Pygmy

Nice pictures and a beautiful family...Welcome aboard, Pilgrim....

Get on allopurinol and eat whatever you want...I've been on it for years, and it doesn't affect me...affect me....affect me.....

Tail does look a tad long, but I would say WOODCHUCK..... I shot one many years ago that was perched on top of an upright fencepost....

You haven't been wearing your honey flavored jockey shorts again, have you ??...

With the Chinese troops wearing heavy winter clothing which was probably mostly frozen, there were many reports of enemy troops taking several solid hits from carbine rounds and staying on thier feet...Not so with the 30-06 rounds from the Garands and the Bars...One solid hit and down they went... One issue with the Bars was that they tended to freeze up.. The Marines would urinate on the action to free them up...Not an easy thing to do with a thousand screaming Chinese charging at you...Many Marines felt a much better option was a garand with extra bandoliers... " There's a thousand Chinks coming through the pass playing burp gun boogie all over my ass... I'm movin' on...I'll soon be gone...Well it ain't no joke when your M1's broke, I'm movin on..."

I may be mistaken, but I believe that they did load carbine ammo in ten round stripper clips to charge the 30 round mags that were often used in the selective fire M2 carbines...

Mine is walnut stock vintage around 1970...Got a few honorable scars, but nothing major and is essentially in as good shape as when I bought it from Nichols Discount in Painted Post.. I think I paid about 50 bucks for it...The Mermaid has a somewhat later model, beech stock but pristine...

Might be corrosive primers...I'd check it out before I shot it....Some of the foreign stuff was loaded with corrosive primers well up into the 1950s...Still good stuff, but you need to be diligent about cleaning after firing..

I caught my first trout on a fly with a royal coachman also, about 58 years ago....He was a stockie brown and I caught him from Meads Creek near Hopper's bridge downstream of Monterey.... There was a hatch on, and I had no clue about matching it..Probably only had one or two patterns of dry fly...I picked the RC because it was pretty..

Barred owls are WAAAAAY cool !! I have had them follow me around the spring turkey woods when I was walking and calling... Unlike Great Horned owls, which are very spooky, barred owls don't seem especially wary of humans....I love it when several of them get together and have a " hoot-fest".....

It was a slow morning for Keuka...We caught ten smallies, with 5 of them in the 3 -4 pound range...Put back all the big spawners and kept one 13-14 incher.. Only got 2 perch, but both were big..One was just shy of 14" and probably weighed 1.5 pounds... I kept 7 big ( 10") rockies, which I am about to fry up for supper..... The water was glass flat most of the morning, which nearly always makes for tough fishing...Still, a lovely morning on a lovely lake...

Secret bait..But "yes".....

After several false starts, I'm finally headed for Keuka this morning...Meeting a buddy in Campbell at 7:30...We should be on the water at Hammondsport by 8:30....I have lots of secret spots down that way...

We always called 'em pisscakes.....

Beautiful buck and a lovely lady... Not necessarily in that order....The Mermaid and I will have to get together with you and Doreen sometime soon...

Colchesine never seemed to help me...For a number of years I used heavy doses of nsaids such as indocin and ibuprofen, and they helped, but very slowly....The last couple of attacks I did the prednisone ( 5 day dose) and it had an immediate positive effect..Felt better within hours... If you get an attack, go to a specialist..I went to several internalists and they would draw blood and tell me my uric acid level was normal or below..Finally went to a rheumatolgist and he told me that was typical, because during a gout attack all the uric acid is concentrated at the site of the attack...The only way to really diagnose it is to draw fluid from the inflamed joint and examine it under a microscope for uric acid crystals, which are actually little needles that prick into the surrounding tissue and cause the inflammation...Let me tell you.....Having a big needle inserted into a painful, swollen knee joint to draw off liquid is quite an experience.. Since I have been of the allopurinol ( about ten years) I have had no problems...Hope it stays that way...

I suffered with it for years, and had it mis-diagnosed by several Docs because I never had attacks in the classic area..the big toe...Finally went to a rheumatoligist who knew what he was doing and got on allopurinol, which solved the problem.. Over a period I had attacks in both knees, both ankles, and other places..Gout CAN occur in any joint.. Painful is a mild term for it...There were several times when I was in intense pain 24 hours a day for a week or two at a time... Allopurinol is a preventative, not a remedy...The last couple of times I had an attack, prednisone knocked it out very quickly... I have not had an attack for years, and I hope I never get another one..

WHEW !! That title scared me....Glad to hear you are still alive, Girlfriend !!...<<smile>>....

Reminds me of a quote from an old friend of mine..I can't remember the details, but he said he was so scared you couldn't pull a needle from his ass with a tractor......

Carrot seeds are ordered....Thanks for the link, Otto ! Hopefully the delivery truck won't take that wrong turn in Albekoiky....

Oh they have them down there....Just don't let your weinie dangle in the water when you take a leak...

Thanks for the good advice Tony...I usually do my garlic in alternative beds every year... I love both carrots and beets fresh from the garden..In the past I have had good luck with the fat, short carrots due to my clay soil...I just always have planted them as a late spring crop and never tried them in mid summer...Now my challenge is to find some seed.....Many local places have sent back thier seed for this season....Anybody got any chantenay carrot seed they want to get rid of ??

Good idea, Rob...I;m assuming planting from seed......

I need some advice on a late summer crop.... I have a 4x 8 raised bed ..Harvested the garlic about two weeks ago, and there are some bush pickle cukes there, but they did not do too well and are about whipped.... What would be a good mid/late summer garden crop to plant there...I have done green beans in the past as a late season crop, but I already have pretty good crop of them ( pole beans) in another bed, and a guy can only eat SO many green beans.... what would a veggie ( or two) that I could throw in there now and have a ggod chance of a decent harvest by say, mid September ??

Will you marry me ??