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Me too. We have an eclectic collection of art and curios. Some two-thousand-year-old sculpture, primitive art and modern.

The mud painting cuts the Guccione glam.

Your kid is obviously a genius. Twenty-Three Colors of Dirt Jimmy Lee Sudduth was a prominent and beloved self-taught artist, often regarded as among the great Southern outsider/folk artists of the 20th century. Sudduth was the son of a medicine woman and would accompany his mother into the woods, searching for berries and herbs; it was on these walks that he began drawing on trees with mud and sticks. "Brushes wear out and my fingers don't. When I die, the brush dies too." He’d return the next day to see that the drawings had washed away until, by happenstance, he mixed the mud with a little syrup and found that this "sweet mud," helped the drawings stick. This early intimacy with his surroundings led him to create paintings of his everyday life with mud, berries, soot, rocks, iron, sand, chalk and house paint, using his fingers instead of brushes. "It was all there in the ground, every color of dirt and mud," he once said, "I got twenty-three colors of dirt in my own yard." Sudduth depicted his small rural town of Caines Ridge, Alabama, the people that lived there, his successive dogs (all named Toto), animals, plants and self-portraits. Later, when he began traveling to cities to exhibit his work, he also started painting buildings, skyscrapers and urban scenes. His treatment of his subjects is direct, immediate and expressive, full of affection for the world he lived in, with its many stories and colorful inhabitants. Better?

Jimmy Lee Sudduth. Been wanting one of his dog paintings for a while.

NYT in two.

Caddis probably.

That video was from a few years before I fished the area. But crocodiles live forever. You enter the water from the right behind the mangroves and the best flat is on the left across the channel. That means swimming across the channel for about 30'. No way I doing that.

Wading alone in crocodile-infested waters in Mexico for bonefish ... that was harrowing. My head was on a swivel. I was just past this guy in the opening between the mangroves.

About almost dying on the Pit River in NorCal. https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/untying/7715481

Took a break for a week. Came back to bomb in NYT but quordle in 4, 2, 5, 6. May go back into retirement.

200mg? My city doctor was reluctant to prescribe a single dose as he felt the jury was still out.

Single-hand spey. But that's another thread.

This. I would fish all that water at your feet. I've caught as many fish 10 feet from me as I have 40 feet away. Even if you cast 50 feet across that water you would have no ability to mend or manage your line. Possibly a wiggle cast, but that would only give you a drift of about three feet in that water before the current takes your line.

Twenty yards is 60 feet. That's bonefish distance. What do you need to catch that's more than 60 feet away?

And the Sexy Pineapple diet. It might be easier if we just went back to popping amphetamines like a '60s housewife.

I have no idea what protocol you are following but I would look at a limited timed refeed to replenish leptin and glycogen. Also, it's very good for the mind when you're on a diet. Don't discount that. A refeed is basically a carb "meal" after a workout. Keep protein the same, add a small amount of fat and up the carbs. This isn't a "cheat meal" as it's too easy to forget the diet when you cheat and open the gate, but rather part of the diet that allows you to get to the next level. Eat a couple of bagels, kids' cereal, a plate of french fries. Not a cheesecake. After a refeed you will wake up more energised and with "full" muscles.

There seem to be a number of people who hate it. I have to admit, it doesn't look right/great. Tell me about this Lasik stuff.

Thanks. I think I may go to with the Frontier and deal with the sights as best I can. I thought a scope on a lever action was sacrilege. Seems to be a real dividing line

Picking up a .22 S/L/LR and trying to decide between the classic, small game rifle (skinner peep sight), or frontier (semi-buckhorn sight). Classic: Small Game: Frontier: Any thoughts or experience? Using it for plinking, maybe squirrel. And I have old eyes. Leaning toward the Frontier.

There may be something to the haircut that you and Pavel sport.

^ Throw some Turkish Get Ups into the mix.

NYT in two. I may retire.

Just have to know how to handle them.

Four but it should have been three.