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I’m probably gonna get someone to do this for me. Because I also wanna get some nonslip decking added and a few other things done on the boat.

It’s a boat that I bought probably 25 years ago that’s in great shape. Just faded to hell. We only use it during the hunting season and to haul materials to the camp. Use the bay boat otherwise. Going to give it to my son for his first boat. He’s big-time into duck hunting so I wanted to fix it up for him. My years are not as many as I would like and then I’ll probably be done with hunting anyway. So if it was just for me, I would leave it as is.

If anybody else has any suggestions of where else I can get a price at I’d appreciate it. Thanks again for everybody’s input. Also, the free time to do all this myself is a problem too, which is why I just need to write a check for this project. Thanks again.

Getting an aluminum boat painted

Posted by Tiger55 on 2/8/26 at 9:36 pm
I have a 17 foot aluminum express flatboat that I want to get fixed back up. I would like to get the boat and motor painted camo. Maybe add some non slip decking to it, LED lights and a storage compartment added. Looking for recommendations of someplace to bring it.

I’m in the metro New Orleans area, but don’t mind driving a certain distance. Appreciate any recommendations to get some prices. Thanks
I don’t need it to limit out by 7 every morning to be worth it. Just another option besides Lafitte. Even if just average hunts.

When we went to Sauvage it was just average hunts too. But like I said in OP, a lot easier just getting out there right before dawn as opposed to 3 am to beat other hunters on public.

Just wanted to see if anyone was familiar with that particular area. Thanks again

re: Hopedale duck hunting question

Posted by Tiger55 on 11/27/25 at 9:03 pm to
Near Bakers canal and Bayou Loutre

I’d rather pay for another pond and just have to beat daylight as opposed to being out there at 2-3 in the morning to beat other hunters on public. Lol

Hopedale duck hunting question

Posted by Tiger55 on 11/27/25 at 8:18 pm
I have a Camp and duck lease in Lafite. We also go deer hunting with my FIL in Mississippi. The last few years have been pretty rough as far as hunting goes in Lafitte . So we mainly deer hunted. Last year he became obsessed with duck hunting. My son, who is 15, and I have been making a few hunts in Bayou Sauvage. Did OK this year but man it’s hell getting up trying to beat everybody in public land. I’m trying to get him on some ducks.

I have a chance to pick up a pond in Hopedale. Does anybody hunt that area know if it’s any good in general? Thanks.
Copied and pasted from a previous post I did.

I currently work at a nursing home. When I was hired here, the executive director was the one who actually wrote the textbook you would study from if you want to take your test to get your nursing home license to run one.

Best advice I can give you is what he told me the day he interviewed me. When touring a nursing home, as you walk from the front to the back, pay attention to the smell.

Obviously if you smell urine and bad smells throughout the entire building, stay away from it. If all you smell throughout the entire facility is cleaning products, stay away from it because they are masking problems.

For the most part, it should be like your house, where you don’t smell anything. I’m not talking like smelling something in front of one room where someone had an accident, but the facility is a whole


There are some really good ones and some really bad ones, do your homework before you put your loved one in one. Also go online to the state surveys, and look at their rankings. They’re ranked by a star rating, one through five, with five being the highest. This is not yelp scores or something like that, it’s based off of state inspection, surveys, and such. Do your homework before you put a loved one in a nursing home.
The all day rain helped a lot with this issue.

re: Best price on GM pickup in Louisiana

Posted by Tiger55 on 10/23/25 at 6:48 am to
Do your research. They are having an absolutely major problem with transmissions. I’ve owned nothing but Chevys, my whole life, but just ordered a Tundra.

My current Chevy Silverado had a new transmission put in two years ago. It’s currently in the shop having that transmission replaced under the warranty because of shuddering problems.

If you Google transmission problems in Chevys or GMC trucks, you will see it’s a major problem. Our mechanic that our whole family uses says exactly what I said above. Just some advice.

re: Sold

Posted by Tiger55 on 10/16/25 at 4:09 pm to
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I’m actually sitting doing the same thing. My son is now 15 and have no clue how that happened.

I was told an expression a long time ago when I was young. It never made sense until I’m older.

The days are long, but the years are short. That expression makes more sense every day.
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So my daughter and son in law were planning to take my 7 y/o grandson to his first game this year.


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daughter wants us to go with them as well so we can share in grandsons first Tiger Stadium experience.


Does it really matter where you sit if you get to experience this with him? It sounds like it’s an extra game you’ll go to anyway so who cares as long as you’re with your daughter, son-in-law, and especially your grandson.

