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#11
Fishing Equipment / Re: Fishing stuff.
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 09:07:46 PMInteresting 
#12
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Geo magnetic huh?
Last post by Todd Rahm - Yesterday at 07:08:25 PMWe see them just about every night on the slop but they aren't the same colors we a
Re getting down south here. Kind of two different birds if ya ask me.
Re getting down south here. Kind of two different birds if ya ask me.
#13
The Tailgate / Re: S'posed to get my biggest ...
Last post by HaMeR - Yesterday at 06:46:52 PMI'm certainly appreciative of the fact that you haven't lost your sense of humor or enthusiasm.
I certainly understand some of the things you speak of like the brain fog. I always thought it was just from the meds but I'm realizing now those are just a part of it. Pain as youve experienced is also a contributor. Info overload on everything thats going on with surgeries, operations, simple procedures,,, in my case,, and just overall worrying about our loved ones are contributing factors. As Ive gotten nearer my retirement age the realization of what my Grandparents and those before them went thru in later life must have been brutal. Todays overall health care is far superior to theirs. Especially in patient comfort.
Again,,, I am glad you are doing well. And Thank You for your wise(ass)cracks
and understanding.
I certainly understand some of the things you speak of like the brain fog. I always thought it was just from the meds but I'm realizing now those are just a part of it. Pain as youve experienced is also a contributor. Info overload on everything thats going on with surgeries, operations, simple procedures,,, in my case,, and just overall worrying about our loved ones are contributing factors. As Ive gotten nearer my retirement age the realization of what my Grandparents and those before them went thru in later life must have been brutal. Todays overall health care is far superior to theirs. Especially in patient comfort.
Again,,, I am glad you are doing well. And Thank You for your wise(ass)cracks
and understanding. #14
The Tailgate / Re: S'posed to get my biggest ...
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 04:07:04 PMHamer, I hope you know my reply was kind of tongue in cheek humor. I got a kick out of it, like, "That Okanagan, he was a good fellow." 
I'm having good days and poor days, but now at least there are some good ones.
I'm having good days and poor days, but now at least there are some good ones.
#15
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-11
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 09:47:57 AM1934
May 11
Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states
On May 11, 1934, a massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the United States as far east as New York, Boston and Atlanta.
At the time the Great Plains were settled in the mid-1800s, the land was covered by prairie grass, which held moisture in the earth and kept most of the soil from blowing away even during dry spells. By the early 20th century, however, farmers had plowed under much of the grass to create fields. The U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 caused a great need for wheat, and farms began to push their fields to the limit, plowing under more and more grassland with the newly invented tractor. The plowing continued after the war, when the introduction of even more powerful gasoline tractors sped up the process. During the 1920s, wheat production increased by 300 percent, causing a glut in the market by 1931.
That year, a severe drought spread across the region. As crops died, wind began to carry dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed lands. The number of dust storms reported jumped from 14 in 1932 to 28 in 1933. The following year, the storms decreased in frequency but increased in intensity, culminating in the most severe storm yet in May 1934. Over a period of two days, high-level winds caught and carried some 350 million tons of silt all the way from the northern Great Plains to the eastern seaboard. According to The New York Times, dust "lodged itself in the eyes and throats of weeping and coughing New Yorkers," and even ships some 300 miles offshore saw dust collect on their decks.
The dust storms forced thousands of families from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico to uproot and migrate to California, where they were derisively known as "Okies"—no matter which state they were from. These transplants found life out West not much easier than what they had left, as work was scarce and pay meager during the worst years of the Great Depression.
Another massive storm on April 15, 1935–known as "Black Sunday"–brought even more attention to the desperate situation in the Great Plains region, which reporter Robert Geiger called the "Dust Bowl." That year, as part of its New Deal program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration began to enforce federal regulation of farming methods, including crop rotation, grass-seeding and new plowing methods. This worked to a point, reducing dust storms by up to 65 percent, but only the end of the drought in the fall of 1939 would truly bring relief
May 11
Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states
On May 11, 1934, a massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the United States as far east as New York, Boston and Atlanta.
At the time the Great Plains were settled in the mid-1800s, the land was covered by prairie grass, which held moisture in the earth and kept most of the soil from blowing away even during dry spells. By the early 20th century, however, farmers had plowed under much of the grass to create fields. The U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 caused a great need for wheat, and farms began to push their fields to the limit, plowing under more and more grassland with the newly invented tractor. The plowing continued after the war, when the introduction of even more powerful gasoline tractors sped up the process. During the 1920s, wheat production increased by 300 percent, causing a glut in the market by 1931.
That year, a severe drought spread across the region. As crops died, wind began to carry dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed lands. The number of dust storms reported jumped from 14 in 1932 to 28 in 1933. The following year, the storms decreased in frequency but increased in intensity, culminating in the most severe storm yet in May 1934. Over a period of two days, high-level winds caught and carried some 350 million tons of silt all the way from the northern Great Plains to the eastern seaboard. According to The New York Times, dust "lodged itself in the eyes and throats of weeping and coughing New Yorkers," and even ships some 300 miles offshore saw dust collect on their decks.
