1.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

anyone ..billy, dparker..tina turner??

2.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

you guys really need to pick it up..i had better conversation with myself.
did anyone check out bowfanatic lately? jesse had some post about a lava rock that i thought was pretty interesting..

3.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

did you no that a lava rock has more vitamin c plus b in it then an orange?

4.) Alex - 05/18/2013

well that didnt work out much for you CE...
Maybe everyone wasnt really chomping at the bit to get back in here after all.

5.) DParker - 05/18/2013

[QUOTE=Alex;6061]well that didnt work out much for you CE...
Maybe everyone wasnt really chomping at the bit to get back in here after all.[/QUOTE]

Starting the thread on Friday night after most everyone else has gone to bed may have been a factor.

Now, I'm off to Denton to attend (not compete in...yet) a local chili cook-off. I finally joined the Chili Appreciation Society International and need to get a feel for how these things work...and a taste of what I'll be up against. Field report to follow. It's being combined with a classic car show, so if the chili is dull maybe I can find some nostalgic value in some old Detroit iron.

6.) Alex - 05/18/2013

Pics or it didnt happen

7.) billy b - 05/18/2013

What the heck do you want crookedeye rick?

8.) Jag - 05/18/2013

[QUOTE=Alex;6061]well that didnt work out much for you CE...
Maybe everyone wasnt really chomping at the bit to get back in here after all.[/QUOTE]

It was always kind of dully late Spring/early summer after Spring turkey died down. Give it till August/September when folks are getting their archery catalogs [though Cabelas already sent out one version heh] and they start getting the itch to ask the eternal WB question.

9.) DParker - 05/18/2013

[QUOTE=Alex;6063]Pics or it didnt happen[/QUOTE]

OK. No pics of the chili cook stations (nothing to see, trust me). But here are a couple of samples from the "old guys and their toys" show...

Pure distilled American awesomeness, vintage 1962. Note the "For Sale" sign in the windshield. No, I didn't have the guts to ask:



The '57 T-bird next to it. They made a cute couple:



How cool families dined out in '56:

10.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

[QUOTE=Alex;6061]well that didnt work out much for you CE...
Maybe everyone wasnt really chomping at the bit to get back in here after all.[/QUOTE]

there happy, i'm happy and luv2's happy.. i've been working godly amounts of hrs, which totally sucks..plus it cuts into my beer drinking..

it'll get going in a couple of months... plus Billy's old bones are tired..it takes him some effort now to go threw all the hassels of logging in and typing a password..

thats likie the px 90 workout for him...:wave: lol..
billy who do you got for the race tonight?? i got Jr..

11.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

i got my eye on a crossbow and a 60 inch tv..Huskers are going to roll this year..

12.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2013

Did we ever figure out where Floyd was at? Because that's prolly where Bullz-i is , and that leads to OKY, which leads to Hooters, which leads to, well, you get the picture...

13.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

lol.. there playing in farmville...floyd bought a whole herd of cattle and hired bullzi and oky because they lost there crops last spring due to the hurricane..it wiped out all of statonville..

14.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2013

I just hope they're not talking smack about us over there...And if they are, that we find out about it...

15.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

bunch of farmers anyhow...just because there on farmville doesnt make them farmers..

16.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

you no floyd puts on a straw hat when he logs into farmville, then theres oky with his front left tooth missing and bullzi flexing his arms.. all tense and stuff...

17.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2013

My money's on OKY to grow the biggest gourd, and Bullz-i's chickens won't even be able to walk....He'll claim it's because their breasts are so big, but we all know what the real story is...

18.) crookedeye - 05/18/2013

swampy what are you doing this fall as far as hunts? sheep hunt, elephant..? i'm not doing crap this years besides the whitetail thing. i may try and shoot some carp here in a few weeks

19.) crookedeye - 05/19/2013

once i had a thistle weed in my front yard, it was like a tree.. you couldnt touch the thing without getting a neddle in you, when i cut it down, there was like milk running out of it..

20.) Ohbuckhunter - 05/19/2013

Yawn.

21.) crookedeye - 05/19/2013

holy crap you see that fight ..a spinning back kick! i thought that happen only in cartoons..

i'd like to get a shot at vitor.. one time..

22.) BULLZ-i - 05/19/2013

I KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE POND SCUM

23.) crookedeye - 05/19/2013

how do you get on farmville anyhow? i bought a package of corn seeds and carrot seeds..now what do i do?

24.) crookedeye - 05/19/2013

here's my tip of the day..




i'm going to be bringing daily tips the whole week.

