BilletHead

Terrierman she can do the pretty thing too. I must be doing something right and if I knew what it was I would share the secret for sure. BilletHead Blue moon or Shiner bock my choice. No more than one a day and it will be with a meal.

Well since things were going contrary it was time for getting the beds going for lettuce. Pulled the tomatoes, and cleaned and removed the trellises. Got the little toy tiller and turned the soil. I did my best before to clean all the tomato mess from pulling so hopefully no baby tomatoes come up. Mixed a conglomerate of different lettuce seeds in a shaker bottle and shook out a seed bed. Took the back of the rake and tamped the seeds into the soil. Used the sprinkler to wet down the soil and seeds, My work is done and it is now up to the good lord and mother nature for the rest. BilletHead

No did not change the password. hahahha I have noting to hide from the Mrs. I am as you probably know a very lucky guy to have her. Besides I would not want to train another. I'm too old for that. This is a good topic and again open a can of worms. Who of all of us has bought something that is overpriced, frugal to others? Guilty by me and I would say everyone else on here. He who has not been guilty here cast the first stone. Know I know why I like you Chris. Oh by the way we sometimes shop at the salvation army, goodwill and garage sales. Thereby helping someone else and us. Maybe that is why we indulge once and a while? Do your adult beverages consist of Milwaukie's best or Heineken ? BilletHead

Only got one in each column. I fall in the opposite of elite. Maybe in the red neck category. BilletHead who does what pleases him (Mrs. BilletHead) I mean !

Yucky looking for sure but tasty none the less. I ask the Mrs. if she wanted a fig leaf outfit. BilletHead

Oh no I thought some of you were my friends! Now I'm going to sleep with one eye open. Wonder how many pairs of shoes and purses she could get in the cooler price difference Ness? Hard to type with a straight face keeping this between just the guys here. And the gall of me to send her off to work everyday so I can get all this cool stuff! Ronnie she wants you to PM her your address. Don't do it dude it would be bad news, In deep doo doo the BilletHead

Mrs Billethead here...I should have known something was up when Marty was sitting over there in his chair laughing his fool head off! I have ways of getting information from him; and he cannot lie to me! What he said about this cooler is the truth. But now we come to bigger things. Since I made him tell me what was going on, how should I deal with this? The mule remarks?? Ronnie, do you have any ideas?? Chris, what are you laughing about?? How come you and Scott did not let me know what was going on here and not ratted him out?? He is right about one thing: when we go hunting, I do most of the work!!!!! He is nice enough to allow me to shoot some of the birds though. I will in the future keep a better eye on what he might be saying about me! <img title=":)" class="bbc_emoticon" src="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png" data-cke-saved-src="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png" />

Fig jam sounds good Mr. Guide, I may have to google that recipe up. Thanks, BilletHead

Am I ready? No. Will I go? Yes when it cools off some, more than some, cools off a bunch. This will be my 37th year going. My most uncomfortable most likely. Why? We will get there but first I only hunted the first couple of years with a compound, then laminated recurves and longbows. Then graduated to self bows out of hedge. The last years of the self bow 17 years. Have taken 7 deer with stone heads I knapped. I take it back 8 years back I did a season with a 45 lb. recurve after my rotator cuff surgery. Time and wear and tear takes its toll. Struggled with a 50 lb. self bow last season. Shoulder going bad again, well it never got the best but it is bad again. Surgeon said bad arthritis in there when he fixed me up. Never going to be the best. So I deal with it. Tried to shoot my favorite, I was all over the place and never getting to full draw. I was sick over it. Asked some compound questions to friends but really did not want to go there. Finally got out my vintage black widow. Got it from my close fishing friend. Got it the year of my shoulder surgery. Out of the blue he tells me he has a black widow from the early 60s 45@ 28". I about go bonkers. We made a trade and I got it. Killed a deer that year also. I strung it up, pulled back. They shoot a bit different than a long bow. First shots low and right. Took me a few to get lined up and at ten yards I'm grouping again. So here is to a good season for you all and may you have the best of luck. Do it while you can because time will take its toll. Mrs. BilletHead will be going too with her Martin Bobcat, over 20 years old. Here is what I will be using this season, I will be adding some no mar bow tape to the limbs. I would get the spray paint out but on this gem better not. Broadheads of choice zwicky Eskimos 2 blade. I have a set of files, diamond hone and leather strop. Can get them surgically sharp. Good old wood shafting too with some of my turkey feathers. Hand split, ground, dyed and chopped. BilletHead

Ronnie I forgot to add your coleman can kiss my yeti's bottom side BilletHead Exciledguide have you ever indulged yourself in something nice just because? Maybe you really did not need it?

