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We lost another squirrel today, probably to the same Hawk.

It let my wife get 8' close to it while it ate. After about an hour or more of eating, the Hawk flew up 10' and sat there for many hours. After the Hawk flew up to a branch above where it ate, I worked in my yard about 20' away from it for hours. I detached 3/4 of my front yard. I mowed 3/4 of my front yard and also vacuumed up my neighbor's leaves beside our driveway AND where some were right under the Hawk, and it stayed right there, 10' off the ground above where it had just had a meal.

Remember...we had a Hawk sit just above us on the power line while we trimmed our Crape Myrtles back. That Hawk sat for about an hour too I think. It watched me sawzall 3 trees top branch heads.

It looks to be the same Hawk.

Sorry for the gruesome pics. Mother Nature is what she is.

msg wrote: »

Krispy Kreme doughnuts are like meth to some people. I've been in K-K recovery for 7 years now. Not a day goes by that I don't feel the call. "Come on, you can have just one..."

mhardy6647 wrote: »

I am not crazy about Krispy Kreme donuts (which seem to be mostly of the raised kind), except for the glazed cake ones... those are rather good.
Speaking of donuts (or, for the erudite, such as my chum @msg above , doughnuts -- nuts of dough): the sine qua non, no kidding.
https://www.facebook.com/brothersdonuts/

While I am waxing loquacious on the subject of donute: There's also a place somewhere in one of those Matt Damon/Ben Affleck towns north a' Bahsten (you know, Reveah, Sawguss, Danvahs, Lynn... one a' those) that makes amazing donuts. I am spacing on the name, but we used to take up a collection at work when I was at my last RFT job sometimes on Thursdays so that one of our colleagues could stop by the place and get a passel of them for us to consume on Friday morning.

As an aside: the donut thing is one of the few good memories of that particular company. The best thing I can say about them is that shortly after I retired, the company was bought out by an Asian pharma concern and many of my charming colleagues there -- who were, needless to say, utterly above any form of office politics -- ended up outta work.

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On this day...3/14/25, my wife and I were able to watch the changing of the moon from bright white to dull red.

Even after working VERY HARD all week or more, we really wanted to photograph this. Her camera didn't do squat. Mine did alright after I put my elbow on my truck window pillar to steady the camera.

@ken brydson sorry dude, I just saw my truck give you the ol number one fast ball sign with the wrong finger....

It's a catch 22 selling sport bikes...a guy should have the right to go buy one, but is it right to sell to the inexperienced?

The liter bikes will easily go 185+, right off the showroom floor. @F1nut Jessy's story is of no Suprise, it happens often, the bike becomes a deadly projectile at triple digit speeds.

A close friend of mines son was the same age as mine. I coached them in basketball and baseball from the 3rd grade up until they were in middle school. When the friend's boy came to me at age 18, he was very excited and told me about a new bike purchase he was about to make. I congratulated him and told him, "Look, you be sure to come see me right before you get it and we'll go over a few things". He said, absolutely coach!!

Well, he never did come see me, got the bike, went straight to the waterfront in Tacoma, opened it up, T boned another vehicle and didn't survive.

Since then, I've made it a point to approach every sportbike rider I see on the street, as opportunity allows, befriend them with pictures of my racing which instantly wins them over, then we discuss safety practices on the street. All I can do is plant seeds. Recommending organized track days is always a vehicle (no pun intended).

I would love to see dealerships offer mandatory clinics with every sportbike purchase.