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General Aquasport Forums => Chum => Topic started by: John Jones on December 27, 2010, 11:29:00 PM
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of covering, uncovering, covering, uncovering, covering, uncovering my dang tomatoes. What happened to the supposed La Nina warm winter? I have half a dozen green Better Boys on the kitchen counter that weight 3/4 lb. each that the wind has blown off or I knocked off covering and uncovering. This will be two winters in a row that Jack Frost gets my winter tomatoes.
No smart alec comments from my more northern brethren. ;)
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yeah it is cold out there!
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It is 27 at the house here in Lakeland. The strawberry farmers are probably tired of this too. I could go for a warmer winter. I was born and raised in FL and hate this cold stuff.
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This is the first morning in 9 years of living here that the wife started her car, then came back in to let the windshield defrost.
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This is the first morning in 9 years of living here that the wife started her car, then came back in to let the windshield defrost.
am i one of the few people in florida with one of those ice scrapper things? they come in handy every now and then :lol:
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More than likely there is a scraper in the milk crate in the back of her car but you know how women are...
Other than the last 9 years, we have always lived in colder climates. NE Arkansas was the worst for driving, even worse than Montana. Arkansas gets damn ice all the time.
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You boys go getcha what we wear....insulated Carhart coveralls....they weigh about 4 lbs.... PERFECT for gathering 'maters :cheers:
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I have a pair about 30 years old.
1-they are still in good shape
2-I can still zip them up, barely :roll:
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Aaron,
You ain't the only one with a scraper, when I went to put my window down this morning to show my ID going through the gate, The window was frozen shut, the motor tried but wouldn't break it free, had to open the door at the guard shack, AND, there was slush on the surface water of the bayou as I crossed the bridge this morning... should be a bunch of dead mullet on the beach this afternoon to collect for bait as I did last year.
Marc
This is the first morning in 9 years of living here that the wife started her car, then came back in to let the windshield defrost.
am i one of the few people in florida with one of those ice scrapper things? they come in handy every now and then :lol:
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Oh yeah..?? Well we got SNOW yesterday. And some of it stuck too :tongue: First time that's happened since .. last year, and before that was 1989. Dern Global Warming.
(http://www.cool-smileys.com/images/2060.gif)
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This is the first morning in 9 years of living here that the wife started her car, then came back in to let the windshield defrost.
am i one of the few people in florida with one of those ice scrapper things? they come in handy every now and then :lol:
LOL, I have one too! Everyone used to laugh, but not so much anymore :D I listened for a couple of months to the forecasters talk about a warmer than average winter for the Southeast, pfffft! We set a record for more below 32 degree days last winter, and we are already on pace to beat that this year :shock:
With that said, it's supposed to break 70 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, sooooooo I believe I will be on the water before it gets cold again!
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I have a pair about 30 years old.
1-they are still in good shape
2-I can still zip them up, barely :roll:
I bought some last year, ordered them in a "short" ....you had to be a contortionist to get in them. Then found out you need to order them 3 sizes bigger than your normal chest size...so if you wear a 44 you go with a fifty.
Guys with larger guts(me) you may need to kick it up another notch.....Bam!
You guys will be all about them, they are WARM.
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I normally wear a 44 or so in tall but winter stuff I buy large anyway. Last year the company had to buy me some Nomex coveralls with reflective stripes ($300 uninsulated) to go into an oil refinery in Alberta. I went to the designated store and tried them on WITH my heavy coat underneath. I ended up with 52T. They are cute. :roll:
(http://www.atlasfse.com/Nomex%20Coveralls)
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JJ - have you pondered why they require you to wear a Nomex suit at that refinery? :scratch: Or are the answers to some questions so obvious you just don't ask? :pale: I hate going to places where they give you site-specific training when you first arrive and every other sentence ends with "could result in serious injury or death." :x
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(http://media.komonews.com/images/070427_ok_refinery_fire.jpg)
The last place I worked back in Birmingham everything that came out of that plant was a carcinogen, not to mention the by-product gas that was 52% hydrogen.
Heck, they are all still safer than driving to the airport.
