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Why Cliffy, why?

Holy Heston! NFL Sunday Ticket!

For Free!
Here is a picture of my new Dish Network dish. It provides me with not only the best in satellite channels but also the best in the NFL teams. And of course by that I can only mean one thing. GIANTS!

Yep, that's right. GIANTS football every weekend. Every GIANTS game. Every GIANT crushing victory over lesser teams. Heston has blessed me with a big dish capable of beaming images from space into my home every Sunday. They will provide me with the best in GIANTS action that the GIANTS can deliver. I for one am a believer.

How can they do this?
#39.99 a month. That's how.

A Crushing

Just another crushing blow

Kellogg I Was There

 

I kicked his ass on this hole too



I kicked his ass on this hole

My recent travels took me through Kellogg ID.  As always Paige was an awesome host opening their log cabin, it's made of logs, and making me feel welcomed. Bob on the other hand, Bob could not stop talking about how much he was going to crush me on the golf course and at the range.  "Blue jackets going back to it's rightful owner" that's all I heard the days before my arrival and after I pulled in on a Monday afternoon. Quite honestly I was sick of hearing it.  There is a very nice 9 hole golf course there nestled into the side of the mountain that my good friend Bob is the club pro.  Bob plays there often, early mornings on days off sometimes picks up nine after work so it was good playing with him cause he has all the knowledge. Bob invites me to come out and play 18.  Well after that 18 Bob was dreadfully behind, I was playing shut up golf.  We decide to take a break enjoy a tasty burger in charming downtown Kellogg.  For some reason the crushing  before lunch was not big enough for I needed to crush him for another nine.  Bob then thought "if  I can't crush him on my own personal course I play all the time, at the range I surly can".  Plain stupid the boy was, something

 like 23 out of 25 with the clays.  Maybe Bob was just showing me a good time?  A good time was had the following day for sure!  Friends with benefits it was.  Bob being the golf pro at his course is able to play other courses in his area for free!  Free!  A great price.   Circling Raven Course just 45 minutes away was where he chose.  A beautiful course, ultra nice carts, free towels, heated bathrooms in the middle of nowhere, and the tee boxes were kept immaculate.  Tee time is 8:30 and me kicking his ass started at about 9:30.  Pouring would describe the rain at tee time, and it took me a while to dial in the shut up golf.  Did I mention the carts had personal ball and club cleaners?  Here is a picture of their awesome club house and one of their carts.  The woman comes with the cart she is the ball cleaner, this place is great!  Call for reservations anytime!  Well I could go on and on about the place but I won't, I kicked his ass there as well.  Thanks for the great time Bob and Paige.

Canadian Night at the Zoo!

A lovely evening last night at the Portland Zoo enjoying the fine music of Los Lobos.

Check out the guy with three necks.

This is how it looked to me.

Cliffy lookin jiggy

Should I Even be Thinking About this Yet?

Some Good Lore

Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Rainbow Room 2009

A day starts off at a place we never made it to last year and this year I've been there twice. Twin Falls. Twin Falls as we all know by now is out past the Old New Spot at Dalton Point. I think it should be re-named, more on that later. Andy and I are both DL hunting (disabled not down low) so the short hike out makes for an easy on the body hike, but same difficulty rating on the bottle. The anticipation by no means is high. While we are setting up I spy a low fly'er and then another, maybe it's going to be a good afternoon. While we are sitting there enjoying the mighty Columbia, it's magnificent vastness and it's unadulterated beauty, Mr. Red Neck with shitass dog show up. I call that dog shitass because he took a huge dump right by our blind. Mr. Red Neck approaches us, "hey guys how's it going? how's the hunting here" he aks us. "I Google Mapped this here place, it seemed to be a darn good spot". (Not speaking to Mr. Red Neck but making an observation) My question to you is when for Hestons sake did dumb shits "lern" themselves on a computer? Was it the library? Why is it the Google Earth/Maps changing the face of duck hunting? Can we, being the H7HT, sue the guy in charge of Google, what's his name? I turned to him and blew smoke in his face and said "listen Hill Billy why don't you pack up the way you came in and take your stink ass dog, and he does stink, then take your "computar" back to Ikea, and forget that you ever saw this place, I think you would have better luck hunting at some damn park or golf course". He then said "Well dude don't freak on my ass I read about this place on some hunting blog...the Hoy 7 Hunting Blog!!" I said "shut up beyatch we are the H7HT, next time you see any of our vehicles make like a tree and blow!!". Senior Red Neck high tails it out of there not wanting any part of us. Hunting presumes. Time passes and Cliffy, once an expert back in 2005, spy's a set of green heads. They were flying high and not wanting any part us. It made me think, being where we are we have to make the best of what we see. If we see some ducks, any ducks we have to make the best of it. In other words we have to "Strike While The Iron Is Hot".

Twin Falls? I don't think so, the name that is, the Twin Falls have dried up I think due to global warming. I think we are almost out of water. Just look at the Mighty Columbia. I think Twin Falls should be called "The Rainbow", not like gee, but like a water spectrum. "The Rainbow Room". Have you never seen one there?

 

Status of the "Blue jacket"

Well there it is!

The Blue jacket resides in my home. It hangs on a hook in my mud room waiting to be worn by the most recent winner of the tour and I'm here to tell you, it's not me. Now I know you are asking why I'm not wearing the Blue jacket. It's because I'm not the owner. That would be Ferd G. He crushed me in the last golf outing this year. Summer tour was won in a convincing manner by the mighty Fred G. in a crushing defeat. He schooled me by at least 10 strokes. Congratulations go out to him for showing me the error of my ways in thinking that my home course was conducive to my winning.

I lost.