Anyone raise there own figs? A long time ago I met a lady who had a fig bush next to a south facing storage shed. I knew what it was but had never seen one in person. She explained cold weather kills them but if you get lucky and put it in the right place and facing South they will grow. I asked if I could pick and eat one, she said help yourself. Man what a tasty treat. After that I always wanted one and finally a seed catalog came and I found a start. Not recommended for my area but heck I'll try. Found a spot on the South side of the house and stuck it in the ground. It grew every year but most years it froze back to a stump. I thought it was dead every year. One year it got big enough I got a fig (singular fig). Cool I thought. Every few years I got more and then froze back to a stump. The last two mild winters have been good to me and the fig bush. It only died back to three foot tall. How do I know how far back it dies? Spring leaves tell the tail and I trim it off where the leaves stop. This season it is now six foot tall, Full of figs too, the most I have ever had. The darker you pick them the better they are. From green to purple to almost black and shriveled. I pinch them open and eat out the heart. Usually I only get enough to graze every day but this year I have enough to founder on. Question is if I dry some do I just wash them and do it whole? Any good fig recipes? I know I will reduce some on the stove and drizzle the reduction on some rare seared duck. BilletHead

Peppers out of the smoker,. Before and after photos. First photo you can see some rosemary on a try. Smoked it too and will add it to a bottle of olive oil to hopefully infuse some flavors. Had one heck of a year for the rosemary. We like it especially on poultry. It is a killer on hybrid grilled too. BilletHead

That is one cool folding outboard, I hate to call it cute but will do it! I am more interested like Bird Watcher in seeing the above trolling motor. Is it a three phase motor? Will it dim the lights when you turn it on? Will It pull a person on skis? Just messing with you bferg we know what you mean. I have a 3hp tanaka two stroke outboard. I had not run it for eight years and thought about selling it last year. So I mixed some fresh gas and it started first pull. Changed my mind and got the spray paint and camouflaged it. Thought I might want to put it on my 12' flat bottom and hunt out of it someday. The motor screams like a wild banshee and pushes the boat like a slow elephant. Works though, BilletHead

Yes Quill stuffed peppers are good and we have done a bunch this gardening season. A couple of times we stuffed our cubanells. Kind of like folks do bells. We precooked a mix of deer burger and maple sausage. After cooking the meat the Mrs. mixed in some of her salsa and Colby jack cheese. Then she stuffed in the mix. Stood up the peppers in a dish and added in some water in dish bottom. Covered with foil and slipped it into the oven to cook. When the steamed peppers started to soften uncovered the dish and cooked some more browning the pepper tops. Did it again with just farm raised burger we had done from the neighbors crippled bull calf. Let me tell you I can stuff myself with stuffed peppers. I picked a bunch of peppers this morning and have them in the smoker, BilletHead

Sounds good for you Scott. I was a bit worried and had to read your post twice. I thought you might of went whacko thinking I had read you had stripers in a field! I want a cart and as long as Mrs. BilletHead catches no wind of this post I may get one My bad, BilletHead

My, my we have opened a can of worms. Let the haters hate but I have not only one but two yeti coolers. Did I give full retail? No but I used discounts. Here we go, First one was a 25 quart Roadie. Got it at Bass Pro using some built up points. Used a another sporting goods card to pay for it thus building up more free points. If you pay bills with cards it is the way to go as paying it off every month will get you free stuff when building up points. Second one is the 45 quart size. Let me tell you a couple of yeti stories, sorry no bear attack stories. Mrs. BilletHead had a day off yesterday and we went to Joplin shopping at the big box store Sam's. Took the 45 quarter size. Put 5 frozen gator aide bottles in it. Warm cooler at that. As the cooler cooled some condensation forms water on the bottom of the cooler. Drove down, shopped. Put in cooler two 5 lb. blocks of sharp cheddar. a pound chunk of smoked blue cheese and a bunch of bratwurst. Hit Academy and other places taking our time home. Back home and open the cooler unloading it. There was ice in the bottom of the cooler, not slush but ice. Granted cold air travels down but it was solid ice. Second story, took tea from the fridge and put it in a water storage bottle the refillable travel type. No ice just tea. same deal in the cooler with froze bottles. Hot weather had been dove hunting first part of September. Opened cooler up. ice crystals had formed in the tea bottle. I used to be able to hunt and hike the mountains in my younger years, antelope on the flat land too. There was a time when I had six assorted coolers. Time and age, ice and fish on ice and abuse over those years followed. Soon all of those fell apart. So how much ice did I use over those years? A BUNCH for sure. So now another story. We make trips out West to fly fish. A small truck camper is our home for those two weeks. We take our food. Frozen food saver sealed. Some pre cooked and some not. When we go we want to spend time fishing and not cooking. Ok big 45 quart packed and dry ice on top. One week into the trip we have to thaw out food when before warming up or cooking. Cooler not riding in the front of the truck with AC but in the camper across Kansas or Nebraska in triple digits. If they would have made them and if I could of afforded them at that time many moons ago when we got married at 18 and 19 they would of certainly paid for themselves. If I am still living for a couple of more decades they will still pay for themselves.<br />Let the haters begin to hate and by the way mach 3 Gillette for the baby face and bulk cheapo two blades to keep the chrome dome smooth as a baby's behind.<br />BilletHead<br />P.S. second 45 size was bought from Austin canoe and kayak out of Texas. 20% off and free shipping. If you don't mind an E-mail from them once a month sign up and get some kind of discount for each letter.<br />http://www.austinkayak.com/ I am not affiliated with them just a good place with good customer service

