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lol! I want a 40 acre lot...with a 20'x50' yard!

You could put in some landscaping. You'll have to mow around it, but not over it.

Screen house? Gazebo? Pond? Mini, old school gas station for displaying/photographing cars?

Yes

Ohhh...I like that idea! This came to mind right away. My photobucket doesn't cooperate at work so I'll have to attach a link to the pic. This is a little gas station that used to be in Walcott, ND. It now sits on the grounds of the Western MN Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag.

https://www.google.com/search?q=walcott+gas+station&biw=1920&bih=943&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigxLfMyuHMAhWJ5oMKHQHiBuYQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=walcott%2C+nd+gas+station+now+in+Rollag&imgrc=KCk134jYsEckaM%3A

Waylon and I used to road trip out that way and thought it was pretty cool.

Sorry, it looks like you'll have to copy and paste the link

ND should put a deep pond there. Stock her wit crappies. Then when they get up to be about 13inchers or so throw some tip ups out in the winter time. While your working on cars, can run for the flags.

Or when to busy for the big pond, you could put the ice castle on the pond. Just a thought, maybe i have to much time on me hands. To come up with such idears.

I'm no doctor, but I would say these are normal Minnesota man brain thoughts.

lol.

Raise buffaros! When baby buffaro get rost, I put baby buffaro in caw and bring house. Then you courd ufinize baby buffaro and put on Hibachi!!

I don't see a buffalo lasting longer than a day at Camp Shaw! lol. Too many things to cook meat on there!

I do like me some grilled tatanka.

I was out at camp this morning. Drove right in with the heavy diesel so I am calling the trail very passable at the moment.

I fetched up the BBQ grill from camp so I can run it along with our home grill in prep for Nate's graduation. I'm smoking 60-70 lbs of pork.

I also grabbed a few live trees from around the cabin for transplant at home. Some birch and a couple different pines. Hopefully they will survive the transplant to our new yard area at home.

I noticed that the blueberry plants are in full bloom, the plants look good.

We have a pair of geese with babies living out in the cabin yard, also spotted a rabbit munching grass in the yard as I loaded the BBQ grill off the cabin porch. Saw 4 deer on my quick trip to the forest too.

It sure is nice out there, we should be out there enjoying the forest before the bugs go mental on us and make it non fun.

I am a little late to the post-fishing opener party...

I was not smart enough to stay in the cabin. The rest of our opener crew also scraped the frost off their locators and boat seats as well.

I have to say Saturday was the most miserable day I have ever spent in a boat. It was 26 degrees both Saturday and Sunday mornings and Saturday's wind was flat brutal.

I have fished the same lake on opener since 1962 and this was the first year I have not caught a walleye. It was a crawler bite this year and I was pitching a jig and shiner on purpose.

The lake has a pretty good snot rocket population and I love fishing for them. They were even a bit tentative but still were eager to munch shiners. As a result, my daughter and I went through 3 dozen shiners opening morning catching a LOT of pike.

The others caught walleyes and a ton of pike. Saturday night we invite our family members to the cabin for a fish fry. This has been a tradition for decades and we had more than enough fillets to feed everyone.

It was a great opener despite the wind and cold.....

Dave, the blueberries were in full bloom when we got hit by the frost three nights in a row. Needless to say, the white blossoms turned brown in a hurry. It is going to be a slim crop this summer....

Sounds like a fun quick trip to the camp dave!

Mike, I've been in the boat enough on the miserable days to know I don't want to do it anymore. It makes it not fun, for me anyway.

Rain I can handle, but those conditions you guys were in were flat nasty. Good for you guys for sticking it out though.

Thanks T!!

We have a bunch that loves to fish no matter what Mother Nature throws at us. We have fished in snowstorms, rain and the occasional sun.

Several of us have fished tournaments for years where you get used to staying out in whatever the conditions are. But Saturday had all of us questioning our sanity. We traditionally go out just before sunrise then come in for breakfast around nine or so, then go back out again. This year we were heading in at 8 with no stragglers!

Guides freezing up was the biggest problem. It took only a couple of casts before it was time to thaw things out. And you didn't want to leave the minnow dipper out of the bucket either.

I'll be getting the boat wet for the first time this Sunday. Going out early on Prior, and getting off before all the idiots show up. Next Friday I'll start exploring some of the smaller, non descript lakes nearby. I always end up on Prior or Spring, but it's time to see what else is out there.

Went fishing at Ottertail last weekend. Sat was too miserable to fish much but Sunday afternoon we got limits of 1.5# to 2.5# males in 8 feet of water on jigs and shiners near the SW end of lake. Not much wind in the aft and very nice fishing in hooded jackets. Two years ago caught limits off dock in river on north side in the evenings but nothing there this year.

Yeah, it sounded like the hearty souls that endured the cold last weekend got their fish. I just wasn't going out in that cold weather.

Well, the boat's all set to go, I went to the bait shop. Got some water freezing in the freezer. Thermos is next to the coffee maker ready to go. The guys at Prior Lake Bait and Tackle say the bite is on big time. Crappies are laid up on the shallow wood for the spawn. Walleyes are biting good. Can't wait to hit the water. Good Lord willing, I'll be on the water by 4 a.m. Hopefully, good reports to come.

Three small bass and about a half dozen crappies. First time on the water this season. Trailer lights, as usual, are a mystery. Both turn signals worked, neither running light on the tail lights did. Motor started right up, but seems to have no top end, which it did sporadically last year. I don't know if I've got a bad gas line and it's starving for gas at high throttle, or a weak coil???? Any ideas guys?

Change your sprark plug first.

Trailer light could have their own college program and nobody would still be able to figure them out! Damn things! Lol