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Ha! Love it!
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Think about this. Now that we have shut the world down because of a single strain of virus. What's stopping us from doing it again. And again. And again. And again...Gustard X26 Pro DAC
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Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Ha! Love it!
Tom
Bad news for our local squirrels;
My neighbor pointed out a pr. of med. size hawks hanging out in a tree across the street and down one yard. We didn't know they were here to stay...
Turns out, the neighbor whose tree they were sitting in, spotted them mating in a tree on the other side of the neighbor who spotted them first. We watched them sitting in that tree for 1/2 an hour the other day. Yep, there's a good size nest about 3 houses down from me and across the street. I also saw one of them other day flying over my neighbor's house.
Well I was in the back of my cottage getting ready to cut a board and heard a weird loud chirping. It was CLOSE and above me. It was one of those hawks sitting high up overlooking this field where tons of squirrels play. We haven't seen many squirrels hopping around lately and I know why now. There was dead silence from all birds. If it's silent, maybe a hawk is sitting somewhere.
Most of the time, black birds and blue jays squawk continuously until a Hawk leaves the neighborhood.
My wife saw some squirrels this afternoon and fed 4 by hand. I have a bad feeling now...
Goodbye squirrels!
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Think about this. Now that we have shut the world down because of a single strain of virus. What's stopping us from doing it again. And again. And again. And again...
If another virus is this fast a killer too, I'll bet the same scenario will be activated to slow it down if possible.Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them. -
Hawk on the Bluebird house. Looking at chipmunks below. This was taken last spring.
Tony, I have watched many hawks in my backyard and in the country, and I have never seen one actually grab a squirrel.
A few years ago, a "mom" with her two young birds observing tried to grab a squirrel high up in a pine tree in the backyard, and the squirrel always alluded her.
I had two pet Peking ducks in the backyard and the largest hawk I have ever seen killed the male duck which was very large too. My cats alerted me at a window what was happening.
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
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I wish we had more chipmunk predators here -- heck,I wish we had more whistlepig predators!
This guy (or lady, who knows?) got a little meta with the idea of the bird feeder.
(photo from summer of 2016)
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I have a gazillion chipmunks myself. Holes and tunnels everywhere. Maybe I should get some outside cats, they'll kill the little bastages won't they ?HT SYSTEM-
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Speaking of wildlife. We have lived in our home for 6 years. Not once have we seen a wild turkey. My son comes running into the office all excited and says there is a turkey in the backyard.
Sure as heck, there was one. Sorry about the grainy pic, it was way off in the distance. Cool, regardless.
Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Cats LOVE catching moles. Our neighbor's cat would catch them and flip them into the air while playing with them. The cat would leave the dead moles for their owners on the back steps of their house as gifts.
A Hawk pins a Squirrel.
Driving down a street just around the corner from our home years ago, A BIG Redtail Hawk swooped down 60' or less in front of us and nailed a squirrel at the base of a barricade fence. One wing on the ground, the other going up the fence. The Hawk stayed in that position for a minute or more and then I had to move along. I don't remember seeing it fly away with the squirrel.
I think that's how it went down. .
I stopped my car and was watching this scene as my wife saw it too but she started screaming to move the car!
I saw in my mirror no car was approaching so I stayed put and watched. My wife was FREEKING out somebody would rear-end us. Speed limit is 25mph and there was plenty of road for somebody to see I had stopped. I flash my brake lights to get people's attention once in a while to alert them to something strange.` I was ready to do the same but I didn't have too. I saw enough.
Then a car did come around the corner behind me and me moving along sure made my wife calm down! Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them. -
I have a gazillion chipmunks myself. Holes and tunnels everywhere. Maybe I should get some outside cats, they'll kill the little bastages won't they ?
as do we.
I hates them little racing-stipe-decorated b@$tards.
I am trying an experiment this year. I chucked a coupla mothballs down every chipmunk (and woodchuck) hole I've found this spring. Mice don't like 'em (mothballs/napthalene, that is). Mice are rodents and so are chipmunks and whistlepigs, so I am hopin' the transitive property applies!
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Cool, let me know if you have success. Mothballs huh....hope they won't make my yard smell like my grandparents.HT SYSTEM-
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Cables-
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Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
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Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
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Solid metal particles at appropriate velocities have been known to work wonders.
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What'chu guyzes got against chipmunks? Day didn't do Nuffin'!
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Unfortunately, it is summer in Australia, and it doesn’t seem to have affected the virus.
Or Africa.The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Solid metal particles at appropriate velocities have been known to work wonders.
I have explored that avenue with the farking groundhogs -- but I am not a great shot and/or they're surprisingly maneuverable.
I did bludgeon one into the next world with a shovel last summer, though -- not especially proud of that, but so be it.
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motorhead43026 wrote: »
We will have to see what happens as parts of the southern hemisphere go into flu season2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
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What'chu guyzes got against chipmunks? Day didn't do Nuffin'!
Tom
They dig tunnels under my brick pavers. Tunnel eventually collapses and pavers sink. Fill it in, reset pavers, they dig another tunnel.HT SYSTEM-
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Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
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Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
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We call that job security2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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Hmmm, I had them all around the house when I lived in Northern Virginia. We loved 'em but didn't have any pavers, admitted. I guess YMMV. I always thought they were cute little things.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
They turn yards into models of Swiss cheese.
They love loose stonework (e.g., dry stone walls -- which are legion in New England).
I hates 'em to pieces. Little blighters.
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Cats love chipmunks tonyb.
Tony M, I have several feral cats that I feed in an area of my garage. This morning one of the cats left a dead mole for me at the edge of the old piece of carpet where the food dishes are.
tonyb, I see the feral cats in the early morning just waiting for the chipmunks to appear. The cats like to roll over the entrances to the tunnels.
Mark, I grew up on 50 acres of land west of Atlanta. As a kid, I did hunt some. Once I killed my first rabbit, I gave up hunting I felt so bad.
Tom, you sound like me, now. I have learned to live with the wildlife and try to enjoy all. I can't remember if I told you at Joe Coulson's meet, my BlueBirdMusic is derived from my love of bluebirds that I developed as a kid from my father."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
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We had -- and this is a long story, for some other day -- a cat that was went blind. When it was all said and done, he had no eyes.
Even in his eyeless state, he caught (at least) two mice in our house, and one chipmunk in our garage.
This is a seminal lesson in natural selection.
The Spare Cat, aka "Sparesie"
Awake or asleep, he looked the same
He also had profound congenital heart defects, as it turned out. Despite a really tough life, he was an extremely sweet kitteh.
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