Smarties Bar & Grill #76

No beers to go? Sundays suck

 

Not for me. Being retired Sunday is the best day of the week. I don't have to report to work Monday.

 

I do work though. Just ain't taking orders

 

I'm working right now. Working on this beer while I watch March Madness

 

Daisy.. other Texans.. I hear there was a spat of twisters (and prairie fires too) How y'all doing? I pray for my brothers and sisters.. worldwide, but if they perish in this world, I pray they are taken into Abraham's bosom in the next.

 

Yes, twisters in Texas. Fortunately, all my family around Houston are OK.

Thousands remain without power after tornado outbreak in Texas (nbcnews.com)

 

Fox News radio reported one death that I heard of....

I heard it on my little radio where I'm sitting on this River digging fossils and drinking beer.

No I don't think this is quite fossilized but this animal died obviously sometime ago. My best guess is it is a deer vertebrae. You can still see the neural canal and the vertical and the horizontal processes are all in perfect shape. Usually when you find a vertebrae that is fossilized the processes have long ago worn away.

 

how did you break your pinky?

 

As far as I know I never did. I think it's double jointed though.

 

Ah..

 

I'm tired, can you please paddle my kayak back up River for me? Lol.

The river is very shallow right now but I'm paddling upstream ( well actually truth be known I'm sitting here on the bank taking a break drinking another beer... But I digress...)

I have my better half drop me off at a private boat ramp and then go home and wait for me to call when I get my fat ass back up there and pick me up.

It's actually easier just to get out of the kayak and drag it behind me as far as going upstream goes.

The river is flowing down stream about 3 miles an hour now if you get a wind pushing against you and you add that to it.... Easier to simply get out and walk and drag it.

Remember never paddle further down river than you're willing to paddle back up

 

I really need to float the Rio Bravo at least once,, been here 30 years and never got around to , despite a good friend being an outfitter (they drop you in and pick you up and there is no cell service along the river,, deep canyons and just darned remote!

 

We had a lot of warnings and were lucky no tornados.
I saw a bit of the damage in Texas on the news. A pick up truck got flipped then was righted and kept on traveling..amazing. https://www.clickorlando.com/weathe...-flips-spins-truck-but-driver-keeps-on-going/

 

We rafted down past Santa Elena Canyon, great memories. You will definitely have canyon neck by the end of the trip. Any canyon rafting trip would be fun. A rafting trip down the Devils River would be fun, that will have to be a bucket list item.

 

Would not mind seeing that with my own eyes. Tell me what this plant looks just like ? Lol.

Was tempted to dig it up and take it home. You only ever see these growing along the river.

 

If you mean the flowering one, that looks like Cleome, aka Spider Flower. I grow it in my yard in Tennessee.

Send me an address, I'll send you seeds.

 

Hey thanks man. Yep the flowering one in the center of the frame. The other plant in the picture visible to the right is I believe..... A willow tree. They grow all along the river. This time of year they're producing little wisp of what looks like cotton. Paddling down the river you see it all over the water everywhere in little pieces. Told my other half if I bring enough of it home will you knit me a little pair of booties? Lol.

Next time I'm out there I should get a picture of these other trees that grow everywhere, we call them black locust trees I think they may be an acacia? They have the most wicked thorns you've ever seen in your life. When I'm walking the bank with my croc sandals on I really have to keep an eye out for those. It will go right through the sole of those sandals like a hot knife through butter.

 

another couple of beautiful places along the river. This particular area belongs to a business that rents canoes. I think they only charge $60 for a full day. They take people about 6 mi up the road in a school bus with a trailer with all the canoes and drop them off. Then they paddle back to the business which is located downriver and get in their cars and go home.

I thought about asking them if I could give them an amount of money to be able to camp on their property, but much like renting a canoe and paying money to camp that's for tourist! I have my own canoe and you can camp anywhere along the river you want for free.

No you might have to be careful if you get too far up from the river you might be considered trespassing. The law says something about the median high water mark or the hundred year high water mark.... Riparian waterway rights or something....

I asked the game warden how far you could go before you're on private land and they don't even really seem to know. Just suffice it to say you'll be okay if you just don't get too far away from the river. And certainly don't cross any fences if you see those.

There's lots of cattle grazing along the river here. Sometimes the big hairy beast will get out and cross the river and sometimes the property owner owns the land on both sides so they just let their cows cross the river I guess.

 

I survived the initial onslaught. extreme chemo for 10 days to kill my bone marrow and multiple transfusions and finally the transplant to keep me alive hopefully for awhile. success so far.

I would be able to go home soon if not for the Covid problem as I have no immune system and won't for at least a year. Another 2 weeks they said and wifey has to have the house sanitized and I still won't be able to have visitors ... I miss my grandsons but they are little germ factories ...

damn I could use a beer ...

 

Thank you for the up date Shinebox.

 

Just keep on fighting man. Evidently you are strong or you would not still be here. Everyday above the dirt is a good one!

 

Antique bottle I found on the river, it says " premiere" on it. My guess is possibly a juice bottle from the late sixties early seventies.

Somewhere in my fossil collection I have a handful of old antique shotgun brass I found. Also some fire bullets, which is to say the projectiles their self. Also have a couple of 32 caliber rimfire casings. From what I've been able to see they stopped making those shortly after the end of world war II There's never any telling what the hell you might find digging in a river.

 

From QUORA :

~ Andrea Cisternino stays in Ukraine to protect stray dogs. He has stated that even during war, he will not give up his mission .

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~ Save that bottle . .. !

Interesting find. I always thought rimfire bullets came in only 22 caliber ?

 

Well nowadays that's the case, as far as I'm aware. Though they used to have some larger rimfire cartridges until they figured out the ignition was not very efficient then they went to centerfire primers.

I thought it very curious myself so I looked it up and I learned that.