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i have preached it for 18 years while I fish tournaments that Life jackets and kill switches save lives please wear them. My boat motor won't start unless I have my vest on because my kill switch tab is attached to my vest and I put my vest on and then plug up the kill switch slide so motor will start. Heard to many horror stories of folks not wearing them for me not to put mine on. If I have a passenger the must have one on also. I have extras in my boat for them. The old adage IT WON"T OR CAN"T HAPPEN TO ME don't hunt folks. It can happen to anyone................jmho 

Well had a meet and greet with joe45 today and had coffee and then we went up to NRANGE for a look around. Went to basement and looked over the range. Pretty nice set up. Divided into two sections. joe45 found a few things he needed to buy so guess all in all pretty good day. Enjoyed meeting him. Great guy for sure. If you ever get a chance have some coffee with him and you won't be disappointed............ :up:

Some one mentioned that GOD and Dog are spelled the same, just backwards. Is that just coincidence or His plan? I think he created dogs for special purposes but that is........... jmho   If folks stop and think about all of the great services dogs offer humanity it is astounding. they help find people buried alive, they help the blind function, they track down lost children, they work with police officers and become a team and the dogs are considered an officer of the law and many have laid down their lives for their partners, They are working in the l military to sniff out IED's and are a very important part of our Military. They are now finding out that they are helping cancer patients both adults and kids but most of all they are mans best friend. I love Mutts for sure........ :up:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:   

Dogs can be very loyal friends and many times if you get separated somehow your paths cross and your back together again. I do think GOD has a lot to do with things like that because he knows both of you need and love each other and should be together..............jmho

I think it is because they charge a fee to  put tires in the city dumps and even tire stores charge to dispose of them. I have a few buddy's that have big sink holes on the farms in Wilson county and they tell their friends to bring their old tires and dump them in the sink holes in an attempt to fill them back in and then he will cover them with dirt. The state will take them over at the old prison on Centennial Boulevard as they have huge grinders there now that grind the old tires into dust and the mix it in with asphalt to put on the highways.

I use to love making a garden every year but health prevents that now but back when I grew mine I always had far more than I would use and gave a lot of my friends veggies. Since i can not have a garden all of my friends make up for my short comings with planting gardens and keeping me in veggies. I do grown some Cherry tomatoes and have a vine of Cucumbers on some lattes on the end of my patio and very low maintenance plants and we all kinda swap things around.  I was not aware of the potato idea either and it may be to late to try that this year but will get together with couple buddies next year and use my old garden spot to grow a few stacks of them. Your going to ave to send me the plans on how to do it correctly JPS so I can tell my buddies about it........... :up:  :up:  :up:  

Well, it's not really an issue with me. I don't mind it. They are just doing what nature tells them to do and I will help them when these hatch with meal worms and crickets until the babies leave again.......... :up: :up:

I said I grew up with guns and I did from age 6 but I was about 6 when I got my first dog named Pal to. I also grew up with dogs. I guess between me and my 3 older brothers and parents we had at least 5 or 6 dogs all the time as kids. We lived on a country road about 40 miles west of Chicago and it was a famous drop sight for people in Chicago that didn't want dog any more so they would drive in the country and drop them. My dad worked in Chicago about three blocks from the Cook County Animal Shelter so it was easy enough for him to take the dogs in when they showed up at our house if we didn't keep them. He made sure he got them gone before us boys got attached to  the mutt or he knew there would be trouble taking it away. I do remember a few times we may have had as many as 12 dogs including our own plus visitors Dad take to work on Monday. It seemed that Friday night was drop night and because we had dogs barking almost all the time the drops found our house pretty quick. I would have kept everyone of them if Dad would have let but I had a two limit when I was young but as I got older and became a wager earner meaning cutting grass or helping an old farmer work his farm down the road a short bike trip away then I was pretty much able to have as many as I wanted but I stayed with 2 most of the time Pal and Bearcat I had for quite some time and then someone stole Pal because he was purebred Springer Spaniel and was great at hunting Pheasants and Quail my buddy Dave and I hunted and He was gone on day about 5 years after I got him but there was something different about Pal when he showed up at our house and that is he was wearing a collar and none of the others were. My dad promised me he didn't take him to the shelter but he did say, you know son when he came here he was wearing a collar and there was a lot of people that hunted around our place because most most of it was farm land and maybe his original owner lost him while hunting and found him on another trip. At the time it made since but today nah!! not 5 years later. My Dad always had a way of explaining things that made sense. Since I had began hunting seriously I got two dogs given to me by my mothers boss where she worked as a cook in his restaurant. He gave me two young Tri-colored Beagles which Hunting came like a second nature to and that was when I name one of them John Henry because of the song about how hard John Henry worked and my John worked just as hard tracking rabbits. When we moved to Tennessee when my Grandfather gave my mother the Ranch/farm if she and her family would move south well here I am still!!! Came here at age 17 senior in high school. Brought Jack and John and oh yea old Bearcat was still tagging along. Don't exactly know what kind of dog he was. He was about the size of a Jack Russell and had a bobbed tail and his ears stood up like a Dobermans but had hair that felt like course bear hair but was as fast as any cat and could jump straight up into an adult arms so i just named him Bearcat. When I left for the military my parents took care of my dogs but both of them passed away while I was on tour of old age. My tour of duty was the first time I could remember not having a dog and I fixed that soon as I returned home............. :up:  :up:  :up:    

