Recent content by Salmo_g

I this inflator battery powered? Or use household current? I have and liked using my Ryobi inflator that uses standard Ryobi tool batteries. But my tendonitis has me wanting an inflator powerful enough to top off my raft.

Do we know that cougars and bobcats are affected by catnip in the same way as domestic cats?

Not making light of the fire, but it's news to me that there is a city at Vantage. I thought I'd been to Vantage; there's a gas station and a motel. As an aside, I have dim memories before Wanapum Dam as a child when we drove over the Columbia River bridge when there was a small village at...

Probably less than a whole tube. It's a bargain, can't you see?

Hey, wait, are you insinuating that backhoes are NOT part of the solution?

I don't think that is the intent at all. Rather, it is when someone behaves or talks like an idiot, then we insinuate that they are an idiot.

One word?

The gal at the Fred Meyer deli told me they plan to carry it regularly now instead of just for the first couple months they had it. I like the smokier flavor and paprika. And Buzzy was wrong when he posted that the Rueben, ". . . When done well it is just about the best sandwich ever!" It's...

For stillwater it's one of two choices for me. My usual is also a black leech, with a red or orange bead head. Alternatively, I use a Six-pack. Black and olive are colors that just seem to work most often.

Yes, natural bait at that.

I think we need a working definition of what sustainable forestry is. One might argue for 40 year rotations of Doug fir pecker poles and call that sustainable. It's not what I have in mind. I was briefly acquainted with a forester in the harvest crazy 80s in the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie who said...

Looking at the stats VMP posted above, it's interesting that passing accuracy was higher for the U.S. than for Belgium. It seemed to me that every time on attack, when passing really mattered, Belgium intercepted. They were so clearly better at winning the ball. There was no "woulda'...

"Country road, take me home . . . " Moment of truth coming up shortly.

I have two apple trees, both fenced by "exclosures" to protect them from the marauding deer in my neighborhood. I planted a dogwood tree about three years ago in the front yard and promptly put up a fence around it. As the tree had grown and branches touch the fence, which is made of poultry...

No wrist strap for me either. Unlike trekking poles where using the wrist straps improves the leverage of my hiking stride, a wrist strap on my wading staff would just be too inconvenient. I grab the staff after casting and mending and use it while making a couple downstream steps, or while...