Duck Island

I bought a 2025 Sierra diesel this time having always had 1/2 tons. First trip in it my wife said “you’ve got to get rid of this thing.” It rides ok on good roads but it lets you know when you are on a bad road. I find it steers like a boat and isn’t nimble or easy to maneuver. I’ll go back to the 1/2 ton asap.

I have the half-pipe gutters and love them. We did the copper and it was high years ago when we did them but now they are high as giraffe’s arse. Check with Blanco Bros. in BR and also Design Exteriors out of New Roads but comes to BR. I have experience with both.

If you have a hose bib you might be able to tie into it for water. Strongly suggest having a sink.

Try High Performance cookers, same technology.

Have a roofer come install the roof vent properly and most A/C guys can pipe right to it.

Covers Unlimited did a couple of jump seat bottoms for an Everglades for me recently. Nice job and reasonably priced.

I’m also moving on from my 20 yr old snapper rider. Looked at a bunch of mowers and went with a Gravely ZTX with the 21.5 hp Kawasaki. Decided to step up from the lower model to get better deck,seat, bigger engine,etc. $4299. at Gautreaux’s.

I had 2 new Trane units installed during a recent remodel and we started smelling this musty smell when we switched from heat to a/c. Called my guy and he said it was prob “dirty sock syndrome”. Researched and found it’s a real thing caused by some bacteria or whatever growing on the coils. Factory ended up sending 2 new coils for the units and they were epoxy coated which supposedly inhibits the growth. So far so good. It’s been abt 2 months now.

Went yest to sight in my new Ruger Gen 2 in .308 and it will not pull the spent case from the chamber. Ruger says to return it to them or they will send extractor and parts to me. I removed the extractor and freed it up and reinstalled but it still leaves the case in the chamber. I’m sure Ruger will make it right but it does suck to have to return the brand new gun to the factory before the first use.

Don’t forget to check out Simms waders. A bunch of us in our group wear them. The Freestone Z Bootfoot is what I have and they are fantastic.