so waht ya doin today?
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oscarflytyer
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fiver
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well crud.
I had hid about a dozen T-bone steaks [I snuck in the house about a month back] down in the bottom of the freezer.
the oldest girl found a couple of them and the pork loin steaks I put on top of them about a week back.
the wife got to digging around with the G-boy this morning looking for any leftover stuff from the garden and found them under the 2lb. bag of Pea's I put on top of them.
at least I got a nice dinner out of the deal even if it did cost me about 75 bucks.
I had hid about a dozen T-bone steaks [I snuck in the house about a month back] down in the bottom of the freezer.
the oldest girl found a couple of them and the pork loin steaks I put on top of them about a week back.
the wife got to digging around with the G-boy this morning looking for any leftover stuff from the garden and found them under the 2lb. bag of Pea's I put on top of them.
at least I got a nice dinner out of the deal even if it did cost me about 75 bucks.
CWLONGSHOT
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Well my soft lead bucket is mighty thin again.... I need ta smelt more but rain comin in later so Ill have ta wait for another dryer day.
Guess Ill size and GC more cast....
I have some 300 cases to prep...
I wanna load some Whelens up with these Saeco 352's.
Guess Ill size and GC more cast....
I have some 300 cases to prep...
I wanna load some Whelens up with these Saeco 352's.
L Ross
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That is a terrible feeling, frustrating, and a feeling of being violated in some way. It is something we would never do ourselves and therefore it is doubly disturbing when it happens to us. I used to counsel my officers to apply some empathy when dealing with victims, especially minor first time victims of burglary. There is a lot more going on there than the financial loss.
I hope your situation is resolved quickly and in your favor. I also hope the scammer is going commando one day and zips up an instant too quickly and paramedics are required.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
It's snowing. But it's only about an inch, not the 3-6" predicted. Not sure what I can do today, clean the shop again I suppose. I found out a 2" Forstner bit makes a real mess when you bore a big buncha holes, so that needs cleaning. Maybe I'll get the jacks over to the crawler with the thrown track... or not.
I have been having some pretty good hip pain so went to the orthopedic surgeon yesterday.
They took some X-rays and guess what. I get a new left hip
They said it was bone on bone.
I guess that is why it hurts when I walk.
They said to walk 45 minutes a day to strengthen the muscles for the surgery.
Yeah right, I will give it a try.
I have a couple of broken teeth, and have to get them fixed before they will do the hip replacement.
I have a bunch of brass to load from sage rat shooting.
At least that is a sit down job for me.
They took some X-rays and guess what. I get a new left hip
They said it was bone on bone.
I guess that is why it hurts when I walk.
They said to walk 45 minutes a day to strengthen the muscles for the surgery.
Yeah right, I will give it a try.
I have a couple of broken teeth, and have to get them fixed before they will do the hip replacement.
I have a bunch of brass to load from sage rat shooting.
At least that is a sit down job for me.
CWLONGSHOT
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Hahahaha. Nothing wasted nothing gained my friend. Lead bullets dont care how many times they get recycled and you dont get better without practice.
I have melted more pre cast that I can recount!!
CW
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Back from a Costco run. It continues to amaze me how my wife finds stuff that the store's stockers surely aren't aware of. She even finds stuff I've never heard of, like today's find of a six-pack of Chinese soup with raman noodles and shrimp won-tan. I very, very, very, very rarely do Chinese. I could live forever and not yearn for Chinese. It's all hers.
Costco sells organic foods to satisfy the local earth muffins, enviro-whackos and Prius drivers. Organic skinless and boneless chicken breasts were priced $4.99/pound, and the chemical laden were $2.79/pound. What we saved by buying the chemical laden version, my wife spent on her Chinese soup.
Costco sells organic foods to satisfy the local earth muffins, enviro-whackos and Prius drivers. Organic skinless and boneless chicken breasts were priced $4.99/pound, and the chemical laden were $2.79/pound. What we saved by buying the chemical laden version, my wife spent on her Chinese soup.
