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They are very protective of their feeder they lay claim to for sure. Back years ago before my wife passed away us and another couple took a trip up to Eurieka Springs Arkansas and I think there had to be a million hummingbirds in that town. It is an old timey type town and you could not dive anything except a horse drawn buckboard on the dirt streets in the town or walk on the old wooden sidewalks to the different stores. There was a square in the middle of it and I thought it was strange that the trees on the square were about 60 feet tall didn't have any leaves yet they looked alive with thousands of pretty flowers. I asked an old gentleman sitting in a rocking chair what kind of trees they were and he said plastic. I said your kidding and he said nope, not kidding and I asked him about the flowers and he said they are birds and not flowers. He reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small black cat fire cracker. Lit it off his cigar and pitched it on it the street. When it went off I bet a few 1000 birds took flight. It was all hummingbirds and not flowers. That was when I noticed all of the feeders hanging every where you looked. There must have been 300 or more feeders in the square. As we walked back to our Van to go back to the motel we noticed everyone had about 5 of more feeders hanging. When we got back to the motel outside of town I asked the person working at the Motel which also had a ton of feeders hanging around it and they said that they have a crew of people that make sure that the feeders remain filled every day in the town. Each merchant in the town donates funds into an account to purchase the food products necessary to keep the birds fed all the time they are there before migration each year. This town is located in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. I have no idea why so many birds pick this area to spend their summers but they said they come in March and April and then many of them leave and in mid summer the population begins to increase with the hatchlings growing up and the beginning of the migrations south birds arrive back in town.

Water and gravel are both good to shoot over later in the evening. They need to pick up small pieces of gravel in their craws before going to water to help grind up any grain they eat and store in their craws. if you can find a pond that has gravel around it your shooting should be even better...........JMHO

Yep, they do dine on a varity of bugs for sure. I also have a thick fence row across my back yard with some type of Horn Shaped flowers that they love also. I'm not sure what type of flowers they are but they are orange in color.

Yea but the feeders are a lot more easy to use than trying to catch that many Mosquitos............LMAO

I know the food coloring is not required but makes it easier for me to see the levels in the feeders without walking all the way out to the ones at the back of my big yard to see if they need filling.

I have a buddy in Watertown that has that same problem..........LOL!! Thick as mosquitos at his place which mosquitos is a main part of their diet too. He goes through about a gallon every 2 days...........lol.

Yea, PJ is correct. The first year I lived here I didn't see any birds but my buddy across town had a few feeders up and he had like 5 birds. I went to Tractor Supply and bought 2 feeders and some nectar and put them up and within a week I had about 1/2 dozen birds. I enjoyed watching them a lot. I was in TSC that Fall and they had HB feeders on sale to get rid of them and I bought the last 6 they had and checked the nectar bags for expiration date and it said it had a 3 year expiration date so bought the last 10 packs of it and following spring I boiled up some water and dumped the powder into the water amd made enough nectar to fill all feeders and then hung them. All around the yard and buildings and by June I bet I had 50+ birds hanging around and they stayed all Summer and I was told that Sugar water was better so I went to Sugar water with red food coloring and the birds loved it. I had birds like that up until a couple years ago and noticed I was not getting as many birds. Did some research and it was because the drought in the southwest made their migration hard on them finding food so they did not migrate this far in big numbers. It has been slow up until this year and right now I have more birds than I have had since the drought. If you just hang feeders you will get birds Omega. You have the Cumberland River up your way and should have a lot of birds as they are attracted to the wild flowers that grow around the River banks and will search out feeders in a large area........JMHO

I'm not sure if folks have taken down their feeders or just let them go empty but over the last couple days my group of 5 birds has grown to about 25+ and birds fighting like crazy over my feeders so I have to put up 3 more this morning so now I have 7 up. I had that many up early but nectar was going bad in them with only 5 birds. I'm glad I had enough food to fill the extra feeders...............

I only have 1 and it says "Gun Safety means using two hands" on rear glass of my Jeep. Use to have a couple more but as they got old I scraped them off and never replaced them.

Oh! Ok. I have had that mentality since Nam so that will be easy. I have been in survival mode so long I don't know anything else....................

Ok so I have told you I am not the brightest bulb in the lamp so what does LMOE mean???

Yea I guess them Texas boys that by hitting 2 home runs with 1st 2 batters it would rattle those Japanese players. That little Pitcher never missed a step after that and Japan showed them they have long ball hitters also. Texas don't not have anything to be a shamed of. Them boys played some tough teams and scraped their way back to the title game and that team didn't even exist till 6 years ago. There is always next year if the country is still here by then. At the rate things are going I look to wake up in the middle of a civil war and not even know who's side I'm on? I will hope TGO it still up so I can write someone to find out who I need to side with...........

