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Found this great resource to help fishermen identify their catches and fuel their dreams of future catches, at tnfish.org, click here to check it out!

Also,

Every year on the second Saturday in June (except it is on June 6, 2009), the TWRA allows all residents and non-residents to fish without a license. Children that are 13 to 15 years of age may fish without a license for the entire week starting on Free Fishing Day and continuing through the following Friday. Children younger than 13 may fish without a license at any time of the year. The TWRA sponsors many Kids Free Fishing Day events and stocks thousand of pounds of catfish to help make the events quality experiences for young anglers.

I discovered the art of “noodling” tonight from an old buddy’s facebook post, here is a pretty neat video of a gentleman catching a giant flathead catfish with his barehands, by “noodling”:

The following was published at http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/12/29/10-reasons-to-stop-drinking-bottled-water/ this week:

• American tap water is among the safest in the world.
• As much as 40% of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is just filtered tap water anyway. Be sure to check the label and look for “from a municipal source” or “community water system”, which just means it is tap water.
• By drinking tap water, you can avoid the fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, disinfectants, and other chemicals that studies have found in bottled water.
• Tap water costs about $0.002 per gallon compared to the $0.89 to $8.26 per gallon charge for bottled water. If the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.
• 88% of empty plastic water bottles in the United States are not recycled. The Container Recycling Institute says that plastic water bottles are disposed of (not recycled) at the rate of 30 million a day.
• Plastic bottles can leach chemicals into the water if left in the sun, heated up, or reused several times.
• Production of the plastic (PET or polyethylene) bottles to meet our demand for bottled water takes the equivalent of about 17.6 million barrels of oil (not including transportation costs). That equals the amount of oil required to fuel more than one million vehicles in the U.S. each year. Around the world, bottling water uses about 2.7 million tons of plastic…each year.
• Bottled water companies mislead communities into giving away their public water in exchange for dangerous jobs.
• It can take nearly 7 times the amount of water in the bottle to actually make the bottle itself.
• On a weekly basis, 37,800 18-wheelers are driving around the country delivering water.
• The EPA sets much more stringent quality standards for tap water than the FDA does for the bottled stuff.
• One out of 6 people in the world does not have safe drinking water, and about 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from bad water…that we know of. This while Americans spend about $16 billion a year on bottled water.

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” ‘Tis with our judgements as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.”- Alexander Pope

…Says the anonymous authors at Wikipedia of Pope:

“Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century,^[1] best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.^[2] Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.”

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Mommy and Daddy barn swallow have returned to the nest they built on our front porch last year!  We are excited to welcome them back for another Spring and Summer on our porch.  -Hope this year’s brood is as cute as last years…

incredible new type of search engine launched today.  Check it out at WolframAlpha.com

Original LA Times story here:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wolframalpha19-2009may19,0,5810966.story