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Cute dog you got there!
Get any grapes this year? I didn’t have any on mine but I worry about my dog eating them.
He loves to eat the raspberries right off the plants. Only thing I’ve found he won’t eat is cucumbers and lettuce!
Grapes are very bad for dogs.
 
Fencemender said:
Cute dog you got there!
Get any grapes this year? I didn’t have any on mine but I worry about my dog eating them.
He loves to eat the raspberries right off the plants. Only thing I’ve found he won’t eat is cucumbers and lettuce!
Grapes are very bad for dogs.
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Why are grapes bad for dogs?
 
DLJeffs said:
Grass carp are a very under rated fly rod target (regular carp are okay, but grass carp will pull you around the lake a few times). Used to be some in a golf course lake near us when I lived in Missouri and I'd go fish for them sometimes in the evening after the golfers were gone. Especially mid-summer when they'd get under the mulberry tree - use a simple fly of purple deer hair spun and clipped in the shape of a mulberry.
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Yeh, the young'ns around here get bored with throwing feathers at stocked trout and dodging drunk college kayakers so they go off to dirty water and throw at carp. Others go after stripers in fall and spring or musky in certain river systems. Very few go after panfish and bass (both largemouth and smallmouth). Lil Mikey likes panfish in little cricks and redeye bass.
 
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I read somewhere that Ansel Adams sat on a windy, cold rocky peak for days waiting for the light and clouds to be just right ........ And he had to schlep 35 lbs of camera gear and tripod up those hills.
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My first trip to the Yellowstone area was given to me by my wife as a gift - I still don't know if she just wanted me out of the house, or sad for me for working such long hours at the time. Anywhose, I decided to make it an Ansel trip. Packed up my Zone System Photometer, monorail 5x7 and an old 8x10 folding field camera along with my n2020 and did my best at taking pics that Ansel did. Of course had some luxuries - was in a rented 4Runner, but only had 5 days to take as many images as I could. Well actually less, as I got sidetracked with fly fishing (I mean this was hallowed waters I had read and dreamed about for years and would not forgive myself for letting the opportunity pass without wetting a line) and a little side jaunt with a wildlife biologist. Plus I was all agog, all breathless and drooling over seeing this part of God's creation I had only dreamed about while knowing, there was little chance of me to ever see it. I spent way too much time at Mammoth Hot Springs - was like being on another planet. One other of many memorable events was just flying into the Jackson Hole Airport. First time and I was sitting on the wrong side (right side) of the plane (I did not realize it at the time). Flying in from the South, the Tetons are out the left side of the plane. Pilot had to make a nearly 180 deg turn to line up with the runway and when he leveled out - there - almost close enough to touch were the Tetons!! Spectacular!! Sidenote - somewhere in the wilds of Yellowstone country there is a 14mm Nikon lens probably laying up against a sage or tansy - and if you happen to find it - my number is BR549.
 
Mike Hill said:
My first trip to the Yellowstone area was given to me by my wife as a gift - I still don't know if she just wanted me out of the house, or sad for me for working such long hours at the time. Anywhose, I decided to make it an Ansel trip. Packed up my Zone System Photometer, monorail 5x7 and an old 8x10 folding field camera along with my n2020 and did my best at taking pics that Ansel did. Of course had some luxuries - was in a rented 4Runner, but only had 5 days to take as many images as I could. Well actually less, as I got sidetracked with fly fishing (I mean this was hallowed waters I had read and dreamed about for years and would not forgive myself for letting the opportunity pass without wetting a line) and a little side jaunt with a wildlife biologist. Plus I was all agog, all breathless and drooling over seeing this part of God's creation I had only dreamed about while knowing, there was little chance of me to ever see it. I spent way too much time at Mammoth Hot Springs - was like being on another planet. One other of many memorable events was just flying into the Jackson Hole Airport. First time and I was sitting on the wrong side (right side) of the plane (I did not realize it at the time). Flying in from the South, the Tetons are out the left side of the plane. Pilot had to make a nearly 180 deg turn to line up with the runway and when he leveled out - there - almost close enough to touch were the Tetons!! Spectacular!! Sidenote - somewhere in the wilds of Yellowstone country there is a 14mm Nikon lens probably laying up against a sage or tansy - and if you happen to find it - my number is BR549.
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My daughter worked at Old Faithful and Moose lake lodge. When we stayed there she always made arrangements for us to get primo view rooms. Watching the geysers at dawn sitting in your room was very nice. Also had a night in the bat cave, upper floor that is reserved for staff only. Not much has changed up there since the lodge was build. And we have been up the stairs and on the roof quite the view 87 feet off the ground. They go up there twice a day for flag raising and lowering. The park is wonderful. I recommend September or early october to avoid the crowds.
Fishing- so many great rivers- Rock creek- the Madison- blackfoot-Bighorn yellowstone- the list is almost endless- The sleeper-unknown and underfished- The Kootenai Fabulous trout- views, my childhood stomping grounds. The hard to access areas are outstanding fishing. The ghost town of Leona is one area. Below Yak falls is another. Both probably for younger fisherman. Sorry for stock pics.