Yep!! I think he didn't take Texas serious enough to use his top pitchers and was trying to save them for Japan. That older gentelman coaching Texas was on his game and when he told him players to get him just 2 runs they did and won the game. I just don't think Texas will be able to hit the Japanese Pitchers tomorrow. They are not as good and the Japanese team that came in 2015 but they are still pretty good.

Ok, then it was more of a get together than a Protest and just a bunch of folks looking for their 5 minutes of fame? I bet the news was really Pi$$ed about that one........

Well, it's time to make the call!!! Who do you have picked to take the big trophy home? Texas or Japan I never thought Texas would beat North carolina but they did and are USA champs. I don't think Japan will be as easy as NC. They play way more discipline than most of the other teams. I would love to see it be Texas but have my doubts...............JMHO

Ok so let me see if I am correct on this because I am in the learning stages or all these different groups. It said about 3 or 4 dozen protesters showed up at the rally and 2800 other people showed up as anti protesters. If you show up at one of these things on either side are your considered a bad guy or was just the 4 dozen the bad guys and the 2800 are good guys?? I'm sorry but just not to smart about all these different groups. I would think if anyone showed up at all they would be a protester. Do we have good protesters and bad protesters?????................

It may get a little for the 13 year olds but the new bat size will also add weight making it a little harder to swing for the smaller kids. At the speed these kids are throwing also is making the fields smaller when a batter gets the meat of the bat on the ball with a 78MPH (100 MP) fast ball.............JMHO

I seldom lock my Jeep doors since if a thief wants in a broken window will most likely be the result. I also never ever leave a gun in my Jeep. When I get out my gun gets out with me......JMHO

Well I guess when I die all my blue jeans and dress shirts will be going to Disabled Veterans Store as stated in my last request sheet in my Will.............JMHO

For anyone interested in LLWS games today. They begin at 10:30 eastern time and 11:30 Central time on ABC. That is channel 2 in Central time but don't know what channel it is in the east time zone...............

I told a guy one time that I don't even own a suit. His mouth flew open and jaw dropped and he said how you gonna be buried if you don't have a suit. I said ain't no sense in burning up a perfectly good suit and his mouth flew open again and he said Oh NO!!! you already know you going to hell and I just smiled and agreed. I figured going into cremetion who be to much for him to take in all at one time...........JMHO

Well I don't own a suit but I do still have Blue Jeans and dress shirts and the last three funerals I attended if I would have worn a suit I would have been way over dressed. Last one I went to I worn jeans and nice shirt and Sketchers shoes and there were many folks in shorts and dress shirts and jogging shoes because it was pretty hot outside. I think it is more the fact that people show up to give the family respect of attending than how a person is dressed but that is............JMHO

I went and looked an there is nothing new on line in search about bats for LL yet.

Well, I guess I have played all of the rolls listed here. I have been in suit and tie jobs in my early years from coming back home but I felt out of place so went into something I knew. I became a professional Automotive Mechanic which later became Automotive Technician. I wore beard before coming home and have worn one since 1973 but kept it well groomed while I was at work in case I had to speak with a customer. I always wore a clean work company uniform to work. That was my day dress 5 to 6 days a week. My sons never saw me without a beard and neither did my 2nd wife before she passed. I have threatened to cut it off a few times but talked myself out of it. Back between wives I did go out and party a little and dress up was Blue Jeans, Belt sometimes and suspenders sometimes depending on mood. Nice dress shirt and ball cap or Cowboy hat depending on which club I might be going to. Nice pair of Tony Lama Cowboy boots with silver toe tips and silver heel straps and always shined. That has never stopped me from being a gentleman and my manners where always a part of me. I always open and close car doors and building doors for a lady and all my actions made sure she always knew she was a lady. Today is a lot different for me. I'm clean and don't smell and put clean clothes on every day but may not shave every day or groom my beard but do brush it. Kasey accepts me as I am and as far as I'm concerned that is who I am. I'm not interested in courting or trying to attract a lady because I am still deeply in Love with the lady I buried in 1997 and that won't change. My whole house is a Man and Mutt cave and nobody has to like it but us. Thats All Folks!!!!!

Yea and I was hoping Goodlettsville would have went all the way but the year they went the competition was really tough and on top of their games big time. That might be why the Little League Commission is looking at changing but it has not been announced if they are going to wood. They have just been talking about it in between games that they are looking at bat issues. It might be a blessing if the maker of the Louisville Slugger Bats and other bat companies do not get a bad case of the greed knowing all Little Leaguers have to go wooden. Normally when stuff like this happens dollar signs start flashing in the eyes of manufactures...........JMHO