jdmidwest

Onions are tough sometimes. The sweet ones never seem to get as good in our clay soil. I think they grow better in loamy soil. I never let the tops turn brown and I never let them go to seed either. A vidalia will not make tasting onion like it does in the place where they grow them I have been told. I like green onions with my salads and have trouble growing them. I planted some this spring from seed and my first run of lettuce is already done. Onions are just starting to get big enough to eat.

Montauk is a great place to create a little family history. I think that was one of the first places I took my daughter when she was a baby. I remember pushing her along in a stroller in a place there is no path now and catching a fish on the flyrod for her. She is 19 now and that was her choice for Father's day weekend this year and she stood in the same place on the opposite side of the river and caught several trout on a fly rod herself. It was something special for me too.

Ness, they are all Bush planes.

Sounds like you are on the right track, taking him is the main thing. Watch him and keep track of his strengths and weaknessess. If he gets bored, make it more interesting by changing the way you are fishing to make it easy for him,. Even the odds and both of you try to take up fly fishing. Then you will both learn something new at the same time. Creeks are a great place to learn that sport. No matter what, you are spending time with him and you are enjoying each others company. There will be a time soon when cars and girls will cut into that.

I crossed at Greer last Monday and the river was low and normal for this time of year. Unless there has been some increase, I would think Thomasville would be tough in a canoe but doable in a yak. Talk to Brian.

Are the Kings open down there this year? I have noticed that many places are closed.

I am afraid that if that was my Dad, we may have went hunting sometime..... My x wife was raised in a mess like that. Her dad molested her siblings, male and female, from the ages of 2 to 12 till the mother realized and left him. She never spoke of him and 10 years later in her life he appeared when we were shopping at a store. He really wanted to do something with me, maybe go fishing. But I did not think his guts would make a good cut bait, so I never took him up on it. She claims he never touched her, she was too old and would tell. Those kids grew up and all become sexual predators spreading the plaque to future generations. It really causes some damage.

Did they have to cut the tick off or something else?

It is happening everywhere. I have heard of a few remote campgrounds being destroyed in the past few months. Pit toilets, park benches, etc tore up. Out of work people just have too much time on their hands. Good time to bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps and make all the people that draw a check work a little for it and keep their hands busy else where.

But were you a DC electrician? Run a dedicated ground wire, the white wire in the 4 wire batch, to all of your lights and ground the white wire to the tow vehicle side and it will help. Solder connections as they tend to corrode when wet and use shrink tubes or wrap. Then you have to check the plug to bulb base continuity to make sure you did not pinch a wire or have a bad plug. I have had bad plugs from the factory. Switch to leds, they are worth the money. The bulb filaments do not break like the conventional bulbs do from the bumps that trailers take.

Sevin dust and spray is bad for bees. The dust is the worst, they carry it back to the hive and it kills more inside. Try not to use it on Cucs or anything else the bees pollinate. Raised beds were the trick this year. Picked a few Sunsugars this week. Jade green beans are putting on. I should have a few Zucchini this week. Lettuce is still going. Snap peas are drying out. Tomato plants snapped out of the slump and are growing about 4 inches a day. I have Squash plants about chest high now.

Good luck up there. We are in the planning stages for a trip next year in August now. Probably do the Kenai again.

I bought a cheap electric kitchen knife 20 some years ago at Wally World made by Regal and use it every time I fillet at the house. The serrated blades are still as sharp as the first day and cut thru bones like a charm. It is the right size to fillet most any fish I catch and makes fast work of the job. I bought another cordless model of the same brand a few years after the first, but the battery shot craps in a short time, but it worked pretty good at campsites. I use a Rapala or a serrated Gerber when I am away from electric now. The serrated blade works better on larger bones like the salmon I filleted in Alaska.

I really wish someone would come up with a bulletproof way to rig lights on a trailer. Seems like every year or so, I am rewiring my trailer lights, or plugs that have corroded, or something. No matter what you do, it is always something. I always run the ground wire to the trailer and never rely on the hitch to ground the trailer. I even wire the ground to the bulb sockets to make sure. I have switched to led's on two of my trailers and have done away with the bulb problems, it has been a good investment. I solder wire connections, use shrink wrap insulation, and the best electrical tape I can buy, but I still have problems from time to time. The little 4 wire flat connectors usually are replaced every few years as they corrode or wiggle loose in the connection. There must be a better way.

Its kinda like the Morel, you have a hard time growing it. It is one of them wild things that if you could grow it commercially, someone would have done it. I don't think it is grown commercially.

Just came back from a flyfishing only trip to Montauk with my daughter this weekend. It was excellent. Nice fly pattern.

Thats pretty handy, I bookmarked it also. I always just used the river gauges site and looked at the dam site location. http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/rt

Serious? Braunschweiger because it taste like the liver they feed trout? I have done that with smoked salmon and it is great. Does the trout get firm enough?

Just getting struck at by a copperhead would kill the weak at heart. I know mine skips a few beats when I have a brush with one. But the adrenaline gets it beating again as I jump away.

Not much gravel skimming around the place, the DNR has stopped it in most of the county. The county road district was the only ones doing any major gravel operations that I can remember and it has been several years since they did it. They have been using crushed stone for the most part. There was a large clearcut 20 years ago up one branch and timber is being cut all up and down the system, but not any more than they were doing 50 years ago. As a whole, the timber stands are better. Row cropping has disappeared and it is mostly pasture or grown up fields along the way. I think the water table is dropping all along the watershed. The Castor is becoming the same way. What used to be a nice river is diminishing down to a creek. I don't really think the gravel is rising up higher, I just think there is less water.

I forget the colors. Artificial only from Baptist to Cedargrove, 1 fish 18' or longer in possession. From the low water bridge at Cedergrove to Akers is regular trout area, anything goes, 4 fish limit. From the Ferry down to Pulltite, few trout, water returns to Ozark Stream with bass and other species.

It was a nice cool day on Sunday so I decided to make some more splits and increase the hive count. I took frames out of a few of the hives at the house and made 3 nuc hives to increase my count at the house to 7. Things went well and I only suffered one sting to the forearm, I mashed one and it stung thru the suit. Off to the farm and I halved the other 2 hives that I had been meaning to split out there increasing the number to 5 there. The other one that I took out a few weeks before was doing well and working fine. I hosed the new location down with some roundup to kill the poison ivy that was sprouting up all around them. This spring has been pretty good for the bees, lots of blooming stuff and plenty of bees in the hives. The hives are full of bees and brood. They have even drawn out the honey supers and it looks like I will be making honey after all this summer. Probably 20 or 30 pounds if I am estimating right, a few gallons. Here are a few pics of the hives. Green is the color of the year, I picked up a gallon of good exterior latex paint for $5. It was in the mistint section and cheap enough. Anything looks better than a plain ole white box and it goes good with the cedar. I have started making simplier hives for production at the farm, they are hidden where you can't see them anyway. Quicker to build too and cheaper.

Little early for froggin, they don't open till June 30 at midnite.

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If the plants start turning colors and looking poor, pull them out to prevent disease from spreading to others. Probably not much you can really do, I am sure you have a mud pit now like everyone else with this rain event. Tromping around a muddy garden really compacts it if you have clay soil too. You can always replant, it is early and looks like plenty of moisture this year.