Pre Season

[DComeaux]

Everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. I'll post more info once I get a better handle on my duck hunting situation.................... It never ends.

[Duck Engr]

Oh no. Just when things were looking up.

[Darren]

oh man, sorry DC. Hope it works out

[Ricky Spanish]

Hang in there.
We all are going to have something to complain about come November. Let's hope it's just hunting stuff.
I hope you all land on your feet.
Buckle up buckaroos.

[DComeaux]

I can actually feel this painting. It awakened my senses. I'm looking forward to the fall.

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[Rick]

I can actually feel this painting. It awakened my senses.

Careful, I'm having a brain-lock on the name of the artist who plainly painted it, but recall reading someone's opinion that he puts an aphrodisiac in his work. (Might rather think it's just a comforting warmth.)

[Ricky Spanish]

I can actually feel this painting. It awakened my senses. I'm looking forward to the fall.

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We have a calendar by the same artist.

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[Rick]

Over my brain lock: Terry Redlin.

[Ricky Spanish]

Not Terry Redlin imo.
These look familiar?
Same style. Hopper Studios.
Geno Peoples.
Same exact style.

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He's into ducks too and it really is redlin-like but brighter. Gayer dare I say
Doh.

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My Redlins are all dark and gloomy.
Light this one and it's not too dark.

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"Autumn Shoreline" is really dark

[Rick]

Not Terry Redlin imo.

Google "Terry Redlin Autumn Traditions"

[Ricky Spanish]

Not Terry Redlin imo.

Google "Terry Redlin Autumn Traditions"

The signature looks authentic enough and I think I recall seeing it before.
Not an art expert...I thought it was Norman Rockwell.

[Darren]

Over my brain lock: Terry Redlin.

Oh it's textbook Redlin for sure

[Darren]

I can actually feel this painting. It awakened my senses. I'm looking forward to the fall.

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Nothing like the feelings his work brings about. Starting to get the itch for all the feels, myself, now that our annual big group beach trip is complete. Had my fill of sun, and especially sand.

[BGkirk]

“Secluded pond” painting is all we did last year and oddly enough it was blue wings too like in the painting as well


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[DComeaux]

“Secluded pond” painting is all we did last year and oddly enough it was blue wings too like in the painting as well


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I had to search for it......Awesome painting.

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I now see it was actually posted above.

[DComeaux]

I can actually feel this painting. It awakened my senses.

Careful, I'm having a brain-lock on the name of the artist who plainly painted it, but recall reading someone's opinion that he puts an aphrodisiac in his work. (Might rather think it's just a comforting warmth.)

The painting is signed, bottom right. It hangs in our office. I stood there and stared at it for a time.

[DComeaux]

Everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. I'll post more info once I get a better handle on my duck hunting situation.................... It never ends.

Back to this. Last season the actual owner of the marsh property we lease met us at the boat a couple of times when we came in from a hunt. He was doing some work on the "high land" on the ridge where he had a cattle farm before the hurricanes. During our conversation on the last encounter, he mentioned his frustration with the upkeep of the property, and he had thought of selling it.

Fast forward to the quoted post I made above. I got a call a day or so before this post, and at that time the sale was in progress and our future on this property was unknown. I do know the guy attempting to buy this property but had no idea of his intentions for us on that property. Last Tuesday I got another call telling me that the buyer had backed out and that the place was ours for this season.

There is another possible buyer for that southern section (marsh) of this property and that buyer may be a better fit for us. We'll wait and see what happens.

In the meantime, we're moving forward with our rebuild. Material pricing and available time has slowed us down. Yesterday Bennett and I made it out there to install the 30' purlins on the overhang sections we installed a month or so ago. If all goes well, we'll be back next weekend to install the roof material and start the with wall construction. We have plans to extend the roof over the remainder of the concrete slab for boat cover, but that's planned for next year after the season.

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I rode out to our boat launch to look at the water situation, and It's currently at a perfect level. We have plans to ride out to blinds in the next few weeks to check on things, such as vegetation growth. I'm curious to see if the fertilizer I put out in the spring did its thing, and if any of the wild bird seed mix, I had sown came up. The marsh restoration project to our south is still going strong 7 days a week. The sound of airboats and other machinery from daylight to dark is still happening.

[Rick]

...The marsh restoration project to our south is still going strong 7 days a week. The sound of airboats and other machinery from daylight to dark is still happening.

They jus' pickin' eggs.

[DComeaux]

...The marsh restoration project to our south is still going strong 7 days a week. The sound of airboats and other machinery from daylight to dark is still happening.

They jus' pickin' eggs.

The back end of price lake road is closed off. They're staging the equipment at, and running the marsh from the end of that road.

Did y'all get the boat cover rebuilt in the marsh, yet?

[Rick]

Did y'all get the boat cover rebuilt in the marsh, yet?

Thought you knew Douglas. As long as it's not him bailing, ain't likely to ever happen. Goose weed is four or five feet tall in the boat slips.

[DComeaux]

Did y'all get the boat cover rebuilt in the marsh, yet?

Thought you knew Douglas. As long as it's not him bailing, ain't likely to ever happen. Goose weed is four or five feet tall in the boat slips.

That sucks...I guess I did know the answer.

[Darren]

Did y'all get the boat cover rebuilt in the marsh, yet?

Thought you knew Douglas. As long as it's not him bailing, ain't likely to ever happen. Goose weed is four or five feet tall in the boat slips.

Does it go away on its own or you churn the slips too after your pond?

[Rick]

Will have to grind it.

[Duck Engr]

How often are you having to change props after all of your grinding shenanigans? I’m going to have to buy a new prop for my surface drive this year. 10 mile boat rides with a 3.5’ river finished mine off last season.

[Rick]

How often are you having to change props after all of your grinding shenanigans? I’m going to have to buy a new prop for my surface drive this year. 10 mile boat rides with a 3.5’ river finished mine off last season.

Have only replaced mine once in over fourteen years, and that's because it spun on the shaft. Not much abrasion from floating marsh plant matter, live or humus. And what I'm referring to as "grinding" is, with regard to humus "black dirt," largely creating current to wash or erode it apart and release the bacteria farts/CO2 trapped therein and making it float.

Sand soil would be a different matter.

[DComeaux]

Training my new decoy spread. Turn up the volume.

[Deltaman]

Thanks Dave!!!

[MARSH BEAR]

Another picture for you DC

[DComeaux]

Another picture for you DC

Reminds me of a lease I was in years ago. The camp was on a point of an intersecting canal along the the Intracoastal waterway. Generator power that we carried in and out, and a cistern for water. Had many, many good hunts out there. Would sit on the pier cleaning ducks, and used the duck guts to catch catfish while we were plucking. Had many interruptions during the plucking process.

[Rick]

...Would sit on the pier cleaning ducks, and used the duck guts to catch catfish while we were plucking. Had many interruptions during the plucking process.

Put me in mind of a friend's dad's coonass motion rig. Hunted a slough loaded with choupique and put a couple of his decoys on droppers to a trot line he'd bait with duck guts for them. Hooked choupique moved the decoys to help during his hunts, after which he'd toss them in a wash tub to sell at a country store down the way and rebait with guts from the morning's kill. Never got to meet him but wish I had.