BilletHead

I remember a two-cycle lawn boy. that thing would wind up like a banshee easy to push and light reminds me of a Wrench two cycle outboard.

I did an experiment once on pure white bass in Stockton Lake up the tributaries. These fish are pure without any influence from stripers or hybrids. On your number two statement on the spasm deal. I found with 100 percent certainly that they all spasm at a point on how hard you squeeze them depending on the size. Little squeeze on little fish big squeeze on big fish. Some go belly up and some do not. I also noticed dingy water lateral lines were faded and in clear water very prominent. In your waters I think it is mostly clear so this is probably an irreverent point to your study. 😁 I do think it is cool that you are so passionate of this fish. Become a whistleblower and get things changed. I have still not seen such behavior on where I fish but only caught fish upstream in your lake below Truman dam. Many years ago, like in 40 years and paid no attention to much of anything that far back.

Bizarro is all I can say. You weren't at Woodstock like @fishinwrench parents, were you? 🤪

After having negative results on the invasive colonoscopes and no family problems with colon problems it's a good test in my circumstance. Not for everyone. It has a very high percentage rate of catching a problem. It first insurance did not want to cover the test but would the more expensive test. Now they will pay for it and cover an invasive colonoscopes if test comes back abnormal. Most of all the option of the box is getting people who would not get a traditional rectum hole colon peek inside Any way you look at it saving a life is a good thing. I did not mind the invasive colonoscopy at all but do not like the prep. As far as the prep goes did not mind the part cleaning out my bowls but drinking that gallon of slick slime is the pits.

Best explanation ever. I have it bookmarked on my confuser 😉.

Had two, not too bad except for coming out of the stuff that they put you out with. Pat says I love the nurses then and she and the girls just have a good time laughing at me. So now the rest of you can laugh at my expense. Now I just poop in the box and send it through the USPS. Now laugh some more. The box works. Caught a friend's cancer ahead (can we all say preventive medicine)? Of time preventing worse damage.

It doesn't hurt much to make yearly check ups. It's like this. There are more people than boats or outboard motors. Do you have clients who do yearly maintenance? What if everyone quit visiting you for that? Ignore everything hoping for the best until their motors and equipment are beyond repair? I know insurance is expensive, I get that, we both have Medicare and a supplement. We do our yearly maintenance, we see doctor when needed. Well worth every penny. Take for example the last kidney stone bout I had one night in hospital and two days plus emergency visits. 23,000 bucks. I had a small deductible already met. Never got a bill for that. Listen up like fram filters, "You can pay me now or pay me later ". Just what is your life worth? I sure don't want to get too feeble and not be able to take care of myself and be a burden. I remember you saying that when people get that way and burden society they should just die. I think I will stay healthy as possible for awhile because when you are in charge I will be taken out.

Thanks Jeff.

Thanks John.

While out checking swarm traps there was on particular spot I told Pat to look around. Soon she screamed with glee get over here. The big morels are up. This means in our area we will be finding less than more the rest of the season. We only found 26 but after brushing off and trimming the weight was 2 pounds. Bonus bunch of wild asparagus. Note all the mushrooms were around a dead apple tree.

I think you are doing the right thing for yourself. They way the doctor caught this is great. PSA is the best indicator of prostrate trouble. Things have changed the last decade. Back when and some doctors still do a digital check. I have had three years ago checking for an enlarged prostrate. I am sure many of us older ones know this. The problem with that was EVERY man's prostrate enlarges with age but an enlarged prostrate does not indicate cancer. So back years ago when an enlarged prostrate was encountered unneeded tests would happen. With the new better PSA understanding once the number jumps you need to be proactive like @Maverickpro201 did and follow Dr. Suggestions or do as you wish. I for one do not wear a tinfoil hat and have a great health provider. When it's my time to have something terminal it is my time but I for one am not going to push it.

When it shows up it's too late.

Hand caught swarm, Had to get creative. Put some parachute cord right below the swarm on the branch. Then another on outer branch above swarm. Used ATV to pull branch lower so not so high. I went a few steps up the ladder with a storage tub. Pat shook the branch on outer end dropping swarm into tub. Put lid on and dumped into the long lang. Repeating two more times. Got them in with the queen. Bees fanning at the entrance. Queen inside come here to the rest of the swarm we had flying around. Good times. VID_20240409_171614714.mp4

I could probably do that but I have empty hives close also could use. Actually JD I am just don't want to do something wrong. I have a friend who wants to come out and do one together.

The trapped swarm and it's New home. First the trap and 24 hours waiting for them to move in. let them have a couple nights there then one night shut them in and brought them home. Set them right next to the hive for a couple days. yesterday afternoon when most of the foragers were out opened both the trap and hive. Moved frames from one to the other. Dumped what bees that were left inside the trap that didn't move with the frames into the hive and shut it up. Removed the trap from the area. All took up residentisy in the Oscar the grouch and cookie monster hive. 🤣 All the swarms we have caught from this walnut tree over the last four years are the most docile bees we have. The entrance is at the base of the Old tree. The couple that live hear mow and weed eat all around the tree base.

Yea @jdmidwest! Good for you and the bees! We got one swarm that were hanging under one of our swarm traps last Tuesday. Where we had it set was near a house in a friend's yard. They came from a huge walnut tree feral colony where we get usually two catches each year. Anyway, the lady watches the trap from her bedroom window and called. It took over 24 hours for the swarm to move in the trap. Have them home now and introduced then into the new hive. Then we had a swarm out of one of our hives at the house swarm up into one of our dogwoods. Up pretty high. Pat and I got creative and was able to shake them out. So, we caught those also. They now reside in a hive that got weak and got robbed after winter. We have other hives ready to swarm. Number are high in them. JD I know I should be splitting some but in my beekeeping journey I am not quite ready to do that yet. Baby steps right now. I will get pictures added to the 2024 post.

Thanks for the update. We at BilletHeadVille we be sending positive thoughts your way. What you are sharing with us someone else might need in the future.

That is the first thing you learn. You don't go to a gunfight you go away from it.

We find a bunch in cedar groves. Easy to find in the cedar duff under the trees.

We have been around long enough to know that is not true they come up where conditions are right for the fruiting process to happen. This being said scanning for dying and decomposing elm, sycamore, and other indicator trees give a place to start looking.

Well, done man. You for sure have those fish figured out.

You have had right at the same amount of rain that we have had in 2024 also. It is weird just where morels decide to grow. The best haul in one tight area was in moms' yard under a pecan.

Good question and I will start paying attention now to see what I can see. I do know that the oyster and wood or tree ear mushroom grow above morels on decaying wood but not out of the dirt! Some more interesting mushroom stuff for you all. The largest organism on earth is a fungus, Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus | Scientific American

I don't get the dry part. We are dry still too as far as compared to the long-term average. Last year even worse and year before that bad but we still found. So, you @jdmidwest and to @Terrierman both of you guys have had way more rain than we have had here. I know you both know how the mushroom underground network works. Growing in a ring not always a true circle bigger each year. We did not find morels in some of our regular places, but we did start walking in concentric circles around those places and bingo they were there the mushroom mycelium pushing up its fruit in the form of a morel. One place in my mom's yard we found a great patch where we have never found any before. 30 yards from another patch where we found a few and 20 yards from an old apple tree we found last year that did not produce even one this season. In high school I had a biology teacher and when we got to fungus, he called it fungi imperfecti. For a living organism that produces so many spores and it takes the most perfect conditions for that spore to take hold and create a new network of mycelium to form. He said that was imperfect. This many years later I still remember that and want to say fungi perfecti meaning something totally different as they want the perfect spot to start.

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