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Remember these confounded, finger cutters?

Isn’t that the one where Uncle Si got an award?

What he said.

We white water rafted the Arkansas near Buena Vista a few years back. Hope you have a good trip!

We love Colorado. Many family vacations and fishing trips have been there. We spent a few days in Snowmass this summer, which is a short drive from Aspen. We spent a couple hours in Aspen, and that was enough. Stopped in a shop that had western wear and other stuff. I was needling my wife that she should get some boots. Picked up the most hideous pair I saw and turned them over to see the price. $800, and the soles were worn. Everywhere we went I noticed girls with boob jobs and Botox lips. Not our thing at all. So @oneshot, where are you going?

Gotta love it when the kids jump in!

We've done garlic a few times, and I'm toying with the idea this year. Yes, it's readily available and cheap, but there are some interesting varieties and the size of heads we got was decent. It's also kinda fun to have something going over the winter.

I think I mentioned it a couple pages back, but we figured out it was mice eating some of our peppers. So, I started setting out traps. So far we've dispatched 15 of them using the Victor traps and Jiffy Chunky (which I think America's Test Kitchen says is best, and I think I agree). 4 traps disappeared -- I have no idea what happened, but I hope some critters aren't suffering with a trap on their tongue/nose/paw/whatever. Did a few sticky traps too. One disappeared, one made it's way halfway across the yard, and two got turned over and covered with dirt. No more sticky traps. Now we've got too many peppers

Onions didn't make the cut in my garden. Tried them 2 or 3 times, from transplants, sets and seeds. The biggest were about the size of a golf ball or maybe a little bigger. Not worth it for me.

Welcome back! The place isn't the same without you!

I use airtight containers in the back of the fridge. Any time I get something with a moisture absorbing packet I stick it in one of the containers.

Nice to see a little activity in this thread! I’ll share a couple recent ones. We’re overrun by tomatoes now so I thought I’d do something to use up a few. Tomato Gratin based on an ATK recipe. French bread cubes, diced tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, Parmesan. This was good and will do again, but not good for leftovers. I had a taste for gumbo so I did it despite the season. Chicken, shrimp, andouille and some flounder we had. Green peppers from the garden. Thank goodness we found a use for those nasty things😀. Wifey thought it was delicious, which makes this guy happy. It was very good. And finally, I found some good looking cukes so I thought I’d give fermented pickles another try. Saltwater brine, dill, garlic, spices, etc. We’ll see how this is in a couple weeks:

I saw a private collection in SW MO that was pretty impressive. It’s Invitation only but I can probably do an introduction to get you in. PM me😀

Who cares? Look at the smile on that baby’s face!

Another one I haven’t seen. Sooo many bourbons these days! Also, so many craft beers that old classics are hard to find. Had a hankering for Chimay and couldn’t find any of the local stores. About two dozen US beers that claim to be that style, but I’m always reluctant to buy a six pack of an unknown. Had to venture out of the neighborhood today and found Chimay. It’s been so long I had to Google to remember the difference between their red, gold and blue. The blue is the one, and it’s tasting good tonight.

That’s some good looking stuff, @rps!! A couple resent ones. We had waffles at a b&b back in June. The guy said he used Bob’s Red Mill gluten free pancake mix. I never would have bought it but it was very good so we tried it at home. A little extra crunch. This was wifey’s waffle. I’m more a syrup guy. Lots of tomatoes here, even after the squirrels take their cut. Bruschetta with roasted garlic, basil, Parmesan and a balsamic reduction:

Yeah, she was a goodun. Here's my favorite -- good music, good message:

Cedar

Perfect egg!

"Red Hills Fishery, is a dynamic and well capitalized initiative" Code for money no object.

The guys I'm referring to were fanatical about it, and there's no fanatics here

A while back I was reading a thread (not here, can't remember where) about rock cairns and there was a consensus among those party poopers that these should be destroyed whenever encountered. Apparently there are folks that think this is destructive of nature. So, as Sgt. Phil used to say, 'Be careful out there.'

I've hired guides (always fly fishing) on several occasions and had great experiences and just ok experiences. None were ever bad though. I started to type a bunch of it out but decided against it because it was going to be too long. I don't have and earth shattering insight, but if you'd like to chat with somebody on the customer side of things, PM me.

Anybody know how to contact our beloved moderator? He may be in danger 😀