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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 22, 2026, 07:22 AM:
You guys need to start sounding off, when you get a chance. No sense letting the site wither away more than it already has. I’m just as guilty, I’m well aware. But if you have something to say, spit it out. I’m available for consultations. Reasonable rates.
I am waiting. LB 🐝
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 22, 2026, 12:16 PM:
Ok ................
Assuming normal hygiene, a gentle steady breeze, and no vehicle involved ........ how far downwind would a coyote need to be to not smell the hunter and become spooked ????
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 22, 2026, 08:22 PM:
Lets say 3-5 telephone poles give or take with what temp.s are at time. and toss little humidity in as well or low air current,
[ April 22, 2026, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: TA17Rem ]
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on April 23, 2026, 03:45 AM:
I'm in and out here. Busy with rehab on the left shoulder.
Going to chiropractor for dry needling. Other half started it.
Seeing good results with his neck. Mine is left shoulder muscles that have been tied up in knots.
Now dealing with cold weather and trying to get the garden plants going. Crazy spring so far.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 23, 2026, 05:24 AM:
Wow !!! ............ I haven't heard pole distance since Grand-Pa was alive. So, how far apart are the telephone poles in Mini-Soda ????
All this month we have had no weather; Just wind. Seems like it's been non-stop.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 23, 2026, 08:17 AM:
Let me change the subject for a sec.
First, my daughter, (I have but one) Everybody needs a daughter, they are so….useful, and necessary, the more isolated you become. She has had two of her school chums call on me, unannounced, both bearing food. To tide me over with the recent death in the family. Tillie.
Funny, both of them live within about 6 blocks of me. So why isnmy daughter 430 miles away and my son is near Chicago? Good question!
Anyway, the husband of my daughter’s classmate, they were both standing and chatting in my driveway yesterday late afternoon. The husband said that he teaches at West Covina high School and I tried to remember a husband of my daughter’s friend that she worked with who was a pilot and taught at West Covina high school, and his name escaped me for a bit, but it was Ed Santee and he taught Wood shop. So this gentleman said: (now get this)
“Oh, they don’t teach SHOP classes any more!”
Has it come to that? When I was in the public school system, I had brief introductions to Print shop, Drafting, Wood Shop, and I think that’s about all? But, our progressive education system has discarded those “Craft” classes, and another little item that bothers the hell out of me; teaching the written language, called,
“Cursive”!
Imagine young adults being required to sign their name, printed in BLOCK LETTERS? They think, in this Digital Age, computers and smart phones, there is no need to teach students to read and write!
I have been feeling like a dinosaur for at least half of my life. Imagine, there is no longer a reason to teach kids to read or write? They have You Tube videos, after all. There is knowledge that has been discarded. Now, any question is answerd by Googling! In fact, I was talking to my grandson yesterday, and became aware that every subject that came up, turned out that he was googling it as we spoke. Completely ignorant, when first mentioned and next thing you know, he had a working knowledge of the fundamental's of what I was talking about.
Such is the state of society these days. Now we have a fucking smart phone that kids use to discover information, besides having storage to take perhaps hundreds of photos a day. They cannot comprehend dropping off film at the drug store to be developed!
Is this progress? Maybe so, but then the discard Wood shop! How quaint!
LB
[ April 23, 2026, 08:18 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 23, 2026, 04:37 PM:
double strand poles are roughly 90 yards apart. A pole with multiple strands (3-6) is at 100 yards roughly.
during fox sniping days you spot a fox then drive a west to east road and then north to south and counted poles then you had good idea of distance for a shot or how far from road it was. too far for a shot then you could also plan the shortest walk in depending on how bad weather was and then check the poles to see how close you got for a shot. pretty reliable. Most sections here also one mile square and divided up into quarters with a fence line running up middle from both directions so you knew where half mile was.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 23, 2026, 05:28 PM:
They did away with wood shop & I'm guessing auto shop as well ???
