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[Ricky Spanish]

Your heater tutorial reminds me of a deer hunt back in the 80’s. I had made one of those paint can, toilet paper and alcohol heaters. Instead of just soaking the roll, I dump the entire bottle in the van an lit it. The flame kept getting higher until it was a roaring 2 feet. I got concerned and kicked the heater off the 12’ ladder stand into the swamp below and created fire on the water in all directions until the alcohol burned off. Good times.

I lit the water on fire too. Coleman fuel.
Fire extinguishers come in handy
She decided pork ribs and tenderloins today.
Loves the pellet smoker thing.

[Anotherone]

I’d make me a poboy with that tenderloin. Looks tasty.

[Ricky Spanish]

Rich n Sassy. Famous Dave's.

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Back when my daughter was a kid we ate pork rarely.
Mostly fried pork chops.
Chicken and beef steaks were not too bad so we ate a lot of that. Once it got where we were forced by economics to look at pork we kicked ourselves for never trying it way back. Live n learn..

[Ricky Spanish]

I’d make me a poboy with that tenderloin. Looks tasty.

It'll end up at my daughter's house.
She's due in a month.
Making another BBQ eater.

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Some may remember Logan when he was very small.
He's growing fast now.

[Ricky Spanish]

If I tried to share the chain of events that led me to research into the nwo and its agenda and plan to promote the agenda... its extremely wicked.
In the course of my research I discovered some very very weird shit.
1. The world's largest throne is in the vatican basement.
It has gigantic doors leading to that throne they're expecting a very large important guest. A really big guy.
2. I saw this picture of Obama and a sky blue flag with a sun. I thought wth? So i learned that flag. Kazakhstan.
Did more research. Found Astana, Kazakhstan.
That's a very bizarre city with a glass building shaped like a pyramid.
I suspect they plan on Astana being the world capital?
Interesting.
Formerly that was where the soviet space program lived.
It's like Houston, Texas EAST.
The nwo will reside there. Hmm
That glass pyramid..like the Vatican basement it's top floors are designed for someone of something that's very large.
The big guy?
Try and spend time and research this stuff.
If I told you everything you'd walk away shaking your head saying "no way this is true".
Give it a shot. Start with "worlds largest throne".



The photo that triggered me had Barry standing in front of a wall-sized flag.
Here's Trump. Same flag.
WTH?

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[Ricky Spanish]

Woodies at LST
Back when I was even dumber than I am now it was quite common for a wood duck or two to light in my spread at a minute or two to shooting time.
It happened so often that I bought some of them top heavy tippy old flambeaus. Still have them ugly things.
A wood duck would decoy to one or two of those decoys.

Those days are over and have been for a long time.
Maybe spinner will get that to happen but by the time ducks get here they been shot at a lot.

[Ricky Spanish]

The wife usually has good hot food waiting when I get home from hunting.
Today I cooked breakfast for her.
Looks good so I'll eat some too.

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[Anotherone]

Woodies at LST
Back when I was even dumber than I am now it was quite common for a wood duck or two to light in my spread at a minute or two to shooting time.
It happened so often that I bought some of them top heavy tippy old flambeaus. Still have them ugly things.
A wood duck would decoy to one or two of those decoys.

Those days are over and have been for a long time.
Maybe spinner will get that to happen but by the time ducks get here they been shot at a lot.

Send those tipsy woody dekes my way, I’ll float em n da swamp.

[Ricky Spanish]

Woodies at LST
Back when I was even dumber than I am now it was quite common for a wood duck or two to light in my spread at a minute or two to shooting time.
It happened so often that I bought some of them top heavy tippy old flambeaus. Still have them ugly things.
A wood duck would decoy to one or two of those decoys.

Those days are over and have been for a long time.
Maybe spinner will get that to happen but by the time ducks get here they been shot at a lot.

Send those tipsy woody dekes my way, I’ll float em n da swamp.

they're up in the attic.
Retired them long ago they are the worst decoys ever.
Why didn't I think of using them as travelers? If they get shot or lost no big deal.
I use Italian wood duck decoys.
Them super light ones with water keels that pee on you.

[Ricky Spanish]

Them waffles are already paying me back.
Pot roast?
Little tiny taters?
I eat like this all hunting season.
It begins early.

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[Anotherone]

Damn! All I had was cold pizza.

[Ricky Spanish]

It is done now but I have ribs from yesterday still.
Tough decision. Ribs or roast or both.
Both...lol
Oh yeah!

[Ricky Spanish]

Some guy, Rick, asked if someone calls wood ducks.
I think he meant spinner but I'll take it as me.
Answer is yes.
It don't take much it's not like calling a mallard.
There is a good video on it.
A little two-note call followed by feeding sounds works really well.
Feed-call on a wood duck call is very subtle.
Try not to over-do it.
It's not main street.

[Ricky Spanish]

Been working a lot on the "retrieve to hand" thing.
Millet now thinks that all he has to do is put dummy into my hand and it gets thrown.
He shows up at 5:30 pushing a bumper into my hand saying "let's go" and it's still dark outside.
All summer we trained early and his clock says it's time.
Next weekend it's for real time.

[Ricky Spanish]

It's dusty n dry.
Spent 2 hrs riding mower pulling lawn sweeper.
Tons of leaves. It's been a long long time since I've had one of them leaf raking headaches.
The mold. We hates it.

[Ricky Spanish]

Ice. Lifetime cooler.
What I do is freeze my drinks and a gallon of iced tea.
For immediate drinking I toss in some cold beer and a couple sweet teas. Maybe a few sunny-d's. Some cheese.
Once I start killing ducks on the road I pay to get them processed then use a friend's freezer.

