damage-at-mammoth-spring/ I am hearing the hatchery was flooded, road going into it washed out, boat ramp gone. Good thing that train was empty.

Is that the Playboy Bunny? Loosing track on the women here.

Come over my way if you need a shot of water or 2. NWS is calling for Historical Flooding here, 12" possible before it moves out Sat. nite. We are at about 2" before the deluge started a few hours ago. MSHP moved water rescue units to Poplar Bluff today to rescue the ones that need it. I pulled jet boat and truck off farm Tuesday Night and put my 4 Runner back there in case it blows the bridge out. I can bushwhack out the back for a while if I need to.

Sounds like you may have found a keeper. My chemo guy was such a prick, plus or minus 5% that his poison would even do anything other than guarantee me to be even sicker, get long term neuropathy in my extremeties, and other lasting side effects. All of which he laid out on that visit. I looked at him square in the eye and said " I pass ". That arrogant prick said " don't worry. you will need me later then". That was 8 years ago. The rest of my team did the radiation and got the job done. You will find doctors that are there for the money, some are there for the ego trip, and some are there to help.

Is that the evil X wife?

Looks like my old 9.5 hp I had on first boat. Co worker still runs it.

Fugifilms 35mm? Back in the day when you had to adjust the f stop and speed, adjust the exposure.... I was just looking at a video I shot off my Samsung S21 a few weeks back in the jet boat. Miles above what I used to do with the old beta max.

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.