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Great to see these cars out and about like they should be. I was hoping to hit one of the, smaller, local car shows but, The Queen had me WAY to busy getting ready for a small remodel project at the big house. Phase 4 of 5. Only the Master Bath will remain. But, damn, that will cost a lot more $$$ than I expected.
Some of my favorite car shows have been canceled this year. Many were annual fund raisers for good cause. Can't imagine how they are recovering from this crud. So, it is cool to see these car shows thriving and well attended.
Speaking of car shows, the one at the Gilmore had a decent turnout. Normally this show has 400-500 cars, but due to covid, they restricted entries. One of my favorites is a '63? Ford Galaxy 500XL convertible in blue. My pics didn't do it justice. https://photos.app.goo.gl/AwVesqK9ibTeU4cx7
Dan - Thanks for the pics of the Gilmore show, they were great!
For everyone else who has commented, you're more than welcome for the pics. I wish you all had some shows going on near you.
Both our Bulldogs have vet visits this morning. Just wellness visits, vaccines, etc. We're heading out in just a minute so I'll sign off and say I hope everyone has a great day!
Not too bad today. It rained while I was out this afternoon but I didn't see it. I think rain the rest of the week.
Thanks you guys for posting the pictures. They all look great. They make me sad, though, that there are no shows around here I can go to in person. And the season is quickly wrapping up.
So Tiger and I went to the vet to get new itch medicine. In the beginning we got Apoquel. It didn't last to the second dose(it was every 12 hours) so the next time I said let's do something different. They said, give him Apoquel once a day instead of twice. Predictably, that didn't work. Today I said, we need to do something different. He has scabs and marks and spots where he bites, chews, scratches. They take him in and call me on the phone. Tiger's skin looks good. So they said give him Apoquel and here's an antihistamine to go with it. Every time I say I don't want Apoquel that's what they give us. I think I'm in a Monty Python skit. I don't like Spam. Here, have some Spam.
Dream how did you guys fare at the vet today?
So work. The guy I was going to bully into working inspection for me wasn't there today. Big surprise. The other guy said he'd work for me but I said he didn't have to. If the other guy isn't there tomorrow I might let him. The lead wasn't there, either, but when he comes back I'm going to give him my plan of people making up days they don't work in inspection like they should. Hey, if my workwith can go to the foreman every time his brain misfires, I can have a little relief as well.
Time to wind down. Got a couple things I want to look up, then off to bed. I don't like it getting dark earlier in the evening. I think we should change our clocks once a month, so it's always light at 9pm.
Mike - I'm sorry Tiger is having a rough time. I hope you can get some relief for him soon! Our guys did well at the vet today, clean bill of health for both. Maggie's nail she tore out is growing back. The vet said it might or might not grow back. Now the only question is whether it grows in normal?
You are more than welcome for the pics, I wish there were some shows for you guys to get out to.
I hope things get better for you at work, it doesn't sound like it's too great a place to work most of the time.
Two new Huskie 445 air filters arriving tomorrow - woo hoo.
I ordered up a set of these arriving this Saturday, hopefully. I put on a brand new set of WinnGrip DryTac four months ago and my 8 iron and 7 iron both have a hole through the material already. I don't think I'll buy WinnGrips ever again. I've always been a fan of Golf Pride grips and I think I will remain a fan of Golf Pride grips.
13 NEW Golf Pride MCC (Multi Compound Cord) Plus4 Grips
Dream - Mike's heading to Alabama if he can find a decent overpaid job.
Norm - I hope Mike finds something he's happy with! I was just going to comment on the new grips you ordered, those look really nice. I like the corded rubber grips that look like they're leather wrapped, although I don't play enough these days for it to matter. I used to play 2 or 3 times a week and was in a work league. Those times ended when 9/11 happened and I was on the road to contractor sites a lot inspecting data they were producing for us. The year following 9/11 I had to make 26 trips with most of them being 4 to 7-days long. The extensive travel diminished after about 3-years, but then my kids were getting older and involved in more things, and I just never got back into it.. I'm seriously thinking of starting to play more again after hearing about all your golf exploits. It is a great game!
Dream - Is your name Chris?
Regarding golf. I hate the game. The only reason I play is it coincides with my current occupation: "Watching the lawn grow"
You should get back into it. When I retired I never looked back - only forward - FORE!
Dream - Is your name Chris?
Regarding golf. I hate the game. The only reason I play is it coincides with my current occupation: "Watching the lawn grow"
You should get back into it. When I retired I never looked back - only forward - FORE!
