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Looking at the mushroom book, the first pic and all in the bad are common chantrelle. The third is a bolete, pores instead of gills. I have not eaten any, too far gone for me. Maggots on them. That is why I stick to morels, easy id.

I think Pyrethrin gets them and it is safe to use around food products. Liquid Sevin knocks them quick but you can't eat what you treat. Treat the soil with Nematodes to kill the larva to prevent next years hatch.

Not really, but it has been one of those years. I kicked back and let the bees be themselves, I did not stir them up much this spring. I let them work and thought they would make honey. All things were right, I had drawn comb for them to fill. I did not do splits to cut down their workforce. Fall and winter losses had me down from a high of 19 hives to 12 going into the spring. 2 hives swarmed at the farm, a neighbor went in and caught them for his apiary that was just starting out saving me an early morning drive. After the storm on July 6, I notice one of the hives at the house getting robbed out. Carnage and a mess of dead bees in front of the hive. I was too busy cleaning up limbs from the wind damage to have time to try to stop it. Then last week, I noticed another hive getting robbed too, dead bees everywhere. Saturday, I suited up and waded in. It was time to pull the harvest anyway. Best I can tell on the 2 hives, they swarmed earlier and the replacement queen they made failed, bee numbers fell to point they could not defend then robbed. I only had 2 hives at house that made honey, don't know what the rest were doing this spring. 6 hives left here. Sunday, went to farm. Suited up in the 100 degree temp and waded in. Hives were healthy, 2 that swarmed did not make honey. Other 2 made some, but not much. 4 hives there. Overall harvest will be about 4 gallons, less than last fall. We had a early wet spring. Bees started swarming in March, over a month early. June and early July was dry and nectar plants died off. So there was not much for them to gather. Hopefully we will have a good fall so they can store for winter. I am going to make splits and hopefully build up some hive numbers. My goal is still 25. That little hiccup last fall with the surgery had my mind on other things. My 3 year plan may lead to 5.

I was looking at the yard Monday and noticed the usual fungus growth had taken a new look. Normally this time of the year I see Boletes and various other mushrooms that I would not really like to eat. But these caught my eye. I picked a bag of them to take to work the next morning, I have a mushroom expert that hangs around there. Looks like I have Chantrelles growing in my yard under my Pin Oaks and around where some Poplars died out a few years ago. Lots of them. I have others, but they look all greasy and nasty, boletes I think. Don't even look like something I would put in my gut.

I have not seen any. Lots of hens with no young. SE MO or TN. I mentioned it a few weeks ago to a friend while in TN. We saw several hens, but no young. My job puts me out on the road for several hours a day in SE MO, same thing, all hens, no young. Wet early spring may have led to a bad hatch. But that is nature, it happens.

I picked up a HB 898 with downscan and sidefinder for $300 last month after rebate on Gander Mtn. Nice little unit with a moderate sized transducer. Nice clear sharp pic with 3 year old tech.

I saw a Honda 3 wheeler with a yard cart attached to the rear hitch, in it was a goat and some other crap. There was a Menard's cart guy standing there attending to the goat whilst the owner of the 3 wheeler did some shopping. I really should have snapped a pic, but was laughing at the cart guy too hard. Real life story from the Cape Girardeau Menard's store about 6pm this evening. I met the 3 wheeler and the cart pulling out of a c store on the way there, did not even notice the goat. All that I noticed was a vintage 80's model Honda 3 wheeler. And some hick slurping a 44 oz soda. I came out of the store and heard the goat all the way across the parking lot. God only knows what county that one came from.

Or the plug corrodes on the back. I replaced a pair of those on the last trailer, water or road salt had eaten up the plug on one. I replaced with LEDS.

Actually, the smallies move down river in the winter months toward the spring because the water is warmer in winter. The river above Greer Spring has less spring water in it.

Electronics will help you target them. You can increase success with even a minimal finder that shows depth and contours. Black Bass will suspend on all sorts of structure, underwater walls, grass beds, trees, even uplifts and humps. Downscan and sidescan will help you see even more. Striped bass at Perry County Lake could be targeted best by trolling crankbaits, deep swimbaits, or using spoons in the center portions. Be prepared to lose some baits, lots of submerged timber. Anything to imitate the shad that they feed on should work. The aerators are there for O2 and they attract the baitfish. You can catch them feeding around those from time to time. This time of year, Black Bass in lakes are best early morning and the last few hours of daylight. Some even fish nights for them. Middle part of day is usually fruitless for me this time of year on a lake. Its too hot to sit out and work for what little action is going on. Pull off and do something else during the heat of the day.

Going into this weekend, with all of the rain and storms, I thought it was going to be a washout. But it turned out pretty good. Fall in TN is so much better.

