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Snow is melting fast and piles are shrinking
New snow melts within a day
Refuge had bear bait registration
Snow shovels are stored
Chains are off the tractor
Still need to swap tires on the fleet and get sandbags outta my little crummy.
WOOT!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Still several weeks away from spring up my way. Winter lets go late around these parts.
But folks are swinging flies for steelhead somewhere in AK, so yeah that means its spring... Man i miss that.
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Currently 14fricking degrees "ABOVE" zero. Translated: spring my ass. I am figuring it is time (2025) to start spending (5) FIVE months a year, someplace that does "NOT" super-SUCK.
For those dumb'[bleep] chechako's who think they have "gonad's" of brass. Your time will come.
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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All you got to do is uncover your boat and put your snow shovels away and you'll get more snow. Ask me how I know.
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Skunk cabbage is up. Fish are running. Birds are chirping. Bears have been sighted.
B.C. don't matter.............Laffin!
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All you got to do is uncover your boat and put your snow shovels away and you'll get more snow. Ask me how I know. Yeah, or in my case, just wash my truck.
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.......Refuge had bear bait registration........... I thought the feds banned bear baiting on refuge lands 10 years ago or so.
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No browns over bait on KNWR. Only blacks.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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I’ve noticed that temps drop overnight.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Not spring until the outside RV's really start messing up traffic
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Currently 14fricking degrees "ABOVE" zero. Translated: spring my ass. I am figuring it is time (2025) to start spending (5) FIVE months a year, someplace that does "NOT" super-SUCK.
For those dumb'[bleep] chechako's who think they have "gonad's" of brass. Your time will come. I’m in Ft. Lauderdale having just returned from the Caribbean and come the end of December I’ll be sailing around Singapore and S.E Asia….sounds like it’s the sourdough’s who aren’t too bright, us cheechakos with brass balls also have brains. 😂 You’ll learn….someday. 😂
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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The first mosquito in the interior counts, not yet spring, but break up is going nicely and a few weeks early.
For those without thumbs, it's s Garden fookin Island, not Hawaii
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Not spring until the outside RV's really start messing up traffic Well, sir, I believe that is summer. 😖
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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The first mosquito in the interior counts, not yet spring, but break up is going nicely and a few weeks early. We be in the banana belt! 👍
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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No browns over bait on KNWR. Only blacks. Huh. Well, that sure beats a total ban. ........I am figuring it is time (2025) to start spending (5) FIVE months a year, someplace that does "NOT" super-SUCK......... I like the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons at home, and I like March here, too. I spent up to four months Outside a couple of times, and that was too long. I came to really like flying out on New Years Day (great flight prices), and it's still possible to catch the tail end of dove season open in Arizona in early January. Then spending the next couple of months throughout the Southwest taking walks in the desert shooting quail and coyotes. I like coming home in early March. It's like getting two summers and two winters per year.
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All you got to do is uncover your boat and put your snow shovels away and you'll get more snow. Ask me how I know. Yeah, or in my case, just wash my truck. Man, I pulled out the Challenger and washed it up last Sunday only to have it snow a couple more times last week. I’m over this winter.
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Mowing season here in East Arkansas. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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For those south lovers, its mid to upper 80s this week. Had 90s every month of the time I spent south. Was 92 2 weeks ago.
Glad I'm smart enough to come south. glad I'm smart enough to head north before 100s hit.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants".
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Looking forward to our first Alaska summer in 11 years. Today it hit 83 and the AC is on 72.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost.
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It ain’t spring until a pickup goes through the ice on Big Lake.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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Nope. 80 is my upper limit. 90 is out of the question, and 100 is just obscene. I prefer -10.
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Nope. 80 is my upper limit. 90 is out of the question, and 100 is just obscene. I prefer -10. Its why I wanted out of TX. Heat and humidity. Ours is rarely under 60-70 percent.. 100 just gets started some summers. 100 days of it sometimes. Officially 100. If its officially 110 or so, then its about 130-135 in the sun. I have no clue how folks can go over to the sand things and work... screw that.... I get grouchy around 80. Its about when the wife reminds me its time to head north again.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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.........If its officially 110 or so, then its about 130-135 in the sun......... Lord, have mercy!! There is simply no way I can survive that kind of climate. As a kid I grew up in southern California. It wasn't so bad on the coast, but in the summer when we were off school, Dad would drive us out into that F'ing desert. From Louisiana, and after a couple years working in Barstow, he didn't think it was half bad. I just knew it was Hell on Earth. No air conditioning back then in cars, and no interstate. It was all that slow, windy Route 66. My first summer in Alaska was Heaven.
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For those south lovers, its mid to upper 80s this week. Had 90s every month of the time I spent south. Was 92 2 weeks ago.
Glad I'm smart enough to come south. glad I'm smart enough to head north before 100s hit. Sorry Jeff. Enduring 90* in winter is the opposite of smart. 🤣 Most Alaskans live here year-round because we like it here. See my sig line! 👍
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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For those south lovers, its mid to upper 80s this week. Had 90s every month of the time I spent south. Was 92 2 weeks ago.
Glad I'm smart enough to come south. glad I'm smart enough to head north before 100s hit. Sorry Jeff. Enduring 90* in winter is the opposite of smart. 🤣 Most Alaskans live here year-round because we like it here. See my sig line! 👍 LOL. If other things were not as they were I would probably be most of the winter in AK also. Maybe except for TX deer season. Is what it is.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Took the Harley for the first ride Sunday afternoon. So it's officially Spring for me at least.
"243/85TSX It's as if the HAMMER OF THOR were wielded by CHUCK NORRIS himself, and a roundhouse kick thrown in for good measure."
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Took the Harley for the first ride Sunday afternoon. So it's officially Spring for me at least. What else matters?
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Huge flock of Canadas just flew over the house! First of them this year. Saw a lone snow goose last week.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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gonna be a nice wknd, time to go look for a spring griz
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Yep, definitely spring as of yesterday. How u can tell: When a puny 36" track can't even be lifted out of a hole. Because it's so fkn heavy with rotten snow, you feel like your intestines are going to rupture into your gawd dmn scrotum.
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Keep them intestines inside!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Your problem, Mainer, getting that load up the slope appears to be that you were running on only one cylinder. First skeeter killed yesterday, multiple flocks of geese over, haven't heard cranes yet
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Springs finally here and I have proof ! Nailed my first one yesterday Got him just hours outta the den, way over 50" and lookit the brow tines on that thing !
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Well, Saturday night and Sunday night was cold, 38f here in East Central Arkansas Sunday night. Blackberry winter is has been called all of my life as it happens most every year about the time blackberries bloom. miles
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I'm sure not seeing the volume of waterfowl here in Delta that I'd usually see and cranes haven't arrived yet.
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I heard cranes yesterday afternoon here in god’s country.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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Yep - they were pouring in! Now it's spring!
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