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It's a Grandson!!!!! He will arrive in August...so no Hunting season birthdays....he can be out in the future hunts with grandma then....

No real plans yet, but I'll take pictures if I come up with something. Hmmmm...., maybe I'm planning to take pictures of whatever I don't know I have planned to take pictures of. Sounds like a plan to me! Will post pics as soon as I'm done doing whatever I'm planning on doing to show you all what I decided to do if I do anything at all.

Congratulations! You are going to love being a Grand Parent. I do. My one and only 1 yr old grand daughter. Where I expect her to be in a couple of years! LOL!

Some good advice here. I used to do freshwater professionally, but now just keep hobby tanks at home.

Stoke the wood stove Shoot some arrows downstairs, if shoulder will allow me to. Stoke the wood stove. Go for a snow shoe walk in the woods out back. Stoke the wood stove. Go down and watch some of the races on the lake. Stoke the wood stove. Put in more wood.

Gonna clear the driveway, hit the store for a survival pack, get a fire going in the fireplace and then camp out on the sofa and smell the stew simmer all day in the crock pot.

If anybody here feels like they're just spinning their wheels, please check out this song...and let the words be a blessing to you!

When you have to shoot , shoot. Don't talk. Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez

I haven't seen it yet. I wanted an idea of value before I saw it. It won't happen though. The guy isn't moving from $500 and I'm not overpaying. For $500 I can get a quality, used production rifle that hasn't been tweaked by a random guy with a hacksaw and a dremel.

I thought I'd pass this on..... "Why Grandpa carries a gun" The Quintessential reason - Why Grandpa carries a gun: Why Carry a Gun? My old grandpa said to me 'Son, there comes a time in every man's life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin.' I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed. I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place. I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world. I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world. I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government. I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared. I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy. I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love. I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate. I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me. Police protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Start plowing out the woods trails to the sap tank and releaser buildings. Got my work cut out for me and the loader with snow as deep as my shoulders are high in the woods. Gonna be a long day but its got to get done for the warmup coming. Hopefully I will get tanks set in vac pumps and releasers setup. Not hopeful though theres just so much snow pack to get through.

I'm not. I'm gonna do what wooly said. We'll see what happens.

Buy at least a 25 or 30 gallon tank. Believe it or not they are easier to take care of then the smaller 10gal tanks. Start with tropical freshwater fish. A great mix would include swordtails, black molly's, a school of neon tetras, 1-2 angel fish, and 1-2 bottom feeders like algae eaters or catfish. This used to be a hobby of mine and I enjoyed it greatly

Leave her be would be my suggestion.

Truthfully the people asking don’t really want to know why; they are looking to get into a rhetoric fight. They don’t really care what you have to say, and already have a few sound bites chambered and ready to go as soon as you stop talking. These folks don’t really have an open mind, and nothing you say is going to change their mind. http://www.guns.com/2015/02/14/opinion-why-anti-gun-activists-love-to-ask-why/

A pretty brunet cashed me out for my 6 pack and lottery today. Then I went home and had some nice chili and fresh bread….. Seems like a pretty well rounded day so far..LOL!.

I was at a podiatrist's office. He had a new chair resembling a dentist's chair..He told me to turn over on my stomach ( so he could work on the bottom of my foot). He pressed a button and my BUTT rose up in the air... I said to him " I'll bet they sell a lot of these chairs to proctologists"... He said.........." You bet your ass".....True story....

"Never ask a podiatrist for a conversion in metric. They only know feet."

Brrrr... Get back inside and stoke the stove Burt! I'm sitting in my den next to my wood stove watching the news with my pooch lying between my legs and enjoying some 21 yo single malt. (I'm drinking the scotch not the pooch) LOL

-5 at 5:00. Going to be cold tonight!

I would say the Ruffed Grouse, but I will admit that my own personal experience is quite limited on the other two. Wild pheasants pretty much disappeared from our town in Western NY a few years prior to my getting old enough to hunt. They used to be the top game species in the 50's and 60's, far more popular than deer were then. I only ever shot at one, when I was 14 with my dad's old Browning sweet 16 and I missed it, never to flush another. My shots at Woodcock were also just one, but that was a hit and kill as the bird flushed straight up and sort of hovered for an easy shot with my grandpa's old side by side Stevens 16 ga. I cut my teeth on Grouse, or "partridge" as we always called them. On my first hunt at 14 years old, with my uncle and cousin, I fired 14 times at 10 birds with my Ithaca 37 16 ga, modified choke and didn't hit one. It seemed that they were always holed up in the thickest, nastiest cover and that they were just designed to get away from hunters with their erratic flight and explosive flushes. When I finally did manage to bring one down the next season, I could not believe how good they were to eat. Grouse is the only "white-meat" bird I ever had that tastes good to me, with that rich, nutty flavor. Turkey and chicken taste like cardboard in comparison. For that reason, ever since, I have taken every opportunity to hunt grouse that I could get. I have yet to get a limit on grouse, but have doubled on several occasions. My most memorable hunt was another with my dad's old Browning. On a hunt long ago, he and I were down to our friend's Southern-tier camp for the opening of deer season. It opened on Mondays back then, Sundays were off-limits, and we got to camp on Saturday. Myself and two young friends, about my own age, decided to check out our tree stands and do a little grouse hunting on Saturday afternoon. My buddies headed deep into a ravine where their stands were and I headed for an old overgrown apple orchard at the edge of the woods where I planned on hunting Monday. When I got there, I flushed a grouse. Just as it disappeared into the heavy cover, I pulled the trigger on the old Browning and dropped it with a load of 7-1/2's. When I went to pick it up, it flushed again (or so I thought), and I fired again with the same result. It turned out to be a second bird, so I ended up with two in the bag with two shots. There have been less grouse killed at that camp than deer, so all the old guys back at the cabin were quite surprised when they saw that both shots they heard had connected. One of the old fellas was a little perturbed because he thought the shots would run off the deer. He settled down a bit after we gave him a taste of that grouse however. They still talk about those two shots at that camp 30 some years later. In the years since then, I have killed a lot more deer than grouse. I can clearly remember every grouse, while some of the deer are a little hazy now, the does especially. For me, shooting deer is like shooting ducks in a barrel compared to shooting grouse. I would say the same thing about Woodcock. The jury is still out on the pheasants, but I do know I don't like eating them as much a grouse, so that takes away any incentive I might have to pursue them, the same as with wild turkeys. I have ate many kinds of North-American wild game, and hands down, ruffed grouse is my favorite. Lucky for them they are so tough to hunt.