Norm - Yes, my name is Chris. I just retired in May of 2018. I have been able to keep pretty busy with home projects, riding my bikes, grandkids, and now my car. However, my wife and I had planned on doing quite a bit of traveling, we are big time into hiking, but this Covid crap has put a damper on that for now. Taking up golf again would be another fun option . . . along with watching the grass grow!
Chris - I've been an avid camper my entire life. My projects are never ending - I enjoy them. Congratulations on retirement.
Norm - Thanks for the retirement congrats. We like to camp also, but when we hike they are usually just day hikes, but they are really tough hikes. Most of our serious hiking has been in the Rockies, a lot of 10 to 15-milers, most to summits or destinations like lakes or waterfalls, most above 12K ft. Still haven't done a 14'er yet. The highest we've been is about 13.5K ft., to the Keyhole near the top of Longs Peak in Colorado. I'll try to post some pics some day, we've got some pretty impressive ones. I have to give the photo credits to my wife though, she's the official camera person on our hikes. I'm the planner and the guide. If anyone should be able to follow a map, I should!
Chris - Trekking @ 12K'+ is quite the arduous accomplishments. Way to go. Great ambition. I've done only several @ those altitudes, but they were wonderful 10 day trips; the tree line of Mt. Robson, Alberta, Canada & the areas surrounding the Andes Mountains in Lima, Peru & LaPaz, Bolivia. I worked for the NPS (Buffalo National River, AR) for several years between undergrad & grad school (on a grant I wrote) topographically mapping the interiors of numerous caves for U.S.G.S. throughout the Ozark Plateau (Uplift) while conducting my own research along the river. I basically lived off of topo maps. I witnessed a >150 year historic flood along the river (1983) & one day early in the morning (6:45-7:00am) I'm beating myself up on an old 1800's logging trail/road in an NPS suburban sipping coffee from my coffee canteen when I spot a couple timber rattlers crossing the old trail. I'm moving about 2 mph taking a beating. Then, I spot a couple more, then a couple more... By the time I had driven less than one quarter mile I counted ~40 timber rattlers crossing the trail. They hold up in the winter at elevation above the creeks in dens in large tree root ***** until after spring melt when the waters reside so they won't get caught up in overflowing rivers, tributaries, creeks, etc. It's like a mini-migration downhill to the rivers. It was pretty wild to have witnessed such an event. Of course, I'm 40-50 miles from any form of a small town, and in complete wilderness.
Chris - Trekking @ 12K'+ is quite the arduous accomplishments. Way to go. Great ambition. I've done only several @ those altitudes, but they were wonderful 10 day trips; the tree line of Mt. Robson, Alberta, Canada & the areas surrounding the Andes Mountains in Lima, Peru & LaPaz, Bolivia. I worked for the NPS (Buffalo National River, AR) for several years between undergrad & grad school (on a grant I wrote) topographically mapping the interiors of numerous caves for U.S.G.S. throughout the Ozark Plateau (Uplift) while conducting my own research along the river. I basically lived off of topo maps. I witnessed a >150 year historic flood along the river (1983) & one day early in the morning (6:45-7:00am) I'm beating myself up on an old 1800's logging trail/road in an NPS suburban sipping coffee from my coffee canteen when I spot a couple timber rattlers crossing the old trail. I'm moving about 2 mph taking a beating. Then, I spot a couple more, then a couple more... By the time I had driven less than one quarter mile I counted ~40 timber rattlers crossing the trail. They hold up in the winter at elevation above the creeks in dens in large tree root ***** until after spring melt when the waters reside so they won't get caught up in overflowing rivers, tributaries, creeks, etc. It's like a mini-migration downhill to the rivers. It was pretty wild to have witnessed such an event. Of course, I'm 40-50 miles from any form of a small town, and in complete wilderness.
Norm- Amazing adventures you've had. I'm jealous. I'd love to get to hike in any of the worlds high mountain ranges. The Andes must have been magnificent.. I've need heard about the rattlesnake migrations before, that's an interesting biological factoid. Since my last post, I went back to check our hiking history for our last trip to Rocky Mountain National Park in 2016. We went on 10 hikes covering 107-miles. That is our record mileage for one trip. The great thing about day hikes is that it sure is nice to go back to the condo, grab a cold one, and climb into the hot tub to massage those sore muscles to get ready for the next morning!
