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Neat report JD, Welcome back to the saddle as you say. Get back after life bud. BilletHead

You have all the bases covered there Tho1mas! Doldrums is right, only saving grace is we are gathering hummingbirds by the day now. Enough the Mrs. has added feeders to spread out the bullies that stand guard to keep the timid ones from feeding. I sure wish I could train our little birds to spear hovering Japanese Beetles in mid flight. Need all the help we can get to kill the little hard shelled brightly colored stinking, leaf, flower and berry eating turds. You ain't the only bored one Tho1mas, BilletHead

The Chocolate chip coffee ice cream was a hit. First time try and it was good. Instead of the chips we used dark chunks. Stirring in the chunks, Into the freezer for a spell. Could of been in there longer but couldn't wait, BilletHead

Sorry about you loosing the groceries (Chicken) but glad you got a rain. We are getting a sprinkle but it is evaporating as soon as it hits the ground. I emptied two traps that had two days worth of beetles. STINKO ! I emptied them into a bucket and sprinkled some seven dust on them and killed them all then washed out the traps. It is becoming a war against the beetles. I sure hope the yearly cycle is winding down soon. I am noticing less and less on the crape myrtles daily but not in the traps yet. BilletHead

To some real food now . Doing Buffalo Black Pepper rub Chicken fingers. EXCEPT there will be no Antibiotic hormone and water injected chicken in this dish. It will be sliced wild turkey breast. More like steaks than fingers too, Capreese salad and a beer too! BilletHead BilletHead

A teaser, No peas involved in this one Snagged! More on this later Today I was really wishing it was this cold, BilletHead

Good looking haul Ness, Our favorite variety we have many of. Black Krim but way tiny. Tasty but tiny. The yellow leaf type of blight took it's toll on our plants this season but did and have a harvest. I think I will pull a bunch of plants that have small green tomatoes that will not survive us being gone on vacation coming up. So towards the end of this week dirt and roots and crappy plants will fly through the air into a pile. Our best producers this year have been yellow and Arkansas Travelers. A nice cluster of five Arkansas Travelers in the last photo. Anyone close to BilletHeadVille want a few maters? Horrible pepper plants. Maybe a snack in the garden but noting to bring in the house. Really miss our cubanelles to stuff, smoke and cook. There will be a good amount of first time planting Tai hot peppers. That is if they get a watering while we are gone. The blacksnake did not come back for the baby bunnies. Still four in the raised bed. When I watered this morning they went crazy scattering in the squash and cucumber foliage. I grabbed one and it squealed, I looked around for a predator ready to pounce on the squealing rodent and then realized I was the predator. Turned the baby back and checking later they were all in one spot again. BilletHead

Beer and cheese! Bet the rest of the Folly's are glad hey are gone as that looks like fart city BilletHead

Well these little guys looked real good this morning when I picked stuff in the garden. Then checked them this afternoon to find a blacksnake that had two lumps in him and was poised to grab another bunny. I grabbed him before he could get another and took him for a walk down the road a couple hundred yards. Turned him loose with his rabbit dinner. Here is to hoping he doesn't have any homing pigeon DNA and find his way back, BilletHead

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Guess it should of been Your Mother . Also I asked the one who knows it all Mrs. BilletHead. The fish and I picture I posted above would be approximately 35 years ago, BilletHead

While watering the garden this morning I also watered the bunnies, Do you think if I continue to water and give them special trace minerals like the big time deer hunters I can grow a Boone and Crocket rabbit? Will the males be shooters in one season. After all the adult males are considered a buck .I remember when Tho1mas said I needed to raise a pig in my lettuce and tomato plants last year. My pork part of the garden would not sprout but I am raising meat in the cucumber and squash bed, BilletHead

Pretty neat. Like what goes around comes around . You reap what you sow. Would you rather have karma or a karma jar? BilletHead

Produce finally starting to roll in, Pretty disappointed in the tomato harvest. Still want to blame it on the super soppy wet spring and early summer. All the red ones so far are small but tasty. Some nice yellow ones and some called big rainbow getting big too. Cukes and especially straight neck squash doing great. Two hills and are giving them away right and left. May just grill me a couple for lunch tomorrow, BilletHead

Thought since we ate three meals today we would do a lighter one this evening. We generally only eat two meals a day. So we did Grilled Bok Choy "wedge" with blue cheese-buttermilk dressing. Title says it all. We made the dressing according to the instructions for the dish. Used wild fire blue cheese so there was a hot bite to the dressing, BilletHead Really good. Bet it makes us fart like a working horse team later , BilletHead

Went to town for business and on the way home we slipped into the sweet corn patch for this next treat. Since the BLT was at five thirty this morning we did an early lunch. This dish is called Mague Choux . The lady that we seen making it on the Boob Tube this morning said it was like eating corn candy. I thought so too but it has a hot creole bite too, Has corn, bacon, peppers and tomatoes. Everything cooked in one skillet a step at a time. BilletHead

Got three things to share from today, yep all today . See here I just won't eat the rest of the week! If you think that is the truth you would be wrong! So the tomatoes are finally coming in. Not the best crop but a crop none the less. So we decided to do BLT's for breakfast, BilletHead

Nice to see Phil, In this hot weather it is nice to see some hot fishing photos. Mrs. BilletHead and I even like that guy and fish in the last picture , The BilletHead's

Old school camo. Way back when. I will need to do some further researching (asking wife) how long ago that was . Your mama was probably still dressing you or changing your diaper , Ha take that buddy, BilletHead

I think Ben and his chainsaw could fix it for you, Good research there Ronnie! BilletHead

Black buffalo, Missouri, way back when the BilletHead was a whippersnapper . State record for awhile . BilletHead

I thought about that for the garden pond John! Just have two traps right now and have them in high traffic areas trying to protect the flora! A big heck yes on the beetles at Bennett. We ripped them a new one last year over there. I seen a bunch dead under the sodium vapor lights. So we tied in a couple of small disco beetles and gave them fits in zone 2 below the dam under the big sycamore tree. Here are a picture of a disco beetle and a deer hair one I tied the other day, BilletHead

Thanks a lot Mitch! I started singing that some as soon as I saw your topic title and now you do this to me? BilletHead

I found some beetle traps on a clearance table. Bought them and have them hanging. Did put away from where the beetles have been tearing up our plants and blackberries. Like You John we have to empty them daily. Nasty little buggers. Another thing I did. I noticed so many beetles gathering on the branches above the traps doing their thing. So I sprayed liquid seven above the traps, now I have dead piles of beetles all over the ground around the traps. I am doubling my kill rate . I also know they say the traps draw many more but I am seeing less and less on the ornamentals and blackberry bushes! BilletHead

Lee, .17 HMR Be sure and shoot them in the head or you won't have anything left. I tried to be nice and not show the top side of their heads. Actually there is no top of the heads left , BilletHead