Recent content by AtTheMurph

Was out the other day and dog goes on point. Figured it was a lone quail or meadowlark. Then he started acting oddly. Jumped back and yelped. Tough to get scale with my crappy picture but was a 5ft long black rat snake. Then 20 min later he found another! They act tough.

As I said, the money in teaching (and other gov jobs) is in the benefits. $65k isn't a great salary, but when you retire with $650k and a pension that pays $40k/yr. It exceeds jobs that pay 2x as much.

The benefits are so out of whack that it's stupid. Gov EEs get a deal that no one even thinks about. Take for example a mid-level teacher in my vey mid-western suburb. That teacher gets paid 65K/yr in pay. And gets another $40k per year in benefits and can retire with a fabulous pension before...

It's not the pay but the benefits.

Only one time have I been more surprised then when a pointed turkey flushed in front of me and that was when a pointed Peacock did! I didn't shoot the turkey because i didn't have a tag, but I did shoot the peacock because they are not protected. Tastes very much like a very large pheasant.

No CO poisoning?

WI -----> Not as detailed and a wide range of prices but right about what I get in E. Central WI. $150/ac and land values where I am at are more than double the averages listed. It's crazy...

That's very near to where I hunt. 40.68082972485037, -88.29144504817313 Good on them.

Probably a 1 in a million chance of rabies with raccoons. Bats are another story.

One on one in the water, I'm betting on the racoon.

I can tell you a couple of stories personally. One still makes my hair stand on end.

I've belonged to a club for 30 years - the home of NSTRA. Everyone should try to do it if there is a club close by.

It is very crooked. Our tax dollars subsidizes the entire fiasco. Solar and wind will never turn a profit from making electricity in the entire lifetime of the panel or mill. The profit come from subsidies. It's a criminal operation.

At the top of the market in the area.

It's the photo. The fore ground is in focus, the dog not so much.