DTR's Sheepishly Pathetic Watercooler 9.18.11-9.24.11
09-21-2011, 11:20 PM
#152
I wish I was as fine, as those who work the pipeline!
Rick, thanks for fixing my mess up.
Scott, your welcome sir.
Polaraco, they were not ripe yet, not sure if the plants are gonna make it. Only time will tell.
Ma, I sure hope the nose rings work. I am sure tired of fixing fences and listening to balling all night. They don't pay much attention to us over here as far as the weather goes. It's ok though, we like being left alone!!!
Just curious if you got the chair back together...
On a good note my neighbor has a great stand of hay. It was so thick it almost didn't make it through the inverter!! He's a good guy though, good to see he is getting a break.
Scott, your welcome sir.
Polaraco, they were not ripe yet, not sure if the plants are gonna make it. Only time will tell.
Ma, I sure hope the nose rings work. I am sure tired of fixing fences and listening to balling all night. They don't pay much attention to us over here as far as the weather goes. It's ok though, we like being left alone!!!
Just curious if you got the chair back together...
On a good note my neighbor has a great stand of hay. It was so thick it almost didn't make it through the inverter!! He's a good guy though, good to see he is getting a break.
09-22-2011, 12:07 AM
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09-22-2011, 06:30 AM
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you have never met my husband. and this is/was about twelve feet up then...25 big logs, 7 high. he doesn't think,he just does... and work site is only about 20 feet wide then 55 mph road. hence mama saying uuuhh, no. I'll get the tractor.
well, cat brought mouse in. good kitty. went to get the mouse after five minutes of it laying in front of me and it jumped up and ran into my recliner....Bark isn't the only one with dance moves.
got flashlight, tore that chair up! vacuumed the last dime outta that thing too! looked everywhere, other furniture, cat ready to pounch- nothing.
took the friggin chair almost apart, hubby calls me from outside. mouse was in vacuum cyclone cylinder. still alive. took it for a swim.....
wide awake now. stupid cat.
well, cat brought mouse in. good kitty. went to get the mouse after five minutes of it laying in front of me and it jumped up and ran into my recliner....Bark isn't the only one with dance moves.
got flashlight, tore that chair up! vacuumed the last dime outta that thing too! looked everywhere, other furniture, cat ready to pounch- nothing.
took the friggin chair almost apart, hubby calls me from outside. mouse was in vacuum cyclone cylinder. still alive. took it for a swim.....
wide awake now. stupid cat.
Didn't want to throw a saddle on it and take it for a ride?Coffee's ready. Just pick out the mouse droppings if you're so inclined....
09-22-2011, 07:25 AM
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Morning.. I have the worst toothache ever!!! I cracked my molar while eating last night and now the root is exposed. Needless to say I didn't sleep a wink last night. 
09-22-2011, 08:10 AM
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oh that is NOT good! run, do not walk, to the dentist.
if you were a Seneca Indian, they put oil of peppermint on the tooth/nerve.
you will not have pain, but can't taste anything other than peppermint for a month; get a little intoxicated; have the freshest breath for six weeks after the effects wear off......
dentist. prevent infection.
Hey Matt! Redleg~ when you ready to fish?
hubby put new brakes and rotors all around on the one ton dodge (started with just checking /adjusting the E brake snicker snicker) 'bout to go out and change the tractor to super log picker upper.....
Jeff, if you see large black patches on the maters- then toss them. otherwise
they may just not have had enough moisture to freeze burn. fried green maters are purty good, ask madhat....
Polar, my hubby is a mountain man. nothing good comes of fast thinking.
if you were a Seneca Indian, they put oil of peppermint on the tooth/nerve.
you will not have pain, but can't taste anything other than peppermint for a month; get a little intoxicated; have the freshest breath for six weeks after the effects wear off......
dentist. prevent infection.
Hey Matt! Redleg~ when you ready to fish?
hubby put new brakes and rotors all around on the one ton dodge (started with just checking /adjusting the E brake snicker snicker) 'bout to go out and change the tractor to super log picker upper.....
Jeff, if you see large black patches on the maters- then toss them. otherwise
they may just not have had enough moisture to freeze burn. fried green maters are purty good, ask madhat....
Polar, my hubby is a mountain man. nothing good comes of fast thinking.
09-22-2011, 08:27 AM
#159
There is no G. There is no G. Repeat after me, THERE IS NO G!
Morning yall.
JWBM - great bbq!
Cincy, haul over to the dentist asap
Hurt teeth won't let you do anything else.
