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Do you have a really big suitcase for the airplane, or are you going to drive across the entire state for the pick up? Let me know what you want and I'll bring it back to my place so you only have to drive a third of the way across the state.

My Mom really wants an owl for her birthday in August. I'll drive the 150 miles for the pick-up and we can load my truck with some more logs while I'm there. ;-) I'll be in touch.

All the best to you! Enjoy your day.

All my best wishes to you on this day. Enjoy.

Be sure to ask for permission first no matter where you go. There's a good chance that "picking worms" is illegal in some areas as well. Does it require a hunting license or a fishing license? There might even be something official called a "worming license". If you're a 12 year old professional wormer do they just confiscate all of what you earned, like they do with "unlicensed" lemonade stands? Just curious. Put a piece of red cellophane over your flashlight and pick as many as you need wherever you have permission to pick 'em.

The big nightcrawlers are pretty easy to catch on wet nights with a red flashlight. You need to be quick, of course, but it's not hard to catch several dozen in an hour or so. I did it when I was a kid and then sold them for something like 25 cents a dozen if I recall. A little bit of potting soil and a bunch of peat moss or sphagnum moss in a cooler was the bedding. Corn starch or very fine corn meal was the food sprinkled on top. Then the cooler goes into the refrigerator of course. A few hours in a big yard after a rainstorm will get you enough 'crawlers to last for a season. Good luck this year!

Larry, If I had ever thought I'd make it to 60 I would have taken better care of myself when I was younger. I'm still rolling, and that makes me a survivor.

I'll preface this with the fact that it's my 60th birthday today and my 80 yo parents insisted that I spend the day with them phone shopping because the battery in my old phone craps out and they can't call me. We also had lunch, btw. I love them and need to be reachable for them, but today was like helicopter parenting over a 60 yo son. I'm the only one who is not married, so I'm like their mission and their target. Anyway. Off we go to Walmart to buy a phone. No one in the phone section knows anything about phones and the person who knows about phones won't be in for another half hour. So we go right to the AT&T store just down the road where the guy in skinny jeans and comfortable shoes is completely tied up with another customer. He takes a break from her and tells me to go to Walmart because he doesn't have any "cheap" phones in stock. Back to Walmart. The phone person is there by now and has more metal in her face than I've accidentally shot into my entire body through 40 years of construction work with pneumatic nailguns. After a half hour wait she gets to me and I buy a phone. She then sends me back to the AT&T store to have it activated and have my contact list transferred. The guy at the AT&T store is still with the woman he was with earlier and we wait another half hour. He eventually transfers my contact list to the new phone and gives me a thumbs up. I get home and the phone doesn't work. I'm trying to call my sister to let her know that I won $28 on the scratch-offs she put in my birthday card but I'm getting the AT&T call center. I wait for several minutes and then I'm talking to someone from India. I have friends from India, so it's not a big deal deciphering the rather interesting English. I explain the situation and the gentleman takes some info and puts me on hold. He comes back on the line and says I'm good to go. The phone is now working. Why that whole thing couldn't have been done in 15 minutes at one of the two points of sale is simply beyond me. A guy in India had to fix the mistake. Neither one of the local people bothered to activate the phone. I thought that was part of their job. Rant over.

Lots of thanks and lots of friendly good thoughts to you folks. I appreciate the well-wishes!

Weber grill, Stihl chainsaws & lawn equipment, mostly Milwaukee tools and Old Milwaukee beer , Kubota tractor (built in the USA, BTW), and a Ford truck. KISS.

Gout is horribly painful. I know. A past girlfriend told me that for her it was like going through childbirth for endless hours. She was familiar with both conditions. I know what causes it, but I have no idea why it just suddenly appears and then disappears. I've changed nothing about my lifestyle or eating habits since my last bout with it some 17 years ago. That episode was on the day that I was installing 1000 SF of hardwood flooring in a restaurant. There was no option to back out or move the contract date and I remember having tears in my eyes all day. It's not fun.

My grill of choice for the last 35 years. 14" Weber Smokey Joe. I'm on my third one because I left the first one at my cabin in Alfred. The second one was stolen from my porch in Buffalo. Something larger would be required to feed more than two or three people, though.

Correction to the previous post: The movie is titled Unplanned. My apologies for the mistake.

The new movie Planned Parenthood was given an "R" rating because it was somehow considered too violent and offensive for people under the age of 18 to see alone. So, a 16 year old girl can get an abortion without parental consent , but if she wants to see a movie about the reality of abortion she has to have parental consent? The liberal disconnect on this is just astounding and shameful. Who the heck thinks like this?

What the Russians wanted more than anything else was discord among the American people. They got that in totality when the left-wing media started propagating the conspiracy/collusion concept that was, in reality, nothing more than a coup attempt targeted at a candidate, first, and then a sitting president. It's going to be a long six years going forward for a lot of complete boneheads.

Bwahahaha! Hahahahahaha! Someone from the bar association should fill him in: being the creepiest and dirtiest lawyer does not make you the best.

Consider the grill a tool. Buy the cheap one every couple of years and hope that it works when needed, or drop the coin on one that will definitely last and is known to be reliable for years if not decades. I've never owned a gas grill, but as a contractor I've always been careful about buying tools and tend to own the best.

All the best to you!

Check your stand trees or potential stand trees during the summer. If the leaf canopy doesn't look right, chances are the tree isn't healthy.

Excellent! And Happy Birthday!!!

G.W. Bush used the word "crusade" shortly after the start of the first gulf war (1991?, apologies to those who served and remember well) and was absolutely excoriated for it by everyone across the planet. Political correctness was alive and rampant back then. Its really just a word. FWIW I've never heard President Trump use the term "crusade". Fill me in please. Edit: G.W. Bush used the term after the 9/11 attacks. My brains were scrambled for a minute.

The subject of Pirro's recent statement was Ilhan Omar. Do some research on Omar. She has zero interest in being American or in helping America. She has proved that she is basically in Congress to represent the Muslim Brotherhood.

Of course they want the young and mostly stupid to be able to vote for them. But it's mostly about them having the ability to change the rules whenever they want. Think about it, and let that sink in a bit. Then think about what might happen if they ever get the total power they really want. No Constitution, no private property, no personal freedoms or liberties...

Knee-jerk reaction. Just like what many in this country would like to be able to do if they ever get power. It's not about the guns; it's about the control.

UB grad here, and so is my younger brother and my father.