Mayhap due to liability insurance issues ???? Or just WOKE B.S.
The Hell of it is that kids that sometimes didn't have a lot going for them could DO SOMETHING with their hands that they could be damn proud of. My woodshop chess board might not have been perfect but it was a cherished item for years until lost in a cross country move.
Shop classes were a stepping stone toward Trade Schools and if anybody thinks that's lightweight, last month I had a plumber charge me $60 bucks just to pull into my driveway. Everything else was extra. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
So ........... roughly 300 to 500 yards downwind. I would have thought a bit more. Might depend on how pressured the coyote has been, too.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 23, 2026, 06:07 PM:
Not sure but what I'm seeing is about 1/4 mile give or take but depends on coyote and how it reacts to it and if it throws up a caution flag or not. Had some right in the middle of my scent cone but still kept coming. This year I been finding a lot of coyotes either bedding down in a farmer's grove or hunting it so I'm sure they know the smell of a human but long as farmer didn't mess with them then no fear from the human scent from what I can see.
We didn't get many warm nights like last year as I wanted to try misting on them or have a big rag soaked with urine and then lay it on the road downwind from my stand and see how they react.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 23, 2026, 06:08 PM:
I’m thinking, one of my grandson’s, what year did he graduate? Damn, don’t know? But he graduated from Upland High School, as did my son graduate from high school I think in 1982. What am I getting at? Just that my grandson, Aaron, we still have a couple pieces of pottery around here that he made in, whatever class they call it where they have a pottery wheel? So, maybe 20 years ago. And I also have a bookcase. he made in wood shop. So Upland. high school had shop classes 20/25 years ago. That was probably before smart phones. With smart phones, who needs wood shop?
In spite of all this progress, and You Tube, I do not think the world is a vastly better place. Countomg distance in telephone poles, in rural Minneesota? moderately advanced compared to Mississippi.
Signature signed in BLOCK LETTERS….that’s progress!
LB 🐝
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 23, 2026, 06:13 PM:
Not sure but what I'm seeing is about 1/4 mile give or take but depends on coyote and how it reacts to it and if it throws up a caution flag or not. Had some right in the middle of my scent cone but still kept coming. This year I been finding a lot of coyotes either bedding down in a farmer's grove or hunting it so I'm sure they know the smell of a human but long as farmer didn't mess with them then no fear from the human scent from what I can see.
We didn't get many warm nights like last year as I wanted to try misting on them or have a big rag soaked with urine and then lay it on the road downwind from my stand and see how they react.
I did a check on my old school. they do arts and crafts now with things made from wood or plastics or plaster. computer skills along with extra science classes like CSI.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 23, 2026, 10:52 PM:
Tim, my boy. Your usage of the term: “Scent Cone” is grossly misleading. I have observed visible scent many times. Scent does NOT spread out on a cone, at all!
Scent carried along with a breeze looks very much like a ribbon. It waifs along with the breeze and does not expand laterally, and high and low. Not at all, in my observation. Actually kind of interesting, it snakes along with the air currents, and the best description I can think of is like a satin ribbon. But scent holds together amazingly well as a narrow snaky ribbon. No cones, no shit!
LB🐝
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 24, 2026, 01:47 AM:
actually, it's smaller than a ribbon, more like a string and goes right into the coyote's nose.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 24, 2026, 02:15 AM:
When it comes to 'The Scent Cone' I think that I can definitely say, without a doubt, ......... it depends.
On more than a few of my stands (daytime) the wind is just plain squirrely. If it starts out coming from due North, it may shift to coming from the North West for a bit and then shift to coming from the North East for a bit.
So ....... the ribbon-like scent stream is being moved like a flashlight beam being scanned back and forth, either hitting the coyote directly or leaving little scent micro-bobs on the grass & leaves as it passes ........ in a cone like pattern.
