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I definitely will be going after the squirrels in our area. They stripped every pear off my two pear trees. I want revenge. By the way, my wife asked a question about what the squirrels did with all those pears. Do they try to store them like nuts? It seems that that would not really work out all that well. On the other hand if they ate all that they took off my trees, they would be laying on their backs with their bellies about to explode. By the way, I know it was squirrels because I saw them doing it.

My new posted signs.

Just made me kind of laugh.

A sign in front of my place.

Be sure to read all signs carefully

Perhaps, but there is a limit as to how much aggravation I am willing to put up with. To me it is like logging into a buggy site that relentlessly tortures you with errors. Eventually it reaches a point where you just refuse to tolerate it anymore. I am approaching that point. I assume that it is Burmjohn who is allowing these adds to proliferate on this site, so maybe he has not really abandoned this site and still has some activity with it or perhaps has sold it to someone else who is just milking it dry. But I don't think these ads are just automatically placing themselves here. I don't know, perhaps the outfit that is supplying the internet space is doing it. But wherever they are coming from, I hope that someone is aware that there is a law of diminishing returns at work here to the point where people get a bit tired of being abused and start to lose interest in fighting all the aggravation of having ads pushed at them to the extent that is happening here.

I am starting to get quite irritated at the way this site has become choked up with pop-up ads. It is getting so that you have to spend more time collapsing these pop-ups than reading the forum content.

It is interesting when you live long enough to see those kinds of changes. I am 80 years old an my memories are constantly bombarded with those kinds of time related changes. So many of my favorite hunting areas around Naples are now homesites. Up on the hill behind my house there used to be a wide open field where a neighbor grew a wheat crop that I can remember. Now it is choked with tall maples and no more open areas. The big ice storm that we had rearranged everything on the hill. Deer trails and all feeding areas moved around. Many of the old family farms have become new 5 and 10 acre housing areas or completely posted up by anti-hunting owners. You are right, "Time sure marches on and waits for no one".

Her recent exposure of her economics platform shows the real Kamala Marxist political mindset. Price controls on everything. Get ready to experience severe product shortages and long lines at the gas pumps if she wins the election. What the Hell is wrong with her head anyway?

I would guess its a bird wing. Especially given the proximity to the camera. If that was some kind of machinery, it would be running over the camera. Do you have any dead critters as bait nearby, cause it looks like a crows wing to me.

Bristol bobcat up in one of the blue heron nests. Wish I had had a bigger lens on the camera at the time. I was hiking up on top the hill behind the house when I heard all the herons making a racket over where I knew there was a rookery. I wandered over and saw several herons circling all the nests and then I saw this guy thinking he was hiding from me.

I judge political intellect by results. I lived through the Trump presidency and the Biden presidency. If any level of honesty is applied to the two, I find it difficult to understand how anyone could possibly rate the Trump years anywhere near the same rating as Biden and Harris years. Not even close.

This thread has brought to mind the old stories about the Africanized killer bee infestation here in this country. Supposedly they were heading in our direction. Has anyone heard any updates on their ivasion, or was that all just a made-up scenario?

I think the pony died on the way here.

So I guess if you want to hunt, you better have a computer. Does everyone have a computer and printer? probably most do, but does every hunter have computers and printers?

Nothing yet, but I'm always later than most in receiving mine.

Ha-ha-ha-.....That could be a problem with the excessive comfort. But it might be worth it.

There could be all kinds of discussions that could come from this video that may revolve around all the alternative reasons for hunting other than meat consumption.

So we have been feeling good about Trump's chances in the up and coming election, for a long time. Well, I am not so over-confident. I am noting that while some individual topical polls may look overwhelming in favor of Trump, I still have to wonder why some of them are so close, especially the over-all general population polls. I personally have a problem understanding how anybody could vote against Trump. It causes me to wonder what exactly is wrong with those people who are in the corner of giggling Kamala and those who were ready to vote for wacky Joe. It kind of shakes a persons faith in the way so many voters think. People seem to treat elections as "popularity contests" instead of looking at the issues and capabilities. Who do you LIKE instead of who can do the job. I cannot maintain a confident attitude that things will work out the way common sense would tell you they should. All I can say is, do not allow over confidence to take over your thinking. Do your part in getting out the vote. It may not seem like it, but we are the underdog here and there is no reason not to act like it. The Dems may be down, but they are not out.

Why is this country so screwed up? Haven't you seen the evolution of education away from the basics of knowledge and into all the social experiments? I've had 80 years to see the changes. It's not just education that has evolved, it is most of the facets of our lives. It all goes hand in hand with students rioting and burning flags and spray-painting monuments and all kinds of other social nonsense. Students are not taught the things that we used to consider common sense knowledge. The emphasis today is on trying to figure out what gender is appropriate, and all the other woke issues that clog up education leaving no room for the basics. Anti U.S. themes are being taught to the point where there is no room for patriotism and any appreciation or interest in our past. None of this happened just recently. It has been a slow evolution across the decades until now we are where we are and still going in that same liberal direction. Every generation has claimed that the world is going to Hell in a handbasket as each generation aged. We have gotten used to saying, "Oh that's just old-age talking." Well, that may be correct, but that don't mean that the old-timers aren't correct in their observations.

Fun to build and even more fun to use.......Good job!

It was kind of funny.

I have to wonder about the value of summer scouting. I guess it does give you an idea of what deer are in the area. But I have to say that patterns and areas where they might be now, are no indication of where they will be when Fall weather comes around. The feeding patterns are 100% different. The cover is different, and of course when rut slides in whatever you think you are learning during the summer months is all changed. I like to see what the fawn crop looks like and see if I recognize any of the survivors from last hunting season just out of curiosity, but little else is learned this time of year. I am way too busy this time of year to get too involved with learning things that will be completely different when hunting season comes around. But I am willing to learn new stuff. What do you all learn from summer scouting?

According to poll numbers, Kamala has worse numbers than slow Joe, But you never know. It could happen that all those that are afraid of senile Joe might return to the Democratic party faithfuls even if the giggler is in the presidential nominee. Do not take anything for granted. After all, this is politics and anything can happen.