Didn't mean to make no one cry. Just all talking about dogs and it brought back old memories of a wonderful dog that played a very important roll and touched many lives and never wanted anything but love in return and she got that....... :up:

II just went through the scrap book of pictures and found as couple of Girl Dog at age about 18 and she is almost all white and gray in the face and chest from age. Kasey is getting gray now also.......Like me........Old and gray........... :rock:

The way I look at it if your pet is not spoiled your not doing something right and it is not the pets fault..................jmho

I'm gonna ask ya'll to bare with me a little here but I want to talk about another dog. My oldest sons dog. Many folks here know I lost my oldest son to an auto accident. He had the accident in May of 86 and it finally took his life in 90. When Doug Jr. was 6 years old I was sitting out on the front porch when I saw him walking down the road we lived on. He had a rope stretched out behind him and on the other end of the rope was this puppy that looked very much like the Queen in my avatar but it was just a puppy, a very skinny puppy. The puppy's feet were stretched out in front of her pushing backwards as hard as she could. He and the puppy arrived at the porch and my son said " hey dad, look what followed me home, can I keep it"?  I said"followed you home huh" and he said "yep". i thought about it for a minute and figure he  and his 5 year old brother should have a dog so I said yea but you will be responsible for all of it's care and he promised he would. About a day or so later we took her to the vet and got her checked out and all her first shots and de-wormed and all the things you do with puppy's and I was very proud of my son because he did everything right for all the years while he was able to. He trained her to do tricks he taught he how to mind and they became inseparable She went to school with them when they rode bicycles and wanted for them to come home and followed them home. He would take lunch out to her and put water out by the bikes for her (weather permitting) In bad weather she remained at home in his bedroom and he would leave the radio playing on low volume for her. Then as he grew older and got his drivers license and interested in girls like most teenagers do I watched and he never disappointed me. She went in his car everywhere he went just as Kasey does in my jeep. She even went on dates when he would take a girl out to a movie or a dance. ( Oh I have gotten ahead of my self a little)  When I asked him what he named her and he said "Dog" And I said that's not really a fitting name for a pretty little girl dog so he said "ok" Her name is Girl Dog and that became her name.     Now she went for all of her vet visits and shots and to get spayed when the time came and there was good Vet files kept on her. She was 10 years old the night of his accident and she was also injured in the accident which happened about 3 miles from our home. Hi back hips were broke and Doug was unconscious when emergency help arrived and when the ambulance rolled every kid with a  car rolled two and all the kids that went to the wreck knew it was Doug and his car and they all knew his dog. When the EMT went inside the car to help Doug Girl Dog had crawled and dragged herself up on his lap and growled at the EMT and was protecting him. One of the kids said "I will get her" and soon as Greg called her by name he was able to gently lift her of Doug. The police officer told him to put here on the side of the road and he would put her down and Greg said  I'll take care of her and they took her to the Vet that had been caring for her the entire time we had her. She was at the Vets office for 6.5 months and after she was healed and was out of surgery and traction for hip repairs he kept her at his office and fed her. I didn't go and get her till 6 months after the accident which small town everyone knew everything. I told the Vet I had come to get Girl Dog and I told him, "I don't know how much I owe you but what ever it is I promise to pay you." He looked at me and said "You don't owe me anything Doug."Just take care of her and your son." I did to the best of my ability do both. When we were finally able to bring my son home Girl Dog was all excited because she knew he had come home. He couldn't speak but he could pet her and hug her and remember her. She slept under his bed every night until that last night and at 3;15AM she came into the bedroom with Margie and I and laid down beside my bed and I knew my Son was gone. I went into his room and Girl Dog was right. Doug had passed away in his sleep. Now if your keeping track Doug passed away at age 20 and that made Girl Dog 14. She became my dog and as the vet told me to take care of Doug and Girl Dog I did. Doug was gone but I still had her. I fed her just like he did, from the table every night what ever we had for supper was what her plate had on it all the time they were growing up together. She loved Catfish and home fries with a passion...lol. In 1997 I lost Margie to a heart attack. In 1998 I had to have Girl Dog put down because she had developed Uterus Cancer and had a Tumor forming causing her pain. I took her to the vet and got the diagnosis and asked him to put her down because I would not allow her to suffer. He had the nurse pull Girl Dogs file and he opened it up and began to make notes when it dawned on him. He began scratching his head and he turned and looked at me and said "Doug do you know how old Girl Dog is and I replied "yea  22." With that he put her to rest and I took her and buried her on top of my Son with my younger sons help. There's a lot more to this but I don't want to bore ya'll any more than I probably have already. The Vet did ask me several days later when I ran into him at a filling station. He wanted to ask me what kind of food we fed Girl Dog to enable her to have the longevity of life she lived. I smiled at him and said what is it you tell people to never feed their dogs and he said table food and I said except for the time she spent with you table food is all she has ever eaten. The next year he retired and we never spoke again. I cannot explain how she lived that long except by Love and care. I have nothing else I can think of. I hope Kasey is with me that long but what ever God has in store for her I will accept. I have a few friends that have said they feel that when one goes the other won't be far behind. Don't know if they will be right or not. I guess only time can tell that.  If any one feels this should be deleted do to length I will understand. Just wanted to tell ya'll about a very special mutt named Girl Dog. I have some pictures of he somewhere and I will try and dig them out and post them if I can make my old scanner work.

