What are you doing today?

[connorlindeman]

my wife and I only fish out of our kayaks for a while now. one big advantage is we can do that in shallower water levels than other boats and both fit in the back of the truck. just launching from the boat ramp keeps us clear of any ticks. two years ago I brought mine into the house to mount my Garmin Striker 4 sonar and Anchor Wizards front and back. it was entirely too cold in the garage to do that. wife didn't complain too much. the sit in kayaks are much more stable than the sit on models and retrieving the fish can be done without having to use a long handle net.
I had to go up one weight size line on the fly rod to wf-9 because of setting so low in the kayak.View attachment 353108

Sweet setup!

 

[emeraldking]

What are you doing today?​

My order of smal plastic containers with lids came in and today I've unpacked the package. Yesaterday I was too occupied to unpack them. I'm using these to present my livebearers at relevant vivaristic events. I always use to work with rectangular ones but now I chose round ones instead. My last event I've tried them as well. And that went so well. So, no I've ordered 250 of them. It may sound much but actually it isn't.
These containers are leak free. And they're translucent so people are able to see those fish clearly.
I've always preferred using small containers instead of bags at such events. Those fish will be less stresses till even no stress experience. The thing at such events in our country is that the regulations are saying to keep the lifting of those animals to a minimum. In such a container the water level remains more stable and so are the fish when someone lifts up a container. In a bag it's more wobbly.

I've also ordered new plastic bags in three different sizes.

I always use black bags so that those fish won't stress that much after being sold.
All came in in time before my next event will take place.

 

[MattW]

I've been sorting through a mass of plants from my old paludarium and trying to find homes for them, about 2/3 of the way done.

 

[Back in the fold]

Watching John Wayne’s last movie from 1976 . “ The Shootist “. Every time it’s on I watch it . Lauren Bacall , Richard Boone , Hugh O’Brian , Harry Morgan , Jimmy Stewart and Ron Howard among many other greats . It’s a John Wayne marathon on Grit this weekend . Go turn your TV on pilgrim .

 

[Alice B]

Pond is done, truck needs drum brakes on the back end, trailer needs new deck boards but no calamities. Just a little nerve wracking with a lot of rock on the trailer. pics maybe tomorrow. Homeowner's happy, I'm tired, crew is tired, all paid, it's all good

 

[GaryE]

You could sit in there all winter, pretending to paddle with those plants beside you to be the forest.

 

[anewbie]

I'm going to sleep soon.

 

[gwand]

Good night

 

[WhistlingBadger]

@connorlindeman I love catching bass! Nearest lake that has them is about 45 minutes away, and has an annoying slot limit, so I don't get over there very often. Stalking bass with a fly rod is a hoot, though.

As for my day, I headed out to the desert after church this morning to hunt. The only antelope I saw were all in one huge herd, and they were spooky as heck--already running away at full speed when I spotted them a mile away. Usually hunting pressure is gone by this late and they're pretty calm, but there were a ton of fresh tire tracks everywhere, so I think they've been pressured pretty hard lately.

We have eight inches of snow in the forecast for Tuesday, which turns the desert roads to grease, so I might head out after school tomorrow. Trouble is that by the time I drive out there, there's only about an hour and a half to hunt. But I'm certain not to get one if I stay home, so I'll probably try. Not going to be too bummed if I don't score on antelope, as the freezer is stuffed with good meat already; this elk was the bull of a lifetime. But I hate to waste a tag, and besides, Jerky. And Andouille. So I'll try.

 

[Oldspartan]

Watching John Wayne’s last movie from 1976 . “ The Shootist “. Every time it’s on I watch it . Lauren Bacall , Richard Boone , Hugh O’Brian , Harry Morgan , Jimmy Stewart and Ron Howard among many other greats . It’s a John Wayne marathon on Grit this weekend . Go turn your TV on pilgrim .

Indeed a great movie. Watched it again a couple of nights ago. It is a fitting movie to represent the end of Wayne's career.

 

[GaryE]

I don't watch many movies, but I love old westerns. If John Wayne is in them though, forget it. Not a fan.

