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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 15:15:39 (permalink)
Odd year, low numbers, and like you indicate- spotty- but Personally still had a lot of fun and intend another trip anyhoo.
Just sayin don't read stuff and expect a big number- They are extra work this  time around.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 18:02:57 (permalink)
Ok I'm ready and its about to get real starting this weekend until probably April.
Alot of meats have sat on this table and I'm quite sure a few deer and many fish will before its over.
All fun stuff.

Ps. I scored this awesome crate for kindling. It holds a ton.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 18:27:23 (permalink)
Same stove in my basement.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 18:43:11 (permalink)
Rg, that stove was salvaged 10 years ago from our 5th wheel camper at deer camp for over 20 years that we basically lived in for weeks at a time.
Camper is long gone but the stove lives on.
Heats my 860 square man cave quite well with some heat to spare towards the house.
Sadly its super inefficient. Eats wood and I feed it well. Its 80 degrees in here now.

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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 18:50:03 (permalink)
Mine will take a log over 2 feet but-as you say- very inefficient- constantly reloading.
Try some aluminum foil around the door- cuts the way too open space around the door itself.
 
Long way from the one in my last house- load lasted about 6 hrs.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 19:09:47 (permalink)
It really cooks when I get it glowing , lol.
It made for some snoring and dry mouths in the camper, we ran stovepipe out side window.
My only heat is woodstove and pellet stove. Pellets are very efficient, the stove starts and stops at set temperature. I use 2 ton at about $500. Per winter heat.
We set our house at 50 before we leave for work in am.
Don't take long to get to 80 when we get home in the dark.

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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 19:27:06 (permalink)
I also have a monster of a hot air wood furnace in the basement of the big house. I remember installing it just before Jimmy Carter became president.
It would eat 10 cord a season for my old 2 story general store/ farmhouse.
To big to stick over here.
Between my main house and addition us old folks ( wife and I) live in we run 2 pellet stoves ( 1 is 33 years old) and a woodstove to heat about 4,500 square.
Lots work on my family digs but it's fun watching the family grow.
About 3 weeks wood while I'm away.
Come late November till March, that's about 2 weeks at best
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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 20:09:47 (permalink)
I burn 12 to 15 a winter. We have a stove in the basement. It will keep the basement 85 plus. It does well keeping the upstairs above 65 plus until the temps get below 20 , but below 20 it struggles to hit 63 unless I am feeding it nonstop. Below 10 the boiler kicks on at 61 every now and then. Lucky we like it cold (61). I still only burn a tank of fuel a year give or take and that include hot water that is made by the boiler too. Lots of work, but ok for what it saves. We burned 3 plus tanks one year we did not do wood

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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 21:30:57 (permalink)
I remember those days growing up Clint. Feed the furnace in the basement, cut, split and fill after school. The furnace has sat idle for about 25 years . I don't want to try and resurrect it at this point.
I'm lazy now with the pellets.
4 trips to the supplier, set it just enough so pipes don't freeze ( they sometimes do ) and load the box stove when I get home.
We have no other option here.
In sub zero, it will be in the high 40s when I get home but close to 80 by 7pm

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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/28 21:30:57 (permalink)
I remember those days growing up Clint. Feed the furnace in the basement, cut, split and fill before and after school. The furnace has sat idle for about 25 years . I don't want to try and resurrect it at this point.
I'm lazy now with the pellets.
4 trips to the supplier, set it just enough so pipes don't freeze ( they sometimes do ) and load the box stove when I get home.
We have no other option here.
In sub zero, it will be in the high 40s when I get home but close to 80 by 7pm
post edited by hot tuna - 2019/10/28 21:32:38

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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/30 20:17:35 (permalink)
Dive bar in Texas for a benefit concert Tuesday. Wish I was there. I've been to their shows, in that presence and close encounters at high prices of less than a 20 spot. It sure makes for good fun and beats the costs of rotation.
8 days and counting until they come to my front row in Connecticut
https://youtu.be/FqybFQ0jAi0
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Re: fun stuff 2019/10/30 20:59:22 (permalink)
What's pretty fun at my stage in life is that I've taken others along on incredible journeys in life. Seen so many smiles on kids , adults and grandchildren for fishing opportunities I've offered. Hunting that has put lifetime memories. Opening the eyes of the world in music seeing and meeting hall of fame artists also the local community music that give it their all. Growing and harvesting our daily meals.
My wife has been rock steady and after 35 years married is getting it more and more.
This is fun stuff.....