I discovered something very disturbing when I took the dog out this morning. On the ground under a tree is a bunch of mocking bird feathers and a couple big white drops of bird poop. I had cats all my life, I know what feather/fur on the ground means. I start looking around for signs of the attacker. Foot prints, clawmarks, anything, but nothing. I follow the smallest feathers to the outmost distance from the main spot and I get to my oak tree about 15' away. Again I find a big fresh spot of white poop on the ground. Well that's odd. I can see the bird excreting poop on the main attack over there, but not here. How did a spot get way over here anyway? I look up on a branch and there is the bird! First I thought it managed to drag itself up and survive the attack. But as I walked around I saw it had no head. Then I got creeped out. Something dragged it up there to eat it. What the heck would do that? I walked back to the original tree and looked up, sure enough there's a branch that had a bunch of feathers on it. Looks like the bird had also been in that spot as well, as if it had been hels there while it was eaten.
Anyway, now that I've gone Animal CSI in my backyard, what the heck eats a kill in a tree?? I've never seen a house cat do that. I don't know if possums do but those are around here. Also, I'm kind of on the lookout, the other day under the oak tree I found some very big cat paw prints in the mud. They were about half the size of Chester's. And Chester is a big Lab.
I'm thinking I might have to pull a stake out a couple nights in a row.
JWBM - great bbq!
Cincy, haul over to the dentist asap
Hurt teeth won't let you do anything else.I discovered something very disturbing when I took the dog out this morning. On the ground under a tree is a bunch of mocking bird feathers and a couple big white drops of bird poop. I had cats all my life, I know what feather/fur on the ground means. I start looking around for signs of the attacker. Foot prints, clawmarks, anything, but nothing. I follow the smallest feathers to the outmost distance from the main spot and I get to my oak tree about 15' away. Again I find a big fresh spot of white poop on the ground. Well that's odd. I can see the bird excreting poop on the main attack over there, but not here. How did a spot get way over here anyway? I look up on a branch and there is the bird! First I thought it managed to drag itself up and survive the attack. But as I walked around I saw it had no head. Then I got creeped out. Something dragged it up there to eat it. What the heck would do that? I walked back to the original tree and looked up, sure enough there's a branch that had a bunch of feathers on it. Looks like the bird had also been in that spot as well, as if it had been hels there while it was eaten.
Anyway, now that I've gone Animal CSI in my backyard, what the heck eats a kill in a tree?? I've never seen a house cat do that. I don't know if possums do but those are around here. Also, I'm kind of on the lookout, the other day under the oak tree I found some very big cat paw prints in the mud. They were about half the size of Chester's. And Chester is a big Lab.
I'm thinking I might have to pull a stake out a couple nights in a row.
09-22-2011, 09:42 AM
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Eric, ouch!!! Hope you can get that fixed straight away.
Shorts, look up, think bird of prey. If you're going to go CSI don't let your fixation with ground dwellers make you get tunnel vision. Birds have enemies that attack on all levels. Look at the feathers a little closer. If there's no sign of a struggle other than feathers and poop, I'll bet you have two kinds of feathers. Also, the few feathers you found in the first tree may actually be where the attack began, not where lunch started. Somewhere there's another bird going "You're not going to believe this. Bob was just sitting on this branch when POW, a hawk swooped down and knocked him to the ground, ripped of his head and flew away with him. It's a good thing he didn't come after me that way. I'd rip his head off, that's what I'd do, yeah, rip his head off. And, and then I'd poop in his chest! I ain't scared of no stinking hawk, I ain't"
Heidi, it's a good thing he didn't go out to change the spark plugs.
Shorts, look up, think bird of prey. If you're going to go CSI don't let your fixation with ground dwellers make you get tunnel vision. Birds have enemies that attack on all levels. Look at the feathers a little closer. If there's no sign of a struggle other than feathers and poop, I'll bet you have two kinds of feathers. Also, the few feathers you found in the first tree may actually be where the attack began, not where lunch started. Somewhere there's another bird going "You're not going to believe this. Bob was just sitting on this branch when POW, a hawk swooped down and knocked him to the ground, ripped of his head and flew away with him. It's a good thing he didn't come after me that way. I'd rip his head off, that's what I'd do, yeah, rip his head off. And, and then I'd poop in his chest! I ain't scared of no stinking hawk, I ain't"
Heidi, it's a good thing he didn't go out to change the spark plugs.
09-22-2011, 09:53 AM
#161
There is no G. There is no G. Repeat after me, THERE IS NO G!
Shorts, look up, think bird of prey. If you're going to go CSI don't let your fixation with ground dwellers make you get tunnel vision. Birds have enemies that attack on all levels. Look at the feathers a little closer. If there's no sign of a struggle other than feathers and poop, I'll bet you have two kinds of feathers. Also, the few feathers you found in the first tree may actually be where the attack began, not where lunch started. That's what I figure, since all the feathers are over there. Guess I didn't make my explanation very clear up there (coffee hadn't made it to my veins yet)
Somewhere there's another bird going "You're not going to believe this. Bob was just sitting on this branch when POW, a hawk swooped down and knocked him to the ground, ripped of his head and flew away with him. It's a good thing he didn't come after me that way. I'd rip his head off, that's what I'd do, yeah, rip his head off. And, and then I'd poop in his chest! I ain't scared of no stinking hawk, I ain't"
I'll recheck the area. The missing head has me thinking now about a meat bird...err raptor. Also something weird yesterday. I walked out on the deck in the evening and something startled in the trees and bush. I didn't see it, but I heard it. It didn't run on the ground either. Anyway, I don't like visitors in my yard, human or animales unless I invite them. I am that possessive about my property!
