Non-Typical Solutions

This is up in the Shed hunting thread too.....but I got to thinking if I could be so lucky to get lost and find a dead head????? Hmmmmmmmmmm

Great tradition there.....killed my first turkey in New Mexico when I was a kid........always fun to be out there, good luck!!

It is that time of year......testing the heal out of these kids. And we wonder....is it the test or the kids???

And this is reality for most teachers, love what they do but can't afford to teach and the daily barrage from kids, parents, staff and administration pushing the love right out of the job......

I just hope that if sometime when all the sudden nobody can locate me people don't all the sudden start bagging on all of my less that perfect characteristics..........but we always gotta have a dog to kick. Non related subject.............

My oldest son told me yesterday that the new pitcher for the Dbacks will make about $10,000.00 a pitch this year......you dangle some of that kind of money in front of education for teachers and you will get to pick from some pretty dam good people to teach school. I think teaching is critical BUT there are dumb teachers and terrible parents. Pretty true words spoken there....... The state has pretty much thrown public education under the bus with funding......charter schools get money but don't have to jump through the same hoops as public schools. We(wife and I) have never belonged to a union so have never been part of whatever they do, in the state of AZ the union for teachers is weak in comparison to other states. I get frustrated with the system.......especially when I don't get an elk tag!!!

What email???? Just curious.....

Personally hope all is well with Lark......no matter what the reason......hope he is OK!!!

It has been fun to read the posts on this one......my wife teaches 5th grade and she is one of the best in the country. Probably puts in an average of 3-4 hours a day after the kids are gone. She never gives out an assignment that doesn't get a grade. Works really hard to hold kids/parents accountable for their education but she holds herself to an even higher standard. As computers and digital have stormed our educational systems you will see more and more kids who have no interaction with real people and real things. When you can get an online degree in just about everything under the sun it becomes even more apparent that our kids will have fewer real life learning experiences. How many of you with kids have become familiar with Beyond Textbooks or BT in your kids school? The theory is teachers will get all of the material needed from an online service that provides materials for the teacher. Lessons for teachers developed by teachers. Your school district is paying money to this company to provide materials online to your teachers and your schools have asked your teachers to use BT instead of "outdated" books. Teaching to the test is not a new concept but with teacher salaries and school budgets attached to student scores the money flow has put pressure on teachers to spend more time teaching the test. The business of education has become complex due to federal mandates with money dangling that is never actually given to the schools even though the law requires the schools to put programs into force. There is no excuse for a bad teacher in the classroom but honestly, what is our excuse as parents who don't spend time teaching our own kids? Which brings us back to the one thing we all enjoy and that is hunting.....a great platform for teaching our kids how to fold a tarp, read a clock that has hands ticking on it instead of digital, hygiene, care of our land and the animals that roam it, safety, respect and that holy word ethics.

Right....but your dad would have expected that if somebody was sitting behind the wheel of a tractor that they dam sure knew how to drive it too........and if that tractor went wild all over the place he probably would have yanked that person off the tractor and given them the what if!!! Lots of things to factor in.....first the possibility that you have a trailer load of kids that 1. have never seen a tractor in real life.....2. have never been on a trailer being pulled by a tractor......3. a driver that is driving a tractor with no brakes and no experience...... Sure, out on the farm where you grow up around all that it is a non factor......it is life every day.

If somebody gets run over.....a kid.....and dies....now it is a big deal, pretty sure Hog is just trying to prevent something from happening. I remember when I buried my dads tractor in the ditch cause I didn't turn soon enough, and then the other time I hit the valve on the propane tank with the plow on the tractor. I was probably 14.......maybe 15.........no OSHA called but dad was worse than OSHA........ Driving tractors ...... well, all I can say is "older" tractors isn't the same as hopping into a Prius........

Light showers in Snowflake early this morning.....not much but it is better than nothing!!!

I remember being off at college and the student population of the "university" was 5 times the size of the town I grew up in and this one became my favorite........ I transferred at the end of the semester and got closer to home and closer to my kind of living!!!