25.) Swamp Fox - 05/19/2013

[QUOTE=crookedeye;6078]swampy what are you doing this fall as far as hunts? sheep hunt, elephant..? i'm not doing crap this years besides the whitetail thing. i may try and shoot some carp here in a few weeks[/QUOTE]

Sorry I vanished on this one...One minute I was typing on the world-wide web, and the next I was getting rudely awakened on the couch by the National Anthem and a bunch of static.

I don't have any major trips planned this year. Camp Swampy is open again for hunting, fishing and strength-training, so I expect that will keep me busy for a while. People are lining up to get "The Whole Floyd Experience", which I have priced quite attractively, so I will be sticking pretty close to home for all that...

26.) Dan-o - 05/19/2013

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;6085]Sorry I vanished on this one...One minute I was typing on the world-wide web, and the next I was getting rudely awakened on the couch by the National Anthem and a bunch of static.

I don't have any major trips planned this year. Camp Swampy is open again for hunting, fishing and strength-training, so I expect that will keep me busy for a while. People are lining up to get "The Whole Floyd Experience", which I have priced quite attractively, so I will be sticking pretty close to home for all that...[/QUOTE]

I'd pay for that

27.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;6085]People are lining up to get "The Whole Floyd Experience", which I have priced quite attractively,..[/QUOTE]

Does that include the failing homemade ladder or do you have to upgrade to the Ventilator Supreme package to get that?

28.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

I had a weed in my backyard once that threw jaggers at you if you walked by. My strawberries are looking good so far.

Anybody ever make strawberry wine? I'm thinking of getting into the bootleg wine market.

29.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

Things must have been slow for Alex to take all the time and effort to type a response. Makes me almost feel guilty for not being here when cROoKEDeyE needed me.

Alex is sorry company when you're down and out like that. I was depressed once and then I cheered myself up by throwing apples at a neighbors metal roof. That guy was a jerk.

30.) Jon - 05/20/2013

[COLOR="#006400"]I made a jacket out of a trespasser once, was sorta stiff for a while[/COLOR]

31.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

I've forgot more about Farmville than Floyd could ever pretend Hoyters knows about watching Jon laugh at Dan.

32.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

...........what's Farmville? Hootersville I know.

33.) Alex - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=luv2bowhunt;6092]Things must have been slow for Alex to take all the time and effort to type a response. Makes me almost feel guilty for not being here when cROoKEDeyE needed me.
Alex is sorry company when you're down and out like that. [/QUOTE]
not just when you're down n out either :P

34.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

What day is this? Seems like it should be Friday by now.......day is crawling by like Mike on Friday night leaving the VFW.

35.) DParker - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=luv2bowhunt;6091]I had a weed in my backyard once that threw jaggers at you if you walked by.[/QUOTE]

That's a terrifying thought. I'd have nuked that weed from orbit.

36.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

He doesn't look a day over 74 or so.

37.) bluecat - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=DParker;6101]That's a terrifying thought. I'd have nuked that weed from orbit.

[/QUOTE]

No sympathy?

38.) DParker - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=bluecat;6103]No sympathy?[/QUOTE]

Please allow me to introduce myself....

39.) luv2bowhunt - 05/20/2013

I see his picture and I want to paint it black.

40.) Go Bucks - 05/20/2013

Satisfaction is so hard to come by...

41.) DParker - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=Go Bucks;6115]Satisfaction is so hard to come by...[/QUOTE]

Someone let the air out of your girlfriend again?

42.) Go Bucks - 05/20/2013

[QUOTE=DParker;6117]Someone let the air out of your girlfriend again?[/QUOTE]

Not since prom..

43.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2013

Well, I've had quite the week or ten days...If I were on the ball and had my blog up and running, I'd yammer on about it over there ...You all might be the victims, though, if I get inspired.

Anybody fishing? Scouting? Gearing up?

How, 'bout waterskiing or jetskiing, ruining perfectly good days on the lake?

44.) Ventilator - 05/28/2013

Ive been to Lake Hartwell twice in the last two weeks. Topwater fishing has been jam-up! Took the kids both times and we really caught em! Had 13 on the first trip and 11 this past sunday. First trip we caught two 4lb spotted bass and had a 5 1/2 lber Sunday on a zara-spook. They are really on the shad/herring spawn right now. Lots of good size bass schooling after them throughout the mornings. How`s the kayaking?

45.) Swamp Fox - 05/28/2013

Fishing's been slow here for everything. Everything is post-spawn except the bream and I haven't given them a good effort yet. I've caught a few nice bass and lost a couple of good ones in the last couple of weeks, but we're talking working for one fish every few hours, lol. I got slammed by a striper or a hybrid the other day...hit a Rat-L-Trap like a freight train and rapped my knuckles with the reel handles before taking off for the ocean, LOL. Lost him after a few seconds, but he felt heavy.

