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I have a table next to my grill that over looks the fish pond. Leaving an almost empty glass of beer out as bait and then trying to pop the little suckers into the fish pond, "pre-seasoned" , is more fun than beer pong with a frat championship on the line.
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Raw beet salad tonight and their sautéed greens for dinner on Saturday. Tabbouleh with my parsley and pesto with my basil these past two days, too. It’s all been so good. There’s so much flavor without being one note and overwhelming, and the texture is better than anything at the grocery. Pretty very happy with the garden and harvest so far.
Really excited to begin harvesting snow peas and cabbage this week. Think I can fit in another round of beets and zucchini on succession planting before frost.
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I hooked into a monster that had my rod doubled over and the tip in the water, pulling drag like crazy on a couple of deep runs. When it tired out and we got it to the surface, it was a pike around 30" or so, which feels like a cement block on a setup this light. I didn't have my net and wasn't wild about trying to grab it under the gill plate while it was still in the water and getting my hand cut up, so I got it right up to the edge so he could take a good look at it. Sure enough, it thrashed hard and broke me off, which is just as well (losing a tungsten weight sucks though).
He spent part of the car ride home busting my chops about not bringing my net or my phone, because we didn't technically land it or get a good picture of it.
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Airgun: My Fathers' Day/birthday money went to an Air Venturi Avenger PCP + a compressor. Its stock makes it look like the World's Cheapest Gun, but for its cost it comes with an externally adjustable regulator and hammer spring. You can tune it for max power, max shots, and anywhere in between. It doesn't seem to be picky about the pellets it shoots, and the regulator makes its shots pretty consistent. It's pretty good bang for the buck.
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I was watching a teenage girl practice on the speed wall at my climbing gym. She was good, probably the best I have seen in the flesh, and she was very proud at getting her personal best of 8.01 seconds while I watched (I know that is good, but no idea if it is world class as I don't really watch speed climbing, Lead is my favourite of the 3 Olympic climbs). In between my climbs I was sitting down near her and her mother, having a bit of a chat about climbing in general and her and her mother were really nice.
3 days later I found out that was Australia's Olympic representative Oceana MacKenzie. I had seen clips of her climb because she is head and shoulders above all other female climbers in Australia, but for some reason thought she was much older, in her late 20s. I noticed she was often stumbling 3/4 of the way up and was going to offer some advice that maybe she practice that bit a touch more, but am now very glad I kept my mouth shut.
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The Olympic speed climb is a grade 19 on the Australian grading system. I have been climbing for nearly 3 years, though severely interrupted by the pandemic, and while I have done a couple of 19s my best on the Olympic climb is only half way up and that took me 30 seconds. To see someone do it in 8 seconds in the flesh is amazing.
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I noticed a rat in my bird feeder the other day, and my original plan was to get some .22LR rat shot, but I tested it out for noise at my in-laws' property and it was still way too loud for a suburban neighborhood. So my father-in-law said he'd buy an air rifle and that I should use it to eliminate the rat problem. Of course, I'm actually the one looking up what to get and ordering it. Decided on a Gamo Raptor Whisper gas spring .177. Also getting some heavier pellets to keep the noise down, but I think it'll be fine.
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If you've already gone down this road, or are already shooting break barrel airguns, my apologies.Disgustipater wrote: Since some of you were talking about airguns, I'll put this here:
I noticed a rat in my bird feeder the other day, and my original plan was to get some .22LR rat shot, but I tested it out for noise at my in-laws' property and it was still way too loud for a suburban neighborhood. So my father-in-law said he'd buy an air rifle and that I should use it to eliminate the rat problem. Of course, I'm actually the one looking up what to get and ordering it. Decided on a Gamo Raptor Whisper gas spring .177. Also getting some heavier pellets to keep the noise down, but I think it'll be fine.
Break barrel airguns can be tricky, because that piston make the gun recoil backwards. A little harder than shooting a .22LR. Break barrel guns are also the death of scopes that aren't built for them, so don't stick your father-in-law's Leupold on it.
I'd recommend a PCP plus a cheap pump and scope. $400 will get you out the door. Youtube has a million videos out there for $300 PCP guns.
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