I gotta get that carcass out of the tree. Don't need to attract anything else.
Somewhere there's another bird going "You're not going to believe this. Bob was just sitting on this branch when POW, a hawk swooped down and knocked him to the ground, ripped of his head and flew away with him. It's a good thing he didn't come after me that way. I'd rip his head off, that's what I'd do, yeah, rip his head off. And, and then I'd poop in his chest! I ain't scared of no stinking hawk, I ain't"
I'll recheck the area. The missing head has me thinking now about a meat bird...err raptor. Also something weird yesterday. I walked out on the deck in the evening and something startled in the trees and bush. I didn't see it, but I heard it. It didn't run on the ground either. Anyway, I don't like visitors in my yard, human or animales unless I invite them. I am that possessive about my property!
I gotta get that carcass out of the tree. Don't need to attract anything else.
09-22-2011, 09:58 AM
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Shorts, this sounds like a Hawk as I have had that happen here in the city, twice in our backyard. First time I was looking out the kitchen window and there is this Redhawk removing the head of a robin on top of our gazebo.
Second time it was a different Hawk, larger and brown...it was dismantling a large squirrel up in one of our Maple trees.
If the Hawk got scared off, it probably left its prey behind.
Speaking of birds, this time of year we get to see some rare visitors here.
Saw a Hummingbird last week. Early on Monday morning the familiar screech of a couple of Blue Birds was happening. Several Finch and Chickadees are passing through now too. The Finch and Chickadee's will come down and land in my hand.
OK, while I was typing that and you all were reading, I ALTURD the PHO0O0 Goo for Awl of Ewe, don't mind the feathers or the white splats.
Second time it was a different Hawk, larger and brown...it was dismantling a large squirrel up in one of our Maple trees.
If the Hawk got scared off, it probably left its prey behind.
Speaking of birds, this time of year we get to see some rare visitors here.
Saw a Hummingbird last week. Early on Monday morning the familiar screech of a couple of Blue Birds was happening. Several Finch and Chickadees are passing through now too. The Finch and Chickadee's will come down and land in my hand.
OK, while I was typing that and you all were reading, I ALTURD the PHO0O0 Goo for Awl of Ewe, don't mind the feathers or the white splats.
09-22-2011, 10:16 AM
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I wish I was as fine, as those who work the pipeline!
Sounds like a bobcat to me shorts. If you want to find out leave the carcass up there, the owner will come back.
Keep in mind it could be different predators at the same scene...
Keep in mind it could be different predators at the same scene...
09-22-2011, 11:17 AM
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Mornin' all!
Made it out of the woods last night. Long slow ride but I made it without breaking anything.
Had about an hour worth of winch work to make it but my partner and I were both successful.
Now I get to clean everything up.....
Made it out of the woods last night. Long slow ride but I made it without breaking anything.
Had about an hour worth of winch work to make it but my partner and I were both successful.
Now I get to clean everything up.....
09-22-2011, 11:45 AM
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but you'd feel worse getting skunked and still having to clean everything up...
good on ya marc! moose antlers going in the man cave?
sat on a new polaris 500 sportsman HO- that thing had to be about seven feet wide!! huge!! but I bet you'd like that thing up there. never used a winch on a four wheeler yet, tractor recovery- go big or go home . bwah ha ha! no grizzly skin?
Shorts, girl- this ol' woods woman can tell you a CSI thing: hawks leave a lot of blood and clipped feathers (like scissors); bobcats are very very quiet and stalk- then play pin cushion with prey, no blood. both will remove food to safety, but a hawk will leave it and not come back, opportunistic. bobcat will keep moving it, survival.
rain has come, the hubby is done
no tractor have we
to loggers be.
so DTR,
it won't be far
that eric will stand;with door ajar,
and make amends
with tooth? depends.
on who brewed da phoo in de end.
good on ya marc! moose antlers going in the man cave?
sat on a new polaris 500 sportsman HO- that thing had to be about seven feet wide!! huge!! but I bet you'd like that thing up there. never used a winch on a four wheeler yet, tractor recovery- go big or go home . bwah ha ha! no grizzly skin?
Shorts, girl- this ol' woods woman can tell you a CSI thing: hawks leave a lot of blood and clipped feathers (like scissors); bobcats are very very quiet and stalk- then play pin cushion with prey, no blood. both will remove food to safety, but a hawk will leave it and not come back, opportunistic. bobcat will keep moving it, survival.
rain has come, the hubby is done
no tractor have we
to loggers be.
so DTR,
it won't be far
that eric will stand;with door ajar,
and make amends
with tooth? depends.
on who brewed da phoo in de end.