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Soapweed
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HAY MAKER
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| Nice pic's as usual soap weed,how big is your lake,whats the depth?.................good luck
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Soapweed
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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| HAY MAKER wrote: |
| soap weed,how big is your lake,whats the depth?.................good luck |
Our biggest lake is about 260 acres. It's kind of "banana shaped" and is a mile and a half from one end to the other. It is only about seven or eight feet deep, and is too akaline to support fish. In years past, a friend harvested salamanders or "mud puppies" out of the lake to sell for bait. He had a boat rigged up that pushed a funnel-type affair out in front that rode on skids that pushed along on the lake bottom. The mud puppies were dislodged and collected in five gallon buckets. They were then consolidated into holding tanks, and later sold coast to coast.
There are three other lakes on our ranch. One of these has quite a few perch that are mainly taken by ice fishing during the winter. Two of these lakes are about 160 acres, and the other is about 80 acres. Another lake of about 100 acres is mostly owned by a neighbor, but our cattle water out of a water gap on the north side. That is where the boys were fencing yesterday afternoon.
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jodywy
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Location: western Wyoming easternIdaho... Star Valley
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| An the looks of that flat land that fire wood is a scares commodities
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Soapweed
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Rowdy Ranch
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Soapweed and Crew,
Nope-never tire of your photos! That is a great place for the kids and very kind of you and Carol to host this for the kids! Hope they all had fun-sure they did.
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nr
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Location: DE
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That is a very beautiful place- rolling sand "dunes" dressed up with lakes. Mrs. Soapweed took us out in the paddleboat on one of them and it seemed so unusual being able to see off in every direction, not a tree blocking the view.
Those youth group kids will have some happy memories of that campfire, too. There is definitely something special about evening campfires. tired bodies, warm faces and full tummies.
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ranchwife
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Location: ennis, montana
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Denny
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Soapweed
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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| The cow chips have to be well cured, but then they burn good. That is what the early pioneers in this country had to use. In fighting prairie fires, the smoldering chips are a big problem, because the fire restarts again after it is thought to be put out.
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Denny
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| Soapweed wrote: |
| The cow chips have to be well cured, but then they burn good. That is what the early pioneers in this country had to use. In fighting prairie fires, the smolering chips are a big problem, because the fire restarts again after it is thought to be put out. |
Hmmmmm well that stinks lol.
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Soapweed
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| Amazingly enough, it doesn't smell as bad as it would seem. It's similar to pipe tobacco. Saddletramp has a poem entitled "Prairie Grass and Water." That pretty well sums up the ingredients and the odor.
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