The Original O'l Farts Club.

[Putembk]

I've been talking to @dogzter about that a bit

Give me wide open spaces with a river near by! I deserve it!

 

[OleReynard]

River or lake anyway, that's why I moved to MN but moved here a little too late.

 

[Putembk]

Boy you are right about the lakes....how are the skeeters up there?

I prefer a river .....you become one with nature. I say that and spend most of my time now days in a boat. Go figure...

 

[Boo]

Boy you are right about the lakes....how are the skeeters up there?

I prefer a river .....you become one with nature. I say that and spend most of my time now days in a boat. Go figure...

And equally as much time in your cellar…

 

[oldfogey8]

Is that relative isolation or relative isolation

I see what you did there. Well played.

 

[oldfogey8]

Carrington Effect

Had to look that up but that would do it too. If happened, very few of us would be able to determine which scenario brought us back to the Stone Age but with better weapons…

 

[OleReynard]

Boy you are right about the lakes....how are the skeeters up there?

I prefer a river .....you become one with nature. I say that and spend most of my time now days in a boat. Go figure...

Actually skeeter aint as bad as they let on to be, I think it's way to keep people out.
It dont do a very good job.
We have something called no see ums. You can tell you're being bit but can't see the bastards and the black Flys ain't no word for it.
Launching a boat in July August is a mfer.
And ticks we have ticks.

 

[OleReynard]

Boy you are right about the lakes....how are the skeeters up there?

I prefer a river .....you become one with nature. I say that and spend most of my time now days in a boat. Go figure...

I have the Mississippi about in my backyard as far as I'm concerned the best fishery in this state.

 

[SubGirl]

I see what you did there. Well played.

Im trying that new batch out. They are crazy stronger. My keyboard wants to jump out take some with you on vaycay.

 

[oldfogey8]

Im trying that new batch out. They are crazy stronger. My keyboard wants to jump out take some with you on vaycay.

I’d like to but Costa Rican prisons are probably even more of a bummer than here in the Untied Stakes…

 

[oldfogey8]

And ticks we have ticks.

Ticks suck.

 

[OleReynard]

Ticks suck.

They bite too!

 

[oldmaninbc]

Actually skeeter aint as bad as they let on to be, I think it's way to keep people out.
It dont do a very good job.
We have something called no see ums. You can tell you're being bit but can't see the bastards and the black Flys ain't no word for it.
Launching a boat in July August is a mfer.
And ticks we have ticks.

We have no-see-ums here in BC they are a pesty little thing!
Going to a walk-in lake that I use to favor meant walking through a swamp for 10 minutes, the skeeters were enough to drive you crazy, just the sound of them was like being in a open air torture chamber. Give me a gallon of deet and paint brush...

 

[Boo]

what do you turn on when you turn on...

 

[oldfogey8]

They bite too!

I get the Lyme ring rash pretty regularly(might not be a thing outside of New England but Lyme Disease screws up the nervous system-comes from mice, stews a bit in deer ticks then infects humans). I have always tested negative for Lyme Disease but being a skeptic(conspiracy realist), I question the test results.

 

[Sun&Soil]

I live on a golf course and a green belt that extends into the mountains....we have every kind of varmit imaginable.....bear, Mountain lion, yotes, bob cat, fox, coons, deer and elk.

Lions scare me. I've camped with packs of yotes yelpin and howlin all around me and bear brushing the tent as they are moving in on park dumpsters. Lions scare me, I couldn't camp comfortably in your backyard.

How's Kevin? Stella Blue is getting big and becoming more independent.

 

[dogzter]

Montana morning and evening with Bubba.

 

[Sun&Soil]

Heading to Costa Rica to check out their wildlife, beaches and volcanoes. The misses and I are bird watchers and they are supposed to have some seriously diverse birds. I would like to see if I can get a couple of grams of locally grown ‘flowers’ too. If I get some seeds, that would make me a happy old fogey too.

That sounds amazing. Leah and I are birders ourselves. Hope you get to see alot of that diversity.

There is a free Bird App named Merlin if you are not familiar with it, and is an excellent resource for identifying, learning, and even calling in birds.

Safe travels

 

[Mtn. Nectar]

evening….putting torch to Lemon Ed’s … not to shabby….

 

[oldfogey8]

That sounds amazing. Leah and I are birders ourselves. Hope you get to see alot of that diversity.

There is a free Bird App named Merlin if you are not familiar with it, and is an excellent resource for identifying, learning, and even calling in birds.

Safe travels

The Merlin App is awesome. The Sound ID feature is pretty incredible/space alien stuff. There is a Costa Rica database I put on both our phones. Hoping to see a Quetzal, parrots and hummingbirds. My wife would be really happy to see a sloth though. Birds=awesome, sloth > awesome? I am sure I will be posting pics ad nauseum…