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So for a while now i've used the camp/hunting knife sharpening "stones" and gadgets. also i've used the carbide/ceramic "V" pull through stuff a lot. any counter top plug in unit has been junk or inconsistent. my hunting knives don't see as much use as my kitchen and butchering knives. i get ok results but nothing seemed to get as sharp as i know it could be. Looked all over to put my hands on some "Japanese water stones". No place seemed to stock any. Also they take some skill that i really don't have. I've contemplated the Ken Onion Edition Worksharp electric sharpener with various belts. it grinds to a convex edge versus flat bevel but so be it. I've heard those edges hold up to more abuse anyway. Got it home last night. Had a set of cheap "forever sharp" JA Henkels knives that i'd butchered the junk micro serrations off of with my shop sander. I sharpened some of those with this worksharp last night, using it for the first time. It's not as good as whetstones but damn sharp enough. arm hair shaving sharp and enough to take long slivers off the a magazine page in held out in front of you. I was contemplating getting the 12,000 grit belts but i think i'll just wait for the 6,000 or 4,000 grit belts wear out and then use them with jewelry buffing compound. Pros: fast to get an edge from re-profiled to razor sharp. can change angles of guides to fit the need. can be used to sharpen pretty much anything with a very minimal learning curve. you can see the blade the whole time on the belt to know where it's at and what it's doing vs the pull through a blind slot design. Cons: still think it's not completely sharp as it could be. guides help you but at the same time make you retarded as you start to rely on them and get inconsistency. metal dust especially when hitting the burr for the first time makes me think i should be using a mask keeping me from breathing any of that crap in. no spot on it wide enough without changing around it's configuration and removing guide to polish the spine and secondary bevel on my bigger/wider kitchen knives. Ken Onion Edition Worksharp Tool and Knife Sharpener it's pretty straight foward but any questions i'll try to answer.

you couldn't just grab one from the mini-fridge in your room or fridge from your suite?

i got you. yea we've done all them. even sliced them thin to make lasagne/lasagna. we've done noodles but it holds so much water you practically need to squeeze it out with cheese cloth. otherwise it gets too mushy. same with freezing. i just remember we got a lot. doing 4 probably this year.

we had a big conviction here with a couple hunters who had several deer poached. they only got caught because they bragged about it at a local bar and vaguely on social media.

it funny in this area people hate nuisance tags for different reasons. one people filling them don't follow up on and report them as much as other tags. i do know the tag issuing tech here does hand a small number out first and if you fill them only then she'll give you more. also she won't give them out if you don't allow hunters during the season. mostly though, we don't get high allocations of DMP tags here like other areas of the state. so when people get denied for the season and then see farmers getting deer damage permit/nuisance tags during the summer it bothers them. if the tags are issued though it's because crop damage is being done and they're needed.

@chas0218 holy hell. 15 zucchini? i had 6 plants and we ate it all summer, gave some away, and could probably use it as clean fill. lol better stay on those every day.

gotta pass time some days somehow.

i had never seen one until a couple years ago. we were on the back deck. i thought it was the coolest thing. then this weekend we were cleaning out the garage and had one flying around in and out of the garage all around us. few right next to my face a couple times and surprised me. didn't get the best look but it was pretty green with a dark head so it might have been a male.

well the good thing is the strippers can come to you. also you can always say you lost him and ask for forgiveness later. unless it's real close to the wedding which i never understood.

there's going to be things that don't make sense because you're trying to have the captive deer dealt with the same as wild deer. they're effectively two completely different things with their own set of problems. i know there's various live tests that can be done with varying degrees of accuracy. i think age and incubation is a big factor in all of them isn't it? younger deer more likely to produce false negatives? deer aren't really livestock but you're using them and treating them the same. so like i said it has to be accepted for what it is. if it's as you say, i agree that it doesn't make sense to rely on it to relocate wild elk but not permissible with deer. i don't know the ins and outs of deer farming regs. i have to think live testing would work knowing some limitations and restrictions to it giving a deer farmer the go ahead to do whatever. wild deer you aren't concerned about boundaries because there are none. captive deer i'd think you want to save your own ass and have solid bottom portions of fence to isolate your deer from wild curious deer. i don't know of many captive deer fences that are like that. also i grew up on a farm, we've had storms and debris take out fencing for cattle. what happens if a quarantined positive herd gets loose because they weren't euthanized? also down south it's not as prevalent and they do some things we really don't up here like controlled burns that would have an impact on those prions just laying there not associated with deer. there's a ton of questions and situations that are beyond me. i'm sure there's things to be improved on both sides of the fence. CWD effects on license sales isn't really quantifiable unless there's a legit survey out there that says otherwise. i'd think you'd hear about it if there was, so that's probably another debate.

yesterday i had a local restaurant brewed beer called YPA and some of my wife's Helen of Troy blonde ale from rare form brewing co. sorry no pictures. both were good. i'd drink them again.