I don't know that a bad ground will blow a bulb, but it may be hard on filament bulbs. It will cause blinking and shorts if there is any corrosion on the ball or the ball is loose if the trailer is not grounded. Most wiring harnesses have a dedicated white ground wire and I run it to all of the lights. Some just ground it from the plug to the trailer tongue and then run the ground from each light to the trailer. Some just rely on the ground of the the truck to make connection thru the ball. Trailer lights suck. LED trailer lights suck less. Other problems are bad connectors, those tend to corrode or go bad on me every few years. Then there is the 7 to 4 pin converter to corrode and short. Too many places for the connections to break.

20" 4 lbs on the scale. Tennessee is the location. I lost a bigger one on Sat Night at the lake, hit the jig and started fighting like a big ole heavy drum. Like a D/A, I just started horsing it in to get it off the hook and back to fishing. I brought it to the top and we both realized at the same time it was a 5 to 6 pound smallmouth. It realized it still had the advantage, dove under the boat in a flash, and was gone. Rod hit boat with a loud thwak and I was lifted off my seat. I thought it shredded my rod at first, but just broke the line. It was a pig, my largest smallie ever, really would have like to have scaled it and got a pic.

OAF Lives Matter. We are all one big happy group thanks to Phil.

Nice. Looks like a great time. Road trips are the best vacations ever.

Neutral would still require using the brakes, maybe more so since the engine/transmission is not braking with the gears. Led lights are cool running and do not blow when hitting water. Local farm store sells them for the best price, I think they are Blazer. I have swapped out all of my trailer lights with Led's. Best investment. Run a dedicated ground wire to the trailer lights, don't rely on the hitch to ground the trailer. That causes more problems. Most wiring harnesses have a dedicated white wire for it. I even go to the extra trouble of soldering the splices. I hate faulty lights. Nothing worse that getting hitched up for a ride near dark or early AM and not having lights on a trailer.

Mine was all surgery. Removal of a third of my tongue, replaced it with muscle, skin, and artery from right forearm. 2 weeks with a trach and a feeding tube in my nose. 3 day weekend back in for an infected stitch in neck 4 weeks after surgery. But no chemical or radiation. I was very lucky.

Goofy weather around here lately. Now is the time for Catfish at Perry County Lake. Everything else is tough other than early and late in the day.

Just walking into a hospital sucks for me. That headache I had all evening and today from the CT Dye is still a cakewalk from all of the other chemicals that could have been pumped in my body if I needed something else. I was one of the lucky ones.

Monthly would suck pretty hard. I am on a 3 month cycle. Good luck tomorrow....

7 Months down the road now and some change. First CT scan with dye shows no trace of cancer. Doc says it is what he expected since there was no trace in the lymph nodes at time of surgery. He pointed out the little bump in my neck that feels like a BB is a coupler for the attachment point of the blood vessel. The little stitch that has festered a few times and I have kept trimmed short when it pops out of my arm is attached to something important. It finally healed over and my wrist is completely waterproof now. It was worrying me that it was going to get infected wihen I dunked it releasing or boating fish. Arm is running about 90 percent. Neck still has stiff parts. Tongue still has nice patch of hair on it. Cancer Free. Can't be much better than that. Doc says my recovery and tongue were about as close to perfect as it could be. My miracle continues.

They roll in fast and do a lot of damage. They are pretty small and blend in with foliage. Hard to see at first. First time I saw them, they were eating up neighbors grape vine near the property line. I sprayed it for him so they would not come across to my garden. That was 10 years ago, the poison grapes did not cause him harm.....

I was wondering if the COE annual pass covers you at all lakes the Corps runs, or just the one you buy it for? I used a COE Ramp for the first time at Clearwater Lake this weekend for a joyride with the grandson. They broke it off in me with a $5 fee for an hour ride. That was running the lake from end to end twice in a 50hp Tracker. Most lakes I run, I launch from public ramps or TVA. COE is a very expensive critter.

Its an expensive hobby with its ups and downs. Downright work if you want to make it that way. Then you have to get rid of the honey! You can treat the ground if you have a concentration of them. Killing the host on the plant should get the job done. I put out some of the traps a few years ago and filled a trash bag with them before the day was over. I was dumping the trap at least once per hour. The wind was just right and the phermone was dragging them in by the thousands. When the phermone lost its draw, they started attacking my Pin Oak trees above the trap. They almost stripped a couple of trees about 25 ft tall. I have a neighbor about a 1/4 mile away with a vineyard. The phermone trap lured them off of those grape vines to my direction. That was the last trap I put out and I have not had many problems since. I did have a few hit my pole beans last summer, I zapped them with sevin spray.

Sounds like jap beetles. Use liquid sevin around dark. Dont go out and buy a trap, it just seems to draw them in and make things worse. Sevin dust gets on bees and they take back to hives. Does a number on them. Liquid sprayed in late eve after bees have quit working is better way to apply sevin.