I just went through this a few weeks ago. My boy had cancer. I may have kept him going longer than I should have but he had such a strong will to live. I guess it came down to him having no more quality of life with the getting sick and having a hard time eating.
We had a Lab that would have...
Made it over to the Washington coast for a couple days on the charter boats. A few nice chinook were caught but coho were really on the bite. These were combo trips and after the salmon we went for rockfish. Wednesday we caught big black rockfish, two at a time, almost on the surface and...
Looks like a green racer. Last summer I killed a rattler in our parking barn that had no rattles. About a 3 footer. Wife saw it earlier and thought it was a bull snake which we leave alone or relocate.
No, just a 5'4" 145lb broken down 71 yr old. It's just when something like that happens you have to reach deep inside yourself to get things done. Funny, I quit chukar hunting that spot because the climb got too hard.
We were watching this storm coming up from Burns and John Day on a site called real time lightning strikes. It moved fast. There were 2800 recorded strikes in SW Idaho and SE Oregon.
Like a lot of the West, Oregon is burning up. Monday and Tuesday lightning hit our region. Initially we had 10 fires that they call the Badlands Complex. The two fires closest to us were the Timber Canyon and Powder River. We saw two strikes that instantly burst into flames. I fought it Monday...