The dust storms forced thousands of families from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico to uproot and migrate to California, where they were derisively known as "Okies"—no matter which state they were from. These transplants found life out West not much easier than what they had left, as work was scarce and pay meager during the worst years of the Great Depression.
Another massive storm on April 15, 1935–known as "Black Sunday"–brought even more attention to the desperate situation in the Great Plains region, which reporter Robert Geiger called the "Dust Bowl." That year, as part of its New Deal program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration began to enforce federal regulation of farming methods, including crop rotation, grass-seeding and new plowing methods. This worked to a point, reducing dust storms by up to 65 percent, but only the end of the drought in the fall of 1939 would truly bring relief
#16
Fishing Photos / Re: Connecticutt River Walleye...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 07:05:51 AMTime for them to run up the rivers around here too.
#18
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Jimbo in his kayak?
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 03:50:46 AM 
#19
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Geo magnetic huh?
Last post by FinsnFur - May 10, 2024, 10:20:34 PMHey @Todd Rahm, you got any pics of this Geo Magna Kahoopa Doo thats going on right now?
I got a friend in Crivitz (northern Wisconsin) thats sending me pics from his driveway, and they look like the northern lights.
You have to be getting some pics from your friends in AK.
I got a friend in Crivitz (northern Wisconsin) thats sending me pics from his driveway, and they look like the northern lights.
You have to be getting some pics from your friends in AK.
#20
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-10
Last post by remrogers - May 10, 2024, 10:42:21 AM1869
May 10
Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States
On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. No longer would western-bound travelers need to take the long and dangerous journey by wagon train.
Since at least 1832, both Eastern and frontier statesmen realized a need to connect the two coasts. It was not until 1853, though, that Congress appropriated funds to survey several routes for the transcontinental railroad. The actual building of the railroad would have to wait even longer, as North-South tensions prevented Congress from reaching an agreement on where the line would begin.
One year into the Civil War, a Republican-controlled Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act (1862), guaranteeing public land grants and loans to the two railroads it chose to build the transcontinental line, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. With these in hand, the railroads began work in 1866 from Omaha and Sacramento, forging a northern route across the country. In their eagerness for land, the two lines built right past each other, and the final meeting place had to be renegotiated.
Harsh winters, staggering summer heat and the lawless, rough-and-tumble conditions of newly settled western towns made conditions for the Union Pacific laborers—mainly Civil War veterans of Irish descent—miserable. The overwhelmingly immigrant Chinese work force of the Central Pacific also had its fair share of problems, including brutal 12-hour work days laying tracks over the Sierra Nevada Mountains (they also received lower wages than their white counterparts). On more than one occasion, whole crews would be lost to avalanches, or mishaps with explosives would leave several dead.
For all the adversity they suffered, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific workers were able to finish the railroad–laying nearly 2,000 miles of track–by 1869, ahead of schedule and under budget. Journeys that had taken months by wagon train or weeks by boat now took only days. Their work had an immediate impact: The years following the construction of the railway were years of rapid growth and expansion for the United States, due in large part to the speed and ease of travel that the railroad provided.
May 10
Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States
On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. No longer would western-bound travelers need to take the long and dangerous journey by wagon train.
Since at least 1832, both Eastern and frontier statesmen realized a need to connect the two coasts. It was not until 1853, though, that Congress appropriated funds to survey several routes for the transcontinental railroad. The actual building of the railroad would have to wait even longer, as North-South tensions prevented Congress from reaching an agreement on where the line would begin.
One year into the Civil War, a Republican-controlled Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act (1862), guaranteeing public land grants and loans to the two railroads it chose to build the transcontinental line, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. With these in hand, the railroads began work in 1866 from Omaha and Sacramento, forging a northern route across the country. In their eagerness for land, the two lines built right past each other, and the final meeting place had to be renegotiated.
Harsh winters, staggering summer heat and the lawless, rough-and-tumble conditions of newly settled western towns made conditions for the Union Pacific laborers—mainly Civil War veterans of Irish descent—miserable. The overwhelmingly immigrant Chinese work force of the Central Pacific also had its fair share of problems, including brutal 12-hour work days laying tracks over the Sierra Nevada Mountains (they also received lower wages than their white counterparts). On more than one occasion, whole crews would be lost to avalanches, or mishaps with explosives would leave several dead.
For all the adversity they suffered, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific workers were able to finish the railroad–laying nearly 2,000 miles of track–by 1869, ahead of schedule and under budget. Journeys that had taken months by wagon train or weeks by boat now took only days. Their work had an immediate impact: The years following the construction of the railway were years of rapid growth and expansion for the United States, due in large part to the speed and ease of travel that the railroad provided.