jdmidwest

Baptist was always marginal access water for a canoe anyway. There is no need for a large access there. Canoe floats should start at Cedar anyway unless you want to fish.

That should apply there. And the sensitive nature of the area, Ozark Natural Scenic Riverway, and other factors should mandate it. But, if you look at the pics, they are not disturbing soil, just gravel and concrete. Instream gravel permits are a dime a dozen and do not require any barriers as long as they stay away from water.

I used to paint with oils as a kid, but I was allergic to the turpentine. I actually used a different type of thinner that worked well, but can't remember what it was. I never really liked acrylics, could not get them to blend well and they dry to quick. Oil paint lets you take your time to get the right effect. Or scrape it off and reuse the canvas.

Over a year since I had a dip. I came home that night from the ER and tossed a partial can I had in the house. That was a year ago Friday. But, my cancer doc said that was not what was to blame in his opinion. It would have been in Jaw/gums normally from that. My cousin is going thru almost same thing, they blame prior cigarette smoking on it, not his current dipping. His was located at base of tongue in windpipe.

Mitch, that was the PET Test. You fast for 24 hours prior to the test, lowering the blood sugar in your body. They inject a radioactive glucose IV into the bloodstream that has a certain half life that shows up on the scanner. Cancer cells take in glucose faster than normal cells so they glow when scanned by something like a CT Scanner, aka the PET machine. Been there, done that. Then passed out on the chair when doc explained the surgery from low blood sugar, nerves, and lack of sleep worrying, That happened a year ago next Wed. I got lucky, PET only showed the basal tumor, with no spread. Sorry about your Mom, cancer is an evil creature that needs to be eradicated from this earth. But sugar, like anything else in excess, is bad for your body. Nature does not offer many food sources naturally that have the amounts of sugar we consume in our daily diets. And our sugar comes from so many processed sources that could hardly be construed as natural. That in itself complicates it even more. The world we have created has brought on our health problems. God only knows what caused mine. I often wonder it it could be a cell phone that caused mine. Cancer is showing up in so many more people today than I ever saw when I was younger. Look at the things we use in our everyday lives.

You can't live forever. But I am enjoying my extra period. A year ago Friday, I was diagnosed with cancer. Surgery was on Nov. 22. to take it out. I still have to wonder if it will come back since there was no direct cause attributed to the cancer I had. I really can't "Stop" doing anything to keep it from happening again. Just have to keep an eye on myself and watch out for anything new.

I was up there for last day in the park yesterday. Did not make it to Baptist, but the construction at the lower end of the park around the lagoons has started. KCI construction had silt barriers up around all of their perimeter. Fishing sucked.

He has been thru two rounds of chemo now and tumor has started shrinking. 7 more then radiation.

I would think they have barriers up to keep that from happening.

All that money spent a few years ago damaged by poor engineering. Now its getting tore out and replaced. I wonder how this one will hold up to the stream?

My buddy dropped a Magellan GPS unit out of the duck blind one morning. When he retrieved it some time later that morning, the waterproofness had failed. I think it was rated for 1 meter and 30 minutes. It was about 4 foot deep and sit there for a few hours. Of course, it was on and running when he dropped it in, so it fried when water leaked in.

I have one hanging on my mantle with my banded mallard duck foot, Bought it at an estate auction for $3 10 years ago. Are they worth any money? Its just hanging there with a Herter Deer call and another Herter Duck call. I have one of the OLT A 50 Goose calls, I like the sound of it.

There are several types of waterproof. Fishfinders are waterproof against a driving rain. I don't know if they test for submersion or depth submersion. Depends on what the rating is.

He is a good kid, from a good family. Funny thing, at the wedding, I knew most of his extended family and never realized it till that night when they showed up. It is a really small world when you have been dealing with the public all of your life. If he does not hunt or fish with us, I will still have more time to spend with her. I am sure I can find something to do with him. He likes outdoors, riding ATV, four wheeling, mud races, guns, camping, etc. I think we can bring him around some.

