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I tripped over one in the yard at the farm this weekend, but it was 2 far gone. Grew up out of an old sugar maple we cut down a few years ago. I have a bunch of what I think are Boletes popping up around the white pines this week in the yard. Still not brave enough or sure enough of the identity to try one.

The human traffic, trash, and fire pits are bad enough. But to paint something like that really ruins it for all,. Last I heard there was a reward posted in local paper. But it was probably just kids that won't get caught.

It seems like most seem to go simple on the meals, even a cold one at times. It does not take much more effort to cook a nice meal on a campfire or campstove, nor does it take much more room. The time you spend cooking passes more of the long night from dark till bed and it fills you up and makes you sleepy. I have made everything from fried fish to redbeans in rice in a single skillet, turned around and cooked a good breakfast over the coals from the night before with bacon and eggs. You can vacuum pak a good cut of meat and freeze it, it will thaw in the cooler on a days float. Wrap a tater in foil and place it in the fire while you grill a steak. Pre cook some sausage at home and vac pak, add it to chili beans or Zatarains Red Beans and Rice mix in a skillet for a good cold night meal. That little extra starts you off good for the next day too. Lots of good warm carbs keeps you cozy and comfy on trips like those. Cold sandwiches and poptarts are like kissing your sister, just not quite the same as the real stuff. Campground cooking is the best part of the trip.

They can ride horses thru the Federal Land? A buddy of mine showed up at a Closed Federal Park Building to do annual maint. He found 30 employees enjoying films and relaxing drawing our tax dollars on a Federal Holiday. But he had to know the "secret handshake" to get in. Nothing is really closed due to this debacle. Everyone is still drawing our tax dollars.

One thing for sure, keep the rods down. On a stream, I usually just beach and stand next to a tree. Just make sure it is not the tallest tree or anything near the tallest one. A cut bank or bluff works too. Hail storms are the worst, sometimes I feel like I would be better off in the water and under the boat. Most of the time, I see a storm coming, head for home. Weather radios usually work just about everywhere.

Looks like you missed Rose Holland. Nice writeup. It is a gem when the crowds are not banging you in the head or walking in front of you.

There are mine pits in your area, you just have to look for them. Many have good fishing. Have they cleaned up the graffitti on the Pink Rocks at Amidon? I read a report a few weeks back that some defaced them. There used to be a few rocks there that made good loungers on a hot summers day, too bad nature did not add a cupholder. I would rather go there than Johnson Shut Ins. Saw my only Prairie Collared Lizard on those rocks, about 25 years ago.

You could access at Tan Vat and any other place that a County Road boarders or crosses it. I don't know about Baptist Access, I think there is a Federal Forestry road down to it. Parker may be the same way. Phil is right, they were running them off the river on the first few days. Then they opened the river but not many of the access points. All Federal campgrounds and ramps are closed.

Al forget toilet paper.

How exactly do you molest a boat?

I have a day 4 reservation at Schell Osage. Gonna hunt Monday and Tuesday up there that first week. Maybe we can all meet up. Reports of habitat in that area is all was flooded and no crops were raised. Sounds kinda bleak.

Looks good. I may need to try that. I seldom eat the waterfowl I kill, I give it to others that like it but don't hunt. Wonder how it would work with venison?

Will them to the kids and keep her out of it...

They had a big get together this spring in the Anapolis area, but I did not go. Something came up. Geocaching is something to do when there is not anything else going on for me. I will try to pick up a few when I head out on a big adventure. Fall and winter is my favorite time, vegetation and ticks are fewer and weather is more comfy to do some tracking. My last find was at Mammoth Spring back in the summer.

No, its a denial of insurance because the risk is too great. Insurance is a business where a pool of people put money into a pot to be used in case of emergency. That money tends to draw interest and make more. People are asked to put money into that pot based on the risks of age, health, and other criteria. But if someone wants to enter into the investment/insurance company with a risk factor that would result in a larger than normal payout resulting in a loss too great, they are denied. That person can still get health care. They just have to pay out of pocket.

They fry up and you never will taste them. I used to just pop them out like zits back in the day when I kept a mess of stream fish for dinner.

Has anyone been denied healthcare in the US under the present system before Obamacare? The problem was not denial of healthcare, it was the insurance factor. People were using the healthcare system and not paying their bills, therefore driving up costs for all others.

Looks like the NWS won, rain all night. Gonna go to STL in the morning instead

Nice.

They shut the government down trying to regain some fiscal responsibility. The country is way in the red right now and someone needs to balance it. While Obamacare has become the glitter, the main thing is to stop the rampant spending and regain some ground into the black. We need a balance budget, cut un-needed spending, and regain ground so our future generations will not have to learn Chinese.

And the insurance has always been affordable, about the cost of a carton of cigarettes a week. But folks always seem to go for the cigarettes instead of health insurance.....

You are right on that one, its a crying shame it is all located in Illinois....

If Obamacare succeeds, private insurance agencies will cease to exist under the current models of prediction. The only insurer will be the Federal Government, ie, single payer. No competition and requirements to have insurance will end up with higher prices. So, How Exactly, did they take it out of Obamacare?

But in order to cross, he would have to succeed. I have not seen any dog swings running around.

And you can't find out anywhere else. I guess I will just have to call someone.