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So how are we ranking the storylines (they are starting to blend together obviously)... - 40 year old cougars - South Carolina family - Chelsea and Rick - Gaitok and Mook - Belinda and Gary/Greg - Side characters: hotel owner, Chloe, Valentin, hotel manager, etc.

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Carolina family
Rick
Greg/Belinda
The rest

Carolina family only #1 for me because the actors have been so good. I swear Parker Posey is doing a spot on impression of my MIL and now that my wife is in her 40’s, I am looking at crystal ball for my next 20 years.

Rick’s story line has been building and I think there will be a huge payoff.

The Greg story line is right there too, but overhanging with “how is he going to get away with it again.” Complete scum bag but it will be a crazy twist if gets out of it all again.

All of the other storylines are great but I think they’re in support of a climax in those three.

Long post coming but no one loves revisionist history like duck hunters, it always used to better.

The truth is the habitat south of the Dakotas is wildly different now and ducks are efficient animals. They need carbs and to hide and to mate. Mallards in particular are more than willing to ride out a multiple day-week complete freeze to stay on easy food and no one shooting at them. Missouri north zone closes in 5 days and it’s not close to frozen out.

I’ve hunted Arkansas and West TN since the early 90’s. There was a time when a mallard’s sole purpose was to find rice at daybreak then get somewhere to preen, digest, and snack on acorns while they hide. Things have changed, now a duck can get flooded corn an extra 300 miles south. They can do all 3 in a flooded leveled corn field.

Private clubs have also dramatically improved and expanded their habitats. My family has had a club on the Languille since before the outboard motor. For a century, we had water, therefore we had ducks. Then our numbers started dropping, so we cleaned up the buck brush and started thinning the woods. Then we started planting millet in the woods, then wild rice, then started closing off areas as rest ponds. Then we took a 80 acres out of rice and planted a stand of corn that we flood right to the bottom of the cobs. All of that to say, we’re spending good money to make it easy for ducks to eat and want to stay. And we’re just copying what hundreds of others have done.

There’s no denying the ducks used to be more spread out. There was a time in AR that if you had 16” of water you could have a handful of ducks hanging out. But there’s a ton of landowners in MO, IL, AR, and TN that have invested a lot of money in “duck farming” and it’s working. Couple that with 3 straight droughts and bad hatches in the prairies and we’re missing a good chunk of dumb juveniles breaking out of big groups.

I don’t know if there’s more or less ducks, I just know the ducks have better and more efficient habitats now and they’re taking advantage of them.

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Damn, dude, how di you come to own that? Yeah, no telling what those people were up to. Certainly they were not at a safe retreat center.

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Mineral, timber, and missionary reasons over generations. We lease several thousand hectares to cattleman and fruit farmers and have an airport in conjunction with the Swiss Mission. Pucallpa is a wonderful place and the native Shipibo people are wonderful. But cartels and immigrants from other SA countries are taking advantage of a boomtown.

Shining path was the danger when I was a kid, but the squatters and cartels are no joke now. We employ professional operators for security but it’s no use, we lose about an hectare a day on average.

Not to hijack thread; back to original point, go over the top with referrals and research before going to Amazonas or Ucayali Peru for any sort of retreat.

Don’t know where you’re going but I got to Fredonia, ND every year and my att cell phone gets nothing but my Verizon hot spot has strong enough signal for me and four others to use as Wi-Fi at same time and to stream TV at night.

I love this show and enjoy listening to several different recap podcasts about it. But I feel like when it comes to Shiv in particular, I just don’t see what they see. Some of them talk about her as the flawed heroine of the whole thing and it seems like we’re not watching the same show.

I like the character and the actress has done a great job but the show is telling us she’s just as irredeemable as the rest of them.

In my opinion, Logan was a legend but a monster, the Roy boys are ultimately posers at best but are criminals/broken men in reality. But Shiv might be worse, because she’s just as clueless from a C-Suite leadership perspective but is completely sanctimonious and superior to such an irredeemable point that she’s incapable of ever noticing she’s the most inexperienced and ghoulish person in her world.

If you don’t mind revealing, how much did the body work and paint job cost you?

On doymyown.com, how do y’all decide/what do y’all recommend between talstar, Bifen, etc.?

Trying eliminate a quarterly spray from local company with limited results plus I want to control mosquitos (at least a little).

I have a Stihl Backpack fogger and multiple sprayers. Thanks for the help.

We have all 3 mentioned ha. My twin daughters share my wife’s old 2017 GX, I’m the original owner of a ‘97 LC we keep at the farm now, and we have a 18 LC Prado at our mission in Peru.

Our GX/Prado have 95% same DNA except the Prado is a 5 speed manual and doesn’t have ride height adjustment. We have taken that Prado through hell and back in the Amazon, often towing a trailer.

‘97 LC has been a tank but I did have a blown head gasket at 215k and it is slow as molasses. With the triple lockers and BFG Mud terrains, I drive it any where I would our sxs. We just replaced all leather in it last year. Best car I’ve ever owned.

I love the platforms and they’ve been proven worldwide for decades.

I don’t care for Padma at times but Gail Simmons is an angel.

Told this story on here before but my wife and I were at an event with her where she was at our table (not on the show). She is unbelievably beautiful and kind in person. Gave me a hug when she left long enough to make my wife jealous.

I loved New Girl when we watched it live, I still like it now but there are certain thru lines that get very old very fast on a binge/nightly rewatch. First of all, almost every “funny” scene, they are just yelling at each other. A lot of the time what they’re saying is funny but once you notice they’re just screaming at each other, it’s as bad as having a bing bang theory laugh track. Also, as it has been mentioned, the dumbing down to the point of retardation of Nick and Winston was just tragic. Two all time hilarious characters. Still loved the show but those parts bummed me out on a rewatch.