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  1. Allen

    Be safe out there

    Especially for this time of year, don't get too hung up on the CPC calling for a higher than normal chance of above normal precip in the shorter outlooks (6-10 or 8-14). Our normal for this time of year is around a half an inch per month. So something around 0.015 inches of moisture a day, on...
  2. Allen

    Looking for a beer

    Talk to your local bottle shop, if they carry Goose Island, they should be able to special order some in for you. I've done that in the past when I was jones'ing for a couple brands. Usually though they will want you to order a pretty fair amount.
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    Home Improvements/Additions Contractors

    In hindsight, that was an incomplete statement by me. If you spend $15k to try and boost your home value by $20k, I think you will find out quickly that you are only going to boost the actual sale price by $8-12k. This was the what I had learned/read as I prepared to sell my last home. And...
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    Beaver Bay Oahe

    That clears it up for me anyway...
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    Home Improvements/Additions Contractors

    I have a tough time thinking you will get this "investment" to pan out for you. If you think the house is unsellable as is, then that's a good reason. But if you think you are going to drop $15k on these plans to boost your home's value by $20k, I think most honest assessments of these...
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    Generator Etiquette

    Maybe 10 or more years ago, the ex and I were camping up at Indian Hills with another couple. There was someone who had a big house boat in the parking lot with a diesel generator (if I remember correctly it was a diesel) and had it running all day to supply juice to the boat (AC, I think)...
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    Red River Sewage

    Nothing to see here, Winnipeg does this every now and then. It was only a few years ago some city workers hooked a sewer pipe up to a stormwater drain. That went for quite a while before they figured it out.
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    Lasik

    I had mine done in Bismarck around 2005 by a now retired doctor. Fair results is the best way to put it, better than 20/20 in my left eye, near 20/20 in my right. However, I am also now 49 and readers have become increasingly needed over the past couple years even though my distance vision...
  9. Allen

    pull start a 90...

    Had a mid-80s 70 or 75 HP Mariner that pull started a HELL of a lot easier than my old 25 hp, mid 70s Johnson. The latter could wear you out in a hurry!
  10. Allen

    Legal or not?

    You do know they operate under a different set of rules, right? Not that I condone the double standard, just noting its presence.
  11. Allen

    How Cold Is Too Cold?

    Good weekend to stay home and process some venison sausage.
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    Legal or not?

    Hanging things from your mirror in ND is also illegal. I've had law enforcement give me a hard time about a small trinket I brought home from Japan. It was a travel souvenir that is supposed to bring good luck while driving. Must work, I haven't had an accident with the pickup since I came...
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    Malheur Refuge Takeover Is a Wake-Up Call for American Sportsmen

    fritz, Ol Debbie there sounds like a card carrying member of the Buffalo Commons. And you are right, they are still out there and every now and then they find a bit of dumb and write a letter to the editor. Funny stuff.
  14. Allen

    New NDA Logo

    It's not. I spent a fair amount of time trying to debunk this while in the Corps. Guess I was snopes before snopes became snopes.
  15. Allen

    2016 NR any deer bow licenses

    Can't blame the NDGF on this. It's strictly a legislature kind of deal. The guides and outfitters along with the pay-for-hunt crowd were cringing at the prospect of fewer NR hunters with deeper pockets than their fellow North Dakotans.
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    Gas Gauge

    My Lund is the same way, I rarely put more than 12 or so gallons into the 25 gallon tank. That still is a lot of gas for me to go through in a given day where and how I fish. Maybe have to replace the whole sending unit? I just don't know.
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    Contest: Things went wrong, hunting/fishing stories

    Back in 2000, I lived in Grand Forks and my fiancé (now ex) had just started hunting. So I thought I'd make it easy for her and get us deer tags in 3B1 where my family's land lies and we wouldn't have to deal with other hunters. Wouldn't you know it, my stepfather waited until deer opener to...
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    Interesting phone call

    Usually something along the line of "sir, I don't theenk you haf been entering what I tail you kerrectly". I usually lose them right around the second beer. Speaking of which, I just about spit on my own screen as I recalled one of the funnier ones. And yes, this has happened to me a few...
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    Interesting phone call

    I love the "your computer is in danger, please type this in the command line" and then when they ask for what pops up on my screen I tell them something along the line of "my computer says U R an acehole". They usually think I mistyped in the command they have just given me and we go through a...
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    Swearing

    As others have mentioned, I am guilty of letting myself get carried away but overall I tend to try and control my verbiage. I find it funny that I can go all day around kids and not let an F-bomb fly, but put me in with adults and that's not likely the case. Like with most things, everything...

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