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No smart alec comments from my more northern brethren. ;)
Maybe just a couple of pictures :D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/dsampsel/DSC_4709.jpg)
Driveway is in there someplace...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/dsampsel/DSC_4710.jpg)
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YIKES!!!! nuff said. :oops:
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YIKES!!!! nuff said. :oops:
My Mom and Dad still have the front page of the Chicago Tribune when we had "The Big Snow" in '67 (I was 6). Drifts on the windward side to the second story ROOF! We were out of school for 2 weeks...
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I have to spend the next two weeks in Detroit. Jan 30 I'll be leaving for a week here:
http://goo.gl/maps/ehpa (http://goo.gl/maps/ehpa)
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I leave for 2 weeks of business in the UK tomorrow - where I'm going the temp range is low 20s to low 30s over the 10 day forecast. The equipment I am teaching is used outdoors so I have to teach it outdoors...... now where did I put those thermals....
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seabob is right...this was a little more snow than run-of-the-mill, but not much. Nothin' to really compare to the lake effects snow on the Michigan UP or parts of upstate New York. December was a good month here for the white stuff - water levels oughtta be good next season if this keeps up - but I would like to make that weekend run with dupree & Mike to pick up the CCP. Looks NICE, jd.
John - that's just a stones throw from Winnipeg. If you have a week, take your winter camo and that .22-250 and play with the coyotes :wink:
Rick - are those temps Fahrenheit or Celsius :D
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seabob is right...this was a little more snow than run-of-the-mill, but not much. Nothin' to really compare to the lake effects snow on the Michigan UP or parts of upstate New York. December was a good month here for the white stuff - water levels oughtta be good next season if this keeps up - but I would like to make that weekend run with dupree & Mike to pick up the CCP. Looks NICE, jd.
John - that's just a stones throw from Winnipeg. If you have a week, take your winter camo and that .22-250 and play with the coyotes :wink:
Rick - are those temps Fahrenheit or Celsius :D
F= 9/5(C) + 32
C= 5/9(F) - 32
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Rick - are those temps Fahrenheit or Celsius :D
Fahrenheit
Still looking for those thermals to pack....
This season so far the UK has had it's 100 year snow and the coldest winter in decades. If you look at the latitudes, the UK ends up in the middle of Canada on our side so I guess it knows how to get cold over there - even with the gulf stream coming close by.
The snow and temps is not a showstopper but when you combine that with having to drive on the wrong side of the road to get to where I need to go .... :roll:
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F= 9/5(C) + 32
C= 5/9(F) - 32
A fella told me a way to convert mentally 20 years ago and it stuck. This is what he told me:
Always remember that 10C=50F. Then for every 10C up or down add/subtract 18F. So 20C would be 68F. For every 5C add or subtract 9F (what the formula is showing). 25C would be 77F. As you can see, you can calc it out in your head fast and get pretty close on some of the incremental conversions, say 27C, easily. Gives you something to do when you're sitting in an airline seat for 8 hours :wink:
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That's handy Rick. Thanks.
John - that's just a stones throw from Winnipeg. If you have a week, take your winter camo and that .22-250 and play with the coyotes :wink:
I would love to pop a few coyotes but my old bones don't take to the cold so well any more. I don't think FL is that far behind the western states anymore with coyote numbers. They are just harder to get because other than cow pastures and orange groves, we don't have so much wide open land for long shots. The few I know that hunt them here use buckshot. Wild hogs are our main varmint (and edible too). There is no bag limit and no closed season on private land but it's hard to find someone that will let you hunt them. A big fancy dancy planned community down by Rick (Lakewood Ranch) is having a heckuva time with pigs. They are required to meet community standards with their landscaping and one nights visit by the pigs can cost them $10K in lawn damage. A friend of mine sold his house and moved away from there. He said he was spending enough on landscaping every year to justify taking a hit on his house and moving away from them. They love ripping up golf courses too.
The Today Show this morning ran a spot about FL being overrun with pigs. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/ ... 1#40962351 (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/40962351#40962351)
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I have eaten wild boar....Very tasty, or at least what I tried was.
