Darth-Baiter

the guys elected to spend some extra time exploring CA. so my house has air mattresses, and duffel bags all over. beer cans, chip bag..okay..I am exaggerating. but people are tying leaders, etc. wife is in for a treat. hahah...she is the best sport and loves having house guests. main thing. ALASKA!! salmon + halibut trip.

Venison street tacos. Zero added fat. Loaded with natural deliciousness. I’m officially out of venison. But I’m locked into a deer hunt on my brothers property. Target is a fat doe.

Ants boat cover? Like a colony swarm? Or scouts looking for food? Ants have two cycles. Sometimes they want sweet, sometimes protein. I like a a poison that doesn’t repel them. They get it on their bodies, track it home and it collapses a colony very quickly. I use Phantom ant spray.

my big takeaway from this ordeal is your ability to work the problem and figure it out!! WELL DONE! all the PFD chatter has been said to death. again. Well done Sir!! now you know what to do, next time if needed.

I've been playing with the dose. I have it down to about 58 grams of coffee for 1.25L of water. my new coffee machine is fantastic. it heats the water to just 195-205 and the coffee is delicious. I didnt think it would make that big of a difference, but even my non-pro level coffee taste buds can tell the quality improvement by not over heating my grind.

It popped up to my port side and poked out its fin. I’m not gonna guess its size because they are all big to me. We were on kayaks in the Pacific. It came up twice. The second time we could see the whitish lower body half. We elected not to bleed our fish for about an hour. Thankfully I sucked at fishing yesterday. My friends did okay but left the fish on the deck and not dangling in the water as we usually did. Then a whale surfaced and took a deep breath near us. And it took a dump because we could smell it. It was not describable. Like fishy kerosene maybe. I don’t have the best sense of smell, but I did catch a whiff. My friends said it was whale poop. This ocean kayak fishing is wild! So interesting. A boat would be nice some days. 😊

I think they move tight to structure.

I love the French press. but cleaning the thing afterwards isn't fun or worth it for me.

NRS neoprene booties or Simms flats waders boots. Sun burn on my feet are unacceptable.

I rarely buy coffee out. it is expensive to make that a habit or any type of routine. so I home brew. for the last decade, I get up in the morning, do my things, and just before I jump into the shower, I get a electric kettle boiling. get dressed and make two coffee pour overs and take one to my wife. it would be much better if I had one of those fancy pour over purpose built kettles with the long pour spout - for targeted and controlled pouring. but nope. my cup is okay. my family is coming to visit and I cannot make multiple cups, or do I even want to. so I dove into the rabbit hole and studied coffee makers. SCA certified? the heck is that?. there is an upper tier of coffee makers. I bought one. USED! cleaned it up. descaled it, and finally made a pot of coffee. I was not expecting any thing special. but it is profound. no burnt flavors. perfect temp. I even taste floral notes!! so good. the magic is proper water temp. proper extraction time, and for me, no hot warming plate to overdo things. I even weighed my beans. :D. not something I will do all the time but I have a visual on what my load of beans should look like. introducing my new coffee cooker. the Technivorm Moccomaster. from the most coffeeingest-drinkingest place on earth..the Netherlands. totally rebuildable. all parts are available and unchanged. I can send it in for repairs easily, so I dont have to subscribe to the disposable mindset. and a single on/off switch. no multiple modes to scroll thru.

Like everything in life it takes practice. There are rarely any shortcuts. You didn’t start off good from shore. I love my kayak. It’s fully replaced how I think bass fishing should be for me. I do not even want a bass boat. You’ll figure it out. You will soon realize how it works. Have fun, be safe, and don’t go buy everything 😄

that's your fishing jetski?? so cool! I want one, but it isn't good for my parts since I am surrounded by protected reefs. if I lived further south, I would buy one. coolest video on the YT. some of those guy are insane.

my wife literally got a GOLD star stuck to her sweatshirt on the way out the door. hahah..I was...WTH??

my dentist showed me early on in my life that I have a few unfortunate molars. normal molars have deep roots that splay out. like how you would stand with feet apart when you are about to fire a big bore rifle. for balance and support. I have a few molars were not only are they shallow..the roots taper inwards towards each other. "feet together". crap support. genetics. at least I turned out really good looking !. hahaha..I kid. I would like to add: we are blessed to have modern medicine and Science. incredible. back in the old western days, this is almost a death sentence. hahah..infections killed plenty.

Put on gloves and pull on it. I bet it will be pretty obvious which side of the fence it’s on. You know, for science! 😀