Can’t beat stainless steel for cleaning fish or cutting up meat on. FB has a lot of used stainless steel tables from restaurants you can pick up for a decent price. I have a 6′ stainless steel table that’s brand new I would part with but it’s stored up at the lake and I won’t have access to it for awhile. Stainless steel wipes down easy and won’t absorb anything.
I don’t see the logic of using a skid house to go from lake to lake. If it’s early ice you want get a SXS and a nice portable and a small wheelhouse to use after that if you want more room and comfort. I have been causally looking at skid houses as I have lake property. We are not year around but a skid house would still allow me to go there when I had the urge and do some fishing. I already own a SXS that will pull it or a small wheel house easily. I also want to use it as a bunk or guest house in the summer. So that means a 8X12 most likely. It also means a somewhat decent finished interior.
Pro Fab and Artic Fox skids just have stupid prices on them. I have been looking at used stuff. I have seen some nice smaller custom wheel houses around 10K. I have also seen some used skid houses that people have turned into dumpsters. It’s amazing some of the pictures people post of stuff they want to sell. Literally floor to ceiling junk thrown inside. The more I look and see what value for price brings between skid and wheel houses I’m pushed more towards a small wheel house.
They are abundant at our lake property. A guy two miles down the road shut down his beef operation due to wolf kill of calves and adult cattle. Didn’t kill and drag them off to eat just kill. I see them on a very regular basis all year up there. Our lease property where our dock and boats are are a half mile down the road. My daughter and I and my grandson walk down there and back often in the morning just for a quick exercise. Had a wolf come out of the woods no more than 20 yards in front of us and just stop and stared at us for what seemed like a minute but it was probably 5 seconds. He clearly was not afraid. I no longer make that walk unarmed.
Very similar thing happened last winter while out ice fishing only this was two of them. I stepped out of the house to take a pi$$ and grab another beer of course. Once I unzipped and looked around there were two wolves on the ice 40 yards away to my left. Same thing. Just stopped and stared and one took like two steps towards me before trotting off onto a nearby island. They serve their purpose but there are just too many and they are becoming unafraid of human presence.
Ek is spending more time out of the line up the past couple seasons. His play style is catching up to him. Injuries become nagging injuries. I think this is just going to be a thing with him where he is out for long stretches. He’s not the kind of guy who is going to change his style and he wouldn’t be nearly as effective if he did anyhow.
I’m picking up a quarter beef tomorrow. $660 for 160lbs. Cut wrapped and frozen. Getting it from a farmer up by our lake place. Just met the guy this year at a farmers market. Needed cabbage for making kraut. He didn’t have any left but told me to come out to his place and I could pick some up. He was 15 minutes away from the cabin so I went. Got four enormous cabbage from him that were the best cabbage I’ve had. We got to talking and he raises beef as well so I signed up for a quarter.
His garden was huge and immaculate. If he raises beef like he gardens I’m golden. I get a mix of the front and rear half so lots of choices. Looking forward to grilling up a nice juicy steak. Been holding off buying beef knowing I had this coming.
I’ve wondered the same thing. They caught Florida and Tampa at the right time I think. Sometimes it’s not who you play but when you play them. We beat Edmonton in the first meeting as well. They are playing more inspired hockey in comparison to last year but winning will do that. I think it’s safe to say they will not miss the playoffs at this point. Before the season started I felt it was a real possibility they may not make the playoffs.
When and if Kaprizov hits a dry spell it may get hard to rack up points. Of course injuries etc. etc. Enjoy the ride for now. 
Those Blackhawk/North Star games were epic! Especially the playoffs. I wish I could get as passionate about the Wild as I was with the North Stars. I just can’t muster that kind of emotion for sports anymore. Secord Sucks! I can still hear it. Don’t forget the Denis Savard spin-o-rama!
Willy Plett with that helmet less head of blonde flow! Curt Giles hip checks! I haven’t seen a decent hip check in hockey since!
So what’s the emergency with Gus that brought Wallstedt up? I thought he played pretty well last night but surprised they didn’t put Fluery in against the team that kind of did him dirty for a revenge game.
Fluery looked good against the Flyers.
I met a girl in Eddie Websters peanut bar back in the early eighties. She invited me to her apartment that night for an after bar party. She lived on Killibrew drive right off Cedar Avenue. Right across the street was the Met Center where the North Stars played and the Met Stadium where the Twins played. I never left. She has been my wife for 46 years now. We walked across Cedar Ave for many North Star and Twins games. I never wanted to leave that apartment but she insisted she wanted a house after we got married.
I still have PTSD from the Stars leaving.
