BilletHead

My bride and her lettuce bouquet of ruby glow and red mist. We had a red salad this evening . Then to the growing plants. Peppers blooming Then found some blooms in this mess of maters too. Two foot tall now. Got my table light now on buckets . I am so ready to get them outside. I may try next week and few plants. Have lots of buckets to cover up if it gets cold again. If they go south I have back up plants. BilletHead

Thanks Ronnie and to everyone else for your pizza pie inputs. When the garden gets ape crap crazy this summer I will go ape crap pizza building. Maybe some addition of some wild foraged mushrooms too, BilletHead

There is nothing unglamorous about some of the colored up fish you have taken Johnsfolly. Those wildly painted up darters and who doesn't like the camouflage pattern of a Sculpin? BilletHead

I do with all required. A sharpee on vacuum sealed bags. Got my and Mrs. BilletHead's conservation numbers memorized. It is easy once you get used to it. BilletHead

You had it right buddy I was jerking your chain.

14 year old marcus you don't pole it around you paddle it around ......29 year old marcus you are a smart cookie and I am in the same thought as you. BilletHead

Pretty fish and well done! BilletHead

Happy Easter to all and the BilletHead's will be doing yesterdays fresh catch of crappie today with sides of slaw and the Mrs.BilletHead baked beans! BilletHead

Nice I see it is a combination tunnel hull,catamaran hybrid. . BilletHead

Off early to our favorite river this morning. Found the crappie. Brought home eighteen. I threw a little pink eyed chartreuse over white clouser and Pat used a pink bead head white body chartreuse tailed woolly bugger. They bit early and just quit. We caught ten six and eight inch fish to every keeper. On the way back to the ramp we looked over a half dozen cut banks that had lithic debitage coming out of the banks. While the Mrs. was walking one of the banks looking for points I held the boat next to the bank. Looked down into the water and there it was. A hopewell nice and thin.Have not decided if it made out of Burlington or Jefferson city chert? Needle sharp tip too. So hard to think a point 1,900 to 1,500 years old would be in this shape. One nick in the side. BilletHead

Nice Moguy, Enjoy your new ride! BilletHead

The cool day made me want some potato soup. Not the most healthy bowl full of goodness though. Only had a pound of bacon in it plus a cup of heavy cream and butter too. Did some tweaking as it called for tarragon and cilantro. I subbed rosemary dehydrated from last years garden and this years growing like weeds chives.There was a roux involved and blending half of the pot to thicken it. Thinking I will use some dehydrated chanterells pulverized to a powder for a thickening agent next time. This was very good as I consumed a rather large bowl washed down with a blue moon. It will be hot and ready for Mrs. BilletHead when she arrives home from work :). BilletHead

Me three, BilletHead

Looks tasty Ness, Guess we could wrap seasoned meat in our abundant tomato leaves since we have toooooooo many. BilletHead

Lookie here boys! Ate a fresh garden salad today. Just snipped some leaves. Four varieties in the mix. Tasty and was ready for the beginning harvest. Peppers doing well in the four inch pots. Some six inches tall. Darned tomatoes getting taller by the day. Some plants close to twenty inches. Never, never will I follow Ness's lead and plant early. I think he is trimming his plants. Took a couple of cherry tomato plants to the Doc she is working with. Let ourselves into her house while she was delivering babies at the hospital. We potted her the plants in large pots, she has a sun room. Later we will get a two wheeler and put them outside for her after the last frost. Speaking of the cold. We had a couple of nights of 25 degrees. We threw a tarp over the lettuce patch covers at night. Pulling it off in the mornings it was froze to the covers. Ice on the underside of the covers but plants did well, BilletHead

Ha! Just got your text John. Variety of root? I have slept since I bought them. Something we got four years back. Gurneys stuff. Your plants look good. Pat ordered me a couple of Red Hinnomaki gooseberries. Got them into the ground but I think I want a couple more plants of that variety. Jesters the way my tomatoes are growing you would of thought I was using sprite too. Lettuce made it through last night. 25 when we got up. Beds were covered and then threw a tarp on too. Tarp was frozen to the plexaglas covers where we had snow showers yesterday afternoon. BilletHead

Too funny Ness although it probability wasn't at the time. I too cook outside when I can. Rocking the Wok out there. Cannot start no fires here because the rural fire department will show up in time to save the foundation. Just got the renewal in the mail. Light as well support them as first responders they actually do save lives. Besides some of them let me waterfowl on their places. They may have to drag my wet butt out of the pond. BilletHead

Glad you got to get out again Al, nice fish too! Going to throw something at you. I can see by the way you take your painting, fishing , outdoor activities and love of Mary you are going to be a great caregiver for her. Physically it will be a piece of cake but mentally it will take a toll. It did me. Put on your caregiver game face but remember to take care of yourself too. Even before Pat's surgery, chemo and radiation I started becoming the care giver. I started sleeping light waking up and just listening to her breathe. I knew it was in God, and his doctors hands but I wanted control too. I even wished it was me instead of her. I washed her hair and when it began to fall out we cried and I shaved that beautiful head as bald as mine was. It really jerked a knot in my tail and we became closer than ever. Don't want to ever do it again but if it happens we will deal with it. Bless you Al and Mary, prayers still heading your way, thanks for sharing as it is good for me to think of this from time to time. Complacently can be dangerous. BilletHead

Yes I hope it will get his goat ! I can rename the little ones can't I ? Incorporating different materials. I found using the fox gave me a fuller fly as in smaller bunches the buck tail looked sparse and using more buck tail made tying an unruly bulky hook shank. BilletHead

Yep the BilletHead's sat in Wrench's kitchen/dining room while he was helping and we discussed my boat options. He even invited our dog in for a romp with Orion. Kind of had the feeling I was in Cheers where everybody knows your name. Found a new friend that day. Worth the long trip. BilletHead

mjk there are no dumb questions. This is how we learn. If questions were dumb I would excel in that category. The heads are coated in fabric paint. When dry it is flexible but gives a solid base to adhere the eyes to(oxymoron right there). The eyes have an adhesive back but I also give a coat of light curable epoxy around the edges, then hit it with the UV light. Got a real good look at the action of them yesterday. I went up a small clear creek yesterday in the boat. Had sink tip line on. Looking down in the clear water twitching the line these would dart and dive. Use a non slip mono loop. BilletHead

Anybody going Saturday? http://plateauflyshop.com/ Mrs. BilletHead and I are planning on going. Got some flies for the raffle box tied up. Based them off of Stouffer's Shuttlecocks. Sized them down some and used Fox tail guard hair for the three rounds of deer buck tail. The tail underfur separated from the guard hair was used in the dubbing loop for the head. Since they are sized down I call them the Stouffer's little cocks. I even tied a couple for myself and gave them a try on a pond this past weekend. Bass love them! BilletHead

Actually Marcus I have heard turkeys gobble year around. Another thing I like your enthusiasm, keep it going young man. I still get that giddy feeling when different seasons arrive. Will hope this lasts many years for all of us. When that feeling ends I suppose we will be playing checkers in the park, bingo at the bingo parlor, a old folks home, dead or in my case a psychiatric facility! BilletHead

Hey Marcus they were gobbling here on the Western part of the state today . At noon they were waltzing through my back yard, BilletHead

Dang! Got to looking tomorrow! BilletHead