Not anymore, when I did I'd lay awake waiting for it to go off...

Morning all. currently 13 , clear and calm on the frozen bay....no warmup in sight, coldest "cold snap" in years

Hippie.....are you missing all those Mahomes State Farm commercials ???

Happy Birthday Ashley

Depends.

Coins with collectible value, yes, they still are way up based on melt but still carry the premium, however, I'm not sure it is reflected as much as before. I'm sitting on my ASE, Morgans, Peace and artsy silver.

Silver bullion - rounds and bars, not really. Thats what I sold yesterday, I went through and picked out some of the real generic and scruffy stuff.

I havent even started to look at my junk and constitutional stuff

Not paint, but as mentioned a few days ago concerning freezing conditions, grocery store produce bags for the trap. Super thin and all traps seem to break through no problem.

One evening about 10 years ago I heard animals noise right outside my house. I sounded like two cats fighting, we don’t have a cat. I turned on my outside light and I could see two cats fighting, one on top of the other only about 3 feet from my walkout basement. I grabbed my trustee 22 and snuck around the house. I was about 30 feet away from the animals and they didn’t know I was there. I had turned the light off before going outside. When I reached the corner of the basement, I shot the animal on top. I’ll just say, it was no cat. I walked up to the cat that was getting its butt kicked and it was a pretty poor shape. So I dispatched it, it was a big heavy feral Tom cat.

Shakey, you going to come to the wolfer summit out in Idaho this summer? I didn't realize James had sold his business, I thought they had been certified in at least parts of Canada?

Pretty stupid to get out and not immediately get away from the vehicle. Lucky it didn't get pushed over on top of her.

some preliminary results:

100% sold (~50 000 skins)

average over $300

top lot sold for $4700 per skin

the key buyers were from China

Its projecting the purchasing power of the dollar, is going down

Technology is deflationary. As AI and robotics advance, the trend accelerates

The monetary system fights this by creating inflation

Central banks print money( banks just giving mortgages/loans add money to the system) to prop up prices

result? A massive transfer of wealth from labor to asset holders

Bottom line,,,,,, the money is broken

Law Dog- How deep to you think it is now..?

TheYouthTrapper- You actually have muskrat huts up there..? I haven't seen a hut in my county since 2020. I forgot how truly different now the northeast quadrant of SD is compared to the southeast. The past fall and this winter is almost as dry and open as was 2023/24. Enjoy your water!!

The pet owner in this incident has taken issue with being cited. She is taking USFWS/KNWR to court. Reportedly, the Refuge is considering chickening out and pulling the citation.

Pressure needs to be applied to get them to stick up for their own rules and regulations and not be cowed into submission by this "Karen."

It wouldn't hurt to let the Refuge Manager know that there are a lot of people who support the trapper. Remember, the trapper followed all the rules and did nothing wrong. The dog owner ignored the posted signs that she was on a trapline and proceeded on until her dog was caught. And later destroyed sets and stole traps.

This is not the time for the FWS to wimp out.

Pete