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It is time to get with the program! Fly fishing isn't cheap to begin with but the cost of store bought leaders is just mouse nuts in the overall scheme of things. You can do something about the poorer vision with some good magnifiers and I mean good-not entry level stuff. The arthritis stuff...

I prefer that people do their own research rather than take advice from an old man that 4 years ago didn't know an amp from a watt. Back then, at 82, I decided I wanted to learn a lot more about solar and set out to build a solar generator of my own. I bought and assembled all of the necessary...

I can't imagine what a sick mind it takes to steal a rear view mirror! That takes petty theft to a new low. Glad you got it fixed without shelling out the big bucks. I guess the market for catalytic converters has fallen off. I have heard that stealing taillights out of new F-150's is becoming...

You can't get there from here, there is just no nice way to do it. That is my take anyway, I gave up on hauling my South Fork around as it was just too cumbersome. It weighed about 40 or 50 pounds and once I turned 75 it was a real grunt to get that thing on my Explorer. I bought a Scadden...

Exactly: You shouldn't even be thinking about buying a lithium ion by now, again, due your diligence and learn the difference. It ain't that hard.

On YouTube, Will Prouse reviews many of the batteries available and in his reviews he cuts the batteries open and evaluates the contents and how they are assembled. He is a pretty thorough guy and is quick to point out an iffy product. Most reviews are just cosmetic and a regurgitation of...

True that. But with any quantum jump comes changes and a learning curve. Think horse drawn buggies to automobiles, candles to electric lights, etc. Each new breakthrough seems to obsolete what came before and becomes the new standard until it too is improved on. The new batteries are a good...

That is $90-$100 well spent. And prices are coming down all the time, shop carefully. Read all the reviews you can, research the crap out of it and make the right decision. Lead acid batteries are the equivalent of wooden spoke wheels on an automobile, the technology has been around for over 150...

The Ides of March here on the frozen tundra with about 3'' of fresh snow this morning and still snowing heavily. Damn! Maybe some sun on Monday to help liquefy it...

As near as I can count that is 25 more ingredients than I use

At about 1,600 surface acres and 8 miles in length Lenore is intimidating as hell to fish unless fish are spawning in known locations. Maybe if you lived in Soap Lake and fished it 100 times a year you could get it dialed in but then you would listen to all the jokes about living in Soap...

Well, so far it has rained like hell, blown like stink, snowed again and will again tomorrow and this morning was down to 22 degrees again. It has cancelled our trip to Coffeepot to beat the rattlesnake bloom and what was once 27'' of snowpack has contributed to high mud season as water flows...

It might have looked a little strange back in the day but compared to some of the grotesque shit they are selling today it looks pretty good! Particularly the electric vehicles that look like an electric razor with wheels.

True story. Kindley AFB machine shop circa 1958. A guy on a transient air crew came into the shop and asked for a 1/4-20 left handed tap. We told him that we didn't have one so he said: "Just give me a right handed one then and I'll run it in backward." We gave him the tap and never saw him...

More butane news. I have the little Kovea Cupid butane heater and have not been happy with it although most every review I read praises it highly. Mine gives off fumes and after years of almost daily use I have never smelled anything out of my Iwatani butane stove. And yes, it is used often in...

For years I have known that honey was being laundered around the world in much the same way as drug money. Honey is enormously popular world wide and as such it is the 3rd most faked product only behind milk and olive oil. It is shipped from country to country where the labeling changes and is...

Now you have the best boss ever! I will be starting my 26th year of retirement soon-almost 30% of my life-and easily the best 30%. It would be hard to improve on retirement as a way of life, enjoy!

It's an invitation that is open year round, anytime you want to show up is fine with me. I recently upgraded the guest bedroom with a 12'' mattress and new bamboo sheets so it is not the penalty box it was before. Steaks are always welcome. Speaking of blinds, my ex felon new neighbor that now...

Chicken fried rice! My fried rice skills have improved considerably lately.....

Roper, I don't know much about the public lands since I don't hunt. But a rocking chair on my front porch would be a good place to start....