Post Season

Re: Post Season

Postby Deltaman » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:33 am

Glad that you are making good progress on your camp while the weather is still mild :thumbsup: Are the mosquito numbers lower now, than in the coming, warmer months?
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:17 am

Deltaman wrote:Glad that you are making good progress on your camp while the weather is still mild :thumbsup: Are the mosquito numbers lower now, than in the coming, warmer months?



They're not too bad, yet. At dusk we're starting to get a few.
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:27 am

Duck Engr wrote:44 bags of Crete. Woof. Made my back hurt just reading it. Hope you at least had the sense to get the 50 lbers instead of the 80s.


No. They were 80's. See pallet on that flat bed, and the trailer load of drill pipe.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:14 pm

Quite an investment for a fellow who's giving ducks up for deer...

(That stinky old marsh is a hard addiction to kick.)
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:49 pm

Rick wrote:Quite an investment for a fellow who's giving ducks up for deer...

(That stinky old marsh is a hard addiction to kick.)



Deer? That's not me..... I did the company deer lease thing somewhat unwillingly years back, and I'm not doing that again.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Duck Engr » Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:39 pm

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Duck Engr wrote:44 bags of Crete. Woof. Made my back hurt just reading it. Hope you at least had the sense to get the 50 lbers instead of the 80s.


No. They were 80's. See pallet on that flat bed, and the trailer load of drill pipe.
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:57 am

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Duck Engr wrote:44 bags of Crete. Woof. Made my back hurt just reading it. Hope you at least had the sense to get the 50 lbers instead of the 80s.


No. They were 80's. See pallet on that flat bed, and the trailer load of drill pipe.
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Body parts made funny noises, and I was sore for a few days. That should be the most labor intensive part we have going forward.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Ducaholic » Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:10 am

Rick wrote:Quite an investment for a fellow who's giving ducks up for deer...

(That stinky old marsh is a hard addiction to kick.)



Killin a few gave DC a new lease on his duck life no puns intended. :duck:
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:26 pm

Ducaholic wrote:
Rick wrote:Quite an investment for a fellow who's giving ducks up for deer...

(That stinky old marsh is a hard addiction to kick.)



Killin a few gave DC a new lease on his duck life no puns intended. :duck:



With the lack of migration and threat of hurricanes, I really don't know how I continue to be optimistic with this endeavor.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:12 am

It's a sickness.
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:36 am

This is an article published by the Urbana Daily Courier of Champagne-Urbana Illinois in 1914. We for sure don't have this problem anymore.

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Re: Post Season

Postby Deltaman » Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:26 pm

WOW! That'll get the imagination running hard :lol:
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Re: Post Season

Postby Ducaholic » Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:20 pm

Rick wrote:It's a sickness.


Then there are a bunch of us that are terminally ill :thumbsup:
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:49 pm

Long day adding steel to the main frame. We have a bit more steel to add and weld over the next month or so before we add the roof to the exterior awnings. The concrete will then be pressure washed and sanded if need be. It's going to be a long process having only weekends to do this work.

Me, welding the angle clips to the pipe that will attach to the east and west end purlins.
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Welding the last of the eight drill pipe to it's anchored flange. The main structure frame we saved and somewhat straightened since the hurricanes.
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View of the pipe we've added so far. We have lot more to go yet.
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We've come a long way.
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The marsh restoration project near our blind that I've mentioned here a time or two is starting. We can hear every morning the sound of airboats carrying operators to their excavators and other equipment . It's going to be an interesting summer.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:34 am

Blood, sweat and hope.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Deltaman » Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:13 am

Great progress Dave :thumbsup:
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Re: Post Season

Postby Darren » Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:27 am

Great stuff Dave. Hopefully that restoration work makes for a lot of "fresh" habitat, I've found to be duck magnets on my end.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Ducaholic » Mon Apr 04, 2022 11:05 am

Dave...Keep on keeping on! Good site to see!
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Sat Apr 09, 2022 3:24 pm

It was a little chilly this morning.

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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:08 am

Hate to have bailed on the project after transferring crates, but the alternative would have been far worse...
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Re: Post Season

Postby Duck Engr » Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:29 pm

Good on ya Rick and DC! Looked to be a good turnout of folks per Ramsey Russell’s Instagram page, if y’all were at the same function.
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:48 am

Duck Engr wrote:Good on ya Rick and DC! Looked to be a good turnout of folks per Ramsey Russell’s Instagram page, if y’all were at the same function.


You made me go and take a look, and that was us..... The video was of yesterday mornings final release of the many that were captured. Saturday was awesome in numbers as well. Lots of young biology students on these two excursions.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Darren » Mon Apr 11, 2022 8:33 am

Very cool, know they appreciated the extra hands ! Guess we need a full on WFF meet-up one day to do some banding.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Mon Apr 11, 2022 9:39 am

DComeaux wrote:...Lots of young biology students on these two excursions.


Knowing they readily gathered big crews for them had discouraged me from spring banding in years past, but it's so much more pleasant than our fowl weather captures, that I'll likely keep tagging along then, too. With luck, one last one weekend after next...
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Mon Apr 11, 2022 11:13 am

Rick wrote:
DComeaux wrote:...Lots of young biology students on these two excursions.


Knowing they readily gathered big crews for them had discouraged me from spring banding in years past, but it's so much more pleasant than our fowl weather captures, that I'll likely keep tagging along then, too. With luck, one last one weekend after next...


Standing quietly, listening to their whispered conversations on the trailer in the pre dawn darkness makes me feel old. I did smile and chuckle a few times, though.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Darren » Mon Apr 11, 2022 11:14 am

DComeaux wrote:
Rick wrote:
DComeaux wrote:...Lots of young biology students on these two excursions.


Knowing they readily gathered big crews for them had discouraged me from spring banding in years past, but it's so much more pleasant than our fowl weather captures, that I'll likely keep tagging along then, too. With luck, one last one weekend after next...


Standing quietly, listening to their whispered conversations on the trailer in the pre dawn darkness makes me feel old. I did smile and chuckle a few times, though.


Don't feel too bad, Ella and I felt the same. And boy did I pick up on one to tell....another time, not on the internet.
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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:21 pm

Makes me feel really old to have initially thought you were talking about listening to the birds, instead of the kids.
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Re: Post Season

Postby DComeaux » Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:24 pm

Does anyone know if we'll have shotgun shells to purchase by hunting season?
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Re: Post Season

Postby Rick » Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:51 am

I've seen "September". But that was last summer...
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Re: Post Season

Postby Deltaman » Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:38 am

I checked Roger's last week, and they had a few in stock. Don't imagine the prices will get get any better between now and the season.
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