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in reply to: Ausjim sitrep #35800

Good to hear from you Jim! I continue to wish you well. I said here before my bro graduated from the USMA and the opportunities he’s had after the military experience in civilian life have been crazy good (that is, if you can stand wearing a suit:lol:). All the best to ya, now and later.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #30503

colmike wrote: Climbed the ski mountain this morning (black diamond slope) with 30lb pack–whew. After some chores started bare shaft tuning some carbons–what a neat thing.

Then called Elkheart and wished him a happy 69th birthday. Now time for some grass feed burgers on the grill and Linda’s homegrown spinach made into my favorite salad.

Another day in paradise:D

Semper Fi

Mike

Happy Birthday Elkheart!

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #27907

I remember being a kid in the 60’s, dumping trash over the riverbank with my grandfather at the farm. Not uncommon in those days. That era was the start of the environmental movement, and I was aware. I asked, “Pop, are you sure we should be doing this”? He answered dryly, “we never had all these problems before all these g-damned Professors came around”. I have great memories of him and those days, but times and attitudes did change. I hope the new generations, and many of us, can unglue our brains long enough from the digitized world to feel the earth again and what’s real and give something back. Easy to say, harder to do. Enjoy your weekend!

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #26175

R2 wrote: Life is good:

Green and wet this year:

Shootin good:

All in family are well,

and I’m feeling ornery:

That’s great Ralph! All that green. The U.S. Drought Monitor is one of my regular bookmarks and I keep an eye out for Amarillo now…..I recall recent years past when you posted dirt. Ca and Nv are just downright SCARY to look at on that map…

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #26160

Smithhammer wrote: Nice find, paleoman. I love morels, and finding them is half the fun. Speaking of which, they’re on the menu for tonight’s meal at the Hammer homestead:

Got out for a hike with the Super D last night on the way home from work. Glassed some mule deer for a while, contemplated shooting a squirrel, thumped a bunch of stumps instead and appreciated the views and the fresh air after a day of sitting in front of a computer screen. I need to make sure to do this after work more often.

SH – you are the best pic poster on the site! Always awesome. I almost felt guilty last night…..my wife cooked some up since she loves them, and I have to say, my God I’ve been missing out. Just like steak! I have to give up my childish notion of mushrooms I’ve held for so long:oops:

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #26151

Steve Graf wrote: [quote=paleoman]Nature called a #1 and whilst standing and minding my own biz…

Being the humorist that you are, I’d a figured you would have phrased it: “Nature called a #1 and whilst standing there minding my own wiz…”

Good looking pile of shrooms.

I actually did and hit delete because that was just too lame, even for me:lol:

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #25031

Nature called a #1 and whilst standing and minding my own biz one of these guys was looking back from a bank side.. I found a whole tribe of them trying to look inconspicuous and mined a potful for my wife. She loves the things….so I’m in real good standing now:D I remember slimy mushrooms from a can as a kid….I think come the weekend a shot and a shroom sounds like a good time and maybe I can develop a more mature appreciation for these forest fungi.

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in reply to: Dead Ash #20285

I should say my son is as bad as me with the dumb one liners. He fired off a burst of Polar Bear ones he heard somewhere and amused him….what do you call a Polar Bear that lives on the sun – a Solar Bear. A Polar Bear that goes to dental school – Molar Bear….a moody Polar Bear – Bi-Polar Bear, etc., etc. And my daughter is at the self check out at Christmas when she was a little kid and she says, ” Dad, if they took the S out of Self service they would have “elf service”.

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in reply to: Dead Ash #20276

dwcphoto wrote: Paleo, I love it. I gotta say you lost me with the “they shot bows there to be st legal here”. Wake me up. Keep em coming. Dwc

I meant it like when colmike says “I shot my bow today” after saying, like we all do, something maybe a bit off topic…..street legal you know:lol:

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in reply to: Dead Ash #19408

dwcphoto wrote: You guys have some sappy jokes. We have a bunch of dead oak killed by too many years of Gypsy moth in a row coupled with dry summers. The heartwood is fine but they usually have a thick ring of punky sap wood. Dwc

dwc – Here’s a bad one that hit me in the truck this past week – What do you have when you can’t remember where Jakarta is? Indonesia:roll: They shot bows there to be st legal here…

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in reply to: Dead Ash #19402

Ptaylor wrote: Doc, that white stuff on hemlocks is called an adelgid, it’s a type of insect. And yes it’s wiping them out. Unfortunately it seems like all regions have their own form of invasive fungus or insect destroying a native tree. Here is Cali we are battling sudden oak death. I tremble to imagine what the landscape and wildlife would look like without our oaks.

A great, yet depressing, book is “The Dying of the Trees” by Charles Little. Worth reading if only to light a flame under your feet.

It is horrible what’s happening,and knowing I’m a part of the problem makes me sick. One of our local biologists said, at a recent seminar, with the way it’s going, he could envision a savannah like shrub community being all that’s left in a few hundred years. I honestly don’t know what to think sometimes….on the one hand we have to learn to live with a smaller footprint and re-invent Native pathways (of all our ancestors, not just Native Americans, to be specific), on the other, we are all living on the razors edge of a rock orbiting a huge nuclear reaction out in infinite space and IMO it doesn’t give a damn! It really is crazy we can exist at all to even think about what faces us:roll:

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in reply to: New to traditional bowhunting #18290

colmike wrote: tj

We are 40 Minutes east of Morgantown. Give me a few days notice to ensure we are here and not looking at darn boats:evil: on the coast—where we are off tomorrow to look at another of my captains–“this is the one”.

Mike

Mike – when you find one, consider the name “BowT”:lol: Sorry! I never got too far past Jr High school humor…

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in reply to: New Broadhead #15037

Stoners are only legal in Co. I heard…

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in reply to: Thanks to whoever I bought two from #14918

I can appreciate that! I gave my old Jeep to my 21 yr old son when his heap finally nickeled and dimed him enough I took pity. It had some stickers I was fond of too on that. Now I drive a real gas sipper and am going to have to walk if I want off rd anything.

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in reply to: Traditsionnaya Ohkotnik #14912

skifrk wrote: I will ask the wife on this one later and give you a right wording, be careful about comparing the 2 language as being similar, after all there is still a lot of bitter history between Poland and Russia. Interesting enough you can not bowhunt right now in Poland.

I agree on the bitter history, no doubt about that. I can only say there is a definite common Slavic root in many of the words, certainly not all. I used “interchangeably” a little loosely. God only knows why I post some of the things I do. If I graphed myself, I would probably peak out on the worst posts on Sunday evenings. I definitely do get the Sunday evening blues8)

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