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Well it looks as tho Matt & Alicia have to armour up their golf cart as they ventured out to the woman's tee so she could hit from there when the rest of the group decided to hit a 2nd shot from the mens tee when the whizzing of little white balls could be heard.
But not before one scored a direct hit to the ulna bone of Matt's left arm. He is scheduled to go have pins installed in the morn.
I'm sure the guy feels bad enough about the incident and lessons were learned by all.

Emerald Ash Borer

Well as we headed north to a memorial service for my mother the wife and I noticed these purple coloured what looked to be chime type thingies hanging about.
Also b4 we crossed the Big Mac there were several signs instructing others to drop off fire wood b4 crossing into the UP or Yooperland as some may call it.
Well they turned out to be traps for study. One site I visited has a biz for treating the trees and it looks like he is quite successful at it.
At any rate Wanda took the pic of the trap and the other one was taken by David Cappaert.

Heat Wave

Does this remind anyone that it's too hot for, er I mean this is the start of hot and humid weather here in the Great Lake State of Michigan. It's not all cold and snow. Is plenty warm here.

A good scrabble word "naiads"

Well here it is the end of June and the mayflies are invading the nabe. I was a bit curious if a mayfly and a fishfly were one and the same so I checked around a bit and it seems they have several other monikers. There are around 2500 species worldwide and 630 in North America. Other names like dayfly,shadfly,lake fly, midgee,green bay flies, canadian soldiers and canadian sailors. What no canuk airforce? They start out as nymphs or naiads and hatch out to live a few minutes to a few days in fresh water when adults. It is a good sign that they are on the comeback trail as it means the water is cleaning itself up after a century of pollution. There was a swarm a couple of years ago near W. lk Erie that actually showed up on doppler radar. The eggs are laid on the surface and sink to the bottom and over a 1 yr. period they moult 20-30 times before they get wings and the final moult where get this the male has 2 penises. This is the stage called the alate and fish love them as well as fisherman who call them dun. The male has extra long legs to clasp the females as get this the female has 2 gonopore. It's gotta be the Greek word for nympho is all I can figgure.

Taps

Well the family had a memorial service at Michigan Memorial for our sister Candis and our mother Mary yesterday. My youngest son played taps for all.
We then had a nice picnic at Willow Metro and the weather was gorgeous.

Marley grows too fast

Here is Mars and his mom. He is NOT picking his nose but merely pointing out to gramma and grandpa Nail where it is located.
When you water the little guy he grows like a weed.

Spanked!

Well the elusive trout evaded even uncle Nailbender this time round. Those rascals are a tough catch. Whilst shutout and spanked Nail used every trick in the rule book to no avail.
But not all were dissapointed as some were treated to sunny skies and abundant fish strikes took place up and down the stream.