27 holes at Galena Ridge. 18 holes ta the Circling Raven Course south of Kellogg. I was crushed the whole time. He even beat me with a set of Wall Mart clubs! What a competitor. Hats off to the mighty Fred G. The owner of the Blue Jacket and the best golfer to ever walk the planet.

GBCH

What the... wait....NOOOOOO!

It's sweltering here in the mountains, and by sweltering I mean 85. (Apologies to those readers in the southwest where 85 might seem tame but, after all, you chose to live there.) We even had humidity too. Unbearable!

So I come home from work just looking forward to a nice cooling shower and maybe some quality time watering the lawn to find this. The new Macks Catalog. I had to hide the thing from myself just to keep from reading it. If I even crack the cover it means I have to start thinking about the upcoming season. It's way too early to be thinking about this, about 3 months too early. What's next? The Cabellas Master Catalog? Are you people trying to kill me? ARRRRRRRRRGH!

GBCH.

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Fred G.
"On Vacation"

More good news.

Excellent wetland conditions have set the stage for above-average waterfowl production

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - June 30, 2011 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its preliminary report today on breeding ducks and habitats, based on surveys conducted in May and early June. Total duck populations were estimated at 45.6 million breeding ducks on the surveyed area. This estimate represents an 11 percent increase over last year’s estimate of 40.9 million birds and is 35 percent above the 1955-2010 long-term average. This was only the fifth time in the survey’s history that the total duck population exceeded 40 million.

“The FWS has reported nearly unprecedented waterfowl habitat conditions and breeding duck population levels for 2011—the best in several years for some areas,” said Ducks Unlimited’s Chief Scientist Dale Humburg. “Full wetlands and good upland cover will likely support a strong breeding effort, particularly in the prairies this year.”

Habitat conditions across the U.S. and Canadian prairies and parklands were considered excellent. Further north, wetland conditions in most boreal regions of Alaska and northern Canada were good to very good at the time of the survey. During the survey and into early summer, many regions important to breeding ducks continued to receive significant snow melt and further precipitation, which could increase later breeding efforts and ensure brood survival. If these wet conditions continue, prospects going into the winter and possibly into spring 2012 will be favorable as well.

In addition to extensive grassland cover, one of the most important elements in duck breeding success is the amount of water present in portions of prairie and parkland Canada and the north-central United States. Total pond counts for the United States and Canada combined showed 8.1 million ponds, a 22 percent increase from last year’s estimate and 62 percent above the long-term average. This was the second time in the survey’s history that ponds exceeded 8 million.

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Summer Is Here!

(Lupine in my back yard)

Here in the great North West summer has arrived.  But today I also received an issue if Waterfowl Mag.  Getting ready today for my trip of 2300 miles, and I received an issue of Waterfowl Mag.  I wanted to open the magazine, look at the pictures, read the articles of slaying.  Quite honestly I'm not even sure if I should crack the spine, what could it possibly show me? what could it teach me?  Who could ever take the rank of Expert now?  I mean Bob has this tasty new spot with a new hunting buddy with a dog.  I'm thinkin I could get a lot more sleep this winter, save some gas money, have lunch home where it's nice and warm and dry.  But right now I'm not thinking about that, I'm thinking of the tasks at hand,  2300 miles and "slaying" Bob on the summer tour, it's all I have.

A Klassic

Happy Fourth of July from H7HT

A K Chucker Klassic

Go Silver Mountain!

Today I went to the 4th of July parade in Wallace Idaho. 'A day early and 40 floats short' is how I would sum up the parade. With that being said though, my employer was representin' with this well thought out and stylish float depicting a gondola car with recreational aids stuck all over it. It was driven by our head of marketing and Thomas the intern. Nice job boys!

The entire parade consisted of about 7 floats and the Search and Rescue team bringing up the rear. Not even 1 firetruck or police car finished off the parade but there was plenty of taffy and tootsie rolls being thrown from the ATV drivers and the plump lady in the 20's dress and parasol. I think she was depicting the town's rich heritage of prostitution stretching all the way into the 1980's. Even so, I enjoyed the sunshine and watching obese children running to get the candy before it went into the storm drains.

Tonight in Kellogg the circus has come to town but Paige decided we should not go after she heard the tortured blat of the elephants who were assisting in putting up the big top with their forced labor. I had the pleasure of witnessing the carnies setting up the games and rides. They looked like a well oiled machine of forced labor. Although I'm sure there will be many fleeced by crooked carnival games, someone is bound to win the giant panda and the foilbacked Matchbox 20 4X4 mirror. (I had my Lynyrd Skynyrd mirror from the '82 Durham fair for years. It still may be upstairs at my mothers house for all I know.) Tomorrow is the Kellogg parade and fireworks show, I can't wait. Someone may lose a finger.

GBCH

Nice.

Rocky says......

He found a new spot.
So Rocky ( the bartender that I hunt with on occasion) says that he found a new spot. The other day a patron was telling him that he needed a bartender for a couple days a week. He also showed him a picture of the place he hunts Elk and Whitetail deer. While looking at the background Rocky notices a large pond. "Do ducks fly in there?" The guy says that in fact the ducks do fly into the spot on a regular basis. "Can I hunt there?"

YES. Glory be to Heston! Rocky is now working for a guy with a private hunting spot. 400 acres of private land with a large duck pond. Mallards and Geese and Swans!. Nobody hunts it at all. I can't wait to build a blind and offer the guy free golf and ski tunes. Maybe we could work a deal. Maybe we could be friends. Maybe I can go there a lot.
Did I mention Rocky just got a Chocolate Lab he is training to be a duck dog?

GBCH.

Mind Scramble

Just spent a good hour watching the You Tube Channel rnickymouse.  (note: it is r n not a m)  I'm either really psyched or scared shit less.  Click on the title and check it out yo!