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Say CHEESE, smoke tube only. 😃

Fun times! Thanks Daryk. Hey Rick looking good old buddy .

I doubt it. He can vote and conceal carry at least we know he isn't a felon. That is as much as an American as you can get.

Oh, I have done that. 😁

Merry Christmas to you, think of it this way clean clothes is a good thing.

It happens. We were fishing with @duckydoty for walleye below power site a ways below taney. He insisted on us using his setups. I threw one of his expensive megabass minnows. Same thing happened bail closed I have never casted so far the thing went almost out of sight. After it snapped off. Ooof now I know where I got my lessons. I will remember that. Pat will get that next time she goofs up with the fly rod. Thanks for sharing Anthony 😁.

Oh yeah 👍

There is no way except in a wad on a hook waiting for a channel cat to bite in my younger years.

I'm pretty sure that is when we booked our stay.

She gets a lump of coal for Christmas! 😁Soaking no but after a good carbon seasoning and I mean a GOOD seasoning soap and water will not hurt if you think you insist. A follow up by wiping immediately and drying on a low burner on the stovetop or fire up the oven to dry. We opt for the stovetop. Just don't forget it on the stove. Cast iron is not stick free but it is stick resistant and EZ clean up IF it has that nice thin carbon seasoning. Good luck David I feel for you Bro.

Say it isn't so buddy!

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Dang right she is hot in that suit. Just a jacket for me now.

To both of you that is a fact. There are guys that sell and sell plans for wooden traps specifically for armadillo. Yes scented with armadillo poop and whatever. You can actually buy that stuff and scent your own trap. Many you tube videos on that.

Well, I like you know when there were many fur buyers all over. We had one that traveled from Joplin and went all over buying. He would buy one day a week in Schell City. I had a neighbor that bought from him also. Well between my trapper neighbor, Myself and my cousin plus the dog coon hunters he began to go to the neighbor's house weekly one evening. That became a hoot! Fur night. We would all gather in the basement near the wood burning stove telling stories until the buyer came and went. Special times with special friends. Out of that group I am last man standing. The fur buyers name was Gene Pearcy. You might have bought one time or another from him. So, my first fur sale was to a Bland from the town of Blackjack on the sac river and he bought at the sale barn Saturday morning in Nevada. My first gray fox. Sold some other fur to him after that. Then to Gene Pearcy and last to Bud Keller in Collins. Bud was a neat man. Just drove over to his fur house in Collins. Going in there were guys working for him scraping the meat and fat off of raccoons and opossums. The floor glistened with animal fat. Fur drying hanging on stretchers from the rafters while on tables bundled together were dried furs of all kinds. I sold him two bobcats for 90 and 100 bucks. This was also about the time when we could start trapping for otter and catches still were rare, but they brought top prices also. Not long after that the market plummeted. Nobody local buying that I know of. A few years ago there was an Amish or old order Mennonite guy buying near Olympia not too far from me. He would buy whole unskinned furbearers and do the skinning. I heard he went under because he couldn't sell what he had at all. Market was that bad.

Have you been out off and on all night long? With Pat on the spot light and me on the air rifle we took out at least a half dozen this summer. Plus a 120 and 160 conibar where you can because those are housecat and at certain times a small dog getter. No worries about the small dogs around here. The feral house cats too bad so sad. 160s on the ground are legal for those of you that don't know. Speaking of that we have been going berserk on opossum and coons. The turkey hatch is suffering terrible here. The mdc knows it. Extended season on coon, possum and skunk now. The are probably worse on ground and low to the ground nesting songbird population. With fur prices low because of (insert what you want here) things are out of balance. I'm going to do my part. You should see the brush pile with coon and possums I have going. Another possum added a few minutes ago.

Bingo!

Agree with this 100 percent. On our horizontal hives it's really easy.

Yes, and JD you are the kind a keeper I am striving to be. We want strong bees. Treating bees for mites actually make the mite stronger if they survive. Through genetics and not treating by letting the bees be bees could a mite resistant bee be a thing in the future. There are people out there claiming and selling queens claiming they are mite resistant. What do you think? I already have one hive that was a new colony this spring. Strong colony that produced a bunch of stores this season. When I got them ready for winter, they looked good. Robbing started and I found them weak when I checked. Enough they were a loss. Warmer days like yesterday I noticed a fury of robbers and I let them rob. Right or wrong it will make those other hives stronger for winter.

Or a strait jacket and restraints :).

I don't and I know another that doesn't. I only harvest once a year in the fall. I take only the extra. Leaving plenty for the colony to winter on. If you buy local ask questions.

Please buy local when you can, It just isn't China either. Some honey harvesters are not exactually honest. Feeding sugar is not good for bees and real honey. Many keepers will overharvest during the summer and have to feed bees during the Fall so the bees can make what they think is honey to live off of during the winter. It gets harvested also at one time or another. It has been said you can add food coloring to that sugar water, and it will color what the bees store in the comb. Read this, Beekeepers halt honey awards over ‘huge fraud’ in global supply chain | Food & drink industry | The Guardian

Great report, nice photos. Thanks a bunch John for taking us along on the trip.

it was!