Didn’t mean above as an arse type remark, just take time to appreciate the things you can, and that are important.
The house I bought a few years ago had a mixture of three different kinds of grass in my front yard along with a ton of weeds. Long as I kept it cut, it didn’t look bad. Last year I had a massive break out of Virginia, button weed before I even knew what it was. It got so bad that it was choking up my lawn more every few steps. During the winter I decided to treat it, when I did over half my lawn was mud. So I decided to nuke my entire yard at the end of the winter and plant fresh grass.

I went with Zoysia Palisades. My neighbor is infested with it, he’s not doing anything with it. So every week I use Celsius in spot spray any new little sprigs I see coming up. Within a few days they’re going. I’ll probably be doing this as long as I’m alive, but it’s keeping it from growing at all, or should I say spreading at all.
Copied and pasted from a previous post I did.

I currently work at a nursing home. When I was hired here, the executive director was the one who actually wrote the textbook you would study from if you want to take your test to get your nursing home license to run one.

Best advice I can give you is what he told me the day he interviewed me. When touring a nursing home, as you walk from the front to the back, pay attention to the smell.

Obviously if you smell urine and bad smells throughout the entire building, stay away from it. If all you smell throughout the entire facility is cleaning products, stay away from it because they are masking problems.

For the most part, it should be like your house, where you don’t smell anything. I’m not talking like smelling something in front of one room where someone had an accident, but the facility is a whole


There are some really good ones and some really bad ones, do your homework before you put your loved one in one. Also go online to the state surveys, and look at their rankings. They’re ranked by a star rating, one through five, with five being the highest. This is not yelp scores or something like that, it’s based off of state inspection, surveys, and such. Do your homework before you put a loved one in a nursing home.

Purple and Gold ratio

Posted by Tiger55 on 6/21/25 at 5:25 pm
In stadium now. First time here. Only about 20% of fans in stadium now.

Both inside and immediately outside seemed like 95% purple and gold. Will definitely feel like a home game. This is awesome!!!

Hardly saw any CC fans the last two days. Easy to see why Omaha loves when we make it and go deep in series. Almost anywhere we walked into was the same ratio. I would have no clue who we were playing based on other teams fans. Think I saw more Arkansas fans lingering around then CC fans
We just passed Little Rock a few minutes ago. Saw one other LSU truck a little while back

re: Championship weekend prices?

Posted by Tiger55 on 6/16/25 at 7:38 pm to
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Following this thread because I’m contemplating making the trip to Omaha for the first time if we make it to the championship series


Same here. I just looked and outfield seats at the cheapest around $256 each. Just curious if people think that those prices would come down some by game day
If LSU makes it to the championship series, any guesstimate on what you think tickets would be going for the day of the first game?

Which sites have y’all have most luck with on getting tickets for these games?
Was supposed to, but suddenly can’t go. I heard it’s great event but every year something seems to pop up where I can’t make it. I have a pair of tickets for sale on the ticket exchange below cost And no feesif anybody is still looking for tickets.
I currently work at a nursing home. When I was hired here, the executive director was the one who actually wrote the textbook you would study from if you want to take your test to get your nursing home license to run one.

Best advice I can give you is what he told me the day he interviewed me. When touring a nursing home, as you walk from the front to the back, pay attention to the smell.

Obviously if you smell urine and bad smells throughout the entire building, stay away from it. If all you smell throughout the entire facility is cleaning products, stay away from it because they are masking problems.

For the most part, it should be like your house, where you don’t smell anything. I’m not talking like smelling something in front of one room where someone had an accident, but the facility is a whole


There are some really good ones and some really bad ones, do your homework before you put your mom in one. Also go online to the state surveys, and look at their rankings. They’re ranked by a star rating, one through five, with five being the highest. This is not yelp scores or something like that, it’s based off of state inspection, surveys, and such. Do your homework before you put a loved one in a nursing home.

Bayou Sauvage

Posted by Tiger55 on 12/9/24 at 4:16 pm
We have a lease and duck hunt in Lafitte, It’s been pretty dismal the last few years with exception of a fluke weekend here or there.

My 14 year-old is getting frustrated and wants to try someplace different. Somebody recently mentioned to me that Bayou Sauvage Is a youth hunting area. Has anybody hunted this area recently and had any success?

Was going to try to go scout it maybe a week from this Friday. Has anybody hunted this area and would be willing to share some information. Especially if your son is past 15 where you won’t be hunting it again and giving up your honey hole? Lol. Thanks

re: Flea treatment for dogs?