I've got friends
In low places...

[Ricky Spanish]

Beware.
The trick or treat thing.
My season has always started a few days before Halloween.
Much time spent in blind snacking on the sweets.
Took me a few seasons to figure out how bad all that candy was. A couple root canals during duck season cured that. It's probably not a good idea to stuff your blind bag full of Halloween booty.

[Anotherone]

More Halloween booty:

[Ricky Spanish]

I like this thing a lot more than I thought I would.
It's very easy but has a learning curve.
In 9 months I can forget pretty much everything on the gadget so I'm playing with it to get refreshed.
Why does moonrise and moonset matter?
It matters now. The moon is gone by around sunset.
That's good imo.
Bright Moon sucks for me. In general.

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The tracks and stuff in that thing are priceless.
Boomer T Luddite

It's so easy. All I gotta do is get near a track and it's on the GPS. Follow the little line and find the hole.
Zoom in if you get off track. It's quite handy.
Some of the holes I use have an easy straight run to get to but most are hidden by brush where you can drive right by the lane and not see it. Without GPS it's incredibly hard to find them.

Locate on map. Just blaze your way to a hole. The way back out is always super obvious. Use GPS to lay a track and the next day you find it easily in the dark.
I scout like that. Have about 200 holes marked.
That unit has:
Bayou Meto
Rainy Brake
Dave Donaldson
Big Lake
Bayou Deview
and more. If my wife auctions it off bid high.

[Ricky Spanish]

Got your pumpkins plugged in?

Boo.

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[Ricky Spanish]

We thought eggs were expensive?
Should compare to these.
They're anywhere from $4-$100 each for a fertilized hatching egg.
Crazy exotic black birds that lay black eggs and the meat is odd too. Very expensive chickens.
Ayam Cemani

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[Anotherone]

Today is National greasy foods day. I tend to celebrate it everyday.

[Ricky Spanish]

Did you ever have the dumbass argument where your Pals beat you down over not using the same weather app as they do?
Please don't go there I'm sick of hearing it.
Some sort of bug.
Then Stan opines on his wind forecasting app superiority
Yeah I got radar.

[Ricky Spanish]

That flocking fiasco;
I flocked my goose decoys.
Part-way thru I bought a harbor freight air brush and compressor for it.

We argued about what works best.
I've had time to test.
The decoys I used a brush on are peeling.
The air brushed decoys are holding up better despite the experts insisting that gobs of paint holds more flocking so do it by brush. I disagree.
I get better results by layering two or three light layers using an air brush.
It's easier and faster too.

[Ricky Spanish]

Made another dumb video.
Agri-fab lawn sweeper in action.
Turns out it's also a bee yard tour kind of.
This yard eats up a lot of my time.
If it weren't for the bees I wouldn't give a damn what happens to that house.
I'll put it up after it uploads.

Them uh...yellow trees are walnut.
I want them gone and they been having babies.
They burn good but kill everything underneath.
Nasty trees.
Around here it's a junk tree.
The two on the water line are sugar maples.
Burns real good.

[Deltaman]

Never seen one of those AB, but pretty damn cool. I've raked more than my share of leaves over the years, and if I had a huge yard with hardwoods, would surely make that investment.

[Ricky Spanish]

Never seen one of those AB, but pretty damn cool. I've raked more than my share of leaves over the years, and if I had a huge yard with hardwoods, would surely make that investment.

I've seen it pick up sticks that were pieces of broken limb.
Picture 8 inches long, 2 inch diameter chunk.
I go by and it's gone.
Unbelievable.
That ginko drops these damn stink-bombs.
Little fruits that smell like dog shit.
Inside each is a little nut.
The sweeper gets most of them.
First frost the tree drops all them fruit/nut things like an orange carpet.
They are pretty bad. Bees pollinate the tree and it makes a lot more. It's so big and the shade is so nice from the tree. It must be 150+ years old. That house was built in 1840.

The trick is getting the brushes the right height. I'm running it with them about 0.75 inches off the ground. Grass is cut at 2.5-3 inches. The north half of the yard has sycamore tree, a magnolia, a couple apples, two big cherry trees, two walnuts, and the giant ginko.
That half is boring tho.

[Ricky Spanish]

"What's this got to do with hunting ducks?"
One might ask.
Fuck you is the answer.
I leave the state in a few weeks and feel better if the bee yard isn't a big mess.
Once duck season ends bee season starts and when bee season ends duck season starts for me.

My tank is full and I've got many buckets of premium honey. While I'm hunting I still get calls from buyers.
Pretty cool. The honey gets sold, I come home, refresh, re-cash, then go back for more.
First trip is the week of Thanksgiving.
Yeah I skip.that holiday, football, and a lot of things to chase ducks. Can't wait. Central IllinoiZ season starts this Saturday.
I bet I don't kill a duck until a week into the season. Might get lucky or something.

[Ricky Spanish]

Anotherone I looked in the attic for the ancient flambeaus.
I think they're in the shed with all my others.
Never thought anyone would want them they really do suck. However I bet every other existing decoy like that was burned long ago.
If I find them I won't burn them and you'll have the only ones.

Put weight in keels.
I walked in and have a ton of water-keeled decoys from way back.
Got boat, lost boat, got another boat and FINALLY got the right kind of decoys with weighted keels and haven't looked back.
Higdon battleships (flocked)
Avian X (flocked)
Them bees pay for it.

[Anotherone]

I bet you knock a green wing teal out the sky opening morning. Millet will say, “ that’s an easy one.”