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[Anotherone]

Louisiana’s east zone 2nd split opens this Saturday at LST.

[Ricky Spanish]

When I proposed doing Xmas on the 24th my daughter said "the kids don't know about calendars yet". Will be traveling the 25th. Still may try and kill an illini duck or two. Just ain't the right kind of weather yet

[Ricky Spanish]

Looks like winter is coming on schedule.

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[Ricky Spanish]

She was a dog as a child. Did not age well.
The Land of the Lost.

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[Ricky Spanish]

Remember the first time you were exposed to 2 unlimited?
We took my daughter to a cheesy small circus in 1996 and the entire show was backed up by super loud techno musik by this band. Performing dogs ...the works it wasn't that bad a circus.
Y'all ready for this?

Later we started going to college basketball and football games and...the same damned song again and again.

If u even like that type of music a little bit look up "maximum overdrive". It's pretty cool

[Anotherone]

It’s National Hot Cocoa Day, enjoy responsibly.

[Ricky Spanish]

It’s National Hot Cocoa Day, enjoy responsibly.

Try dumping Swiss miss into the cup before you put the coffee in.
Fancy Yankee hot drinks.

[Ricky Spanish]

Today I had to porch pirate our mail off the neighbors porch.
By sheer coincidence their mail was on mine so I carried it next door and spotted our Christmas candy from Peter Vrinios of Vriners candy shop.
They moved to Florida and my wife ordered hand made candy canes. We nearly missed it.
My grandkids will love it.

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Vriners is a historic place.

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Here's a rather famous portrait of a local rock band sitting at vriners..REO Speedwagon

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[Ricky Spanish]

Firewood is such a racket.
I know one honest guy in Urbana.
He gets free logs from the landscape recycling center.
$100 a Rick.

That's not bad.
$300/cord.

More: I can just go get free logs too. Schwing

[Anotherone]

Come down south and cut all you can haul for free. The constant hurricanes here puts oaks on the ground just waiting on a chainsaw and sweat. I can’t hardly squirrel hunt due to the fallen trees and briars sprouting from the canopy openings. Just about time when the forest gets right, another storm ransacks the place. Crazy cycle of life.

[Ricky Spanish]

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Come down south and cut all you can haul for free. The constant hurricanes here puts oaks on the ground just waiting on a chainsaw and sweat. I can’t hardly squirrel hunt due to the fallen trees and briars sprouting from the canopy openings. Just about time when the forest gets right, another storm ransacks the place. Crazy cycle of life.

About 70 miles north is oak tree land. Around here everything was harvested for barns way back so oak firewood means traveling but that's too far.
I'll burn the free city harvested crap that's random.
There is a ton of silver maple around here. They have piles of it at the recycling center. I'm gonna keep this going all week. Brrr


Anyone betting that I'll crack my lip again splitting logs?
That fucking hurts

[Ricky Spanish]

Imagine my surprise when the wood guy showed up he's one of my honey customers. (Face slap)
Small world
He had ash, oak, and some maple.
Nice pile o wood

[Ricky Spanish]

Extended forecast confirms that it will be froze up when I leave the 25th.
It will be 4 degrees that morning.
Yikes I bet it will be cold as hell at the wma too.
Seems pretty normal. It's 44 and I have a big ass fire going.
4 degrees is going to suck bad.

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[Anotherone]

I can’t even imagine 4 degrees. 20 degrees is the devil down here, the South shuts down.

[Ricky Spanish]

I can’t even imagine 4 degrees. 20 degrees is the devil down here, the South shuts down.

I know.
They start talking about how chilly it is at around 34 and at 19 they're stomping around trying to keep feet warm flat out bitching about how cold it is.

I laugh and recall standing on an aluminum pick board 20 feet up in the wind putting on siding in single digits.
Yeah you think it's cold eh.
Then I remember the steel frame building.
Sit on an i-beam that is single digits cold.
Makes my ass hurt thinking about it.

[Ricky Spanish]

Speaking of cold...

It only took her 90 seconds to convince me to share the video. Them German pants...drool.

[Anotherone]

She did everything but demonstrate how to take em off. Tough old bird.

[Anotherone]

In other news:
Nostradamus is 513 years old today.
It’s National Monkey Day.
Ukraine and Russia are still at it.
We only have 11 Xmas shopping days left. Hurry now.

[Ricky Spanish]

In other news:
Nostradamus is 513 years old today.
It’s National Monkey Day.
Ukraine and Russia are still at it.
We only have 11 Xmas shopping days left. Hurry now.

Did they find flight 370 yet?

[Ricky Spanish]

It took a while but millet took the dominant dog bed from Milo .

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Or milo took the couch?
He's alive...sleeping with tongue hanging out.

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[Anotherone]

In other news:
Nostradamus is 513 years old today.
It’s National Monkey Day.
Ukraine and Russia are still at it.
We only have 11 Xmas shopping days left. Hurry now.

Did they find flight 370 yet?

That and Jimmy Hoffa are still missing.

[Ricky Spanish]

Man this took a weird turn at the end.
Yeah she said it.

"Eat shit Randall I'm in recovery"

The kid in the thumbnail is the one doing it. That smell...he dont smell nothing.

[Ricky Spanish]

Hehe. Blabbing pays off.
One of my followers says he has an oak tree fall down every year.
Sweet. A source of oak firewood is a big deal around here.
I'm still burning this ash.
It's good.
Feels nice.
It's damp and gloomy here. The warm side of the storm. Cold front later. I'm getting ahead of it I guess.
She likes coming home to a nice warm fire.

[Anotherone]

Just watched an episode of Higdon outdoors tv. Kelly Powers has a fine blind with some fat mallards dying right in front of it. I’m green with envy, lucky bunch of bastards.

[Ricky Spanish]

Hay carumba...
Mucho Frio soon eh gringos?

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Funny last Thursday they said that Sunday was next sunny day but they never said which Sunday or where.
Sneaky as a meteorologist.

[Ricky Spanish]

Not sure how I've never known about this but:
5 parts naphtha
1 part silicone from a tube

Mix it up outside and soak whatever you want waterproofed in it. You can turn an old bed sheet into a tarp. Might be worth a try if you don't want to use plastic tarps.
I don't care but it might be good to know how to waterproof a jacket or backpack. Paint the stuff on and let it dry. ( outside! it does have fumes and its a fire hazard)

[Ricky Spanish]

Hey this is pretty warm.

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Slip the drake shirket over it and it's like a winter coat but I can move like it's a jacket.

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Bring on the cold.
Pics subject to memeage.

[Ricky Spanish]

Damn.
If true next Friday morning it'll be -7 here and 6 in Blytheville, AR.
Once it's single digits forget about breaking ice.
This ain't good.

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[Anotherone]

Way too damn cold for this southerner. How many buddy heaters you said you have? Need em all and then light pallets in the blind.

[Ricky Spanish]

Way too damn cold for this southerner. How many buddy heaters you said you have? Need em all and then light pallets in the blind.

I have two and if I put them both on me and shaft the dog...
I've hunted over a fire and killed ducks on more than one icy occasion. You start by hauling brush pile to waters edge "to hide in" and then you start burning it.
Takes good crown royal to get me that stupid.
I think a good smoke screen helps.

Yeah about buddy heaters. One quit so I replaced it right before I noticed my gas tank falling off. That strap broke.
I have only used the new one on one hunt in Illinois where I dns'd. That hunt sucked so bad I haven't went back.
Grumble grumble