Posted by Tiger55 on 2/9/24 at 7:30 am to
Give them a bath with Dawn dish detergent. It’s extremely mild and kills fleas. Basically I would give them two baths with it back to back. Make sure they’re completely coated between their paws, between the pads on their feet, everywhere. Start at the head and work your way down. Rinse repeat.

A friend of ours rescued a cat and brought it to the vet. That’s what the vet used as the initial treatment. It’s very mild on the skin, unlike most flea soaps.

My yellow lab must’ve stepped on a pile of them or something in the woods, even though she’s on the treatment. She started it scratching, so I did this to her and could literally see the fleas dead on her surface coat as I’m washing her.
Get up and run your dishwasher or a load of laundry I. The middle of the night.
Reaching back in the day

Neo beach (think that was the name) at lakefront

Meliousis or some spelling like that in quarters

Nicks on Tulane

Sitting Duck in Metairie

Mudbugs, Broncos, Idols/Froggies Zzz zzzz Ziggfields on westbank since I’m a wrstbanker
Cast no stones -Cody Jinks
Everyone talks to God - Aaron Lewis
My son always played all the sports at rec. He’s definitely no superstar, but an average to above average player at all the sports.

When he was nine, he said he wanted to play a lot more baseball, so we signed him up for travel team. It was a team filled out with kids more or less about his level and they played in a lower division. Only practiced twice a week and played on the weekend tournaments, most of them locally or where you can drive to and from each day. End of the year went out of state for their World Series, which basically was a one week vacation with 12 of his friends and had a great time and great memories those weeks. It was about the trip more than it was about baseball.

He turned 13 this year and said he was done with it and ready to start fishing a lot more again. So we’re done with baseball. We enjoyed it because we had no expectation he was going to high school or college or anything like that to play ball. He simply wanted to play more baseball. There are lotta parents who ruin their kids and push it but there’s also parents who just let their kids do it because they want to play more baseball. And you can definitely tell which ones are which.

We lucked out and were on teams that had great families and great kids. A dad was the head coach and two other dad‘s assistant. All three had baseball backgrounds. Our cost for the year was a fraction of most other teams because all they charged us was to cover expenses. so for what we were looking for it was worked out perfect
Know what sucks more than putting down a 17 year old dog? Putting down a seven year old dog in her prime.

My black lab was never an aggressive eater, she usually just grazed. In the middle of this past March, she kind of stopped eating for a couple of days and started getting very lackadaisical. So I brought her to the vet. They said she had a fever and was anemic. They did more bloodwork and sent it off to see if it was from like a tick bite or something like that. It came back negative. so they had me schedule an ultrasound. It was scheduled on a Friday, which happened to be my birthday. Found out that evening after the ultrasound, she had a huge cancer mass on her spleen, that it ruptured, and was bleeding, and large cancer lesions on a liver, and basically her whole cavity look like a spiderweb filled with cancer. Said she probably wouldn’t live but a couple of more days. Took her home for the kids to visit with and by the next morning she was deteriorating quickly, so we had to bring her in and put her down. It’s been three weeks now and it’s still like a punch in the stomach.
I assume there is nothing legal filed by the squatter. Once you show up and the locks are changed and you confront them and they claim squatters rights, why can’t you show up later, break your key in the door “not knowing the locks were changed “, break a window to get in, because your lock was broke. Then when they show up, and walk in, shoot them in the chest and say they were attacking you. Problem solved!
I’m in Accounting/Management. I am in a job that once I had everything set up the way I wanted and it flowed smoothly (processes, staff, etc.), my work life became easy. I’m here 33-37 hours a week. No weekends. Able to drop off and pick up son from school on my carpool days. I can run errands whenever want to, leave early whenever I want to. As long as I’m here a few hours then leave, not even charged vacation time for the day.

I’m happy with my salary. Between my wife and I salary, we have a good family life. We’re stretched at times like most, but easily upper middle class lifestyle.

Could I leave here tomorrow and make a lot more, yes. But can’t put a price on the free time out of here and little stress.

Find a job that isn’t stressful but still pays the bills. You don’t have to make as much as you can to be happy. It’s what you do outside of work that’s important. Find a job that gives you as much of “that” time as possible.
I just ordered a fitting to fill the little green one from a large one that has a gauge on it. I think it shows the pressure from the smaller one as empty, low and a larger area as it’s filling. Ordered off Amazon.

Haven’t used it yet to report on it.

Question on selling tickets

Posted by Tiger55 on 11/26/22 at 8:56 pm
If I sell my tickets, how do I transfer them to the seller? Thanks