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[DwayneNLiz]

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[DwayneNLiz]

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[ChickenCanoe]

OUCH that is rough. That must have been an expensive tubing trip!

For the Owens river trip, you start up near Mammoth Lakes - for anyone who has made that drive, you turn in to get to the river at the little green church. You get out of the river down in Bishop. So, the night before, we'd drive a few cars down to Bishop and leave them. This was back in the 80's. We had fanny packs we kept what valuables we didn't leave in the cars waiting for us. We did NOT have cell phones back then. There was usually beer in the coolers, so the tubes with the ice chests were connected to the beer drinkers. I can guarantee they would have gone in to recover anything that sank.

The Ozarks are full of great springs, clean, clear rivers and rugged forested hills. Some of the largest springs in the western hemisphere are here. The largest, Big Spring (catchy name), has an average flow of 285 million gallons a day. Maximum flow is unknown but the gage has been pegged many times at 1.3 billion gpd.


The third largest is Greer Spring which turns the Eleven Point river from a warm water stream to a cold water stream.
Largemouth live above the spring branch and trout live below it.
As you approach the spring branch, a wall of mist rises from the river as the two dramatically different temperatures clash.



Alley Spring





Some of the springs are the beginning of rivers, others just add to the flow. Most of the rivers are quite cold due to the large springs feeding them.
http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/jspring.html

Most are good fishing streams for smallmouth, largemouth, pike, rainbow and brown trout, white and striped bass.
There's a good book "Missouri Ozark Waterways" by Oz Hawksley. It's a detailed guide to 37 major float streams in the Missouri Ozark Highlands. It covers most of the navigable streams between the Missouri River and the Arkansas border.
There are 6 distinct natural drainage regions in this area. 3 flow north into the Missouri and 3 flow south and east into Arkansas or directly into the Mississippi.
I always have several copies of this book. There's two on my bookshelf, one in each tackle box and backpack. I don't like to be without it whenever I'm floating.
Each river is described beginning near the headwaters with mile markings starting at the highest practical put-in with various landmarks noted like fords, bridges, springs, campsites, falls, islands, etc..

Just popping in to say hi. I'm about 200 pages behind.

Sad news, I gave half of my April hatch to a friend. She called me this morning to tell me she put them in with her big girls and they killed all of the them.

We even had a big discussion about integration before I let her have them.

I hate when that happens.
I've had some people beg me to sell them birds only to have them all eaten by raccoons.
It has me very reluctant to sell birds any more.

Sure is!

-Kathy

Very cool!

Here's my daughter on the bike she bought in Viet Nam. She was fed up with bus rides that lasted twice as long as they were supposed to be.

 

[Leave a LightOn]

Quote:
Between the TEXAS RANGERS and the Chicago Cubs. July 14 - July 17.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:
Between the TEXAS RANGERS and the Chicago Cubs. July 14 - July 17.
Ain't gonna happen!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

The Ozarks are full of great springs, clean, clear rivers and rugged forested hills. Some of the largest springs in the western hemisphere are here. The largest, Big Spring (catchy name), has an average flow of 285 million gallons a day. Maximum flow is unknown but the gage has been pegged many times at 1.3 billion gpd.


The third largest is Greer Spring which turns the Eleven Point river from a warm water stream to a cold water spring.
Largemouth live above the spring branch and trout live below it.
As you approach the spring branch, a wall of mist rises from the river as the two dramatically different temperatures clash.



Alley Spring





Some of the springs are the beginning of rivers, others just add to the flow. Most of the rivers are quite cold due to the large springs feeding them.
http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/jspring.html

Most are good fishing streams for smallmouth, largemouth, pike, rainbow and brown trout, white and striped bass.
There's a good book "Missouri Ozark Waterways" by Oz Hawksley. It's a detailed guide to 37 major float streams in the Missouri Ozark Highlands. It covers most of the navigable streams between the Missouri River and the Arkansas border.
There are 6 distinct natural drainage regions in this area. 3 flow north into the Missouri and 3 flow south and east into Arkansas or directly into the Mississippi.
I always have several copies of this book. There's two on my bookshelf, one in each tackle box and backpack. I don't like to be without it whenever I'm floating.
Each river is described beginning near the headwaters with mile markings starting at the highest practical put-in with various landmarks noted like fords, bridges, springs, campsites, falls, islands, etc..

I hate when that happens.
I've had some people beg me to sell them birds only to have them all eaten by raccoons.
It has me very reluctant to sell birds any more.

Very cool!

Here's my daughter on the bike she bought in Viet Nam. She was fed up with bus rides that lasted twice as long as they were supposed to be.

very pretty!

 

[TJChickens]

Hey, I am interested what kind of legbands you use.

I use closed aluminum bands that are imprinted with the year, association and number. I get them from the associations we show in such as ABA, Wild West Serama Club, SCNA.... ABA bands are plastic.

I use similar aluminum and stainless steel bands for my parrots that I have engraved with the year, our ranch initials and a hatch number. These, I order from http://lmbirdlegbands.com/

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sure is!

-Kathy

Looks like you still have some trees in CA.

That was mean.

...
french is easy, english is the hardest to learn//master, and if you can figure out spanish or french you can usually figure out the other
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i love how you always push the pendescas LOL


...

English is very difficult. I'm glad I learned it first.
Same with Italian and Portuguese. It helps reading one language or the other but trying to understand the spoken word is a completely different story.

I'm not pushing them. I just want people to be aware that there are breeds in the world besides Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks and Silkies.
I don't want anyone to have them that isn't going to respect and care for them.

Careful, now. I might get a big head!

Thank you.

It's true.

Between the TEXAS RANGERS and the Chicago Cubs. July 14 - July 17.

Could happen.
I take it you're from Texas.
I don't think my daughter would want to do that. When she went to college in Chicago, she always gave Chicagoans a hard time about the Cards/Cubs rivalry.

Ain't gonna happen!

Stranger things have happened. I told one of my sports addict friends 2 years ago that the Cubs were on the move and could end up as the first place team in the next year or two. He laughed at me.

 

[TJChickens]

Congrats on the award!

-Kathy

Thank you!

What a gorgeous little guy! Haha I love the picture of him taking a bow!

Thank you! He's a ham. Making the judge smile

Congratulations on the Serama.
I've only lost one bird to heat but it is a shame. Can you put her in a cooler place for a couple days till she fully recovers?

Thank you
Yes, She's been in the house since I discovered her condition.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: My son lives in WI; he hates everything Chicago!