My older brother Captains a fishing boat - he brought some mahi and tuna back and we made some tasty fish tacos. Pair it with a beer and it’s a pretty good way to celebrate summer winding down.
I take bags of chocolate chip cookies with nuts and oats in them. Pretty much have two for breakfast and three for lunch - works to get the calories in while enjoying what I am eating.
My wife’s grandfather was a game warden in Newport Beach, California in the 50’s and 60’s. He told stories of chasing deer and shooting ducks in what is now the back bay nature preserve (John Wayne Airport area) and coming home with lobster and fish every night (well before the place had...
Incredible - it can really hurt a persons head to try to wrap the mind around what is in that photo and how that only represents a mere fraction of the vastness of what is out in the night sky. Gives a person something to think about around a fire this Fall.
Thanks for all the input! Along the same lines of what is posted here, Josh over at Rocky Mountain Calls sent me this via email, which matches a lot of the info above:
I am having trouble with keeping the latex on my elk diaphragm calls from ripping after a few weeks. I have tried different call Mfgrs. (Rocky Mountain, Sage and a few others), but I get the same result. This happens with new ones that I keep in my office and use a few times a week, as well as...
Thanks for posting this. After reading the article, it caught my eye that lightening is not attracted to metal, but only that metal conducts the electricity well if it is hit. I don’t know why I had it in my head that lightening is attracted to metal (I swear it was from grade school or Boy...
I hadn’t given it much thought either until recently when I was rowing my family down the river in a raft and a storm popped over the mountain and the lightening started hitting all around us. I looked at the raft frame, the oars, the fishing rod and then my wife and two kids and I thought this...
After having been caught in a few lightening storms in the high mountains, and on remote rivers, I am curious what others do in that situation. If the storm is rolling right over you guys, are you sheltering in your tents, taking a chance and hiding below the cover of a grove of trees, or are...