How the coyote reacts to all of this is up to the coyote. I've had them come in from straight downwind after serious scent control rituals, other times when really needing a bath after several days of hunting, and a few times (long ago) while smoking a cigarette. Downwind. Go figure.
As far as daytime misting goes, I've been known to use it with the attitude 'If it don't hurt, it can't hurt'........ until the shifting wind blows a big cloud of it back into my face and I do my Bill The Cat imitation. "Ack ack cough ack"
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 24, 2026, 09:41 AM:
My observations are based on specific conditions. For instance, I almost always hunt with a new moon, because, obviously, a coyote can see you backlit, with any kind of illumination. So, consider it is dark as a well diggers ass when I’m using a red light and I introduce scent and I can follow it downwind, it is a visible presence carried by the current. It’s a bit remarkable to watch it float along, gliding past boulders and tree trunks. It’s like tossing a ping pong ball into a stream. It does not bump into the bank, port and starboard. It follows a path, pushed by the current, but it doesn’t split in halves and quarters as it goes its merry way.
Unfortunate to be aware, if you don’t hunt at night. illuminated by the spotlight, you can follow it as if it’s a solid presence, actually watch it as it flows through the vegetation, and coating everything it bumps in to. You can see the exact point of the compass as a coyote circles. He won’t stop 3 degrees off wind direction, he will screech to a halt when he gets downwind and not a degree sooner.
So if you are thinking he might stop to sample your scent sorta generally, approximately downwind, you are mistaken. He will stop exactly downwind and not sooner, as if that scent cone is spreading out and he might walk through your scent for 30-40 feet, smelling you but continuing to circle until he gets exactly downwind.
I don’t know what to tell you? Downwind is downwind. that’s where he gets your scent, not sorta downwind, he will be stopping exactly downwind. And why is that? because your scent is not being dispersed in a cone shape, it follows a disciplined line, like a ribbon, a rather narrow ribbon, actually.
Consider truth as you will, and as it suits you. Just give my theory a bit of thought. not that it matters much in the daytime. AS ko ko has mentioned, a coyote might approach a stand from directly downwind, in spite of theory. Sometimes a thermal or a terrain feature can cause your scent to rise above where a coyote is standing. That alone should cause you to question the “CONE” theory.
But, I do not wish to change opinions, we are just talking. And perhaps thinking.
LB 🐝
[ April 24, 2026, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 24, 2026, 11:07 AM:
I have a yard fogger it can tell you same thing on what wind is doing with it and how it flows.
I know if the light breeze is sort of going in all directions so is the fog. Right at sunset after warm day there will be a air current that runs just few inches off the ground and carries the fog either in your ribbon form or more like a blanket. the breeze or current is so light you need to be wearing shorts or bare foot to feel it.
Then you get a night when wind is whipping you from all directions and the fog just sort of scatters/falls apart. And then throw in a wind with a up draft the fog lifts off the ground and just goes up and breaks apart.
Always wanted to try my yard fogger when temps are colder and see how it goes.
But anyway, it's a ribbon or it can also be a cone or a certain spot where the ribbon is going to hit and yes it's going to be down wind in that cone shaped area. off to one side of that cone or in middle someplace.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 24, 2026, 12:25 PM:
Ok Tim .............. Your homework assignment for the summer is to rinse out that yard fogger (really well), hook up a garden sprayer two gallon tank and rig a motorcycle battery to power the thing. Fill it with your favorite Magic Mist formula and get ready to patent this contraption. This could be THE NEW THING !!!! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on April 24, 2026, 12:49 PM:
Can't help this. It has been MY experience that if that yellow eyed bastard got downwind of you!!! Your BUSTED. Just a little experience along that vain. LOL Maybe I am wrong?
