And back to Global Warming?

Posted by Greybeard on Jun 8th, 2009 in News and weather, Political | 2 comments

Since,  here,  near the middle of June,  our furnace still runs on a near daily basis,  when we go to bed,  I turn the thermostat down to about 58 degree’s.   Last night,  at Midnight,  I was awoken by the furnace kicking on.   Getting up to investigate,  I noted that the temperature in the house was 56 degrees and the outside temp. was 48 degrees.  Yesterday’s high was 52 degrees.    IN THE MIDDLE OF JUNE!  Today we’re seeing 53 degrees with lots of wind and rain.

That’s the way the weather has been going this year.  From an extremely cold winter,  to a cold spring,  and now a very cold early summer.  Note the key word “COLD“.

Bay fish

Posted by Greybeard on Jun 6th, 2009 in Fishing | Comments Off

A morning run on Thursday morning,  brought us nothing,   not even a missed hit.  The sun was shining and the waves and wind were low.  That afternoon,  the itch got me to hit the water again and around 7:30 pm we headed out.   The wind had picked up just a bit,  and there was just a hint of chop starting on the Bay.   We shot straight out of the river to 30 ft,  rigged 4 crawler harnesses,  then trolled back to about 24 ft, on a NW tack.  This brought us one nice size Walleye,  (about 24 to 25 inches).   I then lined up with the 24 to 28ft break and trolled along the edge,  back toward the river.   This run brought us two more,  a 26 incher,  and a 17 incher.   Never at any time did we mark fish on the fishfinder?

By the time we finished the run,  the sun looked like it was setting into the river mouth,  which made getting back to the river,  a GPS only operation.  Once back into the river,  the sun had mostly set,  and we had a really pretty ride upriver to the house.

  I didn’t have a camera handy,  but borrowed this photo to illustrate the river entrance.   Visualize the mouth of the river, right were the sun meets the water.

Where’s your Mamma??

Posted by Greybeard on Jun 3rd, 2009 in Local | Comments Off

When I walked out the driveway this afternoon to pick up the mail,  I noticed this little guy, standing behind a tree in the grass beside my driveway.  I pretended not to notice and went on my way to pick up the mail,  but took the long way around back to the house and picked up the camera.   When I walked back out,  he was laying down,  and I took this photo,  from about 10 ft away.  He didn’t seem real scared of me,  nor inclined to move on.  You can’t really tell by the photo,  but I’d put him at about 7 to 12 pounds,  very young.

I’m thinking that his mom,  left him here with intructions to stay hidden,  while she took care of some errands.  At least for his sake,  I hope she’s coming back.  I thought I saw something low and dark, (and definately not a deer) moving in the shadows of the Cedar swamp behind him,  so I moved back a ways,  limbered up my Glock,  and stood watch for a while.  If there was something there,  it was very cautious and after a half hour of so, I wandered back to the house. 

DNS problems at Charter

Posted by Greybeard on Jun 1st, 2009 in Local, News and weather, Technology and Music | Comments Off

If Charter Communications is your internet provider,  you may be missing about half of the Internet.  It seems they’re having a problem with one of their DNS servers,  and for sure,  it was the one that serves my area.  A  switch over to a manual DNS server temporarily cured the problem,  but my home network is now down.  I didn’t feel like reprogramming my router,  so I plugged the ‘puter directly into the Charter modem.  Hopefully they’ll get the DNS fixed in a day or so.

Here’s a few that might work if you need them;

Scrubit

67.138.54.100

207.225.209.66

DNSadvantage

156.154.70.1

156.154.71.1

OpenDNS

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220