Springtime..

[gearhead]

I just put 60 onion sets in the garden...30 1015s and 30 reds.
Y'all about thawed out up north?
John you have your garden ready?
I'm going fishing Monday.
LOL

[JRTJH]

I just put 60 onion sets in the garden...30 1015s and 30 reds.
Y'all about thawed out up north?
John you have your garden ready?
I'm going fishing Monday.
LOL

Garden ??? What's that ???? It's "fairly warm today" (36F) so I spent the afternoon on the tractor pulling ice and snow away from the drive and pushing the plowed banks further from the intersections at the end of the driveway, down at the main road intersection and over at the pole barn. By the way, the door is free, not frozen to the ground, so we will be able to get the trailer and the slingshot out next month to head south for a couple months. I think we're starting in Memphis, then south to Galveston/Port Lavaca (somewhere between them) for a month or so, then back to Alexandria for a couple weeks and then to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge for a week or so. That'll put us heading back north just in time for our Grandson's wedding and a perfect time to spend a week with the other grandkid's kid, our first GGD. By then, it should be early June, just in time for most of the snow to have melted and I can till the garden....

Hmmmmm Onions in January.... It's time to hit the lakes for crappie, not digging in the dirt !!!!!

[gearhead]

Yeah my neighbor tells me I need to park the trailer on Toledo Bend and chase crappie.
We're making one more pull up east...Virginia and points north. Betty has ancestors in Maryland and we are thinking Cherry Hill RV Park and maybe north from there. I would like to see New England before we start going west. We have August reserved at Vallecito Resort Bayfield Colorado to escape Houston heat.
You know the weather pattern...cool then cold front, then warm, then rain, then cool, etc.
I have gasoline getting old in the bay boat, so maybe Sabine Lake for specs and reds soon.
Check out Up the Creek RV Park between Townsend and Pigeon Forge.

[JRTJH]

Up the Creek RV Park is where we are considering. They have 4 or 5 pullthrough sites that would be ideal and not force us to unhitch the slingshot trailer before backing into the site. It's really a lot easier if we can keep the slingshot trailer connected to the Cougar. We still haven't "zeroed in on exact dates" so as soon as my "in charge scheduler" makes the final decisions, we can start making reservations. Till then, it's all about availability and generalities. Once DW finalizes her social calendar, it's strictly availability. I'm looking forward to those confirmations rather than the "we can's or we could's" in the current plans.... LOL

Larto Lake, just off the diversion canal between Pineville and Archie is loaded with slabs. When we lived there, a couple of trips in February would fill the freezer with crappie for the year. Minnows, fished at the bank in 6" of water would produce as many 1-2 pound slabs as you want to put in the boat (or until you run out of minnows).

[Northofu1]

I just put 60 onion sets in the garden...30 1015s and 30 reds.
Y'all about thawed out up north?
John you have your garden ready?
I'm going fishing Monday.
LOL

That's just downright mean :lol:

[jsb5717]

Texas is in a different time zone. It's January here, April there.

[gearhead]

^^^Yeah but July/August is unbearable.
Like my Dad always said....nobody comes to Houston for the weather or scenery. They come here for a ….job.
John I'll check out that lake. Would make a good day trip somewhere different.
edit add...Heck I've been all around that area. Grandpa was from the Jena area.

[JRTJH]

I've got several buddies that have camps on Larto. I could post some photos of this year's crappie catches. Trust me when I say a 75 gallon ice chest full is not unusual.

[JRTJH]

Here's just a few from a couple years ago. I didn't make it down last year.

[gearhead]

Good grief, that is a huge slab.

[JRTJH]

That was one of many and not a record at that... Saline has bigger ones than Larto, but both will wear you out if you've got enough minnows.