I'll throw some pictures up of the kayak rigged out if I ever get a spare second to take pics. Working on a motor project for it right now, but it's slow (need to build some parts, save up some pennies, and do the install) and it's holding up some other rigging I want to do as well.

Paddling builds character anyway, LOL. :-)

BTW, I call it a kayak but it's really more of a cross between a canoe and a kayak. Think of a wide, square-sterned pirogue. Sit-on-top with stability to stand except in rollers.

46.) Ventilator - 05/29/2013

well, i wouldnt have assumed anything less on a swampy rigged fishin kayakin machine! :hb:

47.) Swamp Fox - 05/29/2013

I almost took a pic last night. I came off the lake a little early 'cause I had an early morning today, so it was still sunset. The boat looked pretty sitting in the sand with the rods sticking up (seven of 'em!:hb:) and dark glassy water and the sun going down behind. :-)

But, I was too lazy to hurry up to the truck to get the camera. :re::tap::bang:

Some other day....Maybe when I haven't been fighting the wind that wasn't supposed to come up yesterday, according to two weather services....:td:

But, I got a couple of good drifts out of it...No fish though, LOL.

I think the weather people are actually getting worse over time....

48.) billy b - 05/30/2013

Does it look kinda like this?

[URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/billybank/media/100_2311.jpg.html][/URL]

49.) Swamp Fox - 05/30/2013

LOL...No, the one I fish out of most is lime green.

:-)

50.) Ventilator - 05/30/2013

Nice lookin rig Billy!

Swampy, i guess imagination is still gonna have to do for the rest of us on yours.:wave:

51.) Swamp Fox - 05/30/2013

My theory is imagination is good exercise for all y'all's brains....

:wink

52.) billy b - 05/31/2013

I no longer have a brain & I forgot what I did with it.:cf::bang:

53.) DParker - 05/31/2013

I tried Gingko for a while in an attempt to improve my memory....

.....but I kept forgetting to take it.

Seriously.

54.) crookedeye - 05/31/2013

what was the question again??

55.) Hunter - 05/31/2013

Wife says "will you remember that?" To which I respond "of course. I've got a mind like a steel trap!" Which always brings on the rolling of the eyes. :re:

56.) Hunter - 05/31/2013

[QUOTE=crookedeye;6307]what was the question again??[/QUOTE]

Who's on first?

57.) luv2bowhunt - 05/31/2013

I made a raft once, out of logs and old pallets. It had a very low draft but got us across the creek.

My new favorite saying is 'for your age'. Luv that, 'hey you've got a good memory...for your age' or 'you're in good shape for your age' or 'your eyes aren't bad for your age'.

Is there like charts that show all these categories and rank us by age class? What were we talking about again?

.....oh yeah, Alex being bad company...................well, he's not too bad for his age I guess.

58.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2013

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;6085]Sorry I vanished on this one...One minute I was typing on the world-wide web, and the next I was getting rudely awakened on the couch by the National Anthem and a bunch of static.

I don't have any major trips planned this year. Camp Swampy is open again for hunting, fishing and strength-training, so I expect that will keep me busy for a while. People are lining up to get "The Whole Floyd Experience", which I have priced quite attractively, so I will be sticking pretty close to home for all that...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Dan-o;6086]I'd pay for that[/QUOTE]

I was thinking I’d offer a laser light show on Saturday nights, but I might have to put it off for a while until I get a few other things knocked out. (You can count on my famous Chicken Bog, Venison ‘n’ Pepper Roll-Ups, Sleepy-time Meatloaf, Bottomless Bowl of Spiced Spaghetti or some other dish you’ll need sweatpants for, though, depending on the moon). Both Broncos, the Clientmobile, and several of the cats have needed major mechanical fixes lately, and there is still work to be done. Something about $700 more to do something underneath, and getting them to walk into the traps so someone can cut out their naughty bits.

I’m also inventing an entirely new propulsion system for my little creek boats. This has been time consuming, and the forecast is for continued wallet lightning. The project is stalled because a certain someone won’t call me back, but that’s not important right now.



One of the boats is underwater in Scape Whore Swamp, one of them is recoverable but getting chewed on by raccoons, or otters, or possibly by The Lizard Man (I am no closer to cornering him than I was last summer) --and one of them doesn’t help me catch a fish lately no matter what I do. I have never brought a banana aboard any of them, either. It’s just The Luck of the Irish, I think.

