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Leonard
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posted August 23, 2025 07:40 AM
All members not paid dues, last chance!
Ha Ha, just kidding. Wow, fucked up and left Pinky outside all night, standing on top of his cage! He was hungry this morning! More cashews, please!
That’s all I got. 10-4
Good hunting. El Bee
PS Tillie is jealous of Pinky; steals his peanuts!
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TA17Rem
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posted August 23, 2025 08:19 AM
It tis a good morning, too bad about pinky, he get his revenge in this life or one after. Fall is approaching and skeeters have packed up and headed south to AZ. for the winter. Such nice N-W breeze to help send them on their way. Those peanuts will help keep Tilli wired, plenty of energy from them.
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Leonard
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posted August 23, 2025 12:05 PM
Pink’s a good boy. All I had to do is mist him and he was all stoked up!
Yes, it’s been rather cloudy here so far this morning. But good, actually.
Speaking of Ebay, I’m going to sign up with Instacart to deliver groceries. It’s $99 a year. Plus tips and delivery fees. Not actually worth it, but it’s the convenience, comprende?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted August 25, 2025 04:03 AM
I don't have a parrot but I do have four hummingbird feeders on my patio so it gets pretty busy at times.
Incredible creatures.
Another visitor to the feeders, besides honey bees, are Bullock's Orioles. Absolutely stunning bright yellow with black markings. They're partial to a cup of grape jam I have hanging out.
Also have quail & three species of doves in the backyard. Very entertaining !!!!
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Leonard
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posted August 25, 2025 10:22 AM
We got a few. Lots of crows, and the Band tailed pigeons, although not as many this year. Back yard birds are mostly Mocking birds and a few scrub jays. And of course, the hummingbirds. We have Black Chin and Allen’s, the Allens have moved in and are a little more aggressive. No Orioles this year? Sharp Shin hawks are gliding through the neighborhood, low ambush. These hawks aren’t high and dive on prey. They take band tails, which are almost as big as them. And they are back yard birds, I never see them on telephone poles? Come to think of it, we don’t have telephone poles? Just street lights, all of our utilities are underground. Anyway, forgot Pinky! He’s here and definitely makes himself KNOWN! Pinky has an indoor aviary with an 8 ft slider across the front so he sees everything going on in this house. He spends all day on the top of his cage whenever I put him out. He’s actually less trouble than Tillie, of you want to know the truth? And, Tillie would try to clean his clock, if I would let her! However, she would know she had been in a knock down, drag out! She might win, but she might not have a nose, when the dust clears.
We have a little black bird with a white Vee on his chest that hunts around the the edges of the pool, snatching small insects. He has a crest, that’s all I know, a little bigger than a sparrow. But, this little guy has been coming around for years. Whatever the female looks like, I don’t know?
We have a crested sparrow that comes around when the cactus fruit is ripe, in flocks. They get a little tipsy on fermented fruit, I’ve seen them flop on the concrete once in a while. These are a pink fruit with a white parfeit inside the shell, and with little black seeds. The fruit is very good, if you can beat the birds! I mean very tasty, NOT just an acquired taste. It’s excellent, not even messy.
That’s all I got, right now.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted August 25, 2025 12:11 PM
'little black bird with a white vee on it's chest'
Is the vee inverted ??? ............ Could be a Black Phoebe.
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Leonard
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posted August 26, 2025 04:16 AM
Yes, thats it. I remember looking it up once. It’s a Black Phoebe. Man, you really know your birds!
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted August 26, 2025 05:11 AM
Nah .......... Honesty forces me to admit that all I did was Google 'crested black bird with v on it's chest'. A few came up but after eliminating size & range the Black Phoebe was most likely it.
Right now, I have a yard full of LBBs. Little Brown Birds. It's not enough that I scatter seed for them and provide water; they have totally destroyed my entire crop of Prickly Pear Tunas that I was planning to use to make wine. Good thing I put up 5 gal. of Mead last year. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Leonard
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posted August 26, 2025 08:25 AM
Well, let me check! I have a pretty good crop myself. I could harvest them and send them to you. How many do you need? I think I could pick several dozen?
