What are you doing today?

[jaylach]

Good thing that UFC martial arts fighting is on or I'd be totally bored. Doing all my monthly systems updates including my virtual Machines. LOL! The problem with having 8 systems, including my virtual systems, but update have to be done for proper system security.

 

[Fishmanic]

please let's not discuss anything political on this site....

 

[Sparx]

Making the most of the good weather today

 

[Essjay]

Good weather

We have >95% chance of rain all day here in the north east. I hasn't stopped since I got up and judging by the amount of puddles it rained all last night as well

 

[Alice B]

the high today here is about 98 with temp humidity index of 107. I am hiding in the ac after I walk my dogs.

 

[Sparx]

Good weather

We have >95% chance of rain all day here in the north east. I hasn't stopped since I got up and judging by the amount of puddles it rained all last night as well

That sucks. Been warm and sunny all day down here! Highs of 22°C

 

[Essjay]

Max 15 deg C here today as well as all the rain. it's more like late autumn than summer

 

[connorlindeman]

Making the most of the good weather today

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Which ones yours?

 

[WhistlingBadger]

About to put some trout in the smoker.

 

[Sparx]

Which ones yours?

The black Kawasaki in the font of the pic is mine

 

[connorlindeman]

The black Kawasaki in the font of the pic is mine

Good to see you guys wear full gear. You don't want to mess around with asphalt at highway speeds.

 

[Rocky998]

@Rocky998 You might be interested to know about these fish. I caught most of them in a big hole where a tiny creek emptied into a big lake. The water was moving, which makes presentation a lot easier, but it was really easy to see the fish rise to the fly. Best of both worlds!

But here's the funny part. I was using a hopper pattern. The fish were acting well-fed and kind of bored. They'd come up and bump my hopper with their noses but not take it, just like spoiled aquarium fish checking out a new food source. So I started hitting it into the water really hard, SMACK!, then twitching it back upstream like a streamer. A hopper swimming against the current, under water. Yeah, it didn't look like anything in nature. Did the trick, though. Guess it triggered the predatory instinct. They'd see that bug getting away and just couldn't stand it. By about the third twitch they'd be fighting each other for it. Caught probably ten of them that way. Let a bunch of them go; just kept the legal limit for supper. They weren't slowing down, but I decided not to educate them all, so I can bring the Badgerling back there later. So much fun!

That's awesome!!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

 

[jaylach]

I'm hiding from smoke from a couple of wildfires here in Wyoming although it is getting better. Due to the lack of snow this past winter I knew that we'd have some fires. Smoke in the air really irritates my messed up eye so I hide in my apartment with A/C. Happily my apartment seals up enough that no smoke gets in.

@WhistlingBadger : Did you have any smoke issues or were you out of the wind direction?

Seems that every year fires get worse especially in areas like California. Don't really know the answer to this situation but strongly believe that they keep getting worse due to our putting them out. Wildfires and the same in mountain pine stands are nature's way of 'taking out the garbage'. Actually there are a few types of pine that the cones will hang from the tree for years waiting on a fire to open the cones such as Jack Pine.

How Trees Survive and Thrive After A Fire

Big or small, gradual or sudden, change rhythmically punctuates human life. In the natural world, change is just as intrinsic and pattern-based. Seasonal fluctuations in temperature, shifts in sun light, and natural disturbances, like fire, are all part of nature’s cycle.

www.nationalforests.org

 

[MattW]

The Euros final wasn't ours today sadly but in 2 years we will win the WC on US soil.. It's coming home hopefully