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What he said. I'd also add most people latch onto their side and just and stop thinking.

Justin, you're a class act. You're a small businessman raising a family with your hard work and your smarts. You also happen to be doing it in a beautiful place with a lot of time to 'stop and smell the roses', when you're not bustin' your azz keeping the place up. I admire and respect you for all that. We haven't met face-to-face, but I have met Amy a couple times when I was down with Gavin. I think you guys have got it figured out. I can tell you this -- I bust my hump too, but the results of what I do can only be seen on a computer screen or a report. Over the last couple years, the layering on of new rules from all different sources has made my job even more CYA and less (financially) productive things. I'd venture a guess that the majority of people reading this have pretty unfulfilling jobs they have to do just because. You get to see the results of your work. You're a lucky guy.

Pshaw! Don't we have people to do that for us?

Age old problem and Gavin hit the nail on the head. MO has a very generous allocation for conservation from the dedicated sales tax collected statewide. They've got a ton of money, they just don't choose to spend it on enforcement. NObody likes the knuckleheads.

That story about made me cry.

Welp, we got rain last night. Anybody else? edited: not sure how much we got -- the weather station near us showed 2-1/4 this AM, but now it shows zud.

Sounds like a sweet arrangement, BH. Best I can do is hit our local roadside stand or farmer's market. Got some excellent sweet corn from some Mennonite farmers a couple weeks ago. Ate a LOT of it. Gonna have to get more soon -- it's gonna shut down. Already thinking about my fall garden

Nice stuff. And, there's nothing wrong with taking photos. I like it too, and need to concentrate on doing it more.

Man, I've been watering the heck out of stuff just to keep it looking so-so. These raised beds sure dry out quickly. My heirloom tomatoes are really looking feeble. Brandywine, Black from Tula, and Cherokee Purple all stressed with sparse foliage. Tomatoes are smallish and oddly shaped. Celebrity hybrids are doing better. Huge fruit set early on and they got some good size, but they're stalled out. I've brought a bunch in to ripen and get them out of the sun. Gonna rig up something to shade one side with a lot of fruit exposed. Multiplier onions and garlic are curing. Some cucumbers, but nothing spectacular. Beans are a real disappointment. Rattlesnake pole are throwing off a few. KY Wonder pole nada. Dragon Tongue bush are throwing off oddly shaped and colored pods. Anybody having any luck in this heat and drought?

Thanks, Tim. It's also their livelihood if their business goes. I've got their locations pinpointed on Google Earth, and an overlay of the fire perimeter. Unbelievable.

That Waldo Canyon fire is a bad one. I've got two (second) cousins out there -- one in Colorado Springs and one staying at a generations-old family cabin in Cascade. They've both evacuated. The first one's got a business in NW CS not too far from where they live: http://www.wybron.com/ It's heartbreaking.

Looking good BH. I don't know a thing about kohlrabi, but your maters and peppers are looking pretty good. A couple weeks ahead of me, I'd say. Picked my first Brandywine last night and it had a big ol' bite taken out of the backside. Pisser. We're gonna be 100+ the next couple days too, so everything's gonna really be put to the test. At a minimum, stuff won't set any new fruit for a while.

Actually, I'm kinda glad OF.

I'm not an MDC basher, but I did get a chuckle outta this one: "The MDC came to the conclusion that this elk was not coming back and made a decisive action." Here elk, c'mon elk.......OK then: blammo!

Justin: you're an enabler

I'm just not getting many warm-and-fuzzies from these answers.

Why, thank you sir.

One of the great thing about floating around KC is -- you never know just WHAT you'll find: http://www.kmbc.com/news/kansas-city/Human-remains-found-along-Little-Blue-River/-/11664182/15238264/-/qky9ri/-/index.html

Take a look at this video from angler extraordinaire Norm Crisp:

I got it Wayne So, where does one find a teeny brown around here?

Just the cost of doing bidness: http://www.kctv5.com/story/18806079/police-respond-to-shooting-call-in-independence

Dang -- it is a brown. I thought I saw parr marks in the leetle pic and quit thinking.

There there's a baby rainbow, Nick. I know what you mean about the indicator causing its own set of problems. But -- the benefits can often outweigh the problems. If you're in fairly fast water and find the indicator dragging, make a series of little mends as needed to keep the indicator moving with the current. Try to be gentle with them, and keep in mind your doing this for the fly, so visualize what effect you're having on it. If you throw in a mend and it jerks the indicator -- well, you've also just disrupted the fly's drift below. Sounds like you were fishing in one of the Parks? As for not getting them landed -- don't let there be any slack in the line, but also don't pull too hard. You know, just right First off, keep the slack out of the line while your fly is drifting. As the fly moves past you'll want to lower your rod tip to give it the extra line it needs to continue downstream without dragging. If you can flick your rod tip to feed some line out, all the better. If you get a strike, lift, but don't jerk, to set the hook. Immediately get any slack out of the line. I usually do that by stripping in, rather than cranking. It's quicker and let's me assess what I've got on the end before I commit to the reel and the drag.