L Ross
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You're right, they feel like lost days. I've been putzin' around with fishing tackle for the up coming white bass run on the Wolf River. We tie skimpy little streamer flies in mostly combinations of blues, and purples, and red, some times with some mylar strips tied in. We run them on of all things, a Wolf River Rig. Basically a three way swivel with a dropper of a foot to a foot and a half in length of 6# test to a snap swivel. Depending on the depth and current we select a sinker once on the river. Another end of the three way has an 8# dropper 3 to 5 feet long with the fly tied on. The line from the rod has a cross-lok snap we attach to the third eye of the three way. We cast these rigs across current typically in 9 to 12 feet of water, let them hit bottom and work them back to the boat. The sinker hits and we lift and take in a little line as the rig slides down stream. Eventually the rig ends up straight down stream from the boat and we retrieve it and cast again.
There is no bag limit on white bass in inland waters. These particular fish come up from a very large shallow large called Winnebago. The white bass run up the Fox and Wolf Rivers to spawn. A couple of years ago, our DNR tracked a school under the ice of Lake Winnebago they described it as of "biblical proportions". Two miles wide and six miles long, all white bass. They are prolific spawners and when conditions favor they can produce huge year classes of fish. Once viewed as a less than optimal food fish, anglers have learned to keep them alive until ready to leave the water, then bleed them and bury them in ice in an ice chest. When filleted, the angler should carefully remove the "mud line" of fatty reddish tissue just under the skin, centered over the lateral line. Nice white firm filets remain and are very tasty. I like them much better than crappies.
Days like this are good for little repairs we forget about such as loose rod guides, reel spool filling, cleaning and lubricating the reels. There a red elm fire in the wood burner and I am warming up after having been out in the pole shed for awhile gathering equipment. A hot cup of coffee with a splash of George Dickel to cut the hazelnut creamer will warm the insides.
L Ross
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Speaking of chemical laden chicken, have you seen the latest Purdue Chicken commercial where they make a big deal about chickens being fed, "small amounts" of animal products, such as bone, and chicken blood? Of course they use a Mom holding her tyke who makes a face. Most likely because he is almost 4 years old, is still in diapers, and has just beshat himself. The kid don't know chicken blood from Kool-Aid.
Anyway, perhaps these urban chicken eaters ought to see what their beloved "free range", "cage free" chickens eat. Worms, bugs, small mice, little reptiles, turds, maggots, mouse droppings. Whatever they come across they peck and and gobble down. The yolks of those eggs are extra orange and delicious and so it the chicken meat, but hardly the blue sky, clean organic, pristine fowl that the earth muffins imagine.
smokeywolf
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Most city folk have no idea what cage free or free range means. Read somewhere that having enough room to turn around, pretty much qualifies as "cage free".
As far as feed containing "animal product/biproducts", farmed fish, chickens, dogs (pet foods) are often fed animal product/biproducts that contain "concentrated protein" which is rendered animal shelter carcasses, usually including flea collars and of course the pentabarbital used in euthanizing.
Most urbanites would lose their cookies if they knew about the final chill bath (aka "fecal soup") that chicken carcasses go through prior to packaging.
As far as feed containing "animal product/biproducts", farmed fish, chickens, dogs (pet foods) are often fed animal product/biproducts that contain "concentrated protein" which is rendered animal shelter carcasses, usually including flea collars and of course the pentabarbital used in euthanizing.
Most urbanites would lose their cookies if they knew about the final chill bath (aka "fecal soup") that chicken carcasses go through prior to packaging.
smokeywolf
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Cut 2 and trimmed 2 trees interfering with our view of the valley behind us. Used the electric pole saw as one of the trees was on a pretty good slope and getting a good footing was not possible.
Mrs. smokeywolf is making bison chili for dinner. No corn bread; she can't have it, not fair for me to eat it. Have given up cookies, pie, ice cream. Still eat toast with marmalade and my son made me a scratch-made birthday cake a while back. I ate 2 slices he ate the rest.