Rumor also has it Brady Tkachuk is no longer happy in Ottawa. Don’t see how the Wild can make that fit and even if they could something tells me he would say thanks but no thanks like Laine.
No Iceland or Trinidad and Tobago is a huge bummer too
Don’t forget the Jamaicans. In off Olympic years the bob sledders play hockey. Asfaic without the Russians it’s a watered down tourney. Skip it and keep the regular season rolling.
I’ve had zeebes attach themselves to my lure ice fishing at Winnie. If enough of them they can make the water crystal clear. I could drop a lure down at Winnie and see it just past 30′. Never used to be that way. They first found zeebes in Winnie around 2012 I believe. Pretty rapid change on a fairly big body of water.
Prime has some exclusive games and their own production crew in Canada this season – similar to Thursday Night Football. There was also a recent agreement with Diamond Sports (Bally/FanDuel) that in market games will eventually be available on Amazon Prime… for an additional cost
This would be a welcome change in my book. Depending on what the “additional cost” is of course. I pay $20 a month for Fanduel and I’m fine with that even with the annoyance of the games like last night that are on ESPN. I have had Prime for years and have streamed countless movies and I cannot recall having one single streaming issue.
Speaking of apps and streaming, Fanduel is far and away better than the Bally’s app was in terms of buffering or logging in issues. It’s actually worth the $20/mo. I watch the tvapp.to (for free) for many out of market games. The Wild wouldn’t stream on it last night because of ESPN having it locked down. But I was able to flawlessly stream the Jets/Panthers game on it last night which was a far better game than the score indicated. Two elite teams in a slug fest until a couple empty netters for the Jets towards the end.
I don’t want to hear from the NHL about growing their fan base until they stop spreading their games all over the streaming universe. You simply have to put games where people can find and watch them without having to buy a different streaming package all the time if you want to bring in new fans. Also not sure where Prime is going with their NHL streaming plans. The Oilers/Sens game was advertised as being on Prime last night. I couldn’t find it anywhere until I figured out it was only available to view in Canada. Chasing this poop around loses fans not gains them.
Pork is the main food staple in China. They stock pile it by the mega tons. Lots of people to feed. They could cut us off of pork products at any time. We are food chain vulnerable in this country. The family farm is virtually gone and prime agricultural land is either being purchased by China or is being used for solar farms and windmills.
And then there is the putting our food in our gas tanks idea which is brilliant. People don’t realize how fast we could get to empty grocery store shelves and starving in this country. Covid has screwed the supply chain for many things and it seems to be permanent. People have already easily accepted that somethings take forever to get if at all and cost has doubled. Keep your pantries and freezers full as much as possible.
I have a TUCR Fusion that has gone to Devils Lake with me the last ten years in a row. Handles the jumbo perch as well as the walleyes. My son brought in a 27″ eye on his Fusion. The walleyes are really fun on this rod. Also have a Precision that is more of a Red Lake, LOTW rod. Not only are these top shelf rods I can attest the customer service you get from TUCR will not be outdone by anyone in the industry.
With a $18B surplus why is the lottery even needed to produce money for the benefit of the states environment? This state hemorrhages tax payer money. I’m curious as to how many here play the lottery on a regular basis and do you play it because you know the money goes to the environment or would you play it anyhow?
I do not trust the government of this state to be truthful and forthcoming when it comes to spending funds. General funds or otherwise. You can be fine with a little pork here and a little pork there until the pig comes to eat your entire lunch. 
Rest assured this state will never lack any funding for doing the things they want to do. If this vote does not go the way they desire they will tap another funding source and create this committee anyhow to accomplish whatever it is behind it. Or just create another tax or fee or permit purchase by and from the taxpayer to fund their desires. It’s how you get billions in surplus at the end.
I don’t buy lottery tickets anyhow to me it’s just a voluntary tax and as an independent business owner this state has bled me for plenty as it is.
It could be worse… we could be Colorado with zero wins or Edmonton with 1. But then we’d have to worry about making the playoffs.
For the loser now will be later to win- Old Minnesota saying. 
Listening to the ESPN broadcast last night they commented that Kaprizov was apparently inconsolable at the end of last season by never even getting a chance in the playoffs and the season ended so early. If true and it makes sense to me, he will not endure another season of not making the playoffs he will ask for a trade. I doubt a first round bounce would make him feel any better either. He’s driven by one thing only, his name on that Cup which is why he came here. Hopes and dreams and plans by BG and CL are not what he cares about. I remind myself he did not choose to come to Minnesota it was his only way to get his foot in the NHL door.
This three goalie system does not increase their chances upon improving from last year. Injuries are already cropping up and I don’t see much help coming.