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on April 24, 2026, 12:58 PM:
I was outside of Austin NV on hwy 50. Saw a young looking coyote out mousing around. Dirt road real close but wind blowing right at this coyote. Drove off 50 yards. stopped, sat in truck and blew on call and she starts coming my way from maybe 200 yards out What the hell I am thinking. That stupid coyote came to within 30 yards of me sitting in the truck blowing that whistle with the wind in its face with my wonderful oder all over it and decided to turn around and walk off. So I grabbed the little 17 and got out of the truck and got into a sitting position and Texas heart shot it at about 70 yards.
I figured it needed to be culled out. Little years pup, female and dumb as a rock.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 24, 2026, 02:53 PM:
Koko the fogger has a bowl for it you fill with chemical. A Lp. canister is attached for heat. There is a big copper coil the chemical flows through by pumping a small button and turns to a fog.
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I think if you mix coyote urine with some water you can make a fogger out of it or find a oily chemical that don't have much smell to it and mix together. I have two foggers so perhaps I can get one set up for urine and try that with little water, if don't work maybe skunk essence needs be added as it has oily base to it.. fish oil?
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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 24, 2026, 03:34 PM:
This could be huge !!!!
Mount that contraption on your truck, drive around your hunting area a few times and call coyotes that are sniffing each other's butt's trying to figure out who cut the cheese.
Endless uses for such a device !!!
Someone following your truck at night with the Brights blinding you ?? ..... Fog 'em.
A house with a Join PETA sign in the yard ?? ..... Fog 'em.
Panhandlers on the street corner ?? .... Fog 'em.
You may need to set up Franchise Licensing.
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 24, 2026, 05:26 PM:
Serious question about an inconsequential subject depending, what the hell is a fogger used for?
Walt, I have been through Austin many times. It is right on the Continental Divide. It’s one place in Nevada where I might see a Gray Fox. When I think of Gray Fox, they are most common in Arizona. You might see Kit Fox or maybe some call them Swift Fox, southern Nevada and southern Utah.
So, I’m on a flight from Amsterdam to LAX via the Polar Route. Actually, this was a KLM flight and they have screens showing the route; now we are over Scotland, now we are over Iceland, and so forth. A little later, they announced that we were passing a certain Beacon over Austin, Nevada. Maybe it’s like those Omni direction finders for pilots? But, if you want to see endless stretches of tundra and freeking wilderness, this is the Canadian Northwest territories. Endless water and islands, I can’t imagine hiking it without a kayak. Hundreds of miles, no civilization. But this flight over the north Pole is guiding on Austin, Nevada….and of course, I had to announce, to all around me that I had been there; and it ain’t much, I think one gas station, one convenience store, one Cafe.
No big deal.
LB 🐝
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 24, 2026, 06:15 PM:
Amsterdam ????? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
An Asian massage parlor in Tucson would have been a LOT simpler.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 24, 2026, 08:31 PM:
Between flights, all we did, my wife and I, was take a tour of the canals in a rediculously long and narrow boat. This thing had to back up and pull forward about 4 times to enter another canal.
I just thought of something. While on this mini cruise, I casually asked a man next to me what time it was? He told me and I just about freaked out! for sure, I thought I was going to miss my flight! But, the fellow passenger, European of some type, his watch apparently was set for local time. That was different than that we had 6 hours to kill befor our connecting flight. Anyway, we had plenty of time, but I was quite concerned until we got off the boat.
ko ko, what do you do in Amsterdam? Is it legal? My impression of Amsterdam’s is bicycles, bicycles, bicycles! The canals are lined with virtual wall to wall bike racks, and they are all filled. All the houses are 4 story and you can’t slip a playing card between houses. Every house has like a A frame on the roof for hauling furniture to the upper levels, apparently instead of walking pianos up the stairs? Also many people live on boats tied to the bank, which aren’t moved because of all the moss growing on the hulls, they look like people live permantly on these “bumper to bumper”boats.
That’s all I learned about Amsterdam, you have a more colorful knowledge, I think?
LB 🐝
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 24, 2026, 09:10 PM:
I only know what I've heard.............