I'm trying for sure.......... :up: :rofl:

Ok ya'll can see my Queen now in my avatar. I am the slave in the house............ :rofl:

Yea, I know she is a little over weight according to the vet she should weigh 32 pounds but weighs 71 and Vet says I need to feed her less and not give her so many snacks but she is 15 going on 16 and has been spoiled all her life on home cooked meals and snacks consisting of Jacks Link Jerky and Alpo Biscuits but I did make a slight adjustment to her diet to please the Vet. I took her off the Beef jerky and put her on the jacks turkey Jerky. Yea maybe I should put her on a diet but decided as long as she is happy I ain't changingmuch about her lifestyle. ......... :whistle: :whistle:

"John Henry" and call him "John"      I had a hound named that back when I was kid and rabbit hunted and John Henry was best beagle hound in the pack. Had the best nose and seldom every lost a rabbits trail...............jmho

Thanks, he was my buddy and of Course now I have the Queen in my life controlling me with her every whim......... :up: I will be posting and Avatar with her later today. I did have her and Buttons for several years but he had his bluff in on her so he remained the boss of the house till his passing.................. :popcorn: :popcorn:

That was totally hilarious. I  had to clean key board and monitor though. Was reading the texts while drinking morning coffee  That was funny. I don't know if anyone has noticed but I changed my avatar. His name was Buttons and I had him from birth to age 15 and he passed away from Heart attack a few years ago.

What would make you think that LB?

It sounds like he is one of those vets that had his appointment push back and hid one to many times by VA and now is a loose cannon that needs to be unloaded and placed where he cannot hurt himself or others around him...............jmho

Who's Rob Sellers?     Now that's funny right there @ k191145 ........................ :rofl: :rofl: :rock:

I think he was referring to Master Baiter and no I was not referring to the Professional level. Just your average weekend Warriors that fish weekend local tournaments or bass fish for recreation?

I notice ever so often someone pops up with a fishing question and just saw a killer GPS advertised so I guess I need to ask the question. How many folks here are anglers and how many folks here are Serious Anglers like the type that competes in Bass Tournaments????

Well, this is a new pair of Robins. I had a pair there two weeks ago raise 4 young and once the young left the nest I removed the old nest and threw in in my trash can and now this is another new pair getting ready to raise their young in the same place as the other nest was I removed. I guess I will be feeding another family of babies. I put Mela worms and Crickets out on the gravel drive and they get them and take them up and feed the young birds. There at the end they would wait for me to walk right up to them and put the meal worms down and fly right passed me to the nest. They were not scare of me at all towards the end.

I cannot believe this but ya'll remember me and the Robins, Right. Well about 5 days after the babies flew the nest I removed it from the light fixture and threw it in my trash can. Went out the other day and saw a few strands of vine type stringers hanging from the same light fixture and thought I had missed a few so reached up and pulled the down and threw them in my trash can. Today I went out to talk with a few buddies that stopped by and one of them said Look at that nest on your light. Yep, sure nuff another pair of Robins has built yet another nest on the same light and since they have it completed I'm gonna leave it and see how many babies I will be feeding this round. Last pair had 4. I cannot believe they are nesting this late in the year but they are. Will post pictures of the new nest soon as I take some and down load them. I cannot believe this means more trips to the bait store for Crickets and Meal worms............ :rofl: :rofl: pictures of nest # 2 [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Nest2001_zpsdee13beb.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Nest2002_zpsfd04e13b.jpg.html][/URL]