Wow, Norm, That's more rattlers than I've seen in my entire life [and I spent a good deal of time hinting in the woods]
Most of the time I see timber rattlers its up in the mountains and almost always under a board or piece of tin. I step on a copperhead once barefoot when I was a kid and he never stuck at me [had to go clean out my shorts]
I used to quail haunt a lot down around Thomasville, Ga. Down there you see more diamond backs. I've got a 6 foot skin hanging on the wall at the lake. I shot him 10 times after I ran over him 4 times with my Jeep.
I stepped on a 4 foot one after my dog walked right over him. [also emptied my 28 gauge at him.] All day long every corn cob I stepped on felt just like Mr. No shoulders. One area of the land we hunted was a dried of lake [pond] and next to it was about a 20 acre fields loaded with Gopher turtle holes, Anytime you went int o tat area you saw at least one rattler,
I used to spent a good deal of time on Cumberland Island. On the North end is a sandy area loaded with rabbits and rattle snakes.
If you get around their food supply, You're gonna see them
Oddly enough, On my farm [home/cemetery] I've lived here since 1976 and never seen a poison snake
I have a significant snake phobia. I even change the channel if one pops up on a TV show. I had a couple of bad experiences with a copperhead and a cotton mouth as a kid. Did it for me. It didn't stop me from bird hunting and such but, I rarely did any bank fishing.
Me...when a snake shows up.
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Good Morning Guys - Since Norm and I spent so much time hiking last night, I thought I'd let you guys go on a virtual hiking trip via our pictures of our hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park in 2016. The first pic is just of our itinerary. I hope you enjoy! Small Lake on the hike to Lake Verna Lake Verna - 14-mile hike round trip Dawn and I at Lake Verna Mills Lake on our hike to Black Lake Waterfall between Mills Lake and Black Lake
Dawn at Black Lake
Final trek up to the Keyhole near the summit of Longs Peak, the arrow points toward the Keyhole which was our destination Nearing the Keyhole, now you can see how it got it's name This is a shrine to perished hikers at the Keyhole. I think there have been 28 or 29 hikers who have perished on Longs Peak
Appropriately named The Lake of Glass, on our hike to Sky Pond
I believe this is the most spectacular photo my wife has ever taken. This is Sky Pond, known for it's shark tooth spire rock formations. The day we were there, there were 3 climbers scaling the vertical face of one of the spires. Summit of Hallett Peak
Just barely sunrise at the trailhead to Lawn Lake. This huge bull elk had a harem of at least 30 cows with him. He was a monster. This young bull moose was grazing within 15 feet from the trail on our hike to Lawn Lake. Dawn having lunch at Lawn Lake Bluebird Lake. It was so cold and windy the morning we got up there we had to come part of the way back down and find a place out of the wind to eat lunch.
The glacial lakes near the summit of Mt. Ida were absolutely beautiful. The glacial silt gives many of the lakes the beautiful turquoise color. Summit of Mt. Ida. There storm brewing in the distance battered us with hail before we could get below tree line. No fun. Park Ranger took this pic for us after we finished our last hike which was Mt. Ida. 10 hikes, a total of 107-miles.
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Regarding snakes, growing up in south Louisiana we did a lot of fishing and sometimes when the boat moved under the trees along the bank it would scare the snakes and they would drop out of the trees back into the water - and sometimes into the boat.
I’ve had snakes drop into my canoe several times - they were all large banded water snakes but they make your hair stand before you can figure out what they are. They’re nearly identical to cottonmouths until you roll them over. I used to catch snakes and critters in my youth. Water snakes bite hard and don’t let go, garter/garden snakes keep biting but never hurt, rat snakes spray poop as soon as you pick them up, big green skinny grass snakes are the coolest they’ll just stare at you, milk snakes and corn snakes are very fast and hard to catch, seen many cottonmouths (I never phuque with them), have stepped on a couple copperheads never been struck at though, had a huge 6’ bull snake scare a horse while I was in the saddle (North Dakota) and almost bucked me off. The most venomous snake I’ve ever encountered was a Mojave Rattler crossing the road in far NW Arizona. Stopped, got out to check it out. A rancher coming from the opposite direction stopped, grabbed his shotgun from the rack of his back window pickup truck, approached me and asked are you done having fun, then blew its head clean off. That was an interesting event.
Thanks Dan, and thanks to everyone else who has commented this morning. Just wanted to hopefully brighten everyone's morning. I hate this Covid crap, it has put a damper on so many things. I really miss the mountains!
