jdmidwest

Herons and otters. Larger trout eat them too. Fishing mortality.

There has been a pattern developing, rain on the weekends, nice days during the week. Makes it hard to do anything on the weekend, but I will take all of the rain we can get. No complaints. I could do without the high winds.

That is the most reasonable price I have seen in a while. I saw some of the used mags my friend was selling out of his shop 3 for $15 before the fiasco at another shop for $48 each. Local AR shop is finally getting some stuff back in and it is all at the normal pre Sandy Hook prices. But it does not last long.

I would rather the giggers take the brown instead of targeting smallies. Smallies taste better..

I was thinking of something else like an angel harp. Thats a harmonica in my book.

Why would you worry about the end of time? Are you not prepared? Mayan calendar runs out. Near miss by an asteroid. North Korea threatens nuclear attack. Pope retires. Global warming is gonna fry us all. And Barack Hussein Obama is our leader. What is there to worry about Justin??

I can remember when it was a great little trout stream. The trophy area seemed to hold more fish than the upper Current River trophy area. But something changed it, don't know what. And like you, I never hear much about it any more. The only time I really spent much time there was when I lived close by back in the late 80's. I just seem to head other directions now. I would like to see what fisheries thinks may be going on there. It can't be usage pressure, all of the other streams get hit hard too. Flooding and drought has hit the others too and they don't seem to be suffering. What about stream temps. Low flows from the spring warming up the river maybe. Or maybe it is the otters.

Where is that sun today?

Right, it is a cold frame to start with. I can control moisture and heat the soil faster for germination. When stuff starts coming up, I remove the glass and let them run. If a danger of frost comes up, I put the glass back on or cover with plastic. I placed 2 of them on my lateral lines a few years back and they work great. Full sun all day, facing south. It allowed me to use some of the yard that was just dedicated to grass before. And of course, due to the laterals, I could not plow and dig. The glass is from old screen door sections I used to make a mini greenhouse years ago. I built a frame and screwed 4 doors to it. One of the extra pieces of glass made the top. I put some shelves in it and tried to use it to start seeds and plants in it early on. It never really worked like I wanted it too, so I dismantled it. Last spring, a hail storm took out several pieces of glass on the beds. I scrounged up some glass shower doors that dad bought at an auction to replace them. The lumber was from old packing crates I collected from a jobsite.

Planted 2 beds of strawberry today. One bed of Everglow and the other Jewells. Filled one of my raised hot beds with red potato starts today. I have not raised taters in years, thought I would try some this year for a change.

They were coming into the outside of the hive and feeding on the outside of the feeder, then leaving out. My bees would have came out of my hive and fed, then went back in. There is a little gap between the feeder and the hive body that allows outside access to the syrup. Robber bees have been a problem since last summer. I have my entrances choked down to about 1 or 2 bee widths to allow my bees to defend the hive. The feral bees can sense the food source and try to get at it. My bees will defend and keep them out. They will fight them outside of the hive in the air or around the opening. It one gets in the hive, you will see my bees drag it back out.

My hot boxes are 1x12 boards on edge about 2-3 foot wide. Filled half full of top soil and covered with some old screen door glass and some shower doors I bought at an auction.

I have not seen any luck with the Topsy Turvy stuff around here or the hanging buckets of tomatoes or strawberry. It may be the heat. Last year, my strawberry failed due to the heat and dry weather at ground level. That may be a Hydroponic system, but the weight would be pretty great. I wish he had a better pic or some more info. Located in Poplar Bluff MO., he has to deal with the heat too. But that shot may be from somewhere else. I do best with raised beds about 6 foot round. I can pick to the center kneeling on the sides. Planted 2 more today, one with Jewells, and the other Everglow.

They seem to work better out in an open area. They need to be cleaned out every year.

Whew, that was a burst of energy. 8 and running...... At least we don't have to worry about drones hovering overhead now with a hellfire missle aimed at us for starting a thread that belittled our worthless leaders.

I thought Venus was a voluptous Greek Goddess. We need to geoengineer more of them.

30 mile wind gusts on Sat. Thunderstorms on Sunday. There goes the float trip. Whites are not running yet anyway.

Me too, but that was all he posted in the ad. He was selling plants, not equipment. http://semo.craigslist.org/grd/3616640601.html

I was shuffling thru Craigslist last night and came across an ad for strawberry plants for sale. The ad was unimpressive, but the method of raising caught my eye. Rows and rows of raised planter boxes that you walk under and pick the berries. Looked pretty cool.

Lettuce, radishes, and spinach in the ground under glass in the raised beds today. Cleaned the leaves out of the strawberry beds and worked on them some. I am going to replant 2 of the beds that did not produce last spring. Remember last spring? We were watering strawberries by the time they were producing. I hope we don't have that problem this year. Put the feeder on the bee hive today and watched them fly for a while. Some pollen coming in, probably from maples that are budding out. Several feral bees were coming into the feeder from the outside of the hive. I must have an active wild bee tree close by. I am going to put out some swarm traps in a few weeks and hopefully trap some of the wild swarms.

What happened to cow farts? I thought that was the culprit.

Another good point came up today on a talk show with Cain, the "end of the year money dump" by government agencies. A military contractor pointed out that most agencies of the government get in a rush to spend any surplus money laying around in their accounts at the end of a fiscal year so they can qualify for more in the next years budget. They can't just bank the surplus, if any, and carry it over. If they did, the pencil pushers would not allot them any extra the next year. I have seen it locally, a certain city has a new windfall from the Casino. They have been spending money like crazy on frivilous crap like flower gardens, park improvements, fancy street lights, and other stuff that was not really necessary in my mind. Why can't they just bank it for a rainy day? Or why don't they lower their absurb city sales tax rate and generate more growth for business? The sales tax in that town is approaching 10 percent.

Either that or it is dark on the dock now....

75 lanes? Dang, I don't even think there are 75 major roads in the state of MO. Kansas must really be something. I had to drive to Fort Scott back in Nov from Eldorado Springs just to say I have been in Kansas.

Made it 5 pages so far and still civil.....