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oh, yeah! My idea of sheltering-in-place!

BlueBirdMusic wrote: »

to voltz and "simpler times!"

Thanks for reminding me of a great memory.

I know what "going over feels like". In my younger days, on the upper Chattahoochee River in the middle of nowhere in North Georgia, my friend and I had the experience but it was over 12 feet into the pool below.

As we approached the sound of the fall really tired and 6-8 hours on the river, we saw a group of "hippies" camping and asked them if we could continue instead of walking ahead to see what the drop was. They said "Yes"!

I am sure the falls called Mother is over 3 feet maybe 5 ..it is on the big Piney river in Arkansas...when we get to mother we pull our canoes up to the shore..and watch each other go thru it one at a time..its is only like 6 -10 feet across so it was my brother who took the famous picture was standing on a rock ledge really close s the water-proof cameras have a very short focal length...but god it is fun when the weather is right...

The water was a little down so we had to paddle more then normal..we were so wiped when we made camp 12 miles later we all crashed hard after a super quick meal LOL

so that night before the run..we hung cloth curtains and played"Deliverance: on a big screen LOL I dude from Arkansas came up and watch it with us and he said in his Arkansas draw "You Boy'z just aint Right" where the frack are you from anyways? LOL

Somewhere I have the sign that we all are holding up..called the Wichita River Dogz!

WOW!

That there is funny! ^^^^^^^^^

I had 3 of those fans in my previous house. They were great fans, moved a lot of air. Much better than today's fans.

Just think, Chris. Before all this *** happened, we would have met in just a couple of days. My wife, friends, our kiddos and I would be in Port Canaveral. We obviously had to cancel that and the St. Augustine trips as well.

I saw a video earlier today where all of the ships out at sea, harbored in one area, began to all honk their horns in a show of solidarity. Most of them were reportedly competing companies but they are all in this together.

This would have been my first cruise and it was a B-Day present from my wife to celebrate the 50th mile marker in my life's journey.

Tom

In that last photo, if you zoom into where the cranes are you can see the SpaceX ships with thier giant nets open, they catch the rocket payload fairings. Zoom in a bit more through the legs of the cranes and you can see a 5th cruise ship sitting there.

Ha! Love it!



Tom

treitz3 wrote: »

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!

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.

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 ?

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!

Cool, let me know if you have success. Mothballs huh....hope they won't make my yard smell like my grandparents.