Good hunting. El bee
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posted August 26, 2025 08:49 AM
Appreciate the offer but I'm pretty sure that they would be a mess by the time they got here.
I harvest the Tunas with bbq tongs into a bucket, then scorch the outside one at a time over flame to remove the needles. Then the skin is peeled, the pulp squeezed and the juice strained into the fermenter. Clean water with the juice. Add a little sugar, add a little yeast and let nature do it's thing for a few weeks. Rack it once, give it another week and into bottles to age for about 6 months.
Edit to add the part about adding water.
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earthwalker
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posted August 28, 2025 12:47 PM
I see all of you are still kicking and bitching about life.
Good for ya'll.
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Kokopelli
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posted August 28, 2025 03:06 PM
Welcome back !!!!
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TA17Rem
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posted August 28, 2025 06:35 PM
Me I'm just bitching about anti wolf western ranchers crying all the time. Beef right now is at a all time high they living the good life and still bitching. New trucks, new trailors, some high dollar horses and what ever else you can think of they dumping all their money on.. Sooner or later the market gonna drop and I bet many get caught with their pants down. Here when that happen years ago it was pretty common for farmer/rancher to go out into the barn and either hang himself or shoot himself. No honor in either one. Their old breeding stock now has value so no feeding the wolves with what had no value.
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posted August 28, 2025 06:47 PM
Well .............. Here in Az, Units 1 & 27 have gone to a draw for archery, apparently because there's not enough deer quota for the bowhunters and the wolves.
The hunters didn't want those damn wolves and they were shoved down our throats. Now, G&F is trying to promote for more hunters ($$$) while more hunters are just going to Texas to hunt feral pigs rather than put up with all of the BS.
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posted August 29, 2025 03:45 AM
We've had so many people move into Idaho that hunting is becoming a shit show. Can't draw anything because a family of 6 all apply and 2-3 draw. Competing with that is impossible to draw.
One guy who lives here and hunts has put in for 20 years and never drew an antelope tag. Then you have a guy say we moved in last year and my 10 year old just drew his first antelope tag.
Really sad now a days.
I've been around it's just been one of those summers. Some health problems and an old dog takes up most of my time. Garden is slowing down. Helping neighbors with their health problems.
"Living gets in the way of Life"
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Leonard
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posted August 29, 2025 07:26 AM
Nice to see you, Earthwalker!
I will offer my own half baked analysis of the Fish and Game Bureaucracies in every state’s handling of all hunting and fishing. They have so badly mismanaged everything possible, that one might conclude that it is intentional! All these agencies do is cultivate something like a conservation outfit, like National Geographic or the Sierra Club. The preference points is an obviously rigged game, just to name one policy, offhand. Everything they do is calculated, all right, but it seems to benefit no one.
Personally, I have drifted away from most structured activities and even the non game situation is intentionally torpedoed every way they can think of! Take right now, this trend where you had better apologize if you touch off a NON SUPPRESSED shot in the wilderness! I’m ashamed to show up at the range with a non suppressed gun, even rimfires! And have you seen the latest suppressers designed for shotguns? to me they look like somebody glued a pair of 10X20 binoculars to the muzzle. All so you don’t need earplugs, but these saps wear them anyways.
These activities will not survive, friends. Foogettabout it!
Good hunting. El Bee (who am I kidding?)
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posted August 29, 2025 04:23 PM
always a excuse or pointing a finger to blame. I been to AZ. many times and to be honest there not much there for dam deer to eat anyway so I can see why not many around. AZ coyote callers been pounding the antelope areas for years and still the antelope suffer. I don't think they was meant to be in that god awful country either.
