It could be he just don’t want to be here any longer. Seems he’s been the Wild’s poster boy for trade bait for so long he probably has reached the just trade me already level. From his pov he’s done everything asked of him from this team. Yet all he hears is they are not happy with him and he’s on the trade block. Young centers who post 60 in a season just aren’t that plentiful. He’s playing hurt right now is my guess.
I had a bat do a couple fly by’s at my head last summer in the middle of the day. Later I went on the deck to sit at the patio table. Went to extend the patio table umbrella and he came flying out of there and scared the living crap out of me! He was nesting in the pleats of the umbrella. I got a bat house and put it up but nothing moved in by the end of the season. I have heard it can take bats a couple years before they will use a house that’s been put up for them. By the way where do they go in the winter time?
its legal to drive ATVs within the city limits of cloquet. I don’t live there but have friends that do and its a weird feel when you drive thru that town and theres ATVs ripping up and down suburban streets. I believe you need to have them registered with the city to be legal but not 100% sure.
That’s where I’m at. You need to buy a $10 permit from the city and show proof of insurance. I take my side by side to the holiday or Kwik Trip a couple miles away now and again. Plus I plow the city street I live on. I never bought a permit. Couple of my friends are cops in town here. They tell me the only way you are going to get stopped is if you are being stupid and whipping shitties in a parking lot or something.
Well if Nelson is their “big fish” this off season it’s time to put the rattle reels down and go to bed. Five goals by the Av’s last night and he’s not on the score sheet. Hopefully the rattle reels get a keeper! Wonder what Keith Acton or Mark Napier are doing these days?
I have an electric one that I leave up at the lake all winter in the pole barn. I just disconnect the ground from the battery so nothing can draw on it. It’s a 48 volt so four 12 volt batteries hooked in series. Once they go I plan to replace them with lithium. They have been holding up well for four years and we bought it used.
Mine has been pretty problem free. Gas or electric they are both pretty simple to work on. I chose electric because I have enough things up there that are gas powered and it sucks having to drive a 45 minute round trip if I need to fill gas cans.
R1 Wild over Knights in 7
R2 Kings over Wild in 6 Fiala factor in play here. He has been heating up lately and he rarely if ever misses the score sheet against the Wild. Plus the Wild will have left all their emotion on the ice in Vegas. The air comes out of the balloon at that point.
I was offered money to stop mowing my three acres at the lake cabin from the U of M I believe. It was to create more habitat for bee and butterfly pollination. Basically let the property go to prairie grass. Didn’t accept as it wasn’t much money. By mowing I keep most of the mice and other undesirables at bay. Still plenty of stuff growing where I don’t mow and I have bees and butterflies everywhere.
On the other hand I have a friend who got offered a serious amount of money to clear 20 acres of his nearly 400 on his hunting property to provide habitat for the Golden Warbler. He not only took their money but the logging company payed him for clearing it. Win win! He’s not sure how they knew Golden Warblers were on his property as he had never heard of them. But he says they taste like chicken!
Pucks that hit the post that don’t go in for goals become excuses. Happens to every team nearly every game and yes sometimes multiple times. I wonder if that stat is tracked, teams with the most pucks off the posts in a season? We should be saying the Wild would have won 10 to 2 instead of 6 to 2 if all the post pucks would have gone in. So the four off the posts didn’t go in but the one that mattered did. Ek could have been flattened after his first attempt was stopped and he never would have gotten a hack at the second one that went in. Or it could have been swept out of the crease. Or all four post pucks could have gone in. What if’s and maybe’s can go on forever. Not to forget I believe the Ducks had at least one off the post themselves.
Fact is the Wild came within 20 seconds of losing to a non playoff team on home ice with a full roster including Kaprizov with a lot and maybe even the season on the line. I don’t think that’s an ideal way to enter the playoffs.
last thing i’ll say about last night’s game is, mentally, that was about the most perfect way for a team to enter the playoffs when they almost blew it…team vibes gotta be pretty high right now…
I would agree with this except it was the Ducks,the Wild were at home and with a fully healthy Wild line up. Given all those circumstances and the importance of the game the Wild should have put a beat down on a non playoff team with a score of like 6-2. That would make me feel more confident I know that. If the Wild are high on themselves right now they are whistling through the graveyard. This should have never come down to a 20 seconds left drama game.
However, I agree with your take they make it to the second round. This team is just psychotic enough to do exactly that! 
RM43 will kill anything and everything but be careful not to get it near anything you don’t want to kill. I use it on my class five driveway up at the lake and never get anything growing on it. I spray it around the pole barn and under the campers and it does the job on everything. It’s a little spendy around $80 a gallon but you get a lot of spray from a gallon of concentrate. You can buy it in smaller quantities as well.
I’ve been checked on Red several times ice fishing. One time the officer came in the house while I dug out my license. I only had one walleye in the bucket and I was pretty hammered. It was probably about 9 at night. He looked up at the TV and he said “oh you got Gunsmoke on”! I had the DVD in. I asked if he wanted some coffee and he said sure. Stayed and watched an hour long episode of Gunsmoke with me. Nice guy.