A week or so ago, I was after the boat that’s underwater. I got rained out half of Saturday, plus half of Sunday, so my stay at Camp Swampy got extended so I could keep on hammering away at the to-do list. The pattern of Spring 2013 continued, and the weather forecast called for a 60% chance of thunderstorms and an 80% chance of water moccasins. Therefore, the canebrake rattler I nearly stepped on was a surprise. At 3-feet-plus, he was a little more impressive that the two-and-a-half foot cottonmouth I’d met an hour earlier. Who says the weather people don’t know what they’re doing?

To make a long story short, I was finally turned back on my slog to the boat by high water. Imagine that. I should have listened to my little voice when it tried to talk me into getting my hip boots out of the closet for this mission instead of the standard LaCrosse knee boots, but noooo.

Fifteen miles up the road, give or take, and using crows to make the math work, I had been able to walk to the creek to the other boat, the one getting chewed on, in mere ankle-plus-high mud. There was none of this thigh-high H20. I probably got to within 100 yards of my accidental submarine, but water everywhere that it wasn’t last time makes everything look different, and hard to judge. I wasn’t willing to fight deep mud plus boots full of water. One or the other, okay, but not both.

It was one of those times when you say to yourself “Close, but no cigar” even though you have no idea where that saying came from. Maybe they used to give cigars if you knocked down the milk jars with a homemade baseball back in BillyB’s day.

I justified wussing out on the boat recovery by telling myself there was also the little matter of the black cloud overhead, which was going to open up any minute if I dawdled. So, to stay dry, I reversed course. Close, but no cigar. On the way out, in a soaking, driving rain, I got Foxmobile One up on two high tracks and then managed to slip off one of them, spinning and sliding sideways to a halt wedged in a rut of four inches water to five inches gumbo.

I had a shovel, but a fat lot of good that did me. I cut some saplings down for traction, but that didn’t work, either. I wondered why I sold the come-along on ebay last summer for what I paid for it, thus taking a loss on the shipping to Washington State. Ouch. Note to self: put the off-road shop back on the to-do list ASAP. I phoned a friend who made some calls and three hours and two more inches of rain later, here comes a tractor down the edge of the wheat.

I guess I should have been paying closer attention to how the old boy was attaching the chain, but standing in half a foot of water with more coming down fast had me a little distracted. Next thing I know, there’s a god-awful noise and my front bumper is half torn off and I can’t turn my left wheel.

So now I’m looking at a big bill because I fell in a mudhole and my boat’s still deep in Scape Whore Swamp. Five hunnerd dollah. A long time ago I priced off-road bumpers. They were three and four times that. Such a luxury at that price shot one way down the wish-list. It’s even deeper on the list now. So five Franklins is getting off easy. Or at least that’s what they say.

So, what’s all this got to do with the price of tea in China? Let’s put it this way:
There are a lot of things on my Projects and Wish lists that I’m not able to get to, and I’m feeling just a little stuck. This little baby will have to wait, for instance, though I could have used it while I was killing time before the tractor arrived:

Special underwater fishing reel: [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ambassadeur-5000C-Reel-107200UW-5000-C-/360259529169?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e12429d1[/url]

However, rest assured that I am using every spare samolian, as opposed to any spare Somalians, to make Camp Swampy one of North America’s premier hunting and fishing destinations, and you can even throw Mexico in there. If vacation or business travel or just morbid curiosity causes you to be in the area, be sure to look me up. And don’t forget about our special Lizard Man trapping season during the months when the snakes aren’t quite so thick.

Bring your bug spray.

59.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2013

This is my buddy BooBoo helping bailing out one of my little creek boats in Scape Whore Swamp. This is the boat high water prevented me from getting to two weeks ago. The area has gone from water over my knees to shallow mud in that time. I rig out these boats with swivel seats and lots of goodies for fishing everything from ponds, rivers and big lakes, but this particular one stays in the swamp to navigate the creek for hunting.



You often hear that water in Southern swamps is "tea-colored." We do call it blackwater. But it's only dark or black when it's between the banks. When it's in a bailing bucket, it's very weak tea, more gold or amber than black.

60.) Hunter - 06/03/2013

So boat baling is one of your sponsored activities at Camp Swampy?

61.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2013

Yes, it's part of the strength-training program. It works on your back, forearms and shoulders. We usually do it on Day One in the morning to get you limber. Then depending on the kind of shape you're in, I have you do some more upper-body exercise by having you hang treestands for me in the afternoon, or you can pop some Motrin and do that the next day.

Of course, we don't ignore the leg exercise and the cardio. There is always plenty of walking, hauling of various things, and lots of fresh air.