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Mike Hill said:
My first trip to the Yellowstone area was given to me by my wife as a gift - I still don't know if she just wanted me out of the house, or sad for me for working such long hours at the time. Anywhose, I decided to make it an Ansel trip. Packed up my Zone System Photometer, monorail 5x7 and an old 8x10 folding field camera along with my n2020 and did my best at taking pics that Ansel did. Of course had some luxuries - was in a rented 4Runner, but only had 5 days to take as many images as I could. Well actually less, as I got sidetracked with fly fishing (I mean this was hallowed waters I had read and dreamed about for years and would not forgive myself for letting the opportunity pass without wetting a line) and a little side jaunt with a wildlife biologist. Plus I was all agog, all breathless and drooling over seeing this part of God's creation I had only dreamed about while knowing, there was little chance of me to ever see it. I spent way too much time at Mammoth Hot Springs - was like being on another planet. One other of many memorable events was just flying into the Jackson Hole Airport. First time and I was sitting on the wrong side (right side) of the plane (I did not realize it at the time). Flying in from the South, the Tetons are out the left side of the plane. Pilot had to make a nearly 180 deg turn to line up with the runway and when he leveled out - there - almost close enough to touch were the Tetons!! Spectacular!! Sidenote - somewhere in the wilds of Yellowstone country there is a 14mm Nikon lens probably laying up against a sage or tansy - and if you happen to find it - my number is BR549.
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What an amazing/memorable gift and she is an amazing wife! Sounds like you had a great and memorable time Li’l Mikey @Mike Hill. Then you had everything done right! I am very intrigued by your picture sessions and would love to see some of it!

My condolences to your Nikon wide angle lens- you did bring the right tool for all that landscape pictorial work. Did you stop at the lost and found archive? Heck, you could have had some other Nikon lenses to your choosing :sarcastic::nodice:. Li’l Mikey to the lost and found, “I am looking to see if someone turned in “some camera lenses”? I went ahead and posted a thread to all the camera forums with a link here post # 1,408. I stated “eye and mind wandering Tennessean” with a flare for the dramatic has accidentally lost 14mm Nikon wide angle lens BR549 (or BR548……maybe BR550:ponder:) circa BC”. “Will be greatly rewarded in form of wrinkled woods”.
 
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Mike Hill said:
Yeh, the young'ns around here get bored with throwing feathers at stocked trout and dodging drunk college kayakers so they go off to dirty water and throw at carp. Others go after stripers in fall and spring or musky in certain river systems. Very few go after panfish and bass (both largemouth and smallmouth). Lil Mikey likes panfish in little cricks and redeye bass.
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I love bluegill fishing when they're on. That little bloop bloop sound they make. We'd kick a little popper, let it rest until the rings went away, then twitch it again, then wait.... often we could see a bluegill underneath, looking up, watching the popper and it would finally decide to eat it. A ton of fun.
 
Well, a sad time for travelers. The Saturn 1B that had been a landmark on I-65 near the TN/Bama state line is no more! Was taken down the last few days!

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Nature Man said:
I trust my friends on WB more than Google.
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They are toxic to dogs, can cause kidney failure. Apparently even in small amounts, though I suspect some dogs must react more than others as I'm fairly certain my old lab used to eat some fallings from a scuppernong vine at our last house with no ill effect.
 
SENC said:
They are toxic to dogs, can cause kidney failure. Apparently even in small amounts, though I suspect some dogs must react more than others as I'm fairly certain my old lab used to eat some fallings from a scuppernong vine at our last house with no ill effect.
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Our old english eats anything including the green apples and plums. No idea as to how you stop a 10 month old 90 lb pup from eating whatever...
 
Mike1950 said:
Our old english eats anything including the green apples and plums. No idea as to how you stop a 10 month old 90 lb pup from eating whatever...
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Yep, it's tough short of fully restricting them from the area. Sometimes you just have to rely on their natural instincts.
 
Borrowing some lyrics - just because this photo caused a endorphin rush.

Beer's in the bucket, suds in the sink
Chicken's in the skillet, ice in the drink
Head's in the clouds, but don't need no drugs
Burls in a row and I'm in love


Granny's in Heaven, Mama's in town
Daddy's in the doghouse, corn's in the ground
Sister's in her room smokin' God knows what
Burls in a row and I'm in love

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It's definitely fall here.

For size reference, the combine has a 12 row head 30+ ft wide. The auger wagon holds 1300 bu (a semi trailer hauls ~ 1000 bu). That auger wagon can fill a semi in about a minute and a half!

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