Thanks. It did not really hit me until later last week. I realized, for the first time in over 21 years, I did not have a kid to be responsible for. She is all his now. I think she will mold him up right. He is going to come to the farm and hunt deer with us this season. I think I will pawn him off on Dad, let them sit in a blind and bond while I hunt with the Daughter. Maybe he will warm up to me sometime. If not, I will still have time to spend with her.

This is what I had to give up a weekend for last weekend. I had to give this critter away to a poor soul that does not hunt or fish. She has her hands full training him. He is still skittish around me, but a pretty good guy. My photographer got some good full moon pics later that night. My baby girl got hitched.

He is coming along fine. My daughter had more patience at his age. Boys are a whole different ball of wax to mold. He would rather toss all the sticks off the trail than sit back and watch for game.

I had a weekend with nothing really planned, except to kill a few squirrels for the pot and get ready for deer season. Sat. morning dawned fine and cool with a nice little coating of frost. Squirrels were sleeping late, action did not pick up till later in the morning. Deer were active, at least the does and fawns. I counted 12 on the farm, they were active throughout the day. But, no bucks chasing. I had deer all around me despite the plucking off of a squirrel now and then. 10 squirrels in hand by 10 am was a good morning. I checked the game cams placed around the farm that had been out for several weeks. Then it was time to put the bees to bed for the winter. I did my last inspections, put away another hive that failed this fall, and declared the last 3 fit to survive the winter. Sighted in 3 rifles that needed attention. Sunday came and the grandson had been pestering me to go hunting. At age 7, his patience and concentration is just beginning to reach the stage where I thought we may have a hunt instead of a fun day together. His attention span was twice what it was last year. We started the morning off with a Bald Eagle feeding on a carcass of a coon on the road near the house. We were both impressed with the bird as it flew down the road in front of the truck, then alongside of us as we drove with it flying beside of us gaining altiitude. He was a little quieter and more attentive to his surroundings this year compared to last. We managed to take a couple of squirrels which he was very proud to carry around for me. After the hunt, his new prize Daisy BB gun came out and we wasted many BB's. Life is good.

I was really impressed by the get up and go of your rig. I have seen some mud motors locally that were a joke, loud and grossly under powered. Looking at the website, it seems like they have made some progress. My multipurpose shallow water boat may be heading a different direction. My favorite stream for a jet boat is regulated at 25 hp. I really don't think we get 17 mph out of the Mercury 25 4 stroke setup we are fishing now. And I am getting to the point of being too lazy to paddle a spread of decoys out in a kayak any more. How noisy is the motor? Most I have seen are not much quieter than an airboat with a fan.

I wonder how that would operate in a shallow stream. Like a jet boat? I have that last niche in the armada. I need something that performs in shallow water like marshes and in shallow streams like a jet boat. Jets choke on marsh grass, but is that little flimsy protector strong enough to pull a boat thru a rocky riffle in 5 inches of water? Nice boat by the way.

He would be hard to hide in a patch of grass. A head the size of a mans clenched fist. Probably eat small children for lunch. It would not be one I would like to come across on an adventure. The three footers are impressive enough.

Big Ole Cottonmouth Ran across this one online. Seems like he washed up with the Hurricane. Kinda sluggish from a head injury. That is how I usually find poisonous snakes, sluggish and some kind of head trauma. Five and a half feet long, big around as a softball, and a head as big as a fist. It would have flipped a 17 foot canoe if it dropped off a limb just right on one.,..

It was nice to see a nice solid queen laying and trying to survive. Still have some work to get the beetles in check. Maybe the cold weather will knock a dent in them.

Good news today. The bees on the outside of the hive that I swept into a small hive are doing good. The queen has been laying and producing young bees. The hive seems pretty strong and the queen is productive. I have been feeding sugar water since the transfer and there has been some fall flowers. I opened the hive and transferred the bees and frames into a larger hive body today. Everything seemed pretty normal. The hive beetles were thick inside but the bees were keeping them cornered in all 4 corners of the box. I did not transfer them into the new box, I mashed and drowned as many of them as I could along with a few bees. This hive may make it thru the winter. Lucky thing, I did not extract the honey I took off in July. I can put it back on the hives that are in trouble for food this winter. Back to 1 hive at the house, down from 10 this time last year.

I second the juvenile black rat snake. Just a little ole chicken snake.