Ericdc wrote:Yea, we could use a break on the rain. Year started off on the dry side and then we got a lot of rain since April. We haven't seen near as much as you guys down south but it's been enough to keep my loggers from moving onto summer time logging ground, of which we have a lot to cut. Here's hoping it starts to dry out going into late summer and early fall.
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Marsh Bear wrote:D C we finished what we planned to do - we put in a new blind, finished pumping mud on our reconstructed island plus pumped
some mud in few low places around 2 other blinds - I am so sore I can hardly move.
We still have walk ways to construct at the new blind and repair 2 other walk ways at other blinds, and plant more grass around 2 other blinds - another full day in the marsh - that will happen in August.
How is your new place coming
Ducaholic wrote:Ericdc wrote:Yea, we could use a break on the rain. Year started off on the dry side and then we got a lot of rain since April. We haven't seen near as much as you guys down south but it's been enough to keep my loggers from moving onto summer time logging ground, of which we have a lot to cut. Here's hoping it starts to dry out going into late summer and early fall.
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Plenty of time for it to get bone dry just like last year and you know how I felt about that last year. Here's to a wet fall and lots of good habitat for when the birds show up...
DComeaux wrote:Ducaholic wrote:Ericdc wrote:Yea, we could use a break on the rain. Year started off on the dry side and then we got a lot of rain since April. We haven't seen near as much as you guys down south but it's been enough to keep my loggers from moving onto summer time logging ground, of which we have a lot to cut. Here's hoping it starts to dry out going into late summer and early fall.
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Plenty of time for it to get bone dry just like last year and you know how I felt about that last year. Here's to a wet fall and lots of good habitat for when the birds show up...
Nooooooo....I'm sick and tired of wet...I want to see cracks in the soil that cows are falling into....I want marsh levels down to normal. I want to be able to cut my grass without a four wheel drive......My mower looks like I've been to mud fest.
aunt betty wrote:I'll take the rain. Been doing my little Illini rain-dance for about 3 weeks now. Want me to stop? Send money.
aunt betty wrote:I'll take the rain. Been doing my little Illini rain-dance for about 3 weeks now. Want me to stop? Send money.
DukMan wrote:aunt betty wrote:I'll take the rain. Been doing my little Illini rain-dance for about 3 weeks now. Want me to stop? Send money.
I'm going to come break your knees...
Darren wrote:Do know the drought monitor is usually one to not lie, whereas certain conservation groups have been long (even if wrongly) accused of sunshine pumping on numbers, though those are reported to them by the USFWS, so should the blame go to them instead? Nonetheless, this colorful depiction of the Dakotas isn't good, so really hope it gets turned around soon for future breeding cycles. Reports I saw were that Canada was looking good and helping to make up for dry Dakotas, who knows.
Rick wrote: the bottom line remains not how many there are but how many make it to where one hunts - which, of course, remains to be seen...
DComeaux wrote:
.....and that's it in a nutshell.
Darren wrote:Do know the drought monitor is usually one to not lie...
Darren wrote:yea I've read the same, that it mainly hinges upon the eastern ends of the state which seem to be doing OK. There'll be bluewings aplenty over the blocks on Sept 15, load up!
Hoping to see some of you at the duck festival/calling contest next month. Think we're going to make the sportsman's show in the dome saturday PM
Rick wrote:Can't claim interest in the contests, but have made it to socialize for at least a little while about as often as not over the past few years, so we'll see...
Rick wrote:Rick wrote:Can't claim interest in the contests, but have made it to socialize for at least a little while about as often as not over the past few years, so we'll see...
That, and the jambalaya is pretty darn good.
DComeaux wrote:I'll be leaving for the camp at noon today and hope to get a little work on the camp completed this evening. We'll do this while tending a pot of chicken sauce piquant on an outside burner stove. Of course, we'll have a few refreshments when we're done for the day, which may be sooner than later.
The last day or two has given us a break from the constant down pours we've been having, and it seems we may have slipped into our usual summer pattern. Early morning light shows in the gulf with an occasional pop up shower inland during the day. Those light shows at dawn and dusk, into the evening, light flashes from the diminishing storms along the coast is something I remember watching as a kid, standing barefoot in the yard with a blade of grass in my mouth.
I think I'll start doing this more often, taking the time to slow down and take it all in as I did as a kid.... Life was simple, then.
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