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[Ricky Spanish]

That’ll help the duck trip fund!

Maybe. It usually sits there until around thanksgiving, someone gets a sore throat, and it's on like donkey Kong until Christmas.
It's not as easy as it looks.
The stuff sells itself sort of but not immediately.
There are people that try to get me to sell the entire crop to them for $3/#.
Not a chance.

Sunday we emptied the honey we pulled Saturday.
Boring as heck. We sit around watching old cowboy shows and extracting honey.

[Duck Engr]

Millet is as fine a camera hog as I’ve seen.

[Ricky Spanish]

Uploading video of my rigged hunting rig.
I've only actually seen one boat with them post receivers like in mine.
Apparently you can just buy those or have them made.
Stan's boat has them too and I keep trying to buy it.
His is a 16 footer too but is a war eagle that I think is a 1652 mv. I want stan's boat so bad. Has a Yamaha 25 an everything

[Ricky Spanish]

Might be obvious but since mid August I've had some anger issues. Been taking it out on the overgrown yard.
Too tired to raise hell or I would.


Not allergic to much but the combo of honeysuckle brush and road dust messes me up. Coughing and snorting an chit.

[Ricky Spanish]

****warning****
WSOY Decatur, IL
Just issued a tornado watch.
It's pretty black over that way.

[Ricky Spanish]

I been bad today.
Neighbors got me triggered so I strutted around with underwear up....pants on the ground.
It is NOT KOOL when old white people do it.

[Deltaman]

Neat to watch your honey-gettin' process AB, and nothing sweeter than a bumper crop, or two

[Ricky Spanish]

Neat to watch your honey-gettin' process AB, and nothing sweeter than a bumper crop, or two

Aw thanks.
It's something we like doing.
The smell.
The sticky floor is part of the deal.
She steam cleans it after we get done.
Oxyclean does a number on any propolis that gets on the floor. Amazing stuff. I've got more boxes to pull.

We set the empty ones out and bees clean them.up.
Next I'll be treating for mites. In the fall the hives start smelling like a gym locker. That's actually good honey. Goldenrod.

[Ricky Spanish]

Gonna be a great season again?
Not sure I can handle another great one.
The last great season I had was the year we killed a duck club.
Finally I said screw these idiots, took off, was ran off rather, and ended up on the XXX for close to two weeks.
Was a great season. The lead up to it part stunk.

[Ricky Spanish]

It's not purple urple or Acapulco Gold.
What is it so when I bitch about it I can use the right words.
"Little fucking Cockleburrs" work for u?

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[SpinnerMan]

That works for me. They ruined my favorite cold weather work shirt getting into awful stuff. Absolutely perfect for doing brush work when it's kind of cold. I was covered with so much it was completely hopeless to remove. I tried different things. It hung in my garage for months before finally conceding defeat.

Although, my buddy's Dad when I was 12-13 told me of an approach for the boogey lice (the flat one's with two little stickers) which are easy to remove compared to that.

I had a bunch of boogey lice on me after a day of hunting.

His dad tells me in his very serious and thoughtful tone that he used.

"You know they say if you take a magnet and rub it over them"

Then he paused a bit.

And I'm think, "yeah, yeah, what?"

Then he continued.

"Nothing will happen."



Completely suckered me in.

My only advice is try the magnet. Nothing else I tried worked better.

[Ricky Spanish]

The two pronged burrs are called Devil's Beggarticks.
That's a good thing to have for duck hunters.

Devils beggarticks fall off when they dry. My bronco was full.of them.
These little bastards don't.

If the walk ins are weedy as hell and you're covered in them two pronged burrs that's good.

[Rick]

The two pronged burrs are called Devil's Beggarticks.
That's a good thing to have for duck hunters.

Called fourchettes (forks) here and are the devil for dogs, as they can work their way under their eyelids. Buddy who manages the marsh adjoining ours had a half dozen removed from around and, I believe, behind one of his dog's eyes. They thrive on thin flotant and are especially bad around my mudhole, so I fight them before every season.

Have also been credited with ending the nutria hide market by creating abscesses in them.

Wouldn't care if fourchettes held ducks like Dave thinks flooded corn holds them, I'll not abide it near my blind.

