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For such a small town there are some seriously great people all over the place from Virden. Both my mom and dad grew up there......my dad from the Mortensen Clan and my mom from the Pace clan........you probably are right about the 10 bucks!!!

I was trying to clean up my laptop......came across this and it reminded me of how much fun I have reading about and seeing other hunters and their hunting stories. Can't believe what a baby face Cole is......fun times hunting with all my boys.!!! Again I appreciate that CWT members would contribute to the project......

Yep those boys are bigguns........rope to keep him tied down!!!

Makes sense to me......

Nice looking buck there......huntin at its best!!!

Beautiful buck!!!!

It is fun to see that herd through there, it always catches me off guard...it is like.....oh heal, there they are. Cool photo!!

Coach......I have been very blessed, a great wife, not too bad of kids, a job that doesn't pay much but it has allowed me to do just about anything I wanted to do and spend tons of time with my family. I don't kill big deer or elk or catch the biggest fish, but I have many great hunting, camping and fishing memories with my family. At my age I realize that the far distant canyons that hold those trophy animals I have dreamed of are probably for the next generation to go and find. I just sent the baby of the family on his LDS mission to Detroit June 1st of this year and I can honestly say I poured my heart and soul into my four boys while they were in the house, but when we dropped Cole off at the MTC on June 1st I realized that my boys were no longer mine to be the rudder for in life, they were on their own and "Dad" was now going to be just a good reference in a bind and the lucky one that gets to take grand kids on a fishing trip or two. My heart aches for the days of chasing wrestling matches and lining that kid up for his first shot at a deer, but those days are gone. I just spent this last summer with the love of my life, going to lakes in Arizona that I had never seen before.........with a dream 14' aluminum boat! I look forward to many years of great times with that gal venturing places and doing things and I have looked forward to this time in my life. I have conceded that I will probably have to work until I die under the current system that governs our retirement, taxes and the way this world turns. When I see the chaos that is now our country, that is when I get the most "depressed", not for me but for my kids and their kids. Having said all of that, when it comes down to one of those days I just look around and thank my Heavenly Father for the blessings he has given me. My foundation rests upon his true principles and no matter what happens around me that is where I go to regain my strength and sanity. Look to what really matters in life and base everything else off of those firm principles. Faith/Family

As they would say in Norway....Uff Da!!!

I have been semi damp and bumped into 110/v and it hurt way, way worse than just the regular little jolt! Not one to assume, I am assuming like the sheep these critters were wet and that makes a huge difference in how that all ends up. Norway is a beautiful country and wayyyyyyyyyyyyy environmentally minded.....wonder what they will do to protect the caribou from lightning

That is a crazy story as is the story of the sheep in Utah.......dang!!!

Except maybe this one.....you might learn more than you really want.....or maybe not!!! Second man slain at Phoenix Knights Inn in 24 hours http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2016/08/22/second-man-slain-phoenix-knights-inn-24-hours/89099058/

White Mountains have it all.......and you can't beat the rural access to game and getting outdoors!!! Here in Snowflake we don't get as much snow, sun usually melts it off by noon, some rare occasions it will stick around for a couple of days. There are sometimes some stretches where the temps are freezing.....great place for kids to grow up!!! But not one of these small towns up here can claim the 450000 population, there isn't a shopping mall but Sportsmans is a new addition to the mountain.

I thought that face looked familiar......what to make the headlines!!!

I posted earlier this summer the "plague" of beetles laying around town and then all the sudden.....they started showing up BIGGER!!! Pretty buff looking dudes............ I get a kick out of some of the things nature throws out there, I have seen some of these guys in the past but this summer.......they are out in numbers!!!

let em be. They're out there 365, we're out there a fraction of that. They serve a purpose, we're trespassing... not the other way around. JMHO If I am in the boonies I will let them pass as they let me pass.....but on my property they are gone......

I like "that dude"! I've been called a helluva lot worse! Scales between the eyes is the best, 100% way to know the difference, especially since tail patterns don't always line up like the books say they should. That doesn't look like a diamondback or a mojave (with a "j"). That looks like a viridis (Crotalus nuntius; Hopi rattlesnake) from the NE part of the state, like Arizona Griz suggests. Snowflake.....so eastern part of the stae, white mountains in the cedars ......interesting information, thanks....

Compared to this one.....you have to zoom in on the tail but clearly very different??? Again, I didn't look at the scales between the eyes!!!

#4 takes it.....great pictures..............

Leaf footed bugs. That subtype you have photos of are also known as Giant Mesquite Bug, Thasus neocalifornicus Cool looking, http://arizonabeetlesbugsbirdsandmore.blogspot.com/2010/06/life-cycle-of-giant-mesquite-bug-thasus.html PRDATR.....interesting link....those are some serious buggers........

Been going out early morning late evening, midnights all hours of the day for 20 years to tend animals. Had a barn owl in my coop one night I have chased coyotes away from my coop multiple times. Last night was a first with this greeter! He will NOT be returning!!!

Missed out my moneymaker....wonder if they would go on ebay???

Nice new avatar......great job!!!

Could be a prairie with those markings which is why I commented about the tail but they are up north. Either way I wouldn't want to get hit by one. Its either a diamondback or a Mojave. Prairies have only been documented near Springerville in AZ. They are thought to be in grasslands in far SE AZ, near the AZ/NM state line, but have never been documented there. Mojaves were my research specimen/project in grad school and you can't always go by the tail markings or color scheme. I've seen plenty of Mohaves that looked just like a diamondback and plenty of diamondbacks that looked like Mojave's. The only way to be 100% on the identification is to look for two large scales touching between the eyes (Mojave) or nine small scales (diamondback), but I don't know too many people willing to get that close! ☺ My first thought was Mojave, though. I would have never known that about the scales.....but I would never have been willing to get that close..........interesting information thanks....

Common thread......trash in business and trash out in the woods......