Mrs. smokeywolf has lost well over 50 lbs. since she was diagnosed with diabetes and heart failure. She practically has to run around in the shower to get wet. Her GP told her to start worrying more about keeping weight on than her blood-glucose numbers.
I've lost close to 15 lbs.
Mrs. smokeywolf is making bison chili for dinner. No corn bread; she can't have it, not fair for me to eat it. Have given up cookies, pie, ice cream. Still eat toast with marmalade and my son made me a scratch-made birthday cake a while back. I ate 2 slices he ate the rest.
Mrs. smokeywolf has lost well over 50 lbs. since she was diagnosed with diabetes and heart failure. She practically has to run around in the shower to get wet. Her GP told her to start worrying more about keeping weight on than her blood-glucose numbers.
I've lost close to 15 lbs.
Smokey should post some pictures from his rear deck. If ever there was a million dollar view that's it. Can see literally miles down into the heavily wooded valley below him.
Lopping down some saplings growing up interfering with the view is a very small price to pay.
Lopping down some saplings growing up interfering with the view is a very small price to pay.
fiver
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took the Bronco out for a ride this afternoon when the wind died down from about 200 miles an hour to maybe 10.
a few rock chucks were showing their heads while hiding in the basalt rock cracks along the two lane highway.
I decided to check on the area I let sit idle all last year and it paid off with me getting 4 out of the 5 I shot at, and watching a couple more scoot off after getting within 150 yds. of them but being too slow getting the AR up in place for a shot.
I moved along to another area, and missed a 6th then made a good head shot at 200yds. on a 7th. and watched a couple more scoot again.
I tried to get a shot at a weasel for about 15 minutes, but he wouldn't stop moving and finally got down in a crack where I lost track of him.
I did shoot one ground squirrel before leaving the first area, and then took a head count on the ones that were out noting they are moving back into a couple of spots they haven't been in for about 5-6 years now.
I tried to scoot over to where the fire was last September, but there is a 4-5 foot tall snow drift blocking my way, and I had already slid my way through some of the slickest mud I've ever seen
[the Bronco has never slid around like that before, kinda fun, but not somewhere you wanna walk back to town from]
I cut up and around one of the farm's near the big lone mountain out there on the edge of the little chain that runs east-west, and run into a herd of about 50 Elk that looked like they had been running for a couple of hours.
they weren't sure where to go, and they surely weren't happy about me seeing them in the open like that.
so they dropped off a little ridge and made the mistake of cutting down where the road winds around so they run into me again, I kind of nudged them towards the water hole and waited them out giving them time to work their way around the big rock ledge knowing they'd find the water once they dropped down off the ridge on the other end.
a few rock chucks were showing their heads while hiding in the basalt rock cracks along the two lane highway.
I decided to check on the area I let sit idle all last year and it paid off with me getting 4 out of the 5 I shot at, and watching a couple more scoot off after getting within 150 yds. of them but being too slow getting the AR up in place for a shot.
I moved along to another area, and missed a 6th then made a good head shot at 200yds. on a 7th. and watched a couple more scoot again.
I tried to get a shot at a weasel for about 15 minutes, but he wouldn't stop moving and finally got down in a crack where I lost track of him.
I did shoot one ground squirrel before leaving the first area, and then took a head count on the ones that were out noting they are moving back into a couple of spots they haven't been in for about 5-6 years now.
I tried to scoot over to where the fire was last September, but there is a 4-5 foot tall snow drift blocking my way, and I had already slid my way through some of the slickest mud I've ever seen
[the Bronco has never slid around like that before, kinda fun, but not somewhere you wanna walk back to town from]
I cut up and around one of the farm's near the big lone mountain out there on the edge of the little chain that runs east-west, and run into a herd of about 50 Elk that looked like they had been running for a couple of hours.
they weren't sure where to go, and they surely weren't happy about me seeing them in the open like that.
so they dropped off a little ridge and made the mistake of cutting down where the road winds around so they run into me again, I kind of nudged them towards the water hole and waited them out giving them time to work their way around the big rock ledge knowing they'd find the water once they dropped down off the ridge on the other end.