[Ricky Spanish]

Stoopid nigguhs stole it.
They forgot the legs and magazine. Fuck.

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I th8nk I'll just practice shooting cars. Cops just let you go these days so y not?

[Anotherone]

Put those bear traps under the windows.

[Ricky Spanish]

Put those bear traps under the windows.

I think you'd get away with it.
As much as I'd like to...it is not legal to use deadly force to defend yourself or your property in this God forsaken state.
I talked with officer Von about this.
He said he's moving to upper peninsula of Michigan.
I said Arkansas and he gave two thumbs up.


What I need is a junk yard dog.
That shed...u need Bolt cutters to get inside now.
Irony: I had to fight my parents to get them to allow me to put locks and hasps on doors. They lost the keys.

[Pennydog1]

did this happen at the same time that they took your mowers or did you get hit again? low life thiefs.

[Ricky Spanish]

did this happen at the same time that they took your mowers or did you get hit again? low life thiefs.

It's all one event.
Took me two weeks to notice the firefly gone.

Once winter hits they all migrate.
Won't see one until April.
Bring on the cold.

[Ricky Spanish]

They tore the house down across the street.
It had an underground garage?
Hmm.
Talked to the owner he left one building standing. They're drywallers and plan on storing tools there.
I told him I'd report any weird activity and asked him to watch our place or try.
He says they tore the house down because it was full of crackheads.
They turned down an offer of $440k.

[Ricky Spanish]

Today I inspected a hive.
I mean the belly of the beast.
A zillion flying stinging insects and I dig thru their baby-making nest.
Not that impressive but it's real.
Wanna c?

[Duck Engr]

I’m always interested in the inner workings of bees, even though I’m allergic.

[Ricky Spanish]

I’m always interested in the inner workings of bees, even though I’m allergic.

It's boring but uplifting for me.
I needed a dose of it.
Finding a queen bee in a hive with over 50,000 workers is a challenge. You get good at it. Just got messages from theircommitted10. Hadn't heard from him in a while.
Perfect timing I needed to hear from him.
His message is always pure.

[Ricky Spanish]

Funny story from duh hood.
Went to get gas.
Hunters do that u know.
I took my dog because I knew that some guy was going to come up to me and ask for money.
Hadn't got the pump going yet and the dog is raising hell.
Millet sounds like a great Dane.
Dude says, "got a dollar I can have".
Me, " ask the dog".
OMG he was going to do it.
I'm like "no no he will hurt you".
People laffing...

[Deltaman]

Interesting video AB, and I kept thinking about bee's getting smashed in the process, but you answered that later on.

[Ricky Spanish]

Interesting video AB, and I kept thinking about bee's getting smashed in the process, but you answered that later on.

They are used to getting bumped and pushed around a little. Once you get used to nudging them and blowing on them to make them move it gets easy.
At first anxiety is very very high and the bees sense it.
Takes experience to know how fast or slow you can go.
That hive has very gentle bees. After I was done I took the safety gear off. Not one got after me.
Oh...when I lost that queen it was in the center of the frame. The bees clear a path when she comes thru.

[Ricky Spanish]

Can you believe this chit.
My bow "thing" broke off.
It sheared the bolt I heard a big pop but didn't figure it out until later.
Big rubber piece...gone.
I will rig it with wood like a retired wood butcher.
Order another rubber thing. Use grade 8 Bolt next time.
HEY if you have crappy luck at least you're not me!
That looks like shit.

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Some day Stan will sell me his war eagle. Can't be long he's ten years older than me.

[Ricky Spanish]

Here is more on what "bee space" is.
In the 1840s beekeepers were trying to define it so they could design bee hives that worked and...where they could be hauled west on trains and wagons.

[Duck Engr]

Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing AB.

[Anotherone]

Hoping you and Millet get a honker this morning. Good luck if you’re out there.

[Ricky Spanish]

It sucks. All I see are ducks an pelicans.
Set up in the lily pads in the sun. It's where all the birds were. Teal been bombing me.
There are no holes in the boat from the bow stop falling off trailer. Thars lucky!
Hen pintail.just flew my spread untouched. Damn...