seems odd that i haven't gotten it. i know i've had to come into contact with it. i do know that i often wash up when i come in the house. usually with a heavy duty soap that cuts grease and most likely oils from poison ivy. still others have gotten it and it's around.

busy weekend. working on it more early this week. it's the business week so it should be all sunshine vs during weekend weather.

you're putting your words into my mouth. no i don't want anyone to get screwed over. i would assume continued work toward an excepted live test is going on, if they haven't got one yet. then randomly sample and quarantine of the deer in the fence. if nothing is found after so long then i guess you're fine. i'm fine with my tax dollars going in a pot with everyone else to pay for it. there has to be a way around offing your whole herd and without a CWD meanings nothing attitude. maybe it's on the horizon but until then the means to deal with it is probably the best available. i doubt that DEC and the state would do nothing if they figured out there was a positive wild deer a mile away. unfortunately it's a lot easier to address deer in a pen than a wild deer. a big question is you, someone else, or I has no idea where it came from. was it the deer a mile away that had it first or your deer in the pen, when they rubbed noses or whatever may have caused a transfer? people don't really understand where it comes from yet. it just pops up and any CSI can't connect the dots, despite there must have been a reason. it's all speculation.

fished our pond on the farm for all of 20 minutes. cousins with their little ones hammered the bass with kid poles and worms. they weren't biting much by the time we showed up from Memorial Day activities in town. still hooked up though. had some 5-6 lb bass in there but don't know if they made the winter or are still in there. not long from now juvenile frogs hooked in the lower lip and tossed out into the center work well. they're unfortunately in a pickle and they know it. have to twitch the rod here and there to get them swimming a bit.

i honestly didn't know the number of 5 years but yes i meant once you're allowed to rebuild. of course they don't fence in where wild positive deer are found. you should keep the fence up it makes sense as traces of it is still probably there after you remove the deer. I don't disagree with you they should continue to do more but eliminating all vectors as you put it isn't feasibly done. the cost versus risk for one of the vectors might not be worth pursuing versus another one.

to be clear there's no real set price from branch to branch. some may have overhead costs for say storage were others don't. I posted ours. Sounds like GRST branch is close to if not the same.

i don't think we agree on how deterimental CWD is. we've already had that discussion. still a lot unknown about it though. doesn't matter were it came from or who's to blame. the outcome would be the same. reason for policies that are going in place. i mean we except you can't transport firewood that has a potential bug, so it makes sense not to transport deer in some forms, potentially with a different kind of "bug". it sucks to have a deer farm lose it's whole herd but i don't think a dead positive deer comes up that often. you are compensated some for the loss. deer in a fence aren't totally isolated from wild deer. if there's a case found it's best to snuff it out earlier than later. you can rebuild your farm herd in a week. wild deer population not so much.

QDMA here in NY is trying something new. Many branches have roundup ready soybeans available. My Upper Hudson River Valley branch has some available while they last for $10 per bag. You'd typically pay close to $80-100 normally. Here's some of the hitch.... - bags are 50lb bags that will do about an acre with equipment. otherwise 3/4 to half that if broadcasting by hand and doing a "poor man's plot". - beans must be innoculated. innoculate is cheap and available at most all ag/farm/seed stores. it's just mixed in with the seed in whatever container prior to planting.- you've got to be a QDMA member. (even if you bought a one year membership and just one bag, the cost is still 50% of what they normally run) - you've got to leave it standing to feed wildlife. it can't be harvested. once beans are gone till it in, mow it, or whatever you need to do. - pickup only for the most part. we have a location in washington county and one in rensselaer county (as Warren, Washington, Rensselaer, and Saratoga counties is our area we typically serve). @Culvercreek hunt club i believe might have some as well for any of you out in western NY.

they're becoming more and more common (events). I get the emails for my wife.

i don't drink coffee but on a bad morning i'd get a frozen/frappachino mocha coffee. it tastes more like a milk shake than anything. Lots of place to get that. Tried starbucks and holy hell they complement you in such an over the top manner you feel like you're at a self help meeting or something. then the orders that some people place are insane. i mean it takes a good verbal run of 15 seconds to get some out. how the employees keep that stuff straight is commendable. there's been controversy over Starbucks pandering to anti-gun crowds because of their customer base. here i have yet to see a single cop at a starbucks and many in dunkin on more days than not. something must have happened to cause that.

Happy Birthday! Hopefully it's a stress free day at work.

I believe it. As it is now i get mulch from a local farm by the pickup truck load. Possibly on the list foenthis weekend too... idk. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Close to 3 acres here. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

So I was digging through my phone uploading pictures from site visits foe my job. Stumbled across this when we went to Disney World. Actually from Raglan Road pub in Disney Springs. I had their signature collection flight and it's was all good, despite vastly different from one to the next. The Irish red coupled with its not bleedin chowder.... oh man I could live off it. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk