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I’ve had days like that. Catch everything but what you went for. Interesting, we have ling and cod out here, but no lingcod. All 3 are different fish, though the lingcod has a dorsal fin somewhat similar to the ling. Cod are one best eating fished in the ocean. Not ling, fatty and oily. I always throw them back. Both ling and cod are deepwater fish and rarely caught off the shore.
Yeah, lingcod is pretty good eating, ugly fish. But they are a bottom fish that they can catch right off the jetty. In fact, my son’s friend went spearing the next day there and got lingcod that looked over 2 ft long. From the picture it looks 3 ft, but I don’t want to be accused of telling a fish story word.
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Out here the cod and ling like really cold water so the best time to catch them is in winter when they move closer to shore. In
summer they’ll be at the 300 foot depth and it takes forever to bring them up. They pool up off Massachusetts, Cape Cod, of course.My roof is being replaced right now. They have found some issues that I told them about. so that is good confirmation. Our neighbor owns the company and he was the low bidder word.
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I hate having to replace roofing. No one ever tells you yo0u have a beautiful roof and they are not cheap to replace. That was one of first things we had done here. Sections had 3 layers which was totally unexpected. Fortunately, the sub roof was in good shape. They replace a single 34″x24″ area. Most of it is 3/4″ tongue and groove pine boards. Hopefully you made it through with no sizeable repairs needed.
78 became 87on Saturday.
Happy Easter, No.2 son hosted brunch our family as well as his wife’s family. Great day at 75, kept the kids outside, all 18 of them.
Thank you, Easter was good. We came back from DC the night before. We ate at Pizza Paradiso and the Thai place you recommended in Georgetown. Both were excellent. Also, the Black History Museum has the best food, really good.
We had a tour of the Capitol and White House and those were both good. We went to the Air and Space Museum on the mall and the Udvar-Hazy at Dulles and both were fantastic. We went to the Native American museum and it was underwhelming. Not much on history and heavy on modern Indian art. Kind of disappointing. The Holocaust museum was fantastic, very well done. The Black History museum highlight was the food, but the rest was pretty good. Very interesting. I made it to the Supreme Court just before it closed. My wife ran out of energy and waited for me. I liked it and want to go back. We also visited Great Falls on the Potomac on both the VA and MD sides. All in all, it was a great trip and feel like we vacationed without killing ourselves.
Thanks for the dining ideas, they worked out great word!
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You’re welcome. The Georgetown area has the best food. Downtown is very commercial, not much special about it. I wasn’t aware the black history museum served food. I’ll have to try it next time I’m there. DC has the best subway system.
Was SCOTUS in session when you were there? I know you can get in to observe, but I don’t know if you need a reservation or an invite from someone with pull. Otherwise, I imagine the line to get in would be lengthy. The weather out east has been great the past few days. I hope you missed the T storms last week,
Next time consider taking Amtrak. It drops you in center city. I think it’s a 3 day ride.
SCOTUS was not in session when I was there. That would ahve been really fun to do. Black History museum has really good southern fried chicken and cornbread, and the works. It is really good, I highly recommend it.
Regarding the roof, they replaced 25 plywood sections. My roofline is unique which poses issues. They added venting to areas where the plywood had been wet. They covered areas that were not covered before and and that should be helpful. I think we could have waited a few more years but the old roof was getting down to no granules in the shingles in many places. They were able to resuse most of the roof line flashing so that was a savings. I’m waiting for the invoice on that. Overall, my neighbor’s company did a really good job. They are coming back to clear some gutters that were inaccessible but got debris from the roof job. So they were not aware there was a problem.
In addition, it rained hard when we got back that’s how I found out about the gutters. They were overflowing. Before we left for DC, it rained hard and flooded my wife’s preschool (ex garage) and I had to try to figure that out. Found the culprit, a crushed drain pipe, probably from a fallen tree branch. I cut out the bad section after we got back and put in a new pipe with connectors. It was leaking the other day and then we got the grandkids for a few days so I have to check tonight if tightening it up fixed that up. I’ll do that tonight. Hopefully so so I can bury it.
Then we have fence post holes to dig and put posts in. 10ft 4 by 4’s to keep the deer out of the garden. That work wears me out. We should be done with that by Saturday with 7 yrds of dirt delivered by my son. Then we can get all the posts in and fencing in and keep those pesky herbivores out. Man they do damage word.
mspart
Deer are just big rats, though they look better. We’ve tried all kinds of deer resistant shrubs and flowers and they still eat them. They ignore the repellant. Before we moved here, the town we lived in held an annual deer hunt. There were daily collisions between deer and cars. Permits were issued for specified lots and days. With state approval they allowed all deer to be culled from the herd, male, female, large and small. 200-250 deer would be culled from the herd in the early years, then the numbers stated to fall as the herd was reduced.
When I lived in MN, my neighbor decided I needed to go hunting. I hinted I’m guessing. The had a family farm south and you had to use a shotgun with a slug. No rifles. So I took my trusty shotgun, bought slugs, and found that the full choke barrel caused the slug to move to the right and up from where I was aiming. No wonder I missed my first number of shots. I’m not a bad shot and I couldn’t understand that at all. I finally saw a piece of plywood and shot at it, and the hole was up and to the right. So I’m up in a tree platform and a doe and fawn come under me. I have a doe tag. Knowing how my gun shoots I aimed at her rear flank kind of low. I shot, she fell with a horrible yell. I hit her in the neck. Talk about a lucky shot. Easily could have missed again. So, it was not a kill shot, so I had to dispatch her up close. I felt bad but did it. Anyway, one of the guys heard the shots and came over and we gutted it and they brought a truck over and hauled it out of there. We ate that deer all winter long. My son who wouldn’t eat meat, saw the deer hanging in the garage and decided he was going to eat meat. Now he can’t not eat meat. Anyway, the deer there in the area are grain fed, corn and soy bean, and not as gamey as those that live on sage etc. My wife and I butchered it and it as a butchered job, but it worked out. We ate a steak that night, no aging. It was horrible. I finally knew what gamey meant. We froze it all, and would take out a steak and let it thaw for 24 hours and then cook it up. No gamey at all. It was very good. That’s my story, and it is a true story word.
mspart
I haven’t hunted deer just birds, mainly pheasant. No’1 son hunts, got his first black bear last season, 350+ lbs. Filed dressed it, then had it butchered for half the meat. It filled his freezer so he gave a bunch away. Tried it, didn’t like it. I think venison is best as a stew, Then had the fur cut into a vest and mittens for the kids. Now my nephew is the hunter. He has over 50 kills by bow. He has 2 freezers at -20F. His family eats venison once a week and his kids love it, be it steak, stew or ground burgers. He even took some meat to a local butcher and had ground and stuffed for sausage. His biggest was 16 pointer that he took it down in 1 shot. That’s a hard find in NJ. He got that at sanctioned town hunt. It took 3 hours to drag it out of the woods. A game warden was there tagging, measuring and photographing. They put his pic on the cover of the NJ game magazine.
Wow, a 16 pointer. For me, dragging a deer out of the woods is a hindrance to getting me out there. I always wanted to know how to hunt, field dress, and butcher. I got that with a friend and that was good enough. I did go the next year and caught pneumonia due to lack of sleep. I haven’t hunted since. I learned how to do it. That was good enough. I now know what gamey is. I would love to get an elk or caribou but generally you have to go deep in the woods or off road and have to haul them out. No thanks. I’m too old for that anymore. My father in law hunted his whole adult life. But his hunting went from shooting whatever, to shooting prize deer, to taking pictures of them in the wild. I thought that was interesting, he seemed more interested in taking photos of deer rather than shooting deer word.
mspart
There’s nothing exotic to hunt out here. When traveling in Chicago I used to go to a restaurant, The Wild Game Room. It served meat that you ordinary can’t get, anywhere. The best was antelope. I thought it would be like venison but wasn’t even close. It had its own unique flavor which I can’t describe. They served rattlesnake, grizzly, kangaroo, and other you would even consider to be edible.
So in the past week, the transmission on my truck stalled twice while waiting for a light to change. Engine revved but no movement. Fortunately it kicked back in when I restarted the engine. Ut oh, decided to look around for a replacement. Found a nice GMC Canyon, 3 years old 23,000 miles and GM certified bumper to bumper warranty for an added 2 years. Traded that disaster in waiting on the spot. My old truck was at 105,000 miles.
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