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hope y'all have a good hunt rex eve had rain everyday this week tommoro is the only day they say no rain and 60 degrees we will see lol

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.Ridge,theres a lot of good methods out there to trap yotes.. I assume all your traps are dyed and waxed..

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Ridge I use dry dirt ,I put a piece of wax paper under the trap ,it helps with keeping the moisture from coming up through the ground and turning my dry dirt to mud...well we had a good hunt last night.man all the critters were out moving .seen coons deer a fox [he crossed the road on our way to turn loose] couple of possums and a couple otter...we made three trees and seen 5 coon..and 6 more sitting up...we parked on a road that's maybe 15feet from the river bank.we were loading up to move to a new spot..loaded the dog,talked ,slammed the truck doors getting in ,fired up the truck turned the lights on and no more than 30 feet away were two otters playing around in the road...I figured they would have spooked off, they didn't seem to care we were there at all....we made that move at around ten oclock,the truck said the temp. was 61 degrees...

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I did not know there was women on here. Sorry about that did not intend to offend you.Hello men and ladies hope you are having a great day. Temperature was 66 and now 44 and dropping fast. You men bundle up next to your wifes and stay warm.Have a safe day.

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Mike it sounds like by the weekend we will need a ice pick...iam stocking up on supplies tomorrow morning...

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wind been bad here all day with some light rain at times they say may get some freezein rain by moronin call my buddy told him not gonna come over to hunt tonite to dang windy

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Rex, u must have read the same book Chuck did on trapping. We use the wax paper, too. Think the dry dirt could be a good part of it. Guess we'll find out when we set more. Yrs ago, when he first got into fox trapping; we always used dry dirt. We just started using buckwheat hulls and peat moss when we got back into trapping a couple of yrs ago.

It rained all day here. New lakes and ponds everywhere....including on the roads. They have flash flood warnings up. No hunting again for ys. Sounds like u had a nice hunt, Rex. We have an otter visit our pond a couple times a yr. Its cute to watch, it keepa the dogs entertained, but the last time it was here, it killed a big bass and one of our 20+ yr old Japanese Kois😞

Chuck's aunt passed away earlier this wk, so we went to the viewing tonight. In less than a yr, my dad, 2 of his aunts and an uncle have passed away.

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Rex best to stock up. I hate ice. I can deal with the snow but ice my truck stays in the barn

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wet ole moronin here calling for rain & freezeing rain after 11 pm sorry for y'alls loss rr our little comunity has lost 3 in the last week i always say we never know what the good lord has in store for us

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Ridge sorry to hear Chuck's aunt passed,Mike I stocked up this morning,no rain, frozen or other wise here yet .HB...but its knocking on the door...

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Trees are loosing limbs. I have a lot of work to do picking limbs up after this.

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Trees are loosing limbs. I have a lot of work to do picking limbs up after this.

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Mike I talked to my fishing buddy down at Okawville this morning and he had freezing rain then...it just started here..stay safe Mike,you too HB,it might be a long night..

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your right on the long nite rex hope it miss us but doubt it will just got back from the furneal home seen folks from when i was in school haven't seen in yrs seems like when somebody passses that only time you see people from yrs back hpoe every body stays save if they have ta go out

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We appreciate the condolences, thank you.

No ice here....just lots of water! Hope everyone stays safe on the ice if u get it. We have rain in the forecast almost every day for a wk.

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they say no rain here til around midnite our advisory goes from 11 tonite till sometime saturday depending on where your at in the state same here rr rain most of next week

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Rain here & just a small dab of ice early got 35 now so what little ice there was it melted,death is a part of life,sad but true,that's what completes the cycle.Remember the good & deal w/ the rest,most generally the good out weighs the bad.Glad yer still kickin' Mike.

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33 here rain started here at 4;30 this moeonin had some ice on the vechiles but none on the ground so we luck out bet my snowbuddy is cryin the blues lol

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Ice melted during the night. Not so much on trees now. I was up sick half the night. Ate something I should not have. Acid Reflux is some bad ****. Hope you all made it through the night without loosing power. You all have a nice day and you ladies have a nice day

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hope ya get to feelin better mike im with ya on the acid reflux doc had me on zantac but really didn't help was takin to my vet he's got it told me to try prilosec it helps me way more than the docs med but i can eat some spicy stuff that gets my stomach outa whack

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I've been feeling about half sick for the last 3 days . Kinda like a stomach bug .

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I must be nuts,the boy called ,guess we hunt tonight...

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I was hoping to take the dogs out tonight, but Chuck is glued to the TV (football games).

We went to a Sportmens show today. The Allegheny River is HIGH!! Yards are ponds, one place the pool and orchard are in a lake. The Nebraska bridge near us is almost underwater. U can see the top of it, but there's a sign that hangs down with the clearance on it; it's 13'?" and the sign is underwater! We've seen it completely under, but not for awhile.

I sampled Cajun Alligator and Kangaroo jerky at the Sportsmen's show. They were ok, but bought a duck stick and a bottle of wine. Sure that won't help my acid reflux either, but I'll deal with it. I never had it until I started taking a statin drug for cholesterol. Think it might be better to have high cholesterol.

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I'm feelin a little better this evening, we've had a busy week here and I've felt crappy all through it . First we put my brother-in-law in a rest home , then we won our appeal on my ins. saving me 322.00 a month increase ,then my my wife had a couple biopsies ran on her ,,in and out the same day . But she has more coming up .

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