Doc

Airedale- That was an excellent assessment of the Democrat party. I've been around for a pile of years and have observed the way this country changed. Yes there are a lot of things that have been changes for the good. But the most troubling thing that has changed is the way people think these days. The attitudes of individualism and self reliance has faded into an attitude of seeking out the nanny-state as being the answer to all of our needs. It is an evolution that perhaps can never be turned back, but it is the evolution that people like Harris and Biden feed on. It is an evolution that deserves push-back. I have watched 3-1/2 years of true Democrat influence and what the cost is to our country. This Biden-Harris team has shown just how quickly this can all come tumbling down. They have done a great service to us by showing us how quickly the progressive policies can wreck a country. Now it is time to take this great lesson and do the right thing at election time. The country cannot withstand more of the same.

By the way, this topic was brought to you one of our past members, good ol' growalot. She was a good gal that fed this site a whole lot of interesting topics on a regular basis. She was fun. She knew how to get under some people's skin a bit, but that kept the site lively. I wish she was here now.

I have always had kind of an aggressively active life. I have always lived at the base of a very steep hill that some would call a mountain, and found that I enjoyed hiking that hill and all over the top of it, in almost all kinds of weather. However, here I am now at 80, and I find that the old body has some limits. I find myself hunting much closer to home, and a lot of the long-distance scouting has become a thing of the past. There does come a time when things just have to slow down, and in my case that slow-down has begun. I know there are a lot of guys that can keep going to a much older age, and I truly envy those people with those genes, but as Clint Eastwood used to say, "A man's gotta know his limitations".

Happy 59th birthday. Are you doing anything special for this special day?

I understand completely.

Just keep them coming. Damn 83 years young. I'm right behind you at 80.

So, what is the strategy to get that one?

I saw one of those little guys just yesterday hovering in front of a window, looking in. We do not feed them, but we have a lot of flowers around the house that seems to attract them.

My ground blinds are usually made out of natural materials found right at the spot, and are used year after year. I have bought a few market ground blinds, but many are too restrictive and need more height for the upper limb of the bow. So I guess a pertinent question would be is this for bow or gun. It makes a difference.

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?