Here the dog days of summer can really make the fishing tough with the heat of the shallows and the thermocline of the deep.Fall the fish turn back on with a vengeance, crappie,whites and hybrids eat voraciously during this period.Winter kicks in and the blue cats gorge on shad making them prime deep water targets.Spring everything is catchable.............just have to pick your days wisely, the wind can be brutal in April and May

Anyway a bad day fishing is always better than a good day working

Morning, peoples

NINETY SEVEN! (97) That's a damn 42 degree temp swing.

And SOB...

https://images.app.goo.gl/h5a76psbhDT7SJJr5 

He's fed, I need to relax for a bit and then get some stuff done today.

Got home and realized I didn't take everything so 2nd trip happened for another $100.

Then wife wanted me to bring the sandbox back up by the house, so a third trip to menards happened to buy sand for the boy's sandbox and mulch for around the patio.

To the basement I go. It's dry and 60 something down there.

Danm, I would need a line item in the monthly budget just for Advil if I did half the stuff you do...

2 hours laying on the cold basement floor with my feet on the couch was another thing I did today.

The boy decided he was gonna start riding the pitbike around the yard. He's gotten on it two or three times before, but either tips over to the side or the bike scoots out from under his butt. He's never moved more than a few feet on it.

Anyway, he was turning laps around the house on the pitbike and the clutch siezed up. I knew it was coming and had a replacement in my amazon cart but I got to thinking $30-40/year for new clutch vs $75 for a real transmission I should've done this sooner. CVT came in today and there's no instructions or anything. Just a box with a tranny in it. Had to chop up the minibike quite a bit to just get it to fit on the engine so I'm gonna need to pick up some steel tube to weld back in what I cut out. The sprocket that came with it was for a chain size that doesn't fit the sprocket on my rear wheel so I cut the sprocket off an old clutch and filed a keyway in it to fit and welded it to the drive side of the cvt. I didn't want to buy a new sprocket and chain.

But then my back gave out and I had to take a break. Probably won't do anything tomorrow, back to work Weds cant risk being laid up.

I would eat Advil, Aleve, Tylenol like candy when it would flare up. In talking with my primary care Doc about it, he said that was not the best way to go. It would eat my stomach inside out. He prescribed me a low dosage of amitriptyline. I take 25 mg pill 1x/day at night time. Since on it, I haven't had a major flare up. Can't attribute it to the med 100% though, part of the deal is that I'm more cognizant of lifting with the legs and not the back, doing stretchering exercises for my back and so on.

FORE! Uno NINE!

Just going for a ride down the rail trail - some of the abandoned rail road tracks in the area are now walking/hiking/biking trails,

I see out of the corner of my eye, something flittering around in the underbrush at the edge of the tree line (6 ft away). Larger than a dog... Maybe not dog, might be a dog, maybe a sunk (brain trying to process information).

BOING! Here comes a Doe. Hard stop front and rear breaks engaged, lean back so you don't go over the handlebars.

The thing almost T-boned me