Got hammered by the storm tonight. 2″+ hail and lots of trees and limbs strewn about.
Nobody hurt that I know of. I hear Melrose had an F2 tornado that took out a metal shop and the golf course took quite a hit.
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Oh, I’m sure we were in the running for a bunch of guys, but the pieces just didn’t fall into place…… Blah blah blah. 
I hope the Guardians win the division by 20 games. 
I don’t call it brinner. I just call it delicious. Especially with REAL maple syrup. 
Your food seems to be touching all the time now.
I don’t even know you anymore…… 
Who doesn’t love brinner!
Way to go Jimmy! Let us know when the cookout is! 
I happened to catch your 3 second of fame!
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Happy Father’s Day to all the IDO dads! And especially my dad, Steve Root!
Couple of famous faces on the 10′ o’clock news tonight. 
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Happy Father’s Day all you IDO Dad’s! 
Made it up to Cuyuna today. About a 1.5 hour drive for us. Got there at 8:30, met up with our friends and started peddling. That place is surreal! Trails are numerous and awesome. You can ride them as hard or easy as you like. Lots of great flowing downhill with large berms to attack. Plenty of uphill, rocks, views, and of course the red dirt. We rode just over 23 miles before a bad blown tire that couldn’t get repaired on site. With rain just down the road we packed up and went into Crosby for some eats. We had pizza at Rafferty’s and it was fantastic. Can’t wait to go back up and hit the rest of the trails there.
Rumor was one of the farthest north trails had some trees down from the resent storm but we never got out to that spot. There were lots of bikers out and several large classes and yet there was plenty of room to ride.
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Steve Root and his wife had a wild evening at their rental cabin by Aitkin. Everybody is all good, but hopefully he can come on and tell us a story once he gets chainsawed out.
I got it after you Mike. Plenty of wind, rain, and tiny hail. For sure over an inch of rain. And some branches down. I might go for a drive here just south of me and have a look around.
Hit harder and fine bigger. Anybody that wants to run onto a game field or court better have high pain tolerance and a big bank account.
I do enjoy a good pavement ride. Especially though some cool rural land. But the feeling of zipping through the woods is second to none. I’ve got a camping trip at Gooseberry State Park in July for a week. There’s 26 miles of the Gitchi Gami paved trail and then planning on hitting some of the Split Rock gravel/rock trails and maybe even the Jackpot trail from Tofte to Lutsen.
Been a big difference maker having boys big enough to do this stuff with. Makes me want to out do them and stay competitive.
I can’t join the spandex club yet. I took a step towards skinnier riding jogger pants. That’s a big leap already. 
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Trail map.
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My older boys and I have been out biking as much as we can. Lots of black top trails. Wobegon and Soo line mostly in central MN. Today we headed down to Elk Creek Park in Champlin. There’s 13 miles of dirt. We rode it all and some twice. A good balance of downhill, gravity, some uphill, jumps, berms, and obstacles. Lots of woods with some open prairie type. Lots of fun. Good to do it on a Monday when it wasn’t busy at all.
We’re warming up to hit Cuyuna this coming Saturday if the weather is good.
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Prayers for all affected in this. Hopefully everyone can recover with minimal lasting effects.
Voted.
If you win, I expect an IDO gathering with burgers on the Blackstone. We should get to see what we voted for in action.
Pileated porcupine
Good Lord that sounds like trouble!
My money is on the Pileated Woodpecker. Watching when they really find something in a tree and it’s amazing how the chips can fly!
What is your Dad’s opinion on this? Not his responsibility to get involved but I wouldn’t let one of my son’s treat the other like that for a second. I’d tell my brother exactly why I’m pissed. And unless he’s 5 times bigger than me, I’m in his face and letting him know what he owes me to make it right or he can forget about coming to my place again.
I’m sorry, some people don’t feel any responsibility for anything anymore, but I shouldn’t have to worry about it coming between us. I think he already made that decision by disrespecting me and my things.
Hardly any primetime games? Talk about a schedule built for Kirk Cousins!
That is a gem of a comment!!!
I’m totally cool with rolling Darnold out for the first 14 weeks and letting McCarthy study and learn, and maybe giving him the start or a half in the final 3 games. Sure, we’ll be barely competitive, probably almost unwatchable, but let’s patiently get our future QB set up to speed, get a top ten first rounder next draft and be solid for 2025.
New flavor for lunch today. Yes, I have a sweet tooth.
Favorite place to get brats is Paul n Kathy’s in Upsala. Gotta have 50+ flavors of made in house brats.
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I don’t see a loss on the schedule.
Imma gonna get the parade chairs dusted off.
I love fresh butcher shop brats. Johnsonville or similar are okay, but like
buckybadger said, once you start trying small shop stuff it’s difficult to go back.
Way easier to screw up a steak or burger on the grill than a brat.
I bring the little grill with to work often and can work for 5 minutes and roll em 3-4 times and it’s time for lunch.
Today we had cheddar-bacon and honey-BBQ.
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I saw 4 in very similar fashion last fall. Probably same area. I can’t remember the mile marker but I looked it up and that’s where a herd had been established. Couple of them had yellow ear tags. There wasn’t much fence at the spot and the lead cow got up to the tar before she turned back. Scared the crap outta me!
I always enjoy the know-it-alls who are so unbelievably confident in their opinions of every player in the draft. And yet, year after year after year, some guys taken in the first round will fail miserably, and some guys taken in later rounds become stars. The game changes from college to pro. Nothing wrong with being excited but, all the coverage, games, scouts, and “experts” beating their drums constantly never made Ryan Leaf a HOF, and none of them saw Tom Brady either.
Gotta love the terrible editing…..
Apparently we used last year’s picks.
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<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Pailofperch wrote:</div>
Missed it. What did we give for 17th?the rest of our draft basically
Maybe the front office all have vacation plans and wanted to just wrap it up.
Missed it. What did we give for 17th?
13 picks and zero defenders taken.
I think Kwesi is more lucky that JJ was still there. Giants could’ve/should’ve took him. Falcons must’ve had their minds made already. Would’ve been Bo Nix left.
How long does Aaron play??? Jets could go QB….