Grouse.

Leave her be.. the coyotes need to eat too.

"President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." Clint Eastwood

So not used to be the good guy on here. Lol. The DEC will not be the savior on mature bucks. It will be the individuals that have a balanced herd based on what their ground/area warrants. Then trigger management will do more than points or number of deer killed. Those who truly get it on mature bucks already know the length and timing of gun season has more to do with what you see than don't.

Women! If it wasn't for -----, there would be a bounty on 'em!

Sounds like some good plans for the day. I just got up and I'm going back to bed. Kidding Been reading the newspaper and tapping keys here and there.......Text back and forth with our daughter, she just landed in Rome Italy around 8am our time. She is gone for almost three weeks with some school mates; a few days in Rome, a longer stay in Northern Italy with the girl that stayed with us in September then they hit Paris for a couple/few days before flying back. Woot!!!! There goes my retirement. Well, time for my weekly shower/shave. I'll take the dog for a short walk as it is way to cold for a couch potato pooch.................

Think I'll cosy up and lern sum comma core math...

Love is like playing bridge , if you don't have a good partner , it's good to at least have a good hand .

I need comfort...I'm making a big stuffed turkey....

I do not believe you have to have an archery tag to hunt with cross bow....it is a weapon that you use in gun seasons and only the last 2 weeks of bow with a valid muzzleloading tag( I had to buy my muzzle loading tag to hunt with mine last year)...it ONLY requires a "on line" course which is a joke at best.

reloading....

Walk across the street ( accompanied by The Mermaid) to the Acorn Mart for coffee and to read the Sunday Paper ( Fat Paper Day). We sit in a booth with a few other retired old farts. Come home and whip up a quick breakfast... We split an omelet this morning, so tomorrow will probably be Eggos plus bacon or link sausage.. Clear the walks and the driveway of that white stuff that fell this afternoon.. Around noon I'll gather up my buddy Howie and head over to the Legion for Sunday School, which will include a couple of beers and opening a few bell jar tickets.. After that I'll come home and whip up something for supper.. I have some leftover turkey, so tettrazinni is a definite maybe.. Pretty exciting stuff, EH ..?..

I don't need to be asked, I am a giver :-/

"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." Yogi Berra

How much did you pay for the e-cigarette, because I'm looking at getting a new one

Hey, who asked you...? Don't you have some marbles to polish or something,lol

I was thinking the same thing Paula, then I saw the pic.................. Oh boy, what a let down.

Oh boy

Let mother nature handle it. I have a doe in my yard with broken rear leg since September...they can survive on three legs...

A saying my grampy used to say on occasion. Well, if your up to it. Lets get down to it. And damn the man. That doesn't put his hand to it.

Yeah the vendor selection went downhill. Its much more about the guns now. Nothing wrong with that but its not as good as it used to be.

Hmmmm... this video has been used for all sorts of subjects. Still funny, but when it refers to select people on this board, it stops. Not everyone knows those mentioned and it makes the video an "inside' joke. Also, the correct usage is "wear" not "where".....just sayin to check spelling in the sub-titles.

Im a little light on baby seals so Im just tossing in a bunch of birds that died by flying into my windmill, which ironically wasn't even turning because there was no wind.. But DAMN IT I CARE!!! WOW!! Smells like Chicken !!

Little cold here - firing up my baby seal burner.

No one is going to come to my house and take my wood stove. That's not part of the deal. But when my wood stove needs to be replaced for whatever reason, sometime in the future, I won't have the option to buy a relatively inexpensive stove that will meet my needs. I will be forced to buy a relatively expensive stove that may or may not meet my needs, or simply give in to the way other people heat their homes. I would just like to have the option to purchase the wood stove that is best for me when that time comes. The EPA is trying to take that option away from me because there are several groups of people who would prefer that no one have a wood stove at all.

This guy like to hear himself talk. Doesnt take a brainiac to recognize bucks are not continuosly moving for years before calling a place home. He makes it sound like they are nomads. The OBR commentary is just lol...

Bill --- Just put one bullet in the chamber and remove the clip , magazine , whatever . That will make it lighter !