I never had much interest in flowers before (unless it was edible or connected with something edible), but these are interesting… We found them in a backwoods river valley and were sure they were a bizarre fungal fruiting body.
We took pictures to aid in identification and would be shocked to find out they are not fungi at all, but a flowering plant! This may well be the first flower that I can genuinely say I like, even though I can’t eat it…
Something like the sequel to the Beavertail paddle from the other day.
The blade is 29″ long and 5.5″ wide, wide a total area of 130 sq in. This one I based on several other designs but tweaking towards my own [read more]
Finally got the pics taken of the paddles the wife and I worked on this spring.
First up is her beavertail style paddle. I did the rough cutting, she did the carving, and then I did the finishing (she didn’t have [read more]
The Wood Nettle…
Not to be confused with Stinging Nettles, a distant relative. Wood nettles pack a bigger punch – in stinging and in flavor.
Both plants, like many wild edibles, also pack a nutritional punch. They are high in Vitamin C, [read more]
Well, the canoe trip did not go as planned… (they never do)
But, it was a good time (they always are)
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…
Day 1
“why is it that the car goes straight when I crank the [read more]
Stop the Damnation of the Namakan!
http://www.facebook.com/Namakan.Coalition
Well, we are on auto pilot at the moment. I figured I should provide a quick reference to those Canoe Country posts… I got too busy in the end to do the last two editions. Those will be released at [read more]
2/3rds of iRiver Rat and a motley crew of others are heading North today… Canoes will be paddled and portaged, and with some luck hopefully some magnum snotrockets will come to hand, even better maybe some whitefish will be caught. [read more]
As you may (or may not) know, we’ve been racking up some angling life listers here at iRiverRat, so I finally got a chance to sit down and update the lifelist pages for Tom and I.
TommyG added the following to [read more]
Happy Independence Day everyone! Thought I’d kick off my first post on a recent barbeque adventure I shared with our glorious Administrator.
Last Sunday Tony and his other half came to visit me for some fishing and some brisket. The question [read more]
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