But before there was Epstein Island, there was (and still is) Amsterdam.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 24, 2026, 09:16 PM:
fogger is used for killing bugs or skeeters. A flame on the fogger heats up the coil, the chemical runs through coil coming out as a fog or smoke look to it and you just walk and fog crosswind. You can stand in one spot and it comes out like a ribbon sort to speak or you can wave it and it becomes larger cloud and the breeze carries it across the yard or through bushes. suppose to kill the bugs with chemical. It be like bug spray but more effective..
I'll put some coyote urine in the fogger and what you will get is a fog or cloud, ribbon traveling down wide and covering everything in its path thus leaving coyote scent everywhere.
Instead of coyote coming in on a string you have coyote coming in on a fog. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 25, 2026, 01:39 AM:
Video !!! ..... Get video of the coyote coming in thru the fog !!!!
Edit to add; I've heard that the Skeeter is the state bird up there in Mini-Soda.
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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 25, 2026, 09:28 AM:
Not many skeeters in my part of the state. A bug fogger is well worth the money and something that actually works.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 25, 2026, 07:12 PM:
Another kook, this time from The People’s Republik, attempts to assassinate the President!
Liberals are cultivating some deranged and dangerous people! What the fuck is this country coming to?
LB 🐝
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 26, 2026, 01:41 AM:
For a 'peaceful' bunch that demands tolerance of their views, liberals sure seem to be totally intolerant of of anyone else's views.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2026, 07:24 AM:
That asshole is damned lucky he wasn’t shot dead, from the video I saw last night there were at least 8 SS guys with guns out as he ran by! Well thought out plan, rush past the detector!
LB 🐝
edit: got to hand it to Trump. Fucker was calm as a cucumber at a press conference, a few minutes later! He’s got balls!
[ April 26, 2026, 07:26 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 27, 2026, 10:40 AM:
How to talk to a liberal in the wake of the latest assassination attempt;
(1) In a calm but firm voice say; "Clearly, President Donald Trump is FAVORED by the Heavens and PROTECTED by the very hand of Almighty GOD"
(2) Watch liberal's head explode.
(3) Be polite and say "Y'all have a nice day now, cupcake !!"
Edit 4 spel check
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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 27, 2026, 06:32 PM:
Talk about heads explode! How about this? The social network effort by liberals to suggest that the dangerous kooks are all right wingers! There was one, that had an agenda, and make the claim the the fagot that shot Charlie Kirk….”came from a Republican voting family”! Yeah, and his family stated that the shooter had been expressing decidedly left wing opinions for quite a while. But, equating the shooter as right wing, because his family is right wing is deliberately dishonest and misleading. It’s deliberate and patently dishonest. OH? I just described Liberals, didn’t I?
There is something so alien about Liberals that it’s hard to consider them fellow American citizens. So totally left brain thinking about everything of value. I’m starting to return the hate that they aim at us, normal, conservative citizens. Everything about them is political. They are consumed with anger, and some of them, (the same ones that want to take my guns) are willing to commit murder against political opponents. And lie about who in the population is a likely assassin!
I’ve said before, this country is as divided politically as they ever were during the Civil War! We might as well give the assholes half the country and build a fucking wall! I see no middle ground!
End of rant
LB 🐝
edit: take a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZT2zRZPjU
[ April 27, 2026, 06:50 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 28, 2026, 01:11 AM:
Rule of thumb that is seldom wrong;
'Whatever wrongs the liberal Democrats are accusing the conservatives of, is exactly what they themselves are guilty of.
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on April 28, 2026, 02:11 AM:
We sure have jumped arouund on subjects in this post. But as I listen to thunder outside this morning I couldn't help but think that if there ever was a case for our 2nd Amendment Iran is a perfect example of why we have it. Those thousands of unarmed victims that got shot down probably wished they had a 2nd Amendment so they could at least fight back.And Iran still wants a nuke to kill us!
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 28, 2026, 05:31 AM:
"And Iran still wants a nuke to kill us".
