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  • vcwatkins
    vcwatkins Posts: 1,993
    Sunshine MF in January. 1- The Suffers, 2- Mike Gordon (Phish bass), 3- Tedeschi Trucks w/ Jorma & Jack.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    We saw Joan Osborne Thursday night in Lebanon, NH doing her "Joan Osborne sings the songs of Bob Dylan" tour. She and her backing musicians (keyboard and guitar) were excellent. A really excellent show; see her on this tour if you get the chance.

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    http://www.joanosborne.com/
    No idea why she's sneering on the cover of her new album -- she looked much nicer IRL Thursday night (which I realize is a crass & superficial thing to say -- but it still seems worthy of note).


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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,828
    You have me convinced; I'm willing to accept her phones calls.
    Sal Palooza
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    moments ago -- a vintage Nikkor 20 mm lens on a far-less-vintage Nikon DSLR :)

    I think that the dirty window adds an artistic touch -- YMMV, though, of course :|

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Beautiful!
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,509
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,828
    ^^^ Kind of reminds me

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    Sal Palooza
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,858
    A 10 minute drive from the house, fantastic wildlife and fishing that is off the cuff, in the Merrit Island Refuge


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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,178
    edited February 2018
    Beautiful Pictures! B)

    I love seeing King Fishers fish! They also remind me of the Flinstones TT arm and needle. :D

    I saw a hawk snatch up a snake out of a ditch on the side of a highway once.

    Also my wife and I saw a BIG Red Tail hawk swoop down and pin and kill a squirrel against a 6' tall privacy fence at midday. THAT was something. 25' away from our car too. The animal kingdom up close!
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,988
    Tony M wrote: »
    Beautiful Pictures!! B)


    Also my wife and I saw a BIG Red Tail hawk swoop down and pin and kill a squirrel against a 6' tall privacy fence at midday. THAT was something. 15' away from our car too. The animal kingdom up close!

    What you witnessed....was Russ ordering lunch. He's often mistaken for wildlife, so don't feel bad.

    Cool pics btw.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,858
    Tony M wrote: »
    Beautiful Pictures!! B)

    I love seeing King Fishers fish! They also remind me of the Flinstones TT arm and needle. :D

    I saw a hawk snatch up a snake out of a ditch on the side of a highway once.

    Also my wife and I saw a BIG Red Tail hawk swoop down and pin and kill a squirrel against a 6' tall privacy fence at midday. THAT was something. 15' away from our car too. The animal kingdom up close!

    Out here we have quite a few bald eagles and tons of hawks.....many a morning I have watched them pluck a large fish from the lagoon and carry it away to eat....quite amazing to actually watch them when in a seek and eat mode...
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,178
    That must be sooo cool.

    We're just starting to see the Bald Eagles return to the Wilmington NC. area. We see them once in a while now. There used to be so many, they nested on this island, so the locals back then called it Eagle Island. That's it's name to this day but no eagles are nesting there I don't think. Wilm. NC. has exploded in population but the Hawks and Eagles seem to be doing OK. Some have been brought to animal shelters for rehab because they ate meat with lead pellets in it. Some make it, some don't. We went and watched a release of a female Bald Eagle years ago. Those Birds are HUGE!
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    I saw an Ospey do that once in the intracoastal waterway just north of Wrightsville Bch. And it plucked a HUGE fish out too. It had to carry it inline with it's body. I guess for aerodynamic reasons.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    The raptors (top of their branch of the food chain) have made a phenomenal comeback in my lifetime -- since the banning of DDT. They're freaking everywhere now.

    'bout this time last year we had an interesting backyard birdie to go with our usual menagerie, in fact :)

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    These guys have gotten to be fairly common along the Connecticut River "Upper Valley" (even in the wintertime, since there's usually at least a little open water).

    usually, though, we see lots more of Ben Franklin's choice for the National Bird :blush:

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    (also taken last spring)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    hey, we're on page 420 of this thread!

    Not that I am suggesting anything or anything...

    B)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,988
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    hey, we're on page 420 of this thread!

    Not that I am suggesting anything or anything...

    B)

    I'm sure a mathematical formula is to follow Doc, complete with graphs/charts, and an intermission for coffee and donuts. :p
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,178
    2 months to go... B)
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Malbec
    Malbec Posts: 554
    And the paper(s) the formula and charts will be written upon are Zig-Zags and Job1.5s
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    tonyb wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    hey, we're on page 420 of this thread!

    Not that I am suggesting anything or anything...

    B)

    I'm sure a mathematical formula is to follow Doc, complete with graphs/charts, and an intermission for coffee and donuts. :p

    -- or just Slim Jims and Doritos ;)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,178
    Or Capt. Crunch. :s
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    Tony M wrote: »
    Or Capt. Crunch. :s

    Lucky Charms!

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    looks, to me, like both the small Irish person and the narwhal-horse hybrid are on something.


    :|
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,133
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    looks, to me, like both the small Irish person and the narwhal-horse hybrid are on something.
    Yeah, it's all of those crazy bovine growth hormones in that wacky milk from non-Vermont cows. :p
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    hey, we've some got good cows on this side of the river, too! :)

    Given that my backyard hay helps feed a couple dozen of 'em, I've got a pretty strong opinion on this! ;)

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,828
    So you put the cows in the tractor end of that wood chipper thing and out comes rounded bales of hay ?
    Instructions unclear: please clarify.
    Sal Palooza
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    So you put the cows in the tractor end of that wood chipper thing and out comes rounded bales of hay ?
    Instructions unclear: please clarify.

    That is pretty much my understanding, yes.
    The whole system, macroscopically, is in equilibrium.
    The hay makes cows so the biochemistry can be reversed and the cows converted back to hay.
    A little energy gets lost in the process, of course. Second Law of Thermodynamics and all that stuff... that's what the tractor's there for, I think.

    :|
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    That yellow and green thing is a baler. It takes hay, right? and rolls it into a bale, then kind of defecates it out the back.

    Then the other tractor comes along, kinda skewers the p-o-oped-out bale of hay, and sticks it on the flatbed, thus...

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    Ya see... what it is, see... it's a bleedin' process, it is. A process, right?

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    -- amusingly and ironically (and on-topically) enough -- the skewer thing on the other tractor makes it look kind of like an orange, Diesel powered, Japanese-made narwhal. With tires and four wheel drive, too -- but, otherwise, practically indistinguishable from, like, a plain-vanilla narwhal.


    EDIT: Ooops, the narwhal tractor is the bale-po-oper tractor, too. One in the same.
    Not sure what the other tractor was doin' that day.

    See more hay-makin' photos at https://flic.kr/s/aHskfDyofd
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    Making hay while the sun shines?
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,644
    edited February 2018
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
    edited February 2018
    KennethSwauger wrote: »
    Making hay while the sun shines?
    Pretty much. :)

    Drying conditions are a big deal up here in the summer... hay needs to dry somewhat, but not too much before baling. They give drying conditions daily on the weather reports in the summertime here :)

    Hay is a thing up here -- lots of dairy, still, in New England, although the low prices for milk and high costs of land and -- everything else -- are having an impact on the small dairy farmers (e.g., our down-the-hill neighbors). Many have moved to higher-value dairy products (that'd be cheese, mostly). Our farmer-neighbors, in fact, make some very fine cheese and also smoked cheese & meats.

    I am happy to put in a plug for 'em! No affiliation, except as a neighbor, customer, and hay source ;)

    https://www.facebook.com/taylorbrothersfarm/
    http://www.garfieldssmokehouse.com/

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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    Beautiful landscape!
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