Only if someone tells her Scott! Crapola you and Chris have my number. Looks like I need a cart and harness and it will make it easier on me and Mrs. BilletHead. Mr. BilletHead might be in the dog house? By the way I drove up to Schell this morning. One of the area workers said there were sixteen teal there a couple of weeks ago, none now but two pintails and two shoveler spotted this morning.

I impatiently await with popper baited breath Mr. Ness, BilletHead

Man up kayser! All joking aside we love our layouts. When we do walk any distance use my mule, They are a bit cumbersome yes but not too heavy. Even a woman and maybe a child can do it. Like I say don't carry the load you do. Pop them up with six pins, a little camo from the native plants and brush where you set up and you are good to go and a dry rear to boot. Keep in mind to dry your blanket between trips and after you hunt the spot because the wet blanket will be as heavy or more than the layout. Take up BirdWatcher's offer even if it is for the days you don't have to go far. Just my two cents for what it is worth but like I say we don't and cannot carry a load far. This sweetheart of mine carrying is 54 years young. If she reads this I might be in trouble for the age and mule remark, might just stir her up some? Make life exciting in the BilletHead household. Wanna know how much she weighs? On second thought I won't go there as I know my limitations! BilletHead

Yes the heat is back but the Summer season is coming to an end. Picked more tomatoes but they are small. Got to have four slices to a sandwich instead of one. Still tasty though. Might just pull them and get the bed ready for lettuce. Did see evidence of my first tomato worm. Looking out the bedroom window I see a stem up top without leaves. Getting peppers still. Got a bunch of new blooms after that cool spell and all the rain. Bookoos of the tobasco peppers. Don't know what I am going to do with all of them. I had put some of them in the jar of pickled peppers I made to give them some zip. I got one that was hidden in a mouthful of the banana peppers and my tongue was on fire and went numb. Hot little suckers for sure. I did another experiment last week for grins and giggles. Took a handful of assorted peppers and threw them in the smoker. 4 hours of smoke and set the heat to 280 degrees. some of them got a bit crispy and some stayed a bit softer. Smoky and concentrated flavors. I took one of the jalapenos cut it open, scraped out the seeds and chopped it up and added it to a bowl of brown beans. Yum-o Darn good eats. I will be doing more with about the same amount of smoke and a bit less heat keeping the peppers less crispy. I am sure even the crispy ones will rehydrate fine for cooking. Need to do something with all the peppers. I am hoping we will have a few still on the vine when the hen of the woods mushrooms bloom. The peppers were real good in the pickled shrooms I did last fall, Billethead

I like them too Wrench. A quick down and dirty tie. Color combinations are endless. BilletHead

Got to wait until Oct. 5th up here. Already been looking around some though

Got out for a drive today. Decided to trek to Four Rivers Conservation area to see what the high water had done. All I can say is dead black sour smelling vegetation. Not all but a good part was affected. Some high planted beans and humps with smartweed still showing. They are doing there best to get it drained but the damage is done to what crops were growing. Lots of herons and egrets walking around getting stranded fish in puddles. While driving I got to shoot another young eagle. First off it looked as though he had been studying the fishing regs of the area. After that followed him about his business, BilletHead

There will be a whole lot of flocking going on before I am done. I may have to flock around the clock tonight to get them all done. I have a dozen of my first full bodies (cheapo) that the heads don't detach from the bodies. Wait until I remind Mrs. BilletHead about these. She will tell me I would (doing these)be a pain to flock with. BilletHead who feels he will be flocked to death soon.

Thanks for the comments and input. Yes Gavin I would like the rear hook too. So far my internal wire rigging has not impressed me, meaning support for the rear hook. My wire bending skills are lacking right now. Need to work on that. I would like to keep these as light as possible keeping them out of the chuck and duck class of flies. I can throw this size a long ways with the eight weight. Funny hearing the prop spin like a P-51 mustang flying overhead when they wiz by on the cast. BilletHead