Sadly ........ They will eventually get one by fair means or foul. Sooner or later we will elect some fast talking liberal loser that leads with 'good intentions' but nothing to back it up. An empty suit / paper tiger. Iran has oil and oil is money. With enough money .......... anyone can get a nuke.
What Iran does when they finally do get one is the big question.
Israel will not admit to having nukes but everybody knows that they do. They have also quietly let it be known that if they go down, Mecca will glow in the dark for a thousand years. Samson bringing down the Temple comes to mind. This has kept saner heads from doing anything too stupid. They may not like Israel but they respect them and therefore tolerate them.
The same cannot be said for the wack-job leaders in Iran. The day will come when they get themselves and a whole lot of other people killed.
You think that the price of gas is high now ???? Wait 'til it's radioactive !!!!
Thus endth today's Sermon from the Desert.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 28, 2026, 09:48 AM:
For Walt: I worked with a fellow years ago. He was Persian, moderately friendly, had a beard so I suppose he was Muslim? Although there are other faiths in that country. Anyway, he talked a lot about his dogs (Saluki’s) and they would hunt boar. He said they all had shotguns, but that’s it. If you remember the movie, The Godfather, those Italians also are allowed shotguns. So, they can be quite deadly at short range, unless they know what a cut shell is?
As far as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, we all have to thank some Pakastani asshole that gave the plans to North Korea.
I think maybe the ones that built bombs with their own brainpower, is small. Russia always steals technology, as does China. Maybe South Africa and Israel earned the bomb with their own effort. Maybe? who knows? But when you consider the enormous effort Iran has devoted to building a bomb, you have to just consider what the US did in the early 40’s. A Herculean effort! OK yes we used scientists that might have been foreign born, but still, it was a magnificent effort. I guess the Russians and Chinese still can’t make reliable jet engines, we and the British gave them the technology and they still haven’t got it quite right. I’ll tell ya who regrets accepting assurances of protection by us for giving away their nukes. That would be Ukraine, also sold their aircraft carrier to the Chinese who are still working on the design.
The problem with China is they are still a coastal navy. They have built a bunch of warships but lack the support, such as Oilers and other supply vessels that support a global navy. The Russians quit shipbuilding except for submarines. Britain’s navy is a fraction of what it was 80-90 years ago. Also lost their empire and all those third world countries still have a hard on thinking about being ruled by England for hundreds of years. Although Hong Kong is a shame.
But that’s the problem with suppressed countries. They lack the balls to fight the oppressor's. When you think of the American revolution, against the most powerful country in the world, at the time, damn! That took balls! Yes, Castro did it with a lot of help from the Russians. But the Iranian people are just too fearful to revolt. I heard that we sent some weapons to seed a revolution but the Kurds stole them. So, send more CIA!
We can’t be fighting religious fanatics forever. They believe they have paradise guaranteed so how the hell do you fight those with Alla on their side? They can’t lose….and that is the problem!
These Mullahs and clerics are brainwashing the population. Their god wants them to convert or kill the heathens, doesn’t matter. So, you can never be friends with Muslims. They admit that lying to non believers is SOP, there is no basis for friendly relations.
Oh well, sorry to ramble!
LN 🐝
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on April 29, 2026, 01:26 AM:
Welp its that time of year again, I'm off to work making Min. a better place with safer roads to drive on. LOL
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 29, 2026, 06:49 AM:
Now, if you could just build safer peoples to drive on those safer roads.
Rule #1
People are stupid.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 29, 2026, 08:23 AM:
Everybody goofs up, occasionally. I never did, but that’s what I’ve heard. I think joining the Army might have been a mistake? Signing up for 3 years active. Remember, we had the draft. But the smart ones went in for 6 months active and then they spent a month training every year. That’s enough to get a taste of military life, learn to swear, etc. Never get over that, part of your DNA as a soldier.