Haha crazy ass game where Ek scores 4,Celebrini hatty, Kaprizov gets 2, goes to ot knotted up at 7 and not even a mention on the top stories sidebar on NHL.com Talk about no love!
I doubt we will ever see the same EK we were used to seeing. If he wants to stay playing in games he is going to have to take some of the edge off his game. If he doesn’t I see a significantly shortened career for him. Then again sometimes these injuries take the edge off your game for you.
I went to bed last night and turned on the TV. Tombstone was on and it was right at the scene where Wyatt was at Doc’s death bed.
You know now that I think of it you could make some serious money selling waypoints. I know guys outwest will sell waypoints for Cams that have big bulls on them. You could do the same with livescope for muskies fairly easily. Go scan some basins get a solid group of waypoints and sell them for x amount per person.
Ice fishing guide I have been using out in Devils Lake has been selling waypoints for a good number of years. Does quite well with it. Sells different waypoint packages for different prices as well as yearly subscriptions.
I stopped feeding them a few years ago. I found a few dead around the yard so I thought I might have not been doing something right and I was poisoning them. Thought I was being pretty careful about keeping the feeders clean and not letting the feed sit too long in the sun. All my neighbors have feeders out so I’ll let them do the work. I still get them showing up in the garden when things are flowering.
Our lawn at the lake (3 acres) was a hayfield in it’s previous life. I mow most of it and rough as a cob doesn’t describe it. Your kidneys and back took a beating mowing it and I mow at least 2 acres. I call it lawn mower rodeo trying to mow it. Anyway I picked up a heavy duty drag rake. Waited until everything was wet and dragged that behind my UTV which had aggressive tires on for most of the morning. It made a bit of a mess. I let it dry out that afternoon and then dragged a section of chain link fence over that to smooth it out the next morning. I did that with the riding tractor with turf tires.
Turned out very nice. Didn’t have to mow for a couple weeks I just let everything grow back in.
What letterhead are the offers on? Company name or some brokerage firm? Anything legit will probably be a certified letter or a knock on your door. You are just north of Duluth right? Could be some developers poking around.
Cat stories we all have them. I did get one in the trap the other day but none since. We had a 10 acre hobby farm down in the Lindstrom area back in the 80’s. The guy we bought it from had probably 20 cats on the place and none were friendly. He had no dogs. Said he would take them when he left. Yeah ok. Of course he didn’t so I had all these cats. I had a lean-to off the poultry barn that was the cats main base and they operated out of there.
Every time I would walk in there they would sit up in the rafters and hiss and show thier teeth at me. And I still had mice everywhere. I knew we weren’t going to get along. I had an English Setter at the time. Not a very aggressive breed but a damn good hunter. He developed a method for taking on these cats. He could time it when he knew they were going to try to wrap around his neck and bite and claw him. He would manage to get their mid section in his mouth and clamp down until it was over. He must have killed nearly half of them and then the others decided it wasn’t worth hanging around. He was a relentless hunter he didn’t wait until one crossed his path he spent most of his day stalking them. The dog had some battle scars to be sure but he sure won the war.
Also a BB or pellet gun is not considered a firearm in Minnesota. A quick search showed this. Unless something has changed.
A BB gun is not a firearm. And a pellet gun, airsoft or other air-powered gun isn’t a firearm either.
The Minnesota Supreme Court said:
“The issue before us in Haywood was not whether a “firearm” must be a weapon. Rather, the issue before us in Haywood was whether a BB gun that used “compressed air,” and not “gunpowder” or some other “explosive force,” was a “firearm” under Minn. Stat. § 609.165, subd. 1 (2014). 886 N.W.2d at 489-90 (stating “[w]e… hold that an air-powered BB gun is not a firearm”). We did not consider or decide whether a device must be a weapon to be a “firearm.” Today, we conclude that a device must be a weapon to be a “firearm” under Minn. Stat. § 624.713, subd. 1.”
State v. Glover, 952 NW 2d 190 (Minn. Supreme Court 2020)
No chance any are farm cats in my area. I’m in a residential area and I see six or more in a pack leaving the old lady house after feeding time. Leave her house cross the road and into the woods. Then I see them individually or sometimes two or three at a time during the day. I see different ones all the time that’s why I’m guessing a population of fifteen or more. And these are from small kittens to adults.
Feral cats look like they have been living and surviving on the street. They don’t look like the neighbors FiFi. There is not much of a distinction between feral and stray imo. If you are letting fifi out to run all night with the ferals and then come dragging her ass home in the morning I will make no distinction.
