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    First of the season

    I understand and agree with most of hat their saying to avoid wildfire but what does obtaining a permit have to do with weather you safely know how to make and maintain and extinguish a fire? perhaps it's because if they deem conditions unsafe they can deny the permit and play the parent and...
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    55 years ago today

    A few months before daddy put me in the oven.
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    Music for the day

    He also has cousins in North Vernon Indiana by the name of Cartwrights, He has a cousin named Little Joe and Aunt Letha had a farm called the Ponderosa.The family still has it but her and uncle Hatch are gone now.They had the farm before Bonanza ever came out. No connection that I know of. the...
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    Music for the day

    He's actually my step Dad but raised me since age 4 so to me He's Dad.His name is get this.Bill Hill and yes the whole tome growing up and to this day folks call Him Hillbilly
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    Music for the day

    Fairton about seven miles from me.just turned 72 a few days ago
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    Music for the day

    Across the river from where my dad was born in lawrenceburg Indiana is a place called Rabbit Hash, KY.My dad was actually bron in a house boat in the middle of the Ohio River during the April Friday the 13th 1946 flood.That was before Lawrenceburg had a levee.The Doctor knew not what state they...
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    Music for the day

    I hear some Cajun influence in there.
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    Crayfish

    Might be worth looking at night.I almost always find them in the mountains under rocks so I bet anything their nocturnal.I have seen very few not under cover in the day time. One exception being the monster in Laurel Lake
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    Woodchuck Hunting

    I can vouch for Bevans,their all over down here but always near fields.You don't encounter them back in the woods but always on the edge. All those rules and regs are he main reason I don't hunt anymore. Gotta be a rocket scientist in this state to kill a groundhog or anything else legally.Thats...
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    Crayfish

    Yes I"m not usually intimidated by Crawdads but this one took my heart.If I could have coralled him into shallow water I coulda bear slapped him out and then had my way with Him but in his own element He was quite fearsome.
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    Crayfish

    I tried to catch the one in the lake but instead of allowing me to herd him into shallow water where i could smack him out onto dry land he headed for deeper water.He was in about two feet of water when i seen Him.I often will smash the small ones flat with my hand and then reach under and get...
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    Crayfish

    I personally have seen only one Crawdad in NJ and it was one of the biggest ones i ever saw.This was in laurel lake in the 70"s.I was about 11.Here is some info from a scientist that sent it to me.Apparently there are several species here. Six crayfish have been reported from NJ, four native...
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    First Snake Of The Season

    That takes a good eye to spot them in vegetation.I find most of mine crossing sand roads.A green vine wiggling across a white sand road tends to attract my attention.
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    The big purge

    You got taller!
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    Marcescence

    All my white oak leaves are gone as well.Had a lot of ice and heavy snow here and trees down every where.Must have took the leaves with it.
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    Calico or Dobbin's Bog

    My balance is not nearly as good as it was when i was young.I used to have cat like balance on thin logs.I chalk mine up to the sway of my belly.After two or three swings started by minor differences in ground contours or stepping over something.By the third swing I"m usually on my knees or...
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    Calico or Dobbin's Bog

    I remember we were about to give up on that top stone when a lucky tap of your stick made a metal on rock tap sound and within seconds the stone was bared to the world.
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    Calico or Dobbin's Bog

    I have notice Jessica wobbles.Never noticed you wobbling Guy.I have a definite gimp now from the miniscus operation.Hopefully that will disappear in he next few weeks.
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    The big purge

    I wore 32 32"s in high school Bob.I"d say your holding very well.I don't know what i wear now since Momma buys my clothes and I"m not asking.
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    Marcescence

    New term for me as well/Knew of the condition but never knew a term for it.Opposite of fruit flagging:-)
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