But, I believe that, as with the Israeli army, everybody has to, must serve, and it’s a valuable experience; bone spurs or not. Don’t make me list all the advantages of experiencing military life, not sure I could do it? But taking orders has some benefit in discipline
End of rant. LB 🐝
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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on May 01, 2026, 05:23 PM:
Welp I made it through first week, just back to work and they toss me in fire right away. Busy busy days.
Stupid people?? Every morning and evening this week, Ambulances roll through the job, as well as deputy sheriffs for county and also Highway patrol looking for bodies to scrape up off the road or ditches. Many people live in country and make a commute to work every morning to twin cities and then back home again. Very sad but some don't make it to work or back home again, and this goes on every day that I been at work. Was same thing last year also..
I got home tonight and read my mail. I'm qualified now to receive my wife's social security starting in Dec.
Also got a bonus from company and also a nice raise again this year so off to good start. I'm still waiting on them to have my new truck delivered that's least they could do for working so hard for them. LOL
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Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on May 02, 2026, 06:10 AM:
When I was working in Lost Wages I saw a wreck like every day. If I didn't see one on the way to work or going home I would see two the next day to make up the lost day. And my insurace went from almost nothing to "I might as well give them my paycheck".
Just lots of people not paying attention I guess.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on May 02, 2026, 06:35 AM:
Funny thing ............ Back in the Redneck '70s most everybody had a C.B. radio in their vehicle. Very few problems.
Now ...... the Yuppies need to have 'Hands Free Devices' when they drive and they still think that they're the only ones on the road.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on May 02, 2026, 06:51 AM:
whats funny is some people buy or have a car built just for making the drive to cities and back. Reminds me of Cannon ball run. Some sort of high winding engine with a 5-speed manual shift with a quick response time for weaving in and out of traffic and loud exhaust. If you are fallowing a semi-truck close and a car needs to pass but not enough time to get around the semi then they want to squeeze in between me and semi, usually have to give up a little ground. One of these days though I'm not going to back off either they make the full pass or take chances with car coming from other directions. no law says I have to yield to them.
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on May 02, 2026, 09:21 AM:
That's where a rocket launcher would be neat to have mounted on the roof LOL. One with Idiot seeking capabilities!!!!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 02, 2026, 09:32 AM:
I do not. know how true it is, but I’ve seen reports that Las Vegas is dying? One more item that we can blame on Joe Biden and his disastrous Covid policies. I’m starting to get invitations to poker tournaments, and did not, for the extent of Biden’s presidency.
But, as a visionary, I always fretted about the weekend traffic between the LA area and Las Vegas. People donating their salary to Vegas casinos.
So, (this was back in the seventies) you know, people in California should not be depositing their paycheck in Las Vegas! I thought about it and what occurred to me was PALM SPRINGS! it’s perfect, get the Velez’s and build casinos and it’s a third the distance.
But what happened was Indian Casinos. Some may feel differently but I think the native Americans have been a ward of the United States forever and now they are allowed to make umteen billions and tax free. Nothing is fair in this world.
LB 🐝
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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on May 02, 2026, 10:40 AM:
I'm a wee bit cynical. A LOT of $$$$ coming in, mostly cash, no audits and every Res. I've driven thru still looks like a third world country.
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on May 02, 2026, 10:56 AM:
Busy day doing the yard stuff. Grass is really growing and green.
Bunnies are keeping the lawn ate down.
Watering like it's a drought around here. It is always is.
Garden plants are raring to get put into the ground. Soil isn't quite warm enough and the mornings have been in the upper 20's.
Staying busy between shoulder rehab, dry needling it is working for us. It's not acupuncture but the same needles. It's also wood cutting season for us.
Snow line is up around 7,000 feet and holding for now.
Everyone have a great weekend.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 02, 2026, 06:17 PM:
I’m still bummed, miss Tillie! She was a good girl!