Foligno and Hartman are middle 6 forwards that are paid exactly like middle 6 forwards. Spurgeon is hurt and could end up on LTIR – if he played for VGK then pitchfork nation would be crying cap circumvention!!
I watched an episode of the Faceoff series on Prime last night. Kind of like the Hard Knocks series for the NFL. Pretty good show. They featured Vegas in one of the episodes. Jackie Redmond described Vegas front office as the leagues honey badgers they don’t give a poop about feels they get whomever they feel they need to get in whatever way possible and trade whomever they have to in the process to win and that’s all they care about.
But yet I doubt there is a player in the league who has them on their no go list.
Is anyone here using this site to watch games? https://thetvapp.to/ I have watched some games and other things on this. You can watch free which has some buffering but they say if you subscribe it connects you to their private server which eliminates the buffering. Not sure how they are getting away streaming all the live sports and PPV.
Anyone a subscriber?
I caught part of the early game on Sirius radio on the way home from the cabin. Couldn’t believe a game was on so early. They called it a nationally broadcast game. If I can’t pick it up on one of the major over the air broadcasts it’s not a nationally televised game in my opinion.
Further proof the NHL does not give a rats a$$ about the fandom. All they care about is how much money they can extract from you at the gate and by buying huge tv packages to watch their product. This will never change until people stop buying tickets and paying for tv packages. Which means it will never change and only get worse.
Money is not the cure for Kirill. He wants that Cup sooner than later and the years slip by pretty fast for a hockey player. Waiting around for prospects to develop is not part of his plan I don’t think. Guerin and Leipold can want all the ufa free agents they want and have a fist full of money to pay them but these pesky no trade lists can rear their ugly heads. Phil Kessel and Laine both have already said thanks but no thanks.
And these were free agents most other teams were meh about.
The Wild will be competing with destination franchises like Vegas and Florida. Minnesota is not a destination for most. Kirill is here because he had no choice. Soon he will.
Game will be streamed on Wild.com (I’m telling you, they are testing this streaming platform to see if its a viable option for next season and moving forward,
I hope you are right. I’d like another streaming option other than Bally’s app. It was horrible for buffering and logging in last season and I’m sure they are not investing anything to improve it. I won’t even pay the $20 a month for it this year and I’m not about to pay upwards of $150 for a tv package that I don’t watch but one or two channels done with that crap a number of years ago.
My Amazon Fire does not get the Wild app but I can watch it on my laptop which will be good enough for now. Sounds like Amazon is going to be bidding for a big part of the NHL rights in 2026. Anything on Amazon streams flawlessly for me so I hope they are successful.
Mine got hung up and stayed engaged and fried itself. They tech who looked at it and said it couldn’t be rebuilt said it happens and sometimes caused by a weak battery. My battery had plenty of voltage but tested marginal under load so I replaced it too. The same guy told me it was a roll of the dice on the Amazon knock off. Sometimes they work out sometimes not. Said if it was his motor he’d buy a OEM one. A marine mechanic told me the same thing.
I got the OEM one for dealer cost at $525 less tax. Pays to know people I guess. Everything else I could find was $600+. It stings paying that much for a starter but if you wanna play ya gotta pay I guess.
It’s a ten year old motor and this has been the first issue of any kind so can’t complain too much I guess.
I didn’t really want Laine. The fact he had no desire to come to MN is the bigger issue at hand. IMO
First Phil Kessel now Laine say thanks but no thanks to the Wild. I’d like to know how many players have the Wild on their no go list and why. If you turn down the Wild and go to Montreal it can’t be the weather. Is this going to be problematic for the Wild in the future when Billy can throw money around trying to attract players?
It would be more interesting to know why Laine did not want to come here.
Joe do you have a link to that report?
Disregard I found it..
Sean Higgins is the drunk murderers name. This is a quote from the NY Post article.
“So…I’m here until Thursday?” Higgins asked Judge Michael J. Silvanio at one point during the proceedings.
When the judge explained that the usual 72-hour holding period was extended due to the holiday weekend, Higgins sat back in his chair and let out a heavy sigh.
This guy isn’t going anywhere for a long time. There are hockey fans in prison. Someone will shank him.
A friend of mine bought one about four years ago. He just sold it to a guy in Michigan. He seen the writing on the wall not to mention lake property owners getting confrontational with him on the lake. Makes me glad our property is on a reservoir. Lots of water but many islands, inlets and bays. No room for these monsters to operate. Plus lots of rocks and you better know where they all are. The lake has a reputation of eating props so even people unfamiliar with the lake itself know of the reputation. Rarely see someone operating at full throttle even.