In Leonards home state you go buy a buck or doe tag over the counter or multi tag, the state keeps making it easier to kill a game animal even for non res. Only game we have to draw for is moose and Elk not many of either but still sell few tags and kill ratio is pretty good. Some areas you can shoot as many deer as you like just buy another tag no big whoop. Black bear can be bought over the counter as well. You want a chance to call a black bear in this is the place to do it.
Suppressors can now be used for any game and now they doing away with shotgun slug zone and open it for rifles, whats to cry about there? Oh we got wolves also, more than any state yet our big game manage to increase. If i have to point a finger at something it would be tree's for lack of success. Poor hunting skills and sitting in a tree stand sometimes just don't cut it, need to adapt and be versatile...
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Leonard
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posted August 30, 2025 12:46 PM
I keep forgetting how Liberal the state of Minnesota has become.
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posted August 30, 2025 03:56 PM
Not sure what it is. But I know this, its one of the better states to live in if you hunt and fish or own guns and little extras come with them. As for Az. big game issues or shortages, get me elected or what ever and i'll fix your big game problem for everyone even though a few toes will need to be stepped on.
Restrict hunter access to water tanks or ponds with half mile limit or more. your numbers will go up for big game.
introduce wolves into the antelope areas, coyote numbers will drop and antelope numbers will increase. thats just a few starters.
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posted August 30, 2025 05:33 PM
It’s not for me to defend Arizona, Tim. But you impressions are very narrow. First of all, there are 11 climate zones in AZ, from Alpine to sub-tropical. As was stated somewhere here; in Minnesota, they have two seasons, winter and construction. You just have not seen everything.
There’s more to life than Knotty pine and Walleyes.
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted August 31, 2025 06:16 PM
we got more different trees than you have never seen in one place. Big cottonwoods, birch and yes pine tree's, oak, walnut, some hickory and many more. Check out the highest point of elevation for Minn., its not all flat here. LOL
We also have 5 seasons, spring, summer, fall, indian summer and then winter.
You lived at end of a river drainage down by the swaps, i live up on the prairie region you can go from red rock to limestone to quarts and few other types of stone. Most of our soil is black as ace of spades. After the prairie you have 3 river valleys before you get to high ground and where most of the state forest are. Little bit of everything.
As for AZ there big game animals need water to live, all they have is tanks or stock ponds with a hunter sitting near bye, yeah I don't expect much of anything living for very long in those conditions. only thing state good for is pred. hunting and its golf courses.
And yes I drove all over the state of AZ, went through steve craig home town and west to big boulder area and then back south and east and north again. been there.
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posted September 01, 2025 07:22 AM
Little history on tree's in Minnesota. Back in the day when this area was settled one of the things a new settler was required to do was plant so many tree's on their new homestead in order to keep their claim. This pertained to southern half of the state, prairie region of which had very few tree's. Northern half had always been forested area.
Every farm site had a big grove of tree's so when someone refers them seeing a deer run into a farmers grove this is what they talking about. Rest of the area is fields for growing crops, corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, sugar beets, peas, sweet corn, carrots and alphalfa. 100's and 100's of acres of farm land.
My area once had wild buffalo, antelope roaming the prairie. I have two Petrophied Buffalo skulls I found in the mud down by a creek which are over 100 years old. Back in the day there was two types of Buffalo, prairie and woodland. Woodland buffalo is the only one you see today as the prairie buffalo went extinct. Prairie buffalo was the bigger of the two with thick massive skulls and horns.
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Leonard
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posted September 01, 2025 08:30 AM
OK OK OK
You are happy living in a very unremarkable part of the country. And I’m happy for you. too!
🙈🙉🙊
In fact, you kinda remind me of Tim Walz, and Kamala Harris! lol
Good Hunting. El Bee
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posted September 01, 2025 03:12 PM
No need be happy for me, be happy for yourself. As for two names mentioned I never heard of them.
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posted September 04, 2025 05:44 PM
working between Shakopee and Belle Plaine this week.
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