I think I'm going to put in a good day of outside work, then go to a record store. I went to one yesterday, for the first time in decades. My daughter bought and got an old stereo system running, and is curious about a lot of vinyl that has never been digitized. Plus she likes the novelty of old tech. She asked me to scope out the local stores, with a list of things she's trying to find. She lives in a city 4 hours away.

The two places I looked at yesterday were dismal - not much other than classic rock at high prices. This is a small city and there isn't a lot of competition. But there are two stores uptown, so I can walk in to a mix of guys my age and what were recently called hipsters, and see what they have. I know deep down, I am infinitely cooler than all these young beardie-boys, but I don't seem to look it anymore. The resurrection of vinyl is pretty funny, but there is a ton of music that has never been digitized, and a lot of it is very good. Technology often pushes us to a mainstream where everything is the same - safe, expected, predictable and very marketable.

Spotify algorithms drive me crazy, as they always want to direct me to boring music that is slightly like what I started out searching for, but not it. I looked at one sixties album once, and got a barrage of artists I didn't miss or want to hear. It was like the program was happy to latch on to something it could pigeonhole me with, and even if it missed by a mile, it was uncompromising. More developed AI is going to be as bad, I expect. So I can see why younger people would seek their odd music offline.

 

[anewbie]

Yea i really liked the shootist; though at the time when i first watched it I wondered if it was a reflection on his real life; at least with regards to health. The remake of True Grit is actually pretty good though there are elements of both movies i liked - the little girl did a much better job in the original in terms of both showing her naive nature and bringing out the other characters (though in truth i should probably rewatch both of them before saying more). The other john wayne movies were ok though the one that stands out is the cowboys. Love that guy who plays the villian - he's in a lot of movies and always does a good job.

 

[Back in the fold]

I don't watch many movies, but I love old westerns. If John Wayne is in them though, forget it. Not a fan.

I wasn’t a fan of John Wayne for a long time and then I learned something that made me change my mind . The story I heard was that he met the real life Wyatt Earp way back in the 1920’s before he was an actor and only a helper and gopher on the location shootings of the very early westerns . John Wayne modeled much of his onscreen persona on Wyatt Earp and insisted on things being true to the frontier era as related to him by Wyatt Earp . The time from Wyatt Earp’s heyday until John Wayne’s passing in the late twentieth century was only about 100 years , give or take , and that impresses upon me the brief flicker of time that is our lives . I like the old westerns for their simplicity . Everything is right or wrong , black or white and hot or cold . Nothing is complicated and there are no machines or computers or power lines or asphalt roads mucking things up . But that period didn’t last long , only about 75 years or so . The frontier of the American West was as brief as a summer rainstorm . John Wayne’s last movie showed that well being set in 1901 with early cars and telephones . If you get to watch the movie “ Monty Walsh “ , either the one with Lee Marvin or the remake with Tom Selleck , those show the end of the frontier era too and the heartache the characters experience at its demise . Our own frontier of sorts is at an end too . The era of the little guy is over and the age of monopoly corporations is upon us .

 

[anewbie]

The western actor i like the most was Robert Duvall - he's 93 and still acting. The two movies i'm thiking of were open range and broken trails. I think broken trail was the better of the two. Oh well. Been a while since a good space movie; gravity was cocky in a way but pretty good - would have been better without george clooney though in truth he had a small but annoying role.
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I can't think of a good space movie since gravity 'cept the Martian (which was really really good). But now what 10 years without a good space movie

Interstellar would have been good without anne hathaway who (for me) just ruined the movie.

 

[GaryE]

My great grandmother met Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane, and probably met Sitting Bull. The family had a boarding house in Boston and the wild west show would stay there. She got to be in their parades as a kid.

She died when I was young, but I seem to recall a story that suggested Sitting Bull would hang around because he couldn't exactly go out in the street, and she'd talk with him. You don't know enough as a kid to know what to ask, and I regret that.

I love the simple world of westerns. It's so unlike reality. But John Wayne always played the exact same character to me, and I didn't find it an attractive one.

The worst ones are the ones with fifties and sixties pop stars and such thrust into roles they just couldn't make credible. Some of those performances are awful.