I have 3 EGO products… love them….. have had the trimmer for 8 years, same battery.

I would happily buy any EGO product.

My take on the private vs public… not that anyone cares on my take…

background …. played HS in WI at a private HS. I played when the private and public HS’s had separate state tournaments. I played in 3 WISAA state tournaments. My school was small but in a larger town. We also had a private school conference. Our nonconference schedule was filled with much bigger schools back then though (Hudson, Rice lake, Menomonie, De LaSalle (MN) etc)… we only played the smaller public schools for “warm up games”.. Back then when we didn’t compete in public state we still got accused of recruiting…. I always told people we didn’t have to because we were the only option around for families that didn’t want a public school education or wanted more opportunity to play (less kids).

today my HS now plays in a public school conference against similar SIZE schools and to no suprise they normally dominate. Plus the other schools that were in the old private school conference dominate their new respective conferences and go far into the section or to state frequently.

one big difference in WI vs MN is the public schools don’t have open enrolment or if they do it isn’t quite as simple as MN.

what I would like to see in MN ……..

Because the public schools in the metro act the same as private schools (in sports)….. every metro school must participate in AAAA. The enrollment may not be as high at Minneapolis North or Breck but they have an opportunity to pull from a large population (300,000+) within a 30 minute drive. sorry to all those tiny Christian schools but it isn’t a level playing field for the vast majority of A-AAA schools…. Caledonia has a couple thousand people to pull from within a hour radius for example.

Also, the small number of private schools that are in the other larger towns in MN. (Mankato Loyola, Rochester Lourdes, St Cloud Cathedral, Duluth Marshall) should also have to at least be AA for the same reason as I mentioned above. (FYI… it would mean my boys would have to move up in Mankato)

I am not sure how some get around the transfer rules once in 9th grade. But I assume places like Cretin have no trouble “finding” an apartment (change of address) for Ty Schlagel to get around an Eden Prairie to Cretin move. But my suggestion would at least make them all play in one spot. not take away from the more pure divisions like A and AA.

my 2 cents….

I love the State Tournament….. Odd year though.

Boys
A – Outstate public vs Outstate public
AA – Outstate public vs Outstate public
AAA – Outstate public vs Outstate public
AAAA – high tax bracket west metro public vs Private East metro

lots of great players and stories.

My previous boat was about that size… Fish the river as much as I can…. I had a 80 terrova…. No way I would want less…

Was it a lifetime ban?

Or

Was it a history of MLB ban?

Life is over…

IN………….. no question about it.

Pete Played the the game 100% correctly!! 110% effort at all times. If you didn’t like 110% or you were scared of it, then step aside. The all star catcher did everything he could to prevent him from scoring in an exhibition game… If you don’t like what Pete did then you should be upset that the catcher didn’t step aside…. no one wants to see injury… 110% effort sometimes produces injury.

Pete Played the game of life very poorly. IMO

Broke a cardinal rule and got booted for life. Life is over, HOF induction is earned, join plenty of other POS’s in Cooperstown is the right move. IMO

one cell phone down an ice hole.

one Legend Extreme/CI4 laying on the bottom of Winnie.

Teen driver……. 2019 Traverse, 2017 Malibu, 2013 F150, 2002 F250….. Prgressive…. $410/month…. He had a bad accident 6 months in.

Good luck

Northern California Sensimilla

Apply some manganese.

Carl…..

Thank you pass0047…. What is the nearest open boat ramp to Wabasha?

Is Wabasha access open? The park in town?

or the fisherman.

thanks Jimmy, I did get that notice. St Peter can’t quite make up their mind on the 2 lane southbound side of 169. Just puts another wrinkle in the “country” route to town.

Its been interesting navigating around here lately. I live on the East side of the river. I got a nice drive through the back roads coming home from the Cities yesterday and now getting to work in New Ulm is adding a few more miles… Lots of water everywhere!

