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Had just revisited that yesterday as I often do for our local logs in offseason. That one-handed video/calling got the itch goin as we near the 3-month mark this Friday.


But in the mean time, big time Tigers win last night that I was glad to wake up to, turned it off in the 3rd.

I missed the guys' game entirely, but did watch the Florida State gals who ended our gals' season put Alabama out, as well.

Rick wrote:I missed the guys' game entirely, but did watch the Florida State gals who ended our gals' season put Alabama out, as well.

Ya hate to see that


6:00pm Saturday in Knoxville, ESPN2 it looks like.

hey hey hey......simmer down now

Meanwhile in coastal La, great




GMZ534-182230-
Lake Borgne-
449 AM CDT Fri Jun 18 2021

TROPICAL STORM WARNING IN EFFECT


TODAY
Tropical storm conditions expected. Southeast winds
15 to 20 knots becoming east 30 to 35 knots with gusts to near
45 knots in the afternoon. Waves 2 to 4 feet building to 4 to 7
feet with occasional waves to 8 feet. Dominant period 4 seconds.
Chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon.

TONIGHT
Tropical storm conditions expected. Southeast winds
30 to 40 knots easing to 25 to 30 knots after midnight. Waves
3 to 6 feet with occasional waves to 8 feet. Dominant period
4 seconds. Showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then showers
and thunderstorms likely after midnight. Chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight.

SATURDAY
Tropical storm conditions possible. Southwest winds
15 to 20 knots becoming west 25 to 30 knots in the afternoon.
Waves 3 to 6 feet. Dominant period 4 seconds. Thunderstorms
likely in the morning. Showers through the day. Thunderstorms in
the afternoon.

SATURDAY NIGHT
Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots. Waves 2 to
4 feet. Dominant period 4 seconds. Thunderstorms likely early in
the evening. Showers likely through the night. Chance of
thunderstorms in the late evening.

Forkin' Cone.............

Think my parents are going to head down and tend the boat in event it needs to come out the slip, not anticipating too much water or too high of winds, but still can't ignore it.

This water level is fine for now, high tide is after lunch today. Not till 4.5 ft on this gage that it starts to get problematic for boat on the hoist.

Just a warmup.

TS Claudette passed west of us Fri night as anticipated, peak winds around the camp were gusts to ballpark of 40 kts, mostly 20-30.

Water was knee deep over the dock, not too terrible. Last year in June we had a storm put mud in the fish cleaning sink, a good 3 ft higher than this one.



Did notice that (quietly) the Weather Channel/Company revised their prediction for this season by scaling it back a storm or two. Interesting move given tropics are pretty active for right now but they're citing below avg water temps in the Atlantic. It only takes one......

I got a surprise wake up, house rumbling @ 5:00 a.m. Saturday morning. Scared the shet out of us, and my first thought was "home invasion".....wtf?.......as I run downstairs in my underwear with gun in hand, to find out one of the big River Birch trees in my backyard had broken about 4' off the ground, and was pressed against on my house, bowed up under pressure, at the edge of my 1st story roof (over, and next to the hot tub on our patio). Thankfully, my neighbor's Paul Bunyon skills are much better than mine, and with his help, we were able to get it down, and cut up, with out further damage to the house or hot tub
I don't know if it was from the storm passing thru, or the sweet sap in the River Birch, but we had black flies all over the back yard, and they were swarming around the base of the tree where it had been cut. I could not get in and out of my house without watching at least one slip thru the door, even with quick closing. I went and bought some of the fly traps you add water to, and hang nearby, and those thing flat work!!!!!!! Each had a couple of hundred flies in them after the first hour, and I'm curious to see if they disappear, but will have to wait for this rain to quit today.

Ever so much better on your house than through it.

Glad you made out OK, flies be darned.

Rick wrote:Ever so much better on your house than through it.

You got that right!!!! Been there too............fun to the negative, times 10, especially if it still raining hard at the time

So much suck in all of that.

DComeaux wrote:So much suck in all of that.

Damn sure can be

What makes it worse, is if you have damage and it is a "named" storm, most insurance deductibles go up for a claim.....the bastards!

The SW la folks are still battling it out with insurance companies these days, hearing of horror stories.

Bad enough to have suffered thru the storms, much less have to fight your insurance company The one good piece of advice I received on making a claim many years ago is, "don't forget to add tax" - usually 10%, in the equation on any replacement of household contents, or anything else. You've got to pay it when you replace it!

yuck!

"Yuck," indeed. But it'll go how it goes.

Picked Mallard Bay Co.'s stuff this morning, and you can tell you're buddies there they need to do a better job of policing up their cripples:

Darren wrote:yuck!

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It’s all about the weather we get and the rain driven habitat between us and where they coming from. I’ve seen the worst production years produce the best duck seasons and vice versa. It’s totally out of our control. That has become more abundantly clear than ever before with each passing season.

Rick wrote:"Yuck," indeed. But it'll go how it goes.

Picked Mallard Bay Co.'s stuff this morning, and you can tell you're buddies there they need to do a better job of policing up their cripples:

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Injured or summer molt boat dock mallard?


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I'm hoping all that dry habitat to the west moves more of the birds to the east and we get a better number passing by us. I have a very low bar to have a better season than last. I was DNS at ducks in Illinois last year for the entire season I feel confident this fall will be a better season

SpinnerMan wrote:I was DNS at ducks in Illinois last year for the entire season I feel confident this fall will be a better season

And people down here have the nerve to complain about a slow hunt

Ericdc wrote:]Injured or summer molt boat dock mallard?

Given it's location, winged bird from last season.

Rick wrote:

Ericdc wrote:]Injured or summer molt boat dock mallard?

Given it's location, winged bird from last season.

Resilient rascal to have made it this long winged

Reckon Non-toxic steel may have helped spare him? He's dodged big lizards all Spring too.........need to name him Lucky