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Well, after about a 24 hour reprieve, this dang thread has Tight Pants going in my head again.

I know folks that fish the Kaw out of canoes and from the bank around here. I've fished Mill creek here in Shawnee and a smaller unnamed creek from a canoe a few times. Couple guys on OA here float the Blue in KC. I think Wayne did it way back when they were building nuclear weapons at the Bannister complex. I'd bet an enterprising young buck could figure out a crick to float. What about the Wakarusa down by the Baker Wetlands? Hell, I did prairie restoration work there when I was in school. Anybody gives you any crap, tell them ness gave you permission. Try not to trample the Indian Paintbrush, Blue Gramma, Little Bluestem and whatever the heck else we were planting.

Well said.

Me too. Yesterday I told a friend at work I was on 5 days with that song stuck in my head. It's a Small World -- that's out of bounds, F&F. I hate that song -- always have. When we went to Disney World many years ago, my kids could't WAIT to do that ride because they knew it would drive me nuts. And, it did.

I just saw that for the first time last week and I think it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I never stayed up late enough for Late Night so didn't know much about his show. Watched the "Best of" special and that's some funny stuff.

I think I've seen that same picture at least 5 times this year

What a gigantic waste of time and money all this is. It doesn't really matter what the heck their management plan is -- there will still be folks abusing the resource and nobody there to call them on it. Enforcement is, and likely always will be, inadequate. (Gavin, Andrew -- remember our Trout Task Force days?) Resources don't get allocated according to need -- they get allocated based on a toxic mix of personal interests, money, political aspirations, fear, embarrassment and who shouts the loudest. I really don't see anything changing much until there is some sort of a major problem down there. That's just the way we do it. I'm talking things like a few murders, environmental disaster, crime, disease. Something big that gets the NPS in the limelight and forces them to act. This roadshow and comment period is a joke. Does anybody really think there's a chance of a significant change due to comments received online or from the goofballs that registered early enough to spout their nonsense at the meetings? Sure, they'll give some lip service to 'the majority of comments we received', and it will undoubtedly support their plan (probably essentially unchanged). They'll get folks more in tune with nature by building a couple nature centers -- so they can point to them and say 'Looky what we did!'. And things will carry on just about like they do now.

What Quill said.

Natural selection will eventually cull out the ones that don't look both ways before crossing the street. Then we're in for it.

rps -- Eureka Springs doesn't make the news much in KC. I had no idea you guys were getting it that much down there. Like Quill said -- those curvy, hilly roads would be tough! Have a good day off

Andy, I think 9 is about where we ended up. I heard 13 in Manhattan.

Looks like about 4-6 outside, but I'm not gonna go verify that just yet. Chikin and dumplins t-minus 10 minutes.

14 Days??? Where are you? I don't think I've ever heard of that many snow days anywhere.

Over in a thread about bass fishing books:

Bird season is over, football is done. This is the crummiest time of the year. About the only thing I've got going on is getting some seeds started for the garden. I need to get my butt down to the Jungle Room and finish up a fl yrod I started a while back, tie some flies, and maybe get some poppers and/or cranks going. The video fishinwrench posted in the bass fishing thread got the blood pumping.

I heard fur-bearing mammals have hired a publicist to try and distance themselves from that coat.

I dunno. The guy's got a screw loose.

Thanks for the tip. I always thought his show was the best one on FoodTV. I can't stand the channel now -- with all the contrived competitions, staged restaurant spying, etc.

Well, I don't like the Broncos, so I enjoyed the game. I also enjoyed Namath throwing the 'interception' at the coin toss. What a doofus. It's hard to figure out how such a good team can so completely fail like that. Super Bowls are often mediocre games, but that was embarrassing.

Declaration of Independence thing made me cry. Anybody else?

Alton Brown did a Good Eats show on it a few years back. Not sure if you can find that online, but Food Network usually keeps all the recipes.

Mitch - has Chloe been in the fly tying stuff? I've had that happen a few times myself.

That's our Brittany puppy Ruby.

I have a friend that had a GSP, and that dog spent its whole life in a run he had built in his back yard. That is, except for the 3-4 days he took her out to hunt each year. I just couldn't do that to a dog. We've got a minimum of twelve legs in our bed every night, occasionally 16 if the cat sneaks in. But, I realize there are two schools of thought on dogs. We crate depending on the dog. Max doesn't need it when he's alone. Our 6 month old definitely needs it -- she'll get into any and everything, and still chews when she's bored. She's content in the kennel. They both ride in kennels in the car when we're out on bidness, but I'll let them on the seats occasionally running errands, or whatever. Marty -- the guy you're describing sounds like the kind I hate to see with an e-collar. One more...

Hah! Nice shots, everybody. Like the last one BH. Our dogs are definitely part of the family, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Since they do most of the work when we're out, I treat them pretty well. Here's a shot from a couple years back: Greensburg, KS motel after a day of hunting: I have an e-collar, but I generally only use the tone, not the shock. Matter of fact, my 5 year old has never had the shock. Our old dog was pretty hard-headed and would get it every once in a while, but the tone was usually enough for her.