[EnisledLady]

I am just about ready for rehab heh

[Luvvarkansas]

I understand your frustration. I dearly love Arkansas myself (not Pine Bluff, though!), but you must also be aware that there is meth in Arkansas, too, especially in the rural parts....lots and lots of wilderness for them to hide their meth labs in!

But there is plenty of hunting and fishing in all of Arkansas....some of it in the farmlands, some of it in the mountains. Just pick whichever topography you like best, find a place with lots of prisons nearby, and go with it. I think you would be happy just about anywhere in Arkansas if hunting and fishing are really important to you, and shopping and entertainment are not. (Except for Pine Bluff)

[EnisledLady]

"Miserable in Montana" think I will change my name to that heh. It's been a year now or so since I started this thread and we are still no closer to being able to escape this state and make it to Arkansas. The worse the economy gets the farther away moving seems to move. And now as the weather is starting to warm here, I am just plain depressed at having no where to go do some "normal" fishing, there are still no sounds of chickens clucking in my yard as they scratch around for bugs and goodies. I long to see an actual squirrel again before I forget what they even look like. I long to hear birds twitering in the trees... I may not be able to see a real squirrel anymore but if I have another year in this place I can just look in the mirror and see someone that is getting really "squirrly" ............sigh.............

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by EnisledLady

"Miserable in Montana" think I will change my name to that heh. It's been a year now or so since I started this thread and we are still no closer to being able to escape this state and make it to Arkansas. The worse the economy gets the farther away moving seems to move. And now as the weather is starting to warm here, I am just plain depressed at having no where to go do some "normal" fishing, there are still no sounds of chickens clucking in my yard as they scratch around for bugs and goodies. I long to see an actual squirrel again before I forget what they even look like. I long to hear birds twitering in the trees... I may not be able to see a real squirrel anymore but if I have another year in this place I can just look in the mirror and see someone that is getting really "squirrly" ............sigh.............

I'd be glad to set a video camera on the deck and let you see some squirrels play.

It'd be kind of like those "fish" screen savers people have got.

Or I could post a photo of the squirrels in my freezer!

It is spring here, you know it from the minute you first wake.

Won't be long when you can't watch TV at night for the whippoorwills.

[EnisledLady]

seriously - there are no squirrels in Montana - I have not seen a live squirrel in over 7 years now. I miss feeding them and hunting them

[Luvvarkansas]

Argh! I wish you could come hunt squirrels in my yard! I also wish that my old BB gun would kill them! They dig in my flowers, destroy my pears, and plant millions of pecan and oak trees in my flower beds every year. I hate 'em....wouldn't feed one for anything.

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by Luvvarkansas

Argh! I wish you could come hunt squirrels in my yard! I also wish that my old BB gun would kill them! They dig in my flowers, destroy my pears, and plant millions of pecan and oak trees in my flower beds every year. I hate 'em....wouldn't feed one for anything.

I don't know if you caught my post a while back about urban squirrels ( not to be confused with 'urban hipsters'....I think), but when I lived in a city, I had huge problems with them.

People would feed them, of course, and if it stopped with the corn growing all over my lawn, I could live with that.

They crawled the power line coming to my house, chewed their way into my attic, and nested.

Loose the dogs of war and cry havoc.......

I repaired, they chewed back through, I put up fake owls, rubber snakes, noisemakers in the wind, I repaired, they chewed through.

Finally, I went and bought a pump pellet rifle, and adjusted the sights.

Took a screen out of a back window.

I began eating squirrel after an absence from God's own buffet.

That solved the problem, and I had some good squirrel breakfasts.

The widda lady next door, who noted that the squirrels were no longer working on the ears of corn she put out, commented to me one day.

"I wonder where they went?"

"I dunno......Florida?"

[EnisledLady]

heh that's hystericl - sounds like something I would do/say

[gthog61]

There's a "gotta get out of Pine Bluff" thread in the related threads down at the end of this thread so maybe you can hook up with them and get a deal on their house.

I agree with most everyone else - try Calico Rock first.

There's also still a Youth Services Center in Alexander I think which would be kids instead of adults.

[Jay78]

Pine Bluff is full of crime..Hunting and fishing is great though.Southern Arkansas has plenty of that.