jdmidwest

??? Where did you learn history. Patton was on the German Attack, invaded thru Italy and France.

I have been looking.

Is it a boat ramp to launch a boat or just a weir to sit and drink beer and make meth on?? I was tempted to run by last time in the area but was afraid of a big let down. I have not been out there since the draw down. I was still fighting the radiation and did not have the strength to do battle for the town hall meet.

My new favorite boat is a Bass Pro Panfish 17 with a 60/40 jet on it. Pulls easy. Open design. Semi v to cut waves. Easy on the gas, Merc 4 stroke. The only drawback is that some rivers and lakes require 25 hp or 10 hp. If those did not exist, the boat would be the only one needed for fishing. The jet is really the way to go for all around fishing. We run rivers, dodge stumps on Reelfoot, and took it up Normandy Lake a few weeks back to the river source and wet waded from there. It has plenty of power, runs faster than we normally need to go, trolls good, and is a good stable fishing platform. The stick steer helps retrieve lures that snag quick. Someone is always sitting where you can run the boat and fish at the same time.

I've seen it done, pretty simple. Warm it up and press to form.

The pic is from the game cam down by the bees. I was going thru the game cam pics last night when I posted, and saw the pic. Life is getting back to normal. 2 doctor appts a year does not eat up much of my vacation time. Medical bills will go back down. I can make plans more than a month at a time again.

Sometimes the Pitot tubes don't kick up. If you back them into a stump, they break at the mount and become worthless. Then you buy a replacement and it has a different bolt pattern, you give up because you don't want to drill more holes in a perfectly good boat and rely on your GPS. I use the GPS when trolling and it seems to work well at the 1-2 mph range.

2 years ago today, I finished a 6 week radiation treatment therapy that left me with a third less of my body weight and many sores. They promised a 90 percent chance of a cure. They consider the 2 year mark without any new tumors a success. Here I am, this hurdle is past and behind me. 3 more years and we can consider this done. I am out to 6 month cycles to the doctor. Life is good.

With the threat of CWD, my doctor buddy does not recommend eating deer. But the hunting needs to continue to lesson the threat of overpopulation. Deer have really exceeded the carrying capacity of most of the lands in MO. And population density is spreading the disease. We have manipulated the nature of things too much. Again....

I like the Lews spin reels. Best bang for money. Shimanos have been dropping like flies lately. I can get them in a few trips with what they put out for less than $75 bucks. But that Lews has been going strong this season.

It's still a rough fish. Invasive species. Good target for wanton waste...... Give me a drum any day, they hit a lure like a bass.

Not really.... A bass is a sport fish.

How can you cheat at killing roughfish?

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That white face sticks out like a sore thumb. Anyone could have spotter that one unless you were high on nail polish.

So, was it a game violation this time or trespassing?? Nobody seems to pay any attention to the op. Grey Bear had a run in with the agents and he has not fessed up to what they were looking for. Then someone got off on the 4 stroke thingy.

He he.

So when is your court date?

How big was your fine this time?

Who reads books anymore?

Forgot to try mine last time at Pickwick, was fishing Neko rigged Senkos that day. Need a pic with a big TN smallie on one. May toss one tomorrow on Spring River and try to stoke up a wally eye here.

But 4 strokes are quieter and smoke less........

I have been doing this since 2013. I had went from a single hive to a peak of 19 in a few years. Then the small hive beetle attack of 2016 wiped me out to 3 hives in a few months. The following spring, I had planned to start building numbers again. I had to put that off a year because of the second round of cancer and radiation that followed. The last year has been the best I have so far, wintering 9 out of 10 hives, only losing one. Beekeeping has become a game of how many can you keep going with all of the pest they have that bother them. Varroa mites, small hive beetles, wax moths, and pesticide losses are all new things that plague honey bees. I have been experimenting with new methods and think I have the pests under control so far.

I have split the hives at the farm and put the honey supers on. Later on in July, I will probably break those hives down all of the way and replace the queens and start them out fresh. They have been running on there own for the last few years, the comb is getting pretty old and who knows how old the queens are in the boxes. They have not produced much honey last year and it is time to change things up. A queen is normally only productive for a few years. At the other place, I have been nursing the 3 splits and getting ready for expansion. I went down to feed the splits on Monday and heard a buzzing noise. Noticed a few more bees in the air where there is not normally bees. One of my hives had swarmed, I had a clump of bees about the size of a coffee can on one of the trees at about waist height. Perfect, grabbed a nuc box and a bee brush, then sweeped the clump into the hive. Of course, that made several hundred bees to go airborne, but the queen dropped into the box perfectly and the rest joined her. I put the lid on the box and sit it beside the tree. The remaining bees started flying and walking into the box. Her pheremones were strong that day, I could smell her scent in the air. It was a strong fruity smell. The alarm smell reminds me of bananas, but this was different. That became hive 14. Today I added more honey supers to 3 hives. All of the hives here have younger queens and are stronger. The 2 I bought last year have different genetics than the ones I have been working with from the first and they have better characteristics. Calmer and more intent on making honey. Spring is looking fine for the bees. Too wet for anything else. Can't mow, till garden, or get alot of things done.

Therapy runs more than the tests if you look at the bills.