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/02 07:54:01 (permalink)
26 degrees at 5am . Awesome sleeping in camper and feels just like home. In stand before light on opening day.
Fun stuff..

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/02 08:35:19 (permalink)
3 nice doe 15 yards in front. It's too early yet so they got a free pass

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/02 08:57:50 (permalink)
Last night you said you wanted to put some does on the ground.  Beware of ****ing off the deer gods. Lol  
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/02 09:02:45 (permalink)
I got nothing but time. If that's the only deer I see then something is wrong.
They will come

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/02 10:11:52 (permalink)
Passed a few last season Rich.
Never found what I wanted and went zip.
OK --had a lot of fun watching.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/03 19:11:52 (permalink)
I spent a little time on the mountain, I spent a little time on the hill.
We didn't harvest anything and it was an interesting adventure. Last night my son came in around 7pm. In a way, it felt like me and my dad. We played cards and hit the sack by 9pm.
In another way it felt like the times have changed.
Cell phones and modern weapons seemed to be a distraction of what once was.
I've been told many times not to fear change but I really do feel saddened by technology.
Next adventure is the last waltz in Connecticut on Friday, 5 days in the woods starting Saturday.

It was snowing pretty good when I left

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/04 13:04:18 (permalink)
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/04 13:27:41 (permalink)
Super cool Irish, I appreciate seeing the pic and vid.

Check the back tarsals and the neck looks swollen.

That boy appears ready to do some stump jumpin and dancin in the moonlight.

Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a life time. ~Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919)~
 
 
 
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/04 14:04:35 (permalink)
Saw an albino Buck here in Ct about 45 years ago.
Was still hunting with the recurve bow in a State Forest and as I stopped for a while it came in, passing me at about 20 yards in the thick Mountain Laurel.
Said to myself- 'somebody lost  a goat'.
As it hopped off a bit later I saw the horns.
OOps.
Mentioned it at a nearby diner several weeks later and was told a Vol. firefighter hit it on a road rushing to a call very near where I had seen it.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/04 15:13:19 (permalink)
I wonder if there's not some kind of genetic anomaly in my area. I've lived here 38 yrs and have seen 4 different ones, spaced out years apart. 'Course here in suburbia there's just an awful lot of deer, period.
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/04 19:22:33 (permalink)
I saw an albino that was struck and killed this past spring on Rt 84 near Carmel NY, approximately 15 miles west of Danbury CT.  They have a herd of albino deer on the Seneca Army Depot.
 https://www.senecawhitedeer.org/
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/04 20:35:19 (permalink)
Changed all the fluids in the wheeler and started looking at the ice gear. I am going to drill powered this year, that was my fun stuff for the weekend.  

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.  ~Babylonian Proverb

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/05 18:30:08 (permalink)
The bus hit my state via Texas.
4 days away and knowing the bus is here means fun stuff ahead
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/14 14:50:51 (permalink)
Don't think I mentioned this VERY IMPORTANT  health info in the past---
 
While standing at a mens bathroom urinal in a VT rest area I read the VERY IMPORTANT message posted at eye level.
 
WARNING  the water herein is NOT POTABLE as its recycled.
 
Nowwww-- give that a moments reflection
WHO ?????
 
It was not a joke but clearly professionally produced and affixed to the wall.
Please don't erase this as its just too real and clearly is under the 'ya cant make this stuff up' catagory - lol.
 
post edited by r3g3 - 2019/11/14 14:55:48
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/14 16:08:29 (permalink)
r3g3
Don't think I mentioned this VERY IMPORTANT  health info in the past---
 
While standing at a mens bathroom urinal in a VT rest area I read the VERY IMPORTANT message posted at eye level.
 
WARNING  the water herein is NOT POTABLE as its recycled.
 
Nowwww-- give that a moments reflection
WHO ?????
 
It was not a joke but clearly professionally produced and affixed to the wall.
Please don't erase this as its just too real and clearly is under the 'ya cant make this stuff up' catagory - lol.
 



😱NOW...... you tell me.

So it's not only the yellow snow in Vermont?? 😵

Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a life time. ~Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919)~
 
 
 
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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/16 11:12:56 (permalink)
Game over. The good ones stayed just to far from the xbow but no match with rifle.
One of the 8pt that were on camera. Still a brute out there.
12 degrees this morning but a beautiful windless day and deer been moving since the rut came on a few days ago when it was freezing.

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/16 11:29:19 (permalink)
Way to go HT!

That’s a good one.

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Re: fun stuff 2019/11/16 16:27:19 (permalink)
Thanks DD. A little better shot of my fun day with my boys

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