Went to Costco today, out of coffee. I really like Peet’s K-cups! Bought a couple ribeyes, just short of $50. And still, I haven’t had a raise since I retired in 2005. (and won’t, ever) Yeah, they increase SS a few bucks every year, BFD.
Nothing going on here. My daughter is coming down Tuesday. Yea!
That’s it from The People’s Republik!
LB 🐝
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on May 03, 2026, 06:12 AM:
Just like putting up fur Leonard, those few bucks add up.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 03, 2026, 11:40 AM:
It’s kinda cold today. A couple weeks ago, it felt like mid summer, but now and a week or so, it’s been overcast and a bit chilly. I’m wearing my green wool shirt that is just the ticket when it’s overcast and damp. Yes, furnace was on earlier. I know Pinky would like to go outside but not today.
I’m considering a bit of gardening. I got the potting soil I have been waiting on for a month. Maybe I’ll feel like doing it, we will see if the sun comes out? See, that’s why I am an Arizona person, at heart. Bright sunny days suit me fine. We have to put up with a spring type weather in Commiefornia.
I need to do a list. A TO DO LIST! It would be a long list, too much trouble! I know one thing. Before Shelley get’s here, I need to ruthlessly clear out the refrigerator! Too damned many portions and left overs I’m never going to eat anyways. Of course, that reminds me of Tillie. She would gladly help with cleaning up all kinds of crap. I don’t know why I habitually save stuff that I know will never eat. My son is a weird type. He can open a frig and start chowing down on any and everything. Which is the exact opposite of me! Really weird, but he loves left overs! I’ve never seen anybody like that. He opens some jar or any kind of container and immediately can see the possibilities. I don’t get it, I’d toss all of it! So why do I save it in the first place? I know, illogical, and stupid.
Again, that’s where Tillie would eagerly help. She was such a good girl!
End of ramble
El Bee 🐝
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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on May 08, 2026, 04:39 PM:
I finished up a job on Tuesdays, and they sent me to a new job way up north. The job is right on the southern border of wolf country and right where the forest meets the prairie lands. Look to south and see the open prairie and then look north and its wood lands with birch tree's, oaks, varies ever-green's, some maple and soon on. I think they call it kingdom of heaven. I also see there are a few colonies around that area as well but not sure what they are.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on May 08, 2026, 05:02 PM:
Quit admiring the scenery and get back to work. You're paying our Social Security.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 10, 2026, 11:24 AM:
ko ko’s right. There is need of a few working people to support those of us on social security. I remember when I was working, I had to pay into FICA until I reached a certain number, and it seemed like that number went up every year.. Then we would enjoy a couple weeks near the end of the year where we got a whole paycheck.
Reminds me. I signed up for a saving’s bond, when I worked for Wilson meat packing, the same company that made sporting goods. Anyway, I had a lockable desk and I was stacking those bonds in a drawer, and thinking I was getting away with something. My wife never said a word, so I was pretty confident that I was building up a secret gun slush fund. This went on for maybe 2 years and one day she casually asked what we were going to do with those E bonds? I never got away with anything. She used to tell the kids that she knew all my secret stash locations, like down in the toe of my cowboy boots and the sub floor of my Cigar Humidor. She just let me think I was getting away with it.
But, when I couldn’t justify a need, I had my cash stash, that I thought she didn’t know about. For guns, mostly. I could never come up with a reason why I needed another gun. I think she enjoyed the game as much as I did. She paid the bills and she knew where the money came from. One day she bought this house while I was at work. When I got home she showed me these brochures, and asked what model I liked the best? Somehow, the one I picked was the one that she had made a deposit and all we needed to do was go down and pick out a lot. Next thing you know, we were moving in on New Year’s eve! That was 50 years ago this last New Years. Time flies! When you think that your kids and grand kids all went to the same schools, I guess you are putting down roots. The only problem was that she had to die on me! Never got over it.
Okay, another stroll down Memory Lane.
LB 🐝
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