*Cut and and welded twenty 1/2" rebar drowning rods for beaver (I bought more 750s.)
*Cut/welded same amount of 30" 1/2" rebar stakes to go with them. *Painted the top 3ft of the rods and top 6" of the stakes black.
*Painted a dozen deep water 330 supports black.
*Put Expand-a-pans on eight Belisle 280s to use in bobcat boxes.

Yet to do:
*Dip all BGs and beaver footholds in black Ambush dip.
*Make up a couple dozen beaver snares and dip brown.
*Need to dry about 15lbs of castor before September to sell to Paul at the GTA convention.

I haven't had a beaver call since February. Likely due to the extended drought. All of our small streams are dry. Ponds and swamps are extremely low. Problem beavers ain't causing problems. I'm glad....I needed the break.

Not very much that's for sure.
BUT......the bond market does and I believe the bond market.

When both stocks and bonds sell off then you know something is out of whack.

Looks like we're gonna rally for a couple days maybe. But in long run the bond market will be right.

S&P futures up .58% and NASDAQ up 1.11 % two hours before the bell. Still have a long ways to go before they are back above last Thursday

For sure...same with all the wildcat trapping down there....

Since I've been spending some time tanning deerskins into buckskin, let's take a look at some of the uses for buckskin the Western trappers had.
Typically it was used for clothing. Shirts, pants and moccasins being most common.

Washington Irving describing the appearance of free trappers:
His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally
of buckskin, ornamented here and there with a feather.

Charles Larpenteur describing trappers unloading beaver skins in St. Louis:
in their strange mountain costume — most of
their garments of buckskin and buffalo hide, but all so well greased and worn that it took close
examination to tell what they were made of.

Ruxton describing the general dress of free trappers:
The costume of the trapper is a hunting-shirt of dressed buckskin, ornamented with long fringes; pantaloons of
the same material, and decorated with porcupine-quills and long fringes down the outside of the
leg, a flexible felt hat and moccasins clothe his extremities.

Rufus Sage describing the free trapper's clothes:
His clothes are of buckskin, gaily fringed at the seams with strings of the
same material, cut and made in a fashion peculiar to himself and associates. The deer and buffalo
furnish him the required covering for his feet, which he fabricates at the impulse of want

Antoine Clement, by Alfred Jacob Miller

Bump.
One can left.

Dirtbat..... maybe if you'd talk nicely about me, it would stay sunshine and bluebirds!

Ha! I tried that 20 years ago and all my hair fell out! Now half my state is under water from flash flooding! I guess your good for something though, our drought is over.

^^^

Good morning,thunder….and 63, have a safe day

Neat pics. Yeah I got baby peppers on the pepper plants and thats about it. I have sweet corn out but it doesn't always do so great however it creates a little bit of a barrier for me between that field there. I had a couple of rows of green beans but very few popped up so when it dries out this week I need to replant those. Hopefully get a good till in this week for a better picture but the walleye started biting an hour away also... Something weird this year I can't figure out... I only had four volunteer squash plants this year... I haven' t found one volunteer tomato plant. Seems odd. Your stuff looks great. Im only picking green onion lettuce and cilantro. My strawberries haven't done anything. Not sure whats going on there. I have something off and haven't figured it out yet. This is about year three of them being a complete dud. Adding straw, fertilizing, and watering them sure didn't seem to help. Some of those are old plants and some of those are replanted and some are transplanted. I figured that'd be filled in by year 3 but I lost half over the winter and tried to fill in the empty spots with what I had and new from the store. Nothin.

I've posted this before, but if no one watches you won't understand what's going on in Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjJec0wv1EUomjrBNt1xCTA

He does live reporting 3-4 times a day. Still has family in Tehran, but he is forbidden from ever visiting his home country. Has had to relocate to a new home because of security issues.

LNG is getting through to Pakistan and India. And if you want to keep track of global shipping you can watch this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_yBgKSiwb3WP4ACPnF5nA

Maybe someone can pull up the "picture" links to the youtube channels please. Thanks.

Hard to believe those prices.....Afraid to click on one and get inundated with offers, lol

It's June...why are you trying to start peppers now? With your short growing season I don't think they'll make it, even if you succeed..What am I missing?