the only thing i know about u2 is they were spy planes and a friend was the navigator on them. he had some good stories but withheld the really good ones.

U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers refused to sing for the Soviets after they shot him down and tortured him. I say more powers to him.

The earth's rotation is slowing so this June is longer than June of last year. And you have to wait a wee bit longer for official Summer to began, this happens every year:

physlink/education/askexperts

From above link:

Earth's rotation is slowing due to a transfer of Earth's rotational momentum to the Moon's orbital momentum as tidal friction slows the Earth's rotation. That increase in the Moon's speed is causing it to slowly recede from Earth (about 4 cm per year), increasing its orbital period and the length of a month as well. ...........The slowing rotation of the Earth results in a longer day as well as a longer month.


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You live longer than you think. Use your time wisely. Like not reading silly Lounge Posts.

when it completely stops i hope i am on the sunny side.


you had better take up crabbing as salmon is tough this year.

Headed to the Bay area (well a bit east of there) on Thursday for a little over three weeks. Going to help watch my older grandkids and plan on trying to work remotely. It should be grand other than the weather reports that look very very hot!

have fun!

My parents just told me that my first cousin, a California boy born and raised, has purchased a house in Bozeman, Montana and is gonna retire there next year. Him and his wife, both outdoorsy types, visited there a while back and fell in love with that big old sky y'all are famous for.

hello the lounge. i thin ill spend a lot of time in the lounges in kc area 10 years from now. loved san francisco though.

I am planning on it.

Damn another Californian. We just can't keep them away, Lol. Bozeman is a nice town. Mountains right there, Yellowstone park not all that far away. Good fishing and hunting nearby. What's not to love.

They are remaking Flatliners.

Hollywood has officially ran out of ideas.

hot muggy and mosquitoes in alot of places. might be some good shad fishing or salmon in the sacramento river. or even in the bay. shad are a blast to catch but not for eating.

Heck carp are a blast to catch and not eat. Never heard of shad fishing other than for bait though.

shad when running are easy to catch and fun to fight. they have to used to have big runs there in many of the rivers.

shad-time/

From above link:

Native to the East Coast, shad were transplanted to the West in the 1800’s and have flourished since. Out West, the Columbia River plays host to the largest runs followed by the Sacramento River and her main tributaries, the American, Feather and Yuba rivers. Back East, shad roam the Atlantic from Florida to Nova Scotia and spawn in many drainages in-between, including the Delaware, Susquehanna, Juniata, Schuylkill and Lehigh rivers.

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Real Westerner's don't fish for Shad. It's an east coast fish that is a pretender in the West, that originally lives in the streams and rivers of such vile places like New Jersey and New York (and even New York City) and up into Canada, the land of mutants and the brain dead.

uh, one thing you forgot, there are no real westerners. they all came from somewhere else. and mostly from the east. along with the shad.

And the brookies. Don't forget the brookies.

and the brown trout and salmon and steelhead, and even earth worms were introduced, can you believe that. yea all those worms you have in your yard.

Electric eels, I might add, do it
though it shocks 'em I know.
Why ask if shad do it?
Waiter, bring me shad roe.

-Cole Porter

Turkeys and skunks are indigenous to the West, right?

... and tumbleweeds.

Russian import by accident (see link below) - part of a conspiracy, like all those damn Easterners and Mid-westerners polluting the West. Everyone comes from some place else until you trace it all back to Africa. Ubiquitous human expansion and migration.


The-mystery-Russian-Steppes-tumble-weed-rolled-American-culture-gag

a couple of the kinds of skunks are native to parts of the west.

and the rio grande turkey was native to the s.w. the more common merrimans was introduced in the 1960's to the pacific northwest and has flourished in some parts of it. in oregon and most of the pacific northwest or all i believe there were no turkeys until recently.

i remember when a guy i knew in bigfork montana introduced them to the flathead valley. now they are all over the place and loved by all that feed them and dont, as long as its away from the house. otherwise you get turkey poop all over your decks and roof.
i have as many as 50 to 100 living on my place in the woods and fields.

and for those that think they are for eating they are not. even if you would they are stringy and tough.

Outside of bears and strange turkeys, what are animals are specifically "not for eating." And what is that term really meaning? I feel like tough and stringy can be worked around into a soup or something, but bears have trichinosis, right?

people eat the bears they shoot. cook it well and it kills tric if is in it. pigs can have it also.

my opinion is not to kill and eat everything living just because you can eat it. the world has done all that in the past and we are losing and have lost many of our most cherished animals and plants.