If I trap one with a collar and contact info on it I will call you to come and get it with the understanding next time you get no phone call. Most bad behavior or bad things that befall pets can usually be traced back to the owner. As far as it being illegal to dispatch a stray or feral I could find no distinct state law. From what I can tell it is up to the local authorities who have the jurisdiction. Local police or sheriffs as they are the ones responding to any issue. I know a couple of local cops and from what they tell me is as long as I’m not discharging a firearm in city limits do what I need. The cats are a big issue and they are getting calls all the time. There is no local shelter or animal control here. Closest animal shelter is a half hour away and they are not accepting anything and have never accepted ferals in any case. The local authorities consider it a service thinning them out.
I certainly don’t hate animals, but I lose my mind when a kid comes in the house with cat crap on their shoes and pants. I mean I hate it. We have a guy in town that feeds them all. No kidding you can smell his house over a block away. There’s cats in my yard, in the shed if the door gets left open and under my deck everyday. I choose to not have them, but somehow I still have to deal with them. And I also have plenty of mice around. Not a fan.
I might have to look into a really nice quiet pellet gun.
Cats have been known to carry the Toxoplasmosis parasite which can cause all sorts of terrible conditions in humans. It’s transferred and spread in their crap. This is a major concern in cats using sandboxes as their personal $hitter where kids are going to play in it. I advise you to cover the box when not in use to keep the cats out. I won’t have a sandbox for this reason alone for the grand kids. Boils down to this for me. I do not want cats. Period. But I now have somewhere between 10 and 15 that are on and off my property day and night. I had to adjust the security cameras to a lower sensitivity as they were alerting my phone all night from cats wandering within their range.
Today I have seen no less than four crossing the yard and into the woods. I have reset the trap as they haven’t seen it for a couple weeks and I might get one or two before they figure it out again. Also picked up some CCI Quiet ammo. I get no particular pleasure killing cats but this is a multiple issue problem that can’t be ignored.
These things are prolific breeders. If unchecked they can double their population easily in a year. Australia has a big problem. Ferals have driven a number of bird and small mammal populations into extinction there. There are plenty U Tube vids of these guys hunting and shooting lots of cats at night. It’s not only a sport but a necessary tool to try to check the population.
The small bird population has been struggling for a number of years. When we first purchased our lake property I couldn’t believe the lack of small birds. The Superior National forest comes to within fifty feet of the back of the cabin. Should be birds fluttering everywhere but there is not. My neighbor up there has two cats on his property for mouse control. While they catch plenty of them they catch more birds. If I sit at his place for a couple beers those cats can catch three birds in that time. I’ve suggested he put bells on his cats but that won’t happen.
At least you shouldn’t have a problem with mice?
That’s the thing I’m still trapping mice in the garage! 
I keep hoping some other predators move in. Some owls would be nice. Seen a fox a couple weeks ago but he might have just been passing through. Not sure a fox could handle one of the big Tom’s anyhow. Some of these must have been in some epic battles by the scars I can see on them. Speaking of when they get caught in the garage they spray everywhere when they panic as well. My garage stank for a week. The CCI quiet rounds might be worth a try.
I’m seeing more and more crank downs with the straps. On my UTV plow I went from steel cable to synthetic rope to finally a strap this year. The synthetic rope was an improvement over the steel cable and I think the strap is an improvement over the rope. The rope was starting to fray so I replaced it with the strap before a problem occurred.
That rope got a workout though between plowing in the winter and pulling out docks in the fall.
So who gets the distinction of winning the Presidents trophy and getting bounced in the first round? Jets or Caps? I’ll lay it on the Caps.
Our 7 year old dishwasher crapped the bed about a month ago. Would cost just as much to have a service guy come out as it would for a new one so we just have been washing by hand for a month or so. Just the wife and I so it’s no big deal. We remodeled 7 years ago so all new GE appliances in the kitchen. We have had some problem with each one of them in that seven years.
Your box store appliances are junk. I know the guy who runs the appliance store we have been fishing together. He says the green energy regulations the manufacturers have to comply with make them junk and the regulations keep changing causing redesigns of the appliances every couple years. Most of what you are paying for is engineering and retooling. The materials are junk. He tells me everyone who comes in to purchase are all about the green energy sticker on the appliance. It makes them feel they are helping the environment when in fact the landfills are overflowing with all these junk appliances.
Russo actually went after BG in his article today.
KK last game was 1/26.
I don’t get the Athletic so I don’t know what Russo said about BG but if it’s on the negative side it don’t matter. Russo will be locked out for awhile now. I think BG gets emotional over that sort of thing.
GMBG should get on the phone and see if he can sign the Kraft kid from Moorhead….
Why not bring Matt Cullen back as well as coach? What in the world is going on with Kaprizov? Has he even been seen or heard of?
I don’t like iwb and I also don’t get worried if I’m printing some. Most people are not very observant. Other CCW folks are more likely to notice. I got a leather pancake holster from TT Leather. It’s molded to my carry gun which is a CZ PO7. Match made in heaven and it conceals better than you would think. Super comfortable even sitting in the truck. I use to have a kydex holster that was lined in leather on the inside for a FN I used to carry and I liked that but this pancake holster from TT is the cats a$$.
I got mine in brown cowhide with s black shark skin trim.
