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Yep, checked the live blog in the 85th minute. Harry Kane again.
It is crazy how much Benny's has expanded. They're in SC, NC, PA, OH, MI, FL, ....and Wyoming. of all places
mother's squirrel and gravy was his favorite food of all time
Good memories.
In my teens, in the seventies, I would go out and get a couple of squirrels with my single shot .22 handed down from my grampa. I'd clean them and mama would fix either squirrel giblet gravy or a squirrel pot pie. Mama grew up in the community of Henry in the moonshine capital of the world... Franklin County, Virginia. Her dad kept the family fed (mother, father, six kids) through hunting, fishing, and a garden.
The funniest story however, was when she took my daddy home to meet her parents. 1950, I think. They walked into the house and her mother was cooking a opossum for supper! When daddy stayed, she knew she had found the right one.
I remember asking one time after they implemented all that crap if I really needed to take off my sneakers and was told no. Then after I went through I was pulled aside for a detailed exam due to failing the metal detector. Of which, I was polite about it but also told them bullshit I knew I had no metal on me as even the zipper on my shorts was synthetic. If they had wanted my shoes off I would have done so if they had said they needed to come off.
It's also Chris Davis Day. He's getting $3.5 mil today....
Evidentially, they put them up at the Summerfest Campus as well. Seems to be a Milwaukee thing.
When you're a world class striker, you need to deliver world class strikes. And that was absolutely a world class strike. And at a time of need, too
I always knew he got paid by the Mets. Today I found out he also get's $500,000 from the Orioles. This payment concludes in 2029.
The $1.19 million he gets from the Mets concludes in 2035 (from a contract that was deferred in 1999).
I love Bobby Bonilla day.
The second one for Kane was a banger.
TIL!
Yes, if not for being up against England, I'd have been rooting for Congo. They've played a very brave and exciting game. They have a lot to be proud of
Same in Chattanooga. I agree, its pretty fantastic
edit: the internet is telling me these are only in Milwaukee. But I swear I have seen them in person and I have never been through that airport.
LOG BACK IN!!!
Same. I'll be sad when he doesn't get paid.
I check into a live blog in the 74th minute, showing DRC up 1-0, and in the next 30 seconds England scores. Of course, Harry Kane.
Sorry, guys. My fault.
Yes but in Milwaukee it literally has signs marking it as the recombobulation area
Good report. Awesome trip, nice pics. Don't agree with the spin fishing for trout take, I use what will catch fish in the situation and conditions given, and for me, spin fishing is often much more effective and satisfies me just as well. Debarbing hooks should always be part of a catch and release endeavor, and removing the front treble on jerk baits was my usual move, but Joe's Flies caught me a ton of fish when I used to fish for stockers, and I doubt I did much damage to them with that. I do get not liking seeing fish getting torn up, but that's a different story than just spin fishing for trout in general, I think.
Same in most airports if they bother to label it. That is the official "put your belt and shoes back on even though there really isn't a reason to take them off"-area
Squirrel is fine meat and I defy anyone to say otherwise. Like you said, folks just don't bother. Quarter them, bread and fry them in bacon grease, butter or Crisco, make squirrel gravy and put the pieces back in the gravy to simmer. Nirvannnnnnnna Baby on a homemade biscuit. Only thing wrong with eating them is the smaller bones and the occasional shotgun pellet, but in a stew, squirrel adds a flavor that chicken can't match, leading to claims that the first Brunswick stew was made with squirrel. And like dove, can't buy them in the store.
The talent gap on a team level has grown tighter. This has been one of my favorite WC cycles to watch in a while. Past editions it felt like you knew who was going to make to the final 8 at least. I think it also shows what most people already knew, FIFA rankings show favoritism.
Side bar, in the Milwaukee airport, just past TSA, there is a "Recombobulation Area."
I like how the thread name was changed to All Seasons thread! Here's the latest on my Colorado summer trip....
Spent the past five days fishing the San Miguel near Telluride, then hiked my ass off 5 miles up the Gunnison, then floated and waded the Roaring Fork for three days.
The San Miguel is gorgeous from Telluride down. I fished further down on the highway to Norwood. I recommend further down as there's less pressure. Dry / Dropper territory. That means a dry fly with a nymph or wet fly "dropped" off the back. Frankly, I rarely have success with this set up. It's super popular amongst guides and generally very effective, except for me, for whatever reason. I'd just as soon throw a dry or double dry, or swing a wet or double wet. I caught one rainbow on six dry eats. Terrible catch ratio, but every single fish ate chasing the dry downstream. Very odd behavior. The Ridgway / Ouray area has been hit by a big fire, called Gold Mountain. I left Saturday morning and it had just started. Today it is over 14,000 acres. The fire has enveloped an area I was camping in two days before. It is dry as a bone out here and a very scary start to the fire season.
Saturday I hiked way up from Pleasure Park on the Gunnison, which is a fabulous big Western river. Lots of Browns in it. The amount of grass hoppers was astounding. The wind averaged 30 mph and gusted to 55. Usually there is a massive Yellow Sally hatch this time of year, which is a yellow stonefly. If they were there, they couldn't fly in the wind. Mending was impossible and accurate casting was a total crapshoot. The heat and water temps didn't help and I stopped catching about 1 p.m. Water temps play a huge roll in trout being comfortable. They want it 65 or lower. It reached 68 in the afternoon, and was probably warmer in certain spots. I landed a few nice fish, one right in front a spin angler who stopped to ask me lots of questions about fly fishing. The Texas old timer was tossing a 1/16th jig with soft plastic minnow and doing well. Spin fishing for trout just feels so wrong but he was a nice guy and we talked Redfish and Speckled trout for awhile. A half hour later his 15 year old kid walked up the opposite bank from me, stopped in the same hole and proceeded to catch 14 browns in about an hour on a small Rapala. Sigh. He handled the fish correctly but those trebles absolutely destroy fragile trout. Just goes to show that they wouldn't eat a grasshopper but can't resist the action of a lure. That lateral line is a big deal to fish.
I waded and floated the Roaring Fork three consecutive days with my good buddy Jarrod, the owner of Aspen Outfitting. Fishing is hit and miss. The water levels are where they should be in August and and grass hoppers are here early. Jarrod caught a gorgeous Cutbow with a big Rapala stuck in its jaw that had been there awhile. He was fuming. Again, six barbed hooks do some serious damage to a trout. That is one tough fish to still be alive, much less eating small flies is impressive. He is better off now and I've got a new Rapala on the dash of the Silveraydo.
I'll fish a few more mornings or evenings the next few days and then the hardcore fishing will be mostly over for me. I've got to tie feather earrings for these events upcoming. The water levels are frightening. I don't know what these guide services will do in August. Regardless, the first two weeks of the trip have been great. My schedule looks like Aspen for the next several days, maybe Denver, then on to Steamboat, Lake Dillon, back to Carbondale / Aspen area and then I'll mosey on back east late July or early August.
Interesting tidbit. Mexico has apparently played every game so far in Mexico City not having to travel at all. They get the advantage that their opponents come to them and have to play at altitude with little time to adapt. Is this the first time a team has not had to travel at all? Their last opponent filed a complaint with FIFA that they were unable to rest well at their hotel due to locals launching fireworks the night before their match.