Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

My parents and grandparents lived in Pryor OK. The is not far from Grand Lake. My parent used to go fishing on Grand Lake at night. There were huge flotillas of small boats with lanterns. The lanterns attracted the fish.

By the time I came along my Grandad had a boat house on Grand Lake. The boat house was kind of like a 1 room cabin with a garage for the boat. It was a wood structure on barrells. It had a back porch everyone swam off of, and a live well in the middle of the floor in the cabin. It had a big propane tank and a gas stove and gas heaters. It was moored to the bank and had a cat walk to get from the bank to the board house. There was also a big ravine between the driveway and the boathouse that had a skinny catwalk over it. I don't remember where we went to the bathroom.

My Dad and Grandad baited the boathouse by sinking feed sacks of corn under the boathouse. Think it was illegal. Remember going with them to sink a couple of feed sacks and replace the big propane tank in the middle of the night one winter. Remember because it was icy and Dad and Grandad almost ended up in the lake with the big propane tank. They picked the bad weather because they knew no wardens would be around.

We pulled the boat out and fished in the boat well. Don't remember ever gong out in the boat to fish. There were cots in the cabin area if you wanted to sleep but they weren't used very often. Think the only thing the stove was used for was to make coffee.

Because of going with my Dad and Grandad fishing all the time I caught my first fish when I was 3. Had a stick about 3 ft long with 3 ft of line and a hook and sinker on it. By the time I was in kindergartne I could scale and fillet fish by myself.

When I was 7 a weird tornado came thru from the north (the cove the boathouse was in faced north and most all tornados travel east or northeast). It sank all the boathouses in the cove. It would cost more than it was worth to try to raise it.

Before and after the boathouse sank we also went boat fishing with a couple of uncles and friends of my parents. We stopped when stripper fishing got popular and it severely hurt the crappie and bass population.

One uncle we always pulled his boat to Keystone lake near Tulsa. Fishing was okay, but didn't catch as much as other places. My uncle wouldn't move to a different hole if they weren't biting.

Another uncle had a cabin and boat slip on a private lake near Ardmore. Always did well there. In fact, we got a reputation that even if the fish weren't biting they would start when we started fishing and other cabin owners would come out fishing if they saw us. That uncle really like to catch the first fish at a new hole. Dad and I would lower our lines, but only far enough that you couldn't see our bait until my uncle would either catch a fish, or say "Don't wait on me."

Also did well at my parents friends with a cabin on Texoma. It was only a couple of blocks to put the boat in. Did a lot of crappie rigs catching two at a time following the shad running an catching the sand bass chasing them. When the stripper fishing killed the crappie and sand bass fishing he sold his cabin and got a trailer on Ten Killer. After two years they started stocking strippers there so he sold the trailer and gave up fishing.

Spent a night with a travel trailer at a local lake with some neighbors. It was miserable. Didn't catch a thing and it was too hot to sleep in the trailer. We never went fishing with them again.

Last time I went fishing regularly was in college. Took girls to a private (and secluded) pond I knew about. Could have them catch fish with corn or frozen shrimp while I built a fire. They would catch 4 or 5 good size sunfish by the time I got the fire built. Almost as fast as they could rebait their hook and throw the line back in. Then I'd fillet em, fry em, and we had a fresh fish picnic. It was a great lunch date. Most of the girls I took had never been fishing before. Never had one get icked out, probably would have if used worms or minnows. Always had a couple of rods, skillet etc. in the back of my car.

The last time I went fishing my nephew and I took my Dad. We went to a very large pond on my brother's FIL's property that was well stocked with bass. We only had a canoe and we paddled my Dad around the banks and we caught a bunch of nice bass. Then it happened. My dad got a bite, forgot where he was, stood up, and yanked to set the hook. He lost his balance, tipped the canoe, put us all in the water along with all the fish we had caught and worse our gear. Got my Dad to the bank but it was too steep for him to get back into the canoe, he was pretty old. So I crawled in and paddled back to my 4x4 and did some crazy 4 wheeling to get to where he was and back out. We weren't able to recover any of our gear, it was just too deep. So, we just climbed in the truck and went home all wet without any fish or any gear. Glad it was summer and not cold out.

Haven't bothered to replace any of my fishing gear since.

[Oh Haha]

It's Friday!


I joined a new Facebook drum site and have been overdosing on kits and drum talk.

For those planning on running a drag car anytime soon I have the name:

Middle Raged.


You are welcome!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

It's Friday!





I joined a new Facebook drum site and have been overdosing on kits and drum talk.



For those planning on running a drag car anytime soon I have the name:



Middle Raged.





You are welcome!

A drag car? It that a car dressed up to look like a queen?

Maybe you mean those drag racers. This is not a good area of the country to try to have a fast car. Daddy Dave's shop is just a few miles from my house. Dominator is close by and the rest are not far off. The competition is tough.

[Oh Haha]

Yeah, a drag race car.

A guy on my new drum site plays in a band with that name.

Another cool name is The Sam Dandals with a picture of flip flops on his front drum head.

[RKDinOKC]

Yep, street racing has been very competitive around here way before the Street Outlaws show. Before the show got popular they used to drive the cars instead of trailering them around. The cars have gotten a lot faster since they started trailering them. Not really street legal any more either.

It's like when we started RC plane racing at the club I was in. They picked a really cheap plane kit and engine for everyone to use. It was very popular with 20 racers. Did that for a couple of years and everyone really enjoyed it. Then they changed the rules so you could do your own thing building but kept the same motor. The designs were really interesting but they lost about half the participants.

