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Busy week at the farm this week. Dad walked out of the basement into the carport to feed, came back thru 20 minutes later to find a 3' rattler coiled up by the door to one side. He may have passed by it by either feet or inches. The day before, 3 grown rabbits were found dead in the rabbit pen. 1 more had a swollen jaw, another a swollen hind leg. I am thinking a rattler was working around the pen, the 2 that survived had received dry strikes. 2 years ago, there were 5 rattlesnakes caught in the same pen, its an open pen of about a half acre surrounded by chicken wire mesh. One had his head stuck in the wire, the others had made it in. Today, after working my bees, I was stacking excess hive components from 2 hives that had died into an storage area. I just happened to look up on a shelf and saw a nice little 2' copperhead coiled up and looking at me in the eye a few feet away. This summer has been a wet one, and the farm is greener than I have ever saw it in July. But, after the rattler, Dad has been bushhoggin, weedeating, and spraying roundup like crazy.

Its nice to see someone refer to a lawman as being a nice man for a change.

Trying out Edge tonight on the forum. Looks like it is working well. For some reason it would not let me import my Firefox Bookmarks. It is kinda choppy and slow. Of course, nothing in cache, so it is loading each page for first time.

I would not worry much about bugs or ants from the garden. There is dirt there now, a cultivated garden creates less ants. I doubt if taters would do anything. They are usually planted early in the spring. I have never done them for a fall garden. I doubt if you could find any with eyes to plant now either.

It is a pretty good place to create a few family memories and see some friends.

Bullheads are fun. There was a farmer when I was growing up that had a pond full of them. I yanked many out of it, some up to 2 lbs. Their meat has a different texture than channel cat, I really like it better. Bullheads are something I hardly ever catch, can't remember the last one. It may have been in my college years bank fishing the river.

So far I have seen some older apps work better on 10 than 7. I have not really full blown installed any of my software on it until the final release. I did run into an issue with my Blackberry Link not wanting to run on it. But I noticed today they came out with a new version, so I am going to try it tonight. Install it on a partition and do a dual boot like I am. Then you can play with your software and see how it reacts. If all works well for me, I will probably wipe the whole drive an just run 10 on my laptop. It looks like my insider trial may have given me an upgrade from 7 home to 10 pro, a little bonus.

I read that the anglers are pounding the goggle eyes to compensate for the lack of take home smallmouth bass. Am I reading that story right?

I entered the Windows 10 Insider Preview Program back in Oct. of last year. I installed the very raw version of it then on a partition of my laptop and started testing. I never was a fan of 8 and never bothered to upgrade my versions of Win 7 to it. But, the insider program stated from the start, they would upgrade both versions for free. The builds have been coming monthly and I have enjoyed it, watching the software progress thru its stages. I had not been involved with anything like it since XP in its development stages. Tonight I am on the final build that should be released to the public next week on the 29th. You may have noticed an upgrade icon on the notification bar if you are running Win 8.1, Win 8, or Win 7. It will be free if you want it, but unless you know what you are doing, wait a while. I have been running Firefox to view the forum all thru the testing. I have not used the new Native Browser called Edge that will replace Internet Explorer, so I can't tell you what that will do. But everything else seems to work well. Other than a glitch I just noticed about a rotated pic I posted, the preview showed it aligned correctly. I like the new menus and layout. It seems to be pretty lean and fast. The system requirements are not any more than the previous 2 operating systems. That is mainly because it is designed for tablets, pc's, and phones.

I have no idea why that pic rotated, it was straight in preview.

They will probably be alright, there are about 30 thousand or more in a typical hive. They can loose a few hundred and not miss any. Here is a pic of the daily flyers hanging out on a hot afternoon, the hive is still pretty full of bees.

Now the skinhead was probably there to sell dope to the methhead. Both were packing and probably felons, batman should have called the law or checked them out. The others just sat back and watched.

If anything it was probably hornets, they can work bees over pretty good. Their jaws are large and can rip bees up pretty good. Yellow jackets are smaller than honey bees and they can handle them pretty well. Did you actually see the activity around the opening? Bees carry out their dead and dying, they could have just been cleaning. Jaybirds will eat the butt portion and leave heads and wings also. They crave the sweet honey in their honey stomach.

Unless someone threatens someones life, they should all walk out alive. You say nothing about any of them doing anything threatening. But if any of them are drinking, they may be breaking the law if they reach intoxication.

So do you know all of the police officers in all of the towns you visit? They open carry and they are total strangers. Even though they are trained in the basics, alot of them do not care about the gun they carry. They probably know very little about its safety and handling. And if you see someone openly carry, how do you know that they are not Law Enforcement, off duty. I don't think they have to display a badge when they are off duty.

Have you got any size 14 nymph hooks?

Yep. 74 and still a pretty face. http://dawnwells.com/#/front_slider_ken_burns/image3 Ginger, I don't know. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001481/

They won't last long around a river.

Tough one. I outgrew float tubes in my teenage years. I need something that packs more gear, esp for 10 hours. Rent a canoe or kayak and be more comfortable.

Then you have guys like this. From a foreign country and packing fully auto. I wonder how he passed his Class 3 background check. Sad day for some military families greiving for dead soldiers killed when they should have been in a safe zone. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/us-usa-shooting-tennessee-idUSKCN0PQ1WY20150717?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

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Evil Spirits abound near them, beware. Wooooooo

What is it about owning a pistol that scares everyone? I shoot pistols most of all. I sight in rifles and use them when I need them, shotguns are fired when bird hunting, but pistols are for fun and other stuff. I have carried a pistol around since before I could drive and practice enough to do well with it.

Watch out, if she knows where you keep the calf tails, she knows where everything else is stashed...

So, simply owning a gun makes someone a "gun nut"? Not owning a gun makes you a sheep, baaaa.