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Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Happy Camper!
Last post by msmith - Yesterday at 09:43:24 PMToo cute! I can understand why she's smiling so big.
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Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Happy Camper!
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 09:04:42 PMOh man, I would be too.
Those things are almost bigger then she is.
Those things are almost bigger then she is.
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The Tailgate / Re: Days of COLD rain with ano...
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 09:03:42 PMQuote from: Okanagan on Yesterday at 10:47:25 AMPoor Jim, stuck in technology from 1850. You know they have electric fireplaces now, so you don't have to cut wood and you just push a button rather than carry wood and light kindling.
Sounds like NewYork apartment life
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The Tailgate / Re: Days of COLD rain with ano...
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 10:47:25 AMQuote from: FinsnFur on Yesterday at 05:25:40 AMHave I ever told you guys how much I looooooove my woodstove? Hmmm? Have I?
Poor Jim, stuck in technology from 1850. You know they have electric fireplaces now, so you don't have to cut wood and you just push a button rather than carry wood and light kindling.
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The Tailgate / Re: Days of COLD rain with ano...
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 10:43:40 AMQuote from: Okanagan on December 04, 2025, 11:15:41 PMQuote from: msmith on Yesterday at 08:59:08 AMMy favorite meal in the winter, especially when I was still a power lineman, is a bowl/thermos of hot soup with a meat sandwich to dip in it and a thermos/pot of coffee.
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Man that sounds good! Especially today! Can you bring some for lunch?
My DIL just brought me hot latte, hot sausage patties and a hot gnarly coffee cake of some kind loaded with nuts and fruit with a little oatmeal squeezed between the nuts to make it healthy. It melted butter and then melted in my mouth.
#7
The Tailgate / Today in history 12-5
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 10:16:26 AM1945
Dec 5
Aircraft squadron disappears in the Bermuda Triangle
At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. After having completed their objective, Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for an additional 67 miles, then turn north for 73 miles, and back to the air station after that, totaling a distance of 120 miles. They never returned.
Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and backup compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions. Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel.
By this time, several land radar stations finally determined that Flight 19 was somewhere north of the Bahamas and east of the Florida coast, and at 7:27 p.m. a search and rescue Mariner aircraft took off with a 13-man crew. Three minutes later, the Mariner aircraft radioed to its home base that its mission was underway. The Mariner was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion seen at 7:50 p.m.
The disappearance of the 14 men of Flight 19 and the 13 men of the Mariner led to one of the largest air and seas searches to that date, and hundreds of ships and aircraft combed thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and remote locations within the interior of Florida. No trace of the bodies or aircraft was ever found.
Although naval officials maintained that the remains of the six aircraft and 27 men were not found because stormy weather destroyed the evidence, the story of the "Lost Squadron" helped cement the legend of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and aircraft are said to disappear without a trace. The Bermuda Triangle is said to stretch from the southern U.S. coast across to Bermuda and down to the Atlantic coast of Cuba and Santo Domingo.
Dec 5
Aircraft squadron disappears in the Bermuda Triangle
At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. After having completed their objective, Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for an additional 67 miles, then turn north for 73 miles, and back to the air station after that, totaling a distance of 120 miles. They never returned.
Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and backup compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions. Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel.
By this time, several land radar stations finally determined that Flight 19 was somewhere north of the Bahamas and east of the Florida coast, and at 7:27 p.m. a search and rescue Mariner aircraft took off with a 13-man crew. Three minutes later, the Mariner aircraft radioed to its home base that its mission was underway. The Mariner was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion seen at 7:50 p.m.
The disappearance of the 14 men of Flight 19 and the 13 men of the Mariner led to one of the largest air and seas searches to that date, and hundreds of ships and aircraft combed thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and remote locations within the interior of Florida. No trace of the bodies or aircraft was ever found.
Although naval officials maintained that the remains of the six aircraft and 27 men were not found because stormy weather destroyed the evidence, the story of the "Lost Squadron" helped cement the legend of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and aircraft are said to disappear without a trace. The Bermuda Triangle is said to stretch from the southern U.S. coast across to Bermuda and down to the Atlantic coast of Cuba and Santo Domingo.
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The Tailgate / Re: Days of COLD rain with ano...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 10:11:27 AMQuote from: FinsnFur on Yesterday at 05:25:40 AMHave I ever told you guys how much I looooooove my woodstove? Hmmm? Have I?
I think you might have mentioned it once in passing. But in reality you spend a LOT more time talking about your WOOD. 🪵
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The Tailgate / Re: Days of COLD rain with ano...
Last post by msmith - Yesterday at 08:59:08 AMQuote from: Okanagan on December 04, 2025, 02:46:16 PMSteady rain and clouds so dark that I wondered if it would ever get light this morning. Much later daylight than usual, and damp wet cold rain just above freezing. Three deer lying on a neighbor's lawn, right out in the rain rather than under the limbs of nearby heavy cedar and fir trees.
Makes a man appreciate hot soup, hot coffee and a warm dry house.
No rain here, just a few inches of snow and highs in the low 30s.
My favorite meal in the winter, especially when I was still a power lineman, is a bowl/thermos of hot soup with a meat sandwich to dip in it and a thermos/pot of coffee.
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The Tailgate / Re: Days of COLD rain with ano...
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 05:40:10 AM