Then the next year they went to the standard Quickie 500 rules so the guys could compete in other clubs. The participants went down to three because the kits and motors were a LOT more expensive. Then they discovered to be competitive they had to buy a new engine every time someone came out with a faster one. The club competitors dropped to just one. Oh and they had to go where to official races were held all over the country.

Was a lot more fun when all you had to do was get one of the cheapest kits and cheapest motors, slap it together and go play. Think it was $100 total, kit, motor, and everything needed to build a club racer. One of the local hobby shops even invested in radio transmitter and receiver crystals so all the planes could be on different channels and all fly at the same time! The end of the racing season was with an event where they put a barrel trash can out in the middle of the field, everyone flew at once and the first one to crash his plane in the barrel (or closest to) would win a new kit and motor for the next year.

Our club did all kinds of crazy stuff. We had night flys where guys would mount lights all over their planes and fly them after darl. We even had a flying tour where you took off from our field and flew your plane from a car or truck to a field at a small town 30 miles away. There was a pond at the field at the small town and they hosted float plane flys where guys made and mounted floats to their planes. The big thing was having the manned john boat to retrieve the planes that got stranded in the pond.

[RKDinOKC]

Man, I am wordy today.

[Outback Porsche]

One more sleep, woohoo

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. PCA breakfast today. Mrs Carrera will not be with me for this one. She is finishing up the volunteer time she has to do for the Master Gardner course. I am not sure they understand the concept of the word volunteer. If it is required is it volunteering? Bottom line she is at a Will Rogers park helping in the greenhouse for several hours.

[RKDinOKC]

It is mandatory for class credit but volunteering for the park so they don't have to pay them.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

One more sleep, woohoo

We were up early to watch sunrise over the Pacific. Funny, it looks like sunset, just played in reverse.

[RKDinOKC]

Always thought sunrises had a little bit of blueish hue to them compared to sunsets.

[Oh Haha]

Took my daughter to lunch today and running some errands. She wanted to go to Best Buy to look at some new phone.

Talk about feeling out of touch! They all look about the same to me. She wants an IPhone 7 for Christmas.

Yeah, you are 10 and there's no way in he!! we would spend $700 on a frikkin' phone!

I tried to think back to what I really wanted at her age and I can't remember anything that would be comparable.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Always thought sunrises had a little bit of blueish hue to them compared to sunsets.

IIRC, air pollution that builds up over the course of the day will give you the reddish sunset. In a pristine environment (small island in the Pacific), they should be the same.

[pete3799]

Split up the last of my firewood today. Woodshed is full (5 cords) and 3/4 of a cord in the cellar plus the 1 ton has a full load on it that I haven't stacked yet. May have to put it in the garage. No place left to stack any more up at the house.
Calling for 6-12 inches of snow by Monday.

[RKDinOKC]

Welp, brother Bob was invited for Thanksgiving dinner.

Telling everyone he has the gas to get here but wouldn't have any to drive home on and would take $40 that he doesn't have. He lives in Tulsa, about 120 miles away. At $1.67 at gallon for regular that's 24 gallons or only 5 mpg! Thought a 05 Honda Odyssey was supposed to get 25mpg or more on the highway?

That's one of the reasons nobody in the family wants to help him. We all know he only gets about $1300 SS but he isn't truthful about what for when he asks for money. I am sure if he came up with budget listing what is coming in and what he needs to spend money on my brother and I would help he get to a place where we wouldn't need to help him any more.

For example he has been complaining the he can't get ANY sort of job because he has trouble hearing. When he was staying here with his heart surgery I went and got him a cheap combination bluetooth phone earpiece and hearing aide that I tried and worked pretty good. Said it worked great, then wouldn't use it?

And when Mom passed he inherited quite a bit of money. Both my older brother and older sister gave part of their inheritance to him because they didn't need the money. He spent it on taking a trip to 2 UFO conventions instead of getting proper hearing aides.

When my Mom had her cancer surgery my older brother didn't want my brother with MS living here for her to worry about. He forced my brother to move out. He did offer to buy a house and make it handicap accessible for him and his girlfriend to move into though. My brother's then girlfriend was afraid that when my brother passed my older brother would kick her out in the street so they refused. Instead my older brother remodeled the grilfriends trailer house to make it accessible.

My older brother tried several times to provide them a house to move into and she would have nothing to do with it. Finally, even though it was after my brother passed, my older brother found the house across the street from her sister was for sale. He bought it and fixed it up and is renting it to her for next to nothing in gratitude for helping to take care of my brother.

So, I am sure my brother would help his older brother, but he wants to help him get out of his situation instead of just keep throwing money at him and he never improves his condition.

[RKDinOKC]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

IIRC, air pollution that builds up over the course of the day will give you the reddish sunset. In a pristine environment (small island in the Pacific), they should be the same.

You mean there is no doppler type effect on the morning versus evening light due to the earth's rotation?

[GH85Carrera]

At breakfast this morning one of the guys showed up in his 64 356C. He bought it in 1976. He was a club member in 1979 and he remembers us meeting back then. I guess I was more memorable than he was or he has a better memory. He dropped out of the club while he raised his family but kept the 356. He saw my bronze grill badge for the region and asked where he could get one. I told him I was the source. He followed me home and I gave him one from my stash.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

You mean there is no doppler type effect on the morning versus evening light due to the earth's rotation?

yeah, that too.

[Outback Porsche]

Made it to Sydney, another snooze then next stop Auckland

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. Mrs Carrera decided we needed to go eat breakfast since she missed it yesterday. She twisted my arm and forced me to do it of course.

Gotta wash the Elky this afternoon and likely mow the yard.