jdmidwest

Probably just acid reflux....

That would have been closer to mine. It was my tongue. Can't lick a lollipop anymore, or anything else.

Cinnamon is a flavor that the radiation took from me. No cinnamon rolls or anything with cinnamon. Tastes real funky now. Used to love it. Stirred my hot chocolate as a kid with cinnamon sticks. Cinnamon toothpicks were a habit for a while when I found them, then they quit making them. Those bitters I have been using in the Whisky taste good, I can sense the flavor well.

Been making Jim Beam Black with honey and shot lemon. Pretty tasty.

Dad gave up without a fight, he knew his limitations. I made it a point to make him drive when I was going somewhere with him to check him out. Our last trip to town, his foot could not feel the brake pedal and he said it. Nerves were damaged by blood pressure issue, he stopped taking the pills because he felt he did not need them. That was his last time behind the wheel. He could mow on the zero turn and he did that until 2 summers ago. But I had to help him on it. And I was always close watching him. He has been racing wheel chairs now in the nursing home since May..

They did not identify the culprit, but I am guessing Oneshot parked this one up the deck into the mobile home.... https://www.kfvs12.com/2022/12/27/suv-crashes-into-mobile-home-near-lake-ozarks/

I plan on doing Dale Hollow this year, been putting it off too long. Try to go back to DeGray and Greeson in Ark again. Probably do the Chatanooga ones too.

You lead a charmed life up there in Milo. Lots more fun than we have down southeast.

Phones don't work well in those hills anyway. Only good for a pic.

?? Basically what I was saying. Not really a good retirement option.

Best thing about them blending with Ranger. Colors and cockpit styles. Nitros are looking better, but were pretty solid hulls before the merge. Good looking ride. Wait till this weekend and see how it skips across the ice...

The only ones I tye with marabou are Woolys. My streamers are a bead head with ice flash gold top and white pearl or green on bottom. Red thread collar. Makes a nice little flashy trout or smallie minnow.

I see the inside of a nursing home every week. No nurses worth chasing, 50% male. No cigars or whisky either. Food sucks.

Our white bass came up the Mississippi from somewhere. Who is to say they did not move up the coast around Florida looking for new waters? Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers have white bass in them, maybe a Heron stabbed some and dropped them in. Or migrating waterfowl picked up some eggs on their toes and flicked them off.

I have one. It runs off my 4 stroke Predator generator. I use an electric pole saw and chainsaw at the farm trimming stuff up. Those gas eaters are too fickle and waste my time. I only break out the gas guzzler when I need some real power. I can count on less than 1 finger any little weedeater engine, chainsaw or polesaw engine that has run every time I picked it up without screwing around with it for a while. But, that generator starts on the second or third pull.

It all depends on what they were working on when they stored it. I pulled mine this year after the clover in July. It was really light. 2 years ago it was a dark brown when I pulled it in July. But it was a mix of 2 locations 60 miles apart. One is mostly timber and wildflowers. Other has yards and timber.

The water quality has went down, too much urine from all the boaters out there now. 4 strokes are the way to go. How many could do the math and mix a 50:1 2 stroke fuel mix up now?

Hammering the same water all the time makes you really good on that body of water normally. Several years ago, I made a motion to fish some new waters each year to change things up. Those trips are not usually productive as the normal spots I pound, but add some excitement to the sport. I carry a license for MO, Ark, and TN and will travel to each during the course of the year. And I switch it up, lakes and rivers. Boats and wading, sometimes a kayak. This year, I fished Truman in MO for the first time, Chicamagua in TN, and Degray, Greeson, and Quachita in Arkansas for the first time. None fished better than Pickwick or the TN River, Current River, or any other of my normal streams. But I saw new places and want to go back and do all of them some more when time permits.

And what stirred up this thread? Sit in on a class Wrench and feel slighted? A good fly casting instructor will school you on making your setup work well. And correct your faults if he finds any.. But many factors are in play like you say. Every rod setup is different, every fly needs a balance point. Fast rods, slow rods. Tip flex, mid flex, butt flex. Its not just old whippy bamboo canes flopping around any more. But the basic motion of starting and stopping a cast is very important. Your stance and arm/wrist position comes in play. That is what a basic class should teach. I hate many fast action rods and tend to stay with the mid range actions of the older graphite rods. And I can cast the bamboo actions also. The fast action tip flex ones are a trick for me.

Coyotes back up that high? I knew they dropped out a few years back when the Chinards blew the market. Most around here quit the trapping. Gonna blast some this weekend at the farm, hopefully. But, one is only furred around the head, mange has him stripped bald. Looks like a spotted dog with white skin and black blotches. Possum tail. I am gunning for the alpha with a white strip on its shoulders. Bigun. Got a pig and a few big bobcats to deal with too. Can't wait till retirement and can put the restraint training to real use. Setting them for a couple of nites and dropping them until next week out is not very productive. Back when Dad was able to get out and run them, I could catch the coyotes about one a week setting them up on the weekends. Game camera network tracks their movements pretty good now.

Coons laying all over the roadside dead, plenty of materials available. Hides are not worth skinning last I heard. $3 to $5 each dried premium. I used to get $35 to $40 for frozen raw ones back in the late 70's at the buyer.

Cinder blocks erode with time in the open weather. They are not cement, a formula with a chemical reaction to make them hard as a rock. Different composition.

Funny, Alanis Morisette squeezes her was into my collection too. But kinda out of place by 25 or more years.

I have used jet boats for 15 years now and I release all walleye from those streams. But, I am probably a freak of nature in that area. First walleye trips were out of the Sportsmans ramp in Poplar Bluff in a 17' squareback canoe with a 5 hp motor on it. But we never saw anything over 5lbs. Maybe it was the MDC making it well known that Walleye existed in this part of the world that caused the crash. Castor River has a good population of them running out of the Mississippi, I have caught them there also.

Those big walleye disappeared out of the Black, Current, and 11 Pt systems about the time the MDC decided to manage them. We always called them Jack Salmon and never caught them on purpose when I was young. Just hung them bass fishing with cranks.