That would be a blast to go for them with a 12 ga.
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The lady across the street is a big hunter and now and then brings me some pig sausage. They take their hogs and have most of it made into link sausage with real casing with various spices. The Cajun spice the processor uses is out of this world, especially on the grill.
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Even though I started this thread complaining about having to cover and uncover my tomatoes, it's starting to pay off. I have probably already picked (and eaten) this many but only a couple at a time. Today's haul.
Cherry tomatoes 1-3/8" dia. and the two Better Boys weigh 14.5 and 15.5 ounces.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/Johnny_B/tomatoesJan2010.jpg)
The plants look pretty ragged and probably 1/2 of the leaves are dead from the cold. I doubt I will get multiple blooming this winter like I have in the past but you still can't beat fresh real tomatoes rather than the store bought crap that taste like paper.
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I have eaten wild boar....Very tasty, or at least what I tried was.
That would be a blast to go for them with a 12 ga.
I just finished building my pig collector. Rem. 870 Wingmaster 3" mag, Nikon Slughunter scope, Remington thumbhole synthetic stock. The scope was Christmas from the wife and the stock from my oldest son. I had just as soon use a rifle but some of the state management areas down here only allow shotguns.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/Johnny_B/870MagThumbhole2.jpg)
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Damn thats nice!! Nothing beats an 870, not even a Browning BPS.
The stock looks great, the scope too.
Is that a slug barrel?
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Gotta love the thumbhole stock! I bet it will still kick the crap out of you!
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Wild hogs terrorize Florida neighborhoods:
http://www.mefeedia.com/news/34306828 (http://www.mefeedia.com/news/34306828)
JJ, time to bring home the bacon!
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I saw that on Today this morning.
Is that a slug barrel?
Right now it's a standard 26" with screw in chokes and I just received a rifled choke tube I ordered from Remington. The next thing on the wish list is the 24" rifled barrel with the scope mount on the barrel. Right now it's the receiver saddle mount which is not quite as accurate as the barrel mount.
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Yeah Lewis, 870's are noted for kick anyway. I'm sure this will be fun with 3" slugs or buckshot. Not! :lol:
I had a Rem 1100 that I bought in the early 70's but my deceased stepson traded it for some Oxycontin, along with a vintage 870 Wingmaster and my youngest son's Mossberg 500. Oh yeah, the wife's .38 Special too. :evil:
Despite the price, I'm going to try some of this guys Tri-Balls and slugs. They have a good reputation in N. FL and S. GA.
http://dixieslugs.com/products.html (http://dixieslugs.com/products.html)
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I have an old Ithaca model 37 12 ga. pump with interchangeable barrels. "Deerslayer" 24" rifled barrel with top mounts and the 28" modified choke barrel.
Took it deer hunting LONG time ago, made the mistake of using OO buck in the rifled barrel. Not a good decision, hit the deer, but with a weirdo pattern. Always have regretted that, wounding the animal.
Should have patterned it first.
That rifled choke might work well for buckshot and slugs, interchangeably. Was that what you were thinking too?
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Nah, once I get the rifled barrel set up it will stay that way. Dedicated deer and pig gun. I have another beat up 870 Wingmaster and a 20 ga. 870 Express, both with interchangable chokes, that will be my bird and small game guns. I have several 12 gauge barrels I have acquired over the years to swap out with the second 12 ga. 30" full, 30" with choke tubes, 26" with choke tubes.
I read some tests of the rifled barrel with buckshot. It doesn't pattern near as well as a smooth bore barrel except for the new Federal shells. I watched one video where they used the Federal "FLITECONTROL" buckshot in a rifled barrel and it patterned just as good as a smooth barrel. I will test it out down the road.
Ain't nothing wrong with an Ithaca 37. I shot a friends 37 on a dove shoot years ago and did as well as with any other gun.
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Those dang maters are so good we just had to have BLT's tonight. :P
How deep is the snow Lewis? My folks between B'ham and Tuscaloosa had about 6" by dark.
At 2:30 this afternoon Delta canceled my Monday flights and re-booked me for Tuesday afternoon. :roll: