jdmidwest

I was thinking paw paw too, but I really don't see many of them anymore. It has been a few years since I have seen any fruit. Something has changed and there are not many of them here in SEMo anymore. Buckeye is pretty common, this time of year they will sometimes have small tan pods that contain the buckeye seed. In MO they don't really seem to get very big and they are an understory tree also. In spring they will have red flowers on them.

Leaders come in many styles and sizes based on what you are fishing and what you are fishing for. The term "turning over" has to do with how a dry fly lands on the water, preferably wings up. Nymphs and streamers do not matter. A leader tapers the line down in size from the casting line to the terminal tippet, making a smoother cast. It also serves to get the fly away from the highly visible fly line. Longer tippets for shy fish in big water, shorter for nymphs. You can even buy sinking leaders to get streamers and other underwater flies down faster. I use tapered mono leaders and braided leaders in the 7.5 ft range for the most part. Heavier X sizes for bigger flies, smaller X sizes for the small flies. With any leader, I use a tippet section. Tippet sections are the disposable part of the line system that gets shorter as you change flies. It is cheaper than leaders and keeps you from trimming them down. Tapered leaders are a length of mono drawn down from one thickness to a smaller thickness. They are smooth and do not catch moss. Knotted leaders are various lengths of mono of various thickness tied with knots from thick to thin. The knots catch moss, but you can get varied performance from them by tweaking the lengths of the different sections. Braided leaders or furled leaders are woven lengths of mono that usually taper like the others. The weave seems to take some of the shock of playing and hooking a fish. They don't have a problem with moss.

http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/index.htm?job=broadband_home And it is funded thru the USDA. Unfortunately, 3 years later every attempt to make it accessible to me has failed. I have fiber optic within a few miles. Cell and wireless signals stop on the other side of the road from me. I don't even want to try satellite again. I can see a major town from where I live. It is not like it is a remote area.

That info is a little fuzzy. There are no links to a pic of one. And it looks like a pink one may be poison. They are a pretty common mushroom. I assume you prepare like a morel?

I really don't need any laxative. I had always heard they were eatable, but for the life of me I could not find any info on them. You google eatable mushroom, you get morels, chanterille, oysters, and buttons.

Rural Internet Service started under Bush. It was stepped up with the Stimulus Plan.

That was what I was thinking too. I use it and never notice any ads. But, clickthrus are a way Phil pays the bills, so I don't broadcast that tech trick.

Most falls are wet weather ones. Pickle Springs Natural has some small ones.

I found a bunch of these Sunday at the farm. I dropped a nice little gray squirrel in a patch of them. Having trouble finding anything about them, I misplaced or loaned my mushroom book out. Looks like some sort of coral mushroom.

Take a dozer and make a big ugly 20ft berm down your property line between the 2 of you. Problem solved and you will be safer. When my neighbor started shooting a MP5 across my land in a subdivision with one acre lots, I contacted his supervisor, an old friend, and asked why he brought a fully auto weapon home. That put an end to that and he has learned to shoot responsibly since then.

Looks like buckeye. Can't really tell from the pic without getting out a leaf id book. Why do you ask?

Depending on what you do on the net, the outcome of the advertising presents itself. If you search for a new car, your banner ads may reflect that.....

If the sheriff does not get things done by enforcing the law, I would suggest the Highway Patrol. If he is doing stuff on your property, it is clearly trespass. If he is endangering your family or personal property, then there are other laws he is breaking. Did you notice any strong smells of chemical or ether? That may be enough to get the Patrol to serve a warrant for production of meth.

I have that rifle in a shorter version. It is a good shooter and has taken a few deer for me. I have the matching pistol also.

How else could you recover the money you spend at Rockbridge?

Magellan makes a simple little Explorist unit that ties right into Geocache.com. It operates on 2 AA batteries and sells for $150. Avoid any gps that is rechargeable.

If you have not noticed, I have been riled about other things.

With the advent of the smartphone, the game has increased due to the gps and internet in a easy to access place. I still use a Magellan Triton GPS unit and download caches to it off the internet before I take off looking. I then log my finds on the computer when I return. I have purchased a small netbook to use for that main purpose when I travel. And when I am out I also have access to the TOPO USA software for mapping too. The smartphone is nice because you can be logged into the geocache website while you are searching, look at the clues, and log your visit all at one time. But, if you don't have cell signal, your phone gps does not work. A physical gps does. Then there is the thrill of the hunt. You should never expect to find a cache in a bright orange box sitting out in plain sight. I have found outlet covers that have 2 magnets and a log painted to match a steel post. Small pillboxes with a log buried in dirt in the knot of an old tree. Larger caches are ammo cans, watertite locktite boxes, bottles with screw lids, or some type of waterproof container. Most are near the road or trail, but not always. Some have multiple clues that require some thought. If you are ever near Houston, look for the privy cache, it is the best I have seen yet.

They would probably whore themselves out for any cause. I was thinking the same as you, but they also go to bat for disabled, gays, and other causes.

You have to put together a kit in a fanny pack or something. Cell phones are great for the ones in places where you have service, but you need a gps with download capability to really get the ones off the beaten paths. A fine point pen for signing the little logs. Some trinkets to leave behind in the larger caches. A laptop or netbook works great too. Be careful retrieving the caches, muggles may see you and steal the cache. Stealth is one of the arts of the game. Always put them back like you found them. My first was on the Ozark Trail, it had a complete log book with paragraphs for entrys, it was interesting to read. It was a 50 cal ammo can with several items. We did several last year during duck season after hunts in the Dexter area and Schell City. Just last month, we did the Houston and Licking ones, pretty neat area.

Pickle Springs is always a popular area. We use it from time to time for family pics, especially this time of the year when color starts. It is great in the spring also. You should have did the hike. There are some pretty views. Pink Rock, Hahn's Mill, Amidon, used to be one of my favorite places 20 some years ago. Nice place to lay in the river and relax, kind of a mini Johnson Shutins. The only place I have come across a collared lizard in MO. I still go there from time to time in the spring looking for outdoor edibles.

Way to go ACLU. What happened to protection of my personal property? What will happen when I show up and my wiper is tore off by some idiot that wants to spread his message? I call BS on this one. The city of Cape Girardeau loses on a law that has been in place for many years. The city claims it was due to litter, but I always felt it was to prevent damage to other's personal property. And the city has to pay the legal fees to the ACLU. Anyone see anything wrong with this? http://www.semissourian.com/story/1900605.html

It is a fun sport. Whenever I travel to a new place, I usually download the local caches and try to knock out a few if I have time. My favorites are usually in cemetaries. Nice quiet places with alot of history. I have found several ranging from micro caches that were about the size of 5 asprins stacked together to a full blown outhouse full of more stuff than a Dollar Tree. Travel bugs are fun. My handle is the same on geocaching.com, jdmidwest.

"I have 5 sons, I have seen someone keep repeating lies until they actually believe its the truth" Future POTUS Mitt Romney, 2012

Does the Forest Service have possession of the old mill now?