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Thanks for the kind words, folks. Here in a few days I won't have to worry about Parvo anymore, and I can take her hiking with us. We have had some awesome weather, high temps in the mid 70's while the lowlands cook. She has been fun.

Thanks to all. I wouldn?t leave the dog out in a small fenced area totally unsupervised because of bears. We have more than one really big black bear, as big as a small car, in the neighborhood frequently. Surprisingly, I?ve never seen them, but my neighbors have lots of pictures. If I am...

While I'm showing off pics of my pup, let me tweak the brain of the collective for any experience folks might have with electronic collars that also function as a fence. We spend a lot of time away from home, and most of that is on a very steep lot that is a mountainside. I don't want to run...

Asleep on my deck shoes.

Ginger watching TV in our tiny house in the mountains, western NC.

As promised, if I can remember how to do it, here are some puppy pics. Meet Ginger B. Ginger is a yellow lab from Hat Creek Farm in Perry, GA. She's all American. I have still some Brit stuff that are hand me downs from my good old girl I lost in December. Ginger just turned 3 months old...

Great looking dog! No, we've signed up and sent in a deposit for a lab yet to be born in Georgia. My wife and I went back and forth over it and the deal is I'm just a lab guy to the bone, and there's no switching sides at this late date. Still I love those AWS's and yours looks great!

Great looking dog! Thanks, T. Thank you all. Ed.

Probably right, Greg. I'm making some progress with the wife already. It just takes a while. Ed.

Thanks, Al. Yeah, I know about Boykins, but the problem is that almost half have hip dysplasia. I see my nearest kennel for an AWS is in South Carolina. I happened to look at some labs on line and I can see they are smaller than they used to be. Interesting how labs are getting smaller. My...

Hi folks, I'm sorry I've been a stranger to Duckboats for so long, but I've been mostly retired from duck hunting for several years. As my dog got older and really not interested in hunting anymore, I drifted into fishing for redfish and specks during duck season and bringing her along. Well...

I was interested in the Duckhunter, years ago, but it's not a planing hull. Also, I liked Devlin's Scaup, but then it's not the flat bottomed boat I needed. So, I designed and built my own boat, which I posted most of that on this site. I call it the Peregrine. It's a great boat. I have...

Well, I very much enjoyed the process of designing and building my own boat. Plus, it worked out. It is a great duckboat. I encourage you to go for it. Ed.

My niece and her family in Houma, LA lost her roof. They took the eye. The rest of my kin just to the west experienced almost no damage. My in laws in the Florida Parishes came within inches of getting water in the house, but thankfully didn't. They did without the grid for two weeks. The...

The challenge with those is the keeping them still, especially when the hunting is the best (windy). What can do it is a couple of pole anchors shoved through short sections of pipe screwed to the barge. I'll echo the concerns about keeping them low profile, if you are hunting the marsh.

Clint, likely no one has done it for that boat. Just do it. Look at some other boats, and do it. You might want to built a scale model first. I built a stitch and glue hull, similar to the duckhunter, but made it a planing hull.

Gosh, hard to believe. We all need to understand that we hang by a thread. So sorry to hear. RIP, Steve. Ed.

Dinty Moore is the best as far as hurricane rations go. Post Katrina, we survived on Dinty Moore and frog legs. I had a huge pack of frog legs (hundreds) and we had a bunch of bleach bottles full of water frozen in the freezer that I use to ice things down on trips. Put those in my ice chest...

Cool. Ed.

She's a beauty, Al. Ed.