Hey old farts..how many over 50 yrs?

[cindysid]

I guess I should try them as I may like them ...... but how the hell do you scale them lol. I was also thinking they would make a good compost if you could keep the animals out and somehow stop them from stinking up the place

I think Pa skinned them. I use fish in my compost, but I bury them deep. With the heat we have, it takes a couple of months to break them down. I occasionally find a jawbone, but not much else.

 

[sandhill larry]

I think Pa skinned them. I use fish in my compost, but I bury them deep. With the heat we have, it takes a couple of months to break them down. I occasionally find a jawbone, but not much else.

We were cleaning out Mamma's old freezer and found several bags of whole sucker fish. I used them to plant some peach trees down at the camp. I just dug a really deep hole, dumped the frozen fish, then refilled with dirt and transplanted on top of that. So far nothing as tried to dig them up. They are already full of green leaves. Should be a good growing season for them.

 

[cindysid]

We were cleaning out Mamma's old freezer and found several bags of whole sucker fish. I used them to plant some peach trees down at the camp. I just dug a really deep hole, dumped the frozen fish, then refilled with dirt and transplanted on top of that. So far nothing as tried to dig them up. They are already full of green leaves. Should be a good growing season for them.

Yeah, the frozen fish will break down fast! I never let fish, shrimp shells, crab shells, and the like go to waste. They all end up in my dirt....err.....soil

 

[hillbill]

Pick or DuPont needed to bury anything here! Everything outside is in raised beds or big pots and my "yard" is 95% shade! Rock rules. What is this topsoil you speak of?

 

[Budley Doright]

Ya well I planted seeds beside a dead smelt (one per seed) and the raccoons dug every seed and smelt up. I was 14, 45 years ago , no one told me they needed to compost first lol. I moved on to sea bird poo, composted of course. I was a resourceful kid lol. Think I got a lung disease from the poo .

 

[hillbill]

That's why they get buried deep and when the rots reach them they are broken down. Buried fish waste between rows and moved rows over the next year. I grew up in Sand County Almanac and that sand needed everything it could get. Now they irrigate and with that kind of sand it is really just mass hydro.

 

[sandhill larry]

That's why they get buried deep and when the rots reach them they are broken down. Buried fish waste between rows and moved rows over the next year. I grew up in Sand County Almanac and that sand needed everything it could get. Now they irrigate and with that kind of sand it is really just mass hydro.

As my name suggests, I farm in a sandbed. I have to add everything to my garden. We messed around and missed the sucker season this year. The creek wasn't even too high, we just got lazy I guess. Most years I put a few suckers in the dirt.

You can see what had the sprinklers on it. Also note the used tomato soil that got dumped out. I will till that in when I do the north half of the garden.

 

[hillbill]

Looks 33* north or so.

 

[sandhill larry]

Looks 33* north or so.

About 30.5. I'm near Interstate 10 where it crosses the Florida Panhandle.

 

[hillbill]

Lucky,lucky gotta love the bass!

 

[sandhill larry]

Lucky,lucky gotta love the bass!

We have a natural pond, about 5 acres. When I was a kid we had 10-12 pound Large Mouth. The pond has gone dry twice since then, so we have had to restock twice. It has held water for 3-4 years this time, so they should be some 4-5 pounders in there now. Also some good small mouth fishing in the rivers.

 

[hillbill]

I am 5 minutes from very famous reservoir and will put in after lunch. Got into video surfing after Ripple and Angus Young and finished with Hendrix " Little Wing".

 

[sandhill larry]

I am 5 minutes from very famous reservoir and will put in after lunch. Got into video surfing after Ripple and Angus Young and finished with Hendrix " Little Wing".

You Tube will do that. I'm E-hiking the AT again this morning. With any luck, I will really be starting out from the base of Amicalola Falls 6 years from today. {I'm 56, and need to hit 62 before retiring}

I'm watching Kiwi Wandering USA this morning. He is a refreshing change from most AT thru hikers. He started way early, so is pretty far up the trail now. Here is his day 1 video.

 

[haight]

I turned 66 this month.. Anybody older? Let's find our oldest members!!

I'll be 74 next month

 

[tstick]

I'll be 74 next month

respect!

 

[hillbill]

I'll be 74 next month

Is that as in Haight Ashbury?

 

[haight]

Is that as in Haight Ashbury?

Yup, did acid when it was still legal and even after. Lived at 556 Asbury, a couple of doors down from Haight.

 

[haight]

For around 16 years - it was a diverse childhood that exposed me to many different environments and people.

For some reason I thought you also were a 20+ lifer in the AF

 

[sandhill larry]

Is @cindysid the baby around here? {of the over 50 crowd}

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

Anybody ever fish for Grinnel, or Bowfin, as the yankees call 'em? I used to fish for these with my grandparents. Pa would cut them up into steaks and fry them.

That's not a grinnel, it's a common carp - grinnel look like this.
Note the carp has chin barbels but no nostril barbels as does the bowfin.
Also the carp have no teeth but the bowfin is loaded with them.