The boys have practice and umping in town today… will have to do a big circle to Le Sueur or Mankato just to get to town.

I think you’re suppose to till up a corn field and play baseball.

Mike, how often do you have to spray that stuff?

We are heading up this coming weekend and camping for a week. How’s the bite been since opener? water temps? shiners still in? I am hoping to keep those fish on the first break for another week yet.

I guess I missed the part of the story where they were not honest? Lets say we hold them at their word and believe that they did not find (or know) what was wrong with the motor. You then go to them to trade the boat in. They know you have had issues and couldn’t figure it out so the honest answer is that they cannot take your boat because of the risk of the cost of a unknown repair.

is it frustrating to pay for someone to say I can’t identify a problem… yes

I do hope you’re able to fix the problem.

Do I think any business is bulletproof? no….. I’m sure these folks have pissed someone off. I just don’t see it in your example.

what water temps were you guys seeing up there?

What are you guys seeing for water temps at the head of the lake?

I have a baseball family. We used to watch the Twins all the time. Don’t have a service with Bally for 2 seasons now…… We watch a lot of college baseball now…. pretty happy with the switch…. hoping to take the fam to Omaha this spring..

college baseball in the spring on TV and live Northwoods league baseball in the summer for us in mankato. been fun!

I’d be very interested in seeing how the answers differed in < 50 years old individuals vs > 50 years old.

my personal experiences tell me the young value tech more and care less about harvest. Of course the exact opposite with the older group.

This seems super obvious to me. the older gen doesn’t want “their” fish taken by the cheating wipper snappers. the wipper snappers want to catch and could give a rip (or don’t want the work of) about harvesting the older gen’s sustenance.

IMO this survey is completely dependent on age…. and will completely evolve almost yearly.

lose as many games possible and amass as many picks as you can for 2 and 3 years from now and you move sun and the moon to get Arch Manning. If I were a Vikings fan this is what I would want.

This move must help the city of MPLS? right? what does the Counsel give for a reason or how will the city benefit?

A find it best to drink and drive in MPLS anyway. It seems I fit in better with the local driving habits.

hasn’t started

it will be earlier then normal due to water stability but not by more than a week or 2….. Photo period is just as/more important to the spawning process. IMO

Caught a nice number of spawning age fish this past Monday….. females still firm and males were under full control of bodily fluids.

I’d bet on last week of march/first week of april.

I am just wondering….. I haven’t read any of the articles…. Is the DNR blaming the lead contamination from birds swallowing actual lures/weights/etc? or are they suggesting a higher lead content in the water supply that they are claiming is from tackle?

secondarily have they forced fed tungsten or any other metal to birds to validate safety? or is tungsten safe because you know well tungsten is just safe because it is you know just better because you know its just safer…

I have been told that tungsten shows up better on FFS….. should probably ban it as well just to be safe.

Don’t be fooled Glenn…….. most of these drugs’ R and D are paid for in the first quarter of sales let alone the first year… Everything after that is insane profit….

big pharma preys on the sensitivity of your situation…

As Mojo referred to…… your doctor will need to do a Prior Auth…. In the Prior Auth world a new insurance may require a trial of their formulary med which it sounds like you have done. Now that you have failed that med, the Prior Auth should go through.

While I agree with all of the sentiment on insurance companies, especially those that operate for profit (UHC for example). If big pharma wasn’t allowed to charge what ever they want then insurance companies would not have to be “picky” in their formularies or take money from certain ones to cover their products. I’m not for government intervention in much, but the money is so great that big pharma operates with now, that they hold our whole system hostage.

you guys talk about meds that cost you $1200 like that is a lot…… We got an order a couple weeks ago for a new drug that comes as a prefilled syringe for a once every 3 month injection… our hospital’s acquisition cost for 1 syringe was $119,000….. yes you heard me $119,000….. now we need to bill the patient/insurance with a slight mark up…….. now tell me that the insurance company is the bad guy.