18 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 Yippee First Day of Spring ~ !

Wait what now ?

A-Jay

If I squint real hard, I think I can see some people out there in the distance. Not sure what’s going on, fishing, a pick-up hockey game, motor sports or just lounging with a barley pop…

3 minutes ago, J._Bricker said:

If I squint real hard, I think I can see some people out there in the distance. Not sure what’s going on, fishing, a pick-up hockey game, motor sports or just lounging with a barley pop…

The Perch Patrol in Action !

On ATV's even.

A-Jay

1 minute ago, A-Jay said:

Yes it is  . . . 

The Perch Patrol in Action !

A-Jay

So there’s still plenty of ice. The big question, did you walk by, say hi, and drop a few waypoints? ?

 

Judging by the color of ice and those clouds you’re on Lake Menderchuck. ?

25 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

So there’s still plenty of ice. The big question, did you walk by, say hi, and drop a few waypoints? ?

 

Judging by the color of ice and those clouds you’re on Lake Menderchuck. ?

They were too far out there for a walk but it's all good.

My own WP's seem decent for now.

And I'm Always on Lake Menderchuck.

A-Jay

A pair of bald eagles watching my boys and I fishing.

 

Another fishing bird photo: an osprey perched above its nest, high in a cypress

There's a fox family living in the culvert near our house. The kits were out playing in the daytime a couple days ago.

 

My wife discovered this little varmint in the wood pile a couple of morning ago.

A-Jay

40 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 

My wife discovered this little varmint in the wood pile a couple of morning ago.

A-Jay

 

13 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

There's a fox family living in the culvert near our house. The kits were out playing in the daytime a couple days ago.

Cool to see! We get SO MANY calls about that exact same scenario, people think they will drag their human children into the culvert and eat them. I’m not kidding. I ask them over the phone why they want me to get rid of the fox, they say because they have kids. What???????

 

 

then you have the other camp. There’s a golf course neighborhood I’ve done a ton of work in over the last 15 years that is loaded with foxes. Nobody has any chickens, high end retirement community. Another company like ours was hired by the golf course to catch a fox that was digging up the course. Once they caught it, the locals were ready to burn down that company haha. They even called us and asked what we did with the fox, I assured them it wasn’t us that caught it haha. 
 

oh the joys of human emotions 

The ice is almost ready to go...

 

(L.George, NY)

Had a pair of swans stop by in the river behind the house last weekend. Our neighbour said they were here last year at the exact same time. They don’t hang around too long though, guess it’s just a stopping off/rest spot on the way further north. They’re so large, they make a goose look about the size of a small chicken. 

On 3/22/2022 at 2:42 PM, A-Jay said:

 

My wife discovered this little varmint in the wood pile a couple of morning ago.

 

It looks cute in that photo... as they seldom do look.  I always remark that while most wild animals look well-groomed and beautiful, possums usually look like old bums who just crawled out of a dumpster.  ?

 

One managed to push open the storm door and get onto my front porch one time.  I hooked the door open but couldn't get it to leave.  I let my springer spaniel out onto the porch in hopes of him either scaring the possum out or carrying it out.

 

Instead, the possum "played possum" and rolled over on its back looking very dead.  The dog wouldn't touch it.  I put on a pair of heavy leather gloves and carried it out myself.

 

A sky full of nature's own skeeter hawks, the purple martin, out in force on Lake Martin, Louisiana, this morning.

Well, with the rain we’ve had the last couple days it has officially kicked off “mud furniture season”. The dog towels have come out, and will stay my the back doors until probably mid May at least. I’m not complaining though, I’ll take it over 2’ of snow??.

2 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

Well, with the rain we’ve had the last couple days it has officially kicked off “mud furniture season”. The dog towels have come out, and will stay my the back doors until probably mid May at least. I’m not complaining though, I’ll take it over 2’ of snow??.

We have dark hardwood floors, I feel this picture. 

Yesterday's bike ride from Stinson Field in far SW San Antonio. 

First stop at the aqueduct, which has been here 300 years.  @TnRiver46

ok, 280

Mission Espada

the retalbo inside the chapel

Mission San Juan

spring has sprung - we should have bluebonnets in a week

Waiting on the Sun at the hunting so I can fish the beaver pond.

Love that bike...   what tires are you running?  They add to that classic look.

@desmobob

I'm set on amazing-soft tires and tubes, also filling the chainstays and fenders with the biggest tires that fit.  Used to run latex tubes, but have switched to the latest and greatest urethane tubes, which don't need pumping twice/wk. 

The best vulcanized tires are Rene Herse, made to Jan Heine's specs by Panaracer.  Even better are hand-glued tires, Vittoria and Challenge.  Challenge "open tubulars" are a booger to mount, because they're low profile, but also the most buttery tires ever made. 

My '74 International has Vittoria Corsa Control, 700c x 30 mm - gravel tires, and this bike will single-track with the best of them.  The wide bars give both aero position and off-pavement control.  The half-step triple has a granny ring that is perfect on gravel or single-track. 

Interesting.

 

I also run the biggest tires I can.  I'm a big guy and both my bikes are aluminum-framed, so a little extra cushion is nice.  Years ago, when I was racking up lots of miles, I settled on Continental Gatorskins.  I don't think you can get a puncture flat with those things... at least I never did. (Maybe just one goathead puncture in western Kansas on a Biking Across Kansas ride...)  

 

I tried some nice, soft 35s on my cyclocross bike and got three flats on one ride, the bike returning home on top of a pile of stripped shingles in the back of a roofer's truck after I stood by the road with my thumb out, too frustrated to fix another flat.

 

I haven't been in the saddle for a long while.  I really need to get the bikes out and get riding again.  Photos of your beautiful bike are always an inspiration.

 

things you don’t see in Canada on march 27 at 6 pm (took that pic from my dock yesterday) 

Double fisted with her favorite antlers.

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

things you don’t see in Canada on march 27 at 6 pm (took that pic from my dock yesterday) 

About 50 degree air temps and slightly warmer water temps 

The jet ski's and the mosquito's come out at the same time