Definitely not an ATL picture but one of my all time favorite As They Lay on Coles Back!!! This was a fun trip we were way the heal out there having a great time and all four of us had antlers on our back so Cole was not able to go back to camp without sharing the load!!! He might be 10 or 11.......maybe.....with that junk BSA backpack we rigged up for him so he didn't feel left out! Great times for sure........

Many of his songs were a direct reflection of his life as is the way with many of the greats! This one hits home for many of us......mamma tried for sure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxQbvSjQy9A

Here is a pretty good read! http://tasteofcountry.com/merle-haggard-dead/ Merle Haggard has died after a series of recent health struggles. The legendary singer passed away on April 6, 2016, which was also his 79th birthday. Haggard canceled tour dates in December of 2015 after he checked into a hospital and learned he had double pneumonia. In an interview later with Willie’s Roadhouse on Sirius XM, he said he was “nearly dead” when he was hospitalized for two weeks. He canceled shows scheduled for Jan. 30 and 31 after his double pneumonia returned. At the end of March, the legend announced he was canceling all of his scheduled shows for April on doctor’s orders. According to Country Aircheck, Haggard had been in hospice care recently. The country icon’s manager, Frank Mull, reveals that he died of pneumonia at 9:20AM on Wednesday (April 6) in Palo Cedro, California. Haggard was born Merle Ronald Haggard in 1937 just outside of Bakersfield, Calif., a town that he would help make famous with his revolutionary sound. His family struggled financially throughout his childhood, living in an old converted boxcar after their home burned down. After Haggard’s father died when he was 9, he turned rebellious, hopping a freight train to Fresno and getting picked up by the authorities when he was just 10, according to his official biography. He was in and out of reform schools and deemed “incorrigible,” and ended up in and out of jail as a young adult, culminating in a stretch in prison when he was 20 years old. Haggard began to take music seriously while in prison at San Quentin, where he was on hand for the Johnny Cash performance that was captured for the iconic live album At San Quentin. He began to make a name for himself in the club scene around Bakersfield after his release, developing a hard-charging approach to country music that prominently featured twangy electric guitars. He released his first single, a cover of Wynn Stewart’s “Sing a Sad Song,” in 1964, but it was Haggard’s own compositions that launched him as one of the most important and influential country hitmakers of his generation. He released a long string of deeply personal songs including “The Bottle Let Me Down,” “Branded Man,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Mama Tried” and many more, developing a reputation as one of the most serious, hard-hitting artists in the genre. Haggard maintained that successful streak through the 1970s and into the 1980s, scoring more hits including “If We Make It Through December,” “Ramblin’ Fever,” “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” and “That’s the Way Love Goes.” He stayed active in his later years, touring regularly and releasing a new album, Django & Jimmie, with Willie Nelson in 2015, debuting at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Country Albums chart. The legend’s personal life and health were frequently less stable than his career. He was married and divorced four times before marrying his fifth wife, Theresa Ann Lane, in 1993. He underwent angioplasty in 1995 to unblock clogged arteries, and in 2008 Haggard had part of his lung removed after he was diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer. He returned to the stage just months after that surgery, and remained active in performing until right before the end of his life. Haggard was honored as BMI Icon in 1996, and recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He won a slew of ACM, CMA and Grammy awards, and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977. Haggard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994. Read More: Merle Haggard Dead at 79 | http://tasteofcountry.com/merle-haggard-dead/?trackback=tsmclip

The green green grass of home.......another legend passes to the other side, absolutely love his music!!!

Cool photo......

Which reminds me Tommy....I gotta come get that jackalope.......nice job on the birds.....

And nobody talks about the countless hours spent at the therapist trying to talk me off the ledge after a season of not seeing the animal that I had on camera either........jobs created right there........I love checking cams.......and I have nothing to show for it cept pics and I am OK with that too......disappointed at the end of the season........not the least, I got to spend time out there either way, cams or no cams......

My niece pitches for Flag......Taiya Mortensen.....not sure about that spelling

Who you playing? Flag high or Coconino???

There is a fine line between fishin and sitting there looking stupid!!!

Thanks for sharing the video and bringing Alaska to us........looks like a blast and lots of work....well done!!!

And nobody wants their junk in the woods regulated.........