Hi guys,
Like Norm I was always catching snakes growing up. Hardly any poisonous snakes in Michigan, although you did hear of rare occurrences of someone getting bit by what they called a pygmy rattler. I never saw one though. Mostly caught garter snakes and black snakes. The last house I had here in Missouri had a large, wooded, rocky hillside in the back. In the spring and the fall the copperheads would.come down off the hillsides and sun themselves on my black asphalt driveway. As much as I like snakes, I killed every one of them I saw because they were just too dangerous with the kids and the dogs. My wife's family down in the boothill area of Missouri have catfish ponds. The cotton mouths love to hang around them. I don't know if they eat the catfish hatchlings and that's why they hang out there, maybe Norm can tell us. They seem to be very aggressive as they'd try to come right after you if you were fishing from the bank. I'd always have something long to kill them with if I was fishing. I like snakes, but I'll avoid the poisonous ones thank you!
Oh, they’ll eat a GOOD SIZE catfish but so will a large banded water snake - head first yum yum. I watched one one day along a river. The fish was huge and about half way down its throat. Like any snake they can unhinge their jaw. BTW, snakes are not poisonous, they are venomous.
Years ago I was bank fishing with my Dad and he walked ahead of me and got out of sight. A bit later I found what I "thought" was his yellow stringer tied off and dangling in the water, so I decided to see what he had caught. To my surprise I pulled up a 3-4 foot water moccasin with a large bulge in its midsection. The snake had swallowed the fish (not my Dad's I found out later, just coincidentally the same type of nylon cord stringer) and was stuck on the end of the stringer as it digested the fish. That was quite an unexpected sight.
In my early years we lived on a bayou and would fish and shoot pellet guns all the time. One day I spotted a very large cotton mouth on the mud bank with a 10" catfish in its mouth. I could see the puncture holes on the catfish's side where the snake had bitten it before he dragged it out of the water to swallow it. For years there had been debate amongst all of us neighborhood kids about whether a snake could bite you underwater; some of the kids had claimed the snake would drown, others said snakes could bite underwater. That catfish settled the debate once and for all.
Overcast and it rained this morning but I think it's done for awhile. Funny, it's cooler outside than it is in the house, and the AC is on.
Today was a win at work, even though I ended up working inspection anyway. That other guy came to work full of rhetoric to the effect that I had to work inspection and not him. I said, you know what, I think you do need to work inspection, as I worked 4 extra days. I don't remember that. I'll get out the schedule. So he says he'll work today. Well it turned out I couldn't sign any of the wheels anyway, because I had signed them yesterday, so I went and did inspection. I'll have that guy work extra next time I'm there. But he was gonna and knew he was beat down and that's what counts.
Snakes pretty much give me the heeby jeebies. I get a lot of snakes in the yard, living on a lake. My boy years ago would grab them in the middle and fling them in the air, like play toys. Tiger just barks at them. Mostly they are black snakes but once in a while I see one that looks like a copperhead. I'm told it's a fake copperhead, because it has round eyes and not diamond shaped eyes. I don't get that close to discern that.
Chris those pictures are absolutely beautiful. No doubt breathtaking when seen in person. Once when I was in Denver we drove to some place called LuLu City. Actually we parked the car and hiked a mile to LuLu City. It was a ghost town. Pretty going through the woods and I expected it to look like the ghost town the Brady Bunch went to visit. What we saw was a big open field with a couple of ruins. A big sign that described the place way back when. Pretty cool. I was <20 and thought walking two miles was going to break me. Wasn't long ago I'd walk 4 miles around the lake every day. Ah well.
I noticed the car was like a thousand miles overdue for an oil change, so I'm gonna go out and do that now. Might as well while it isn't raining, then it will be done for my trip this weekend. I was going to fly down to my Mom's, but I'm off Friday and leaving work at noon Thursday, so I might as well drive and take Tiger, saving him from a weekend of jail.
Okay have a good evening everyone. Hump Day awaits.
My Grandfather would always hang a dead cotton mouth on a tree limb Said it would make it rain. We don't need it now but maybe one day. Last one I saw him kill, he was in his mid 80's sitting in a lawn chair fishing.from the shore of his pond/ One came up to get some of the fish off his stringer. so he reached down and slowly pulled his stringer between his legs and cracked the snake over the head with his cane. NOT ME I had to hang him in a tree. Can't remember if it rained or not
Chris those pictures are absolutely beautiful. No doubt breathtaking when seen in person. Once when I was in Denver we drove to some place called LuLu City. Actually we parked the car and hiked a mile to LuLu City. It was a ghost town. Pretty going through the woods and I expected it to look like the ghost town the Brady Bunch went to visit. What we saw was a big open field with a couple of ruins. A big sign that described the place way back when. Pretty cool.
Okay have a good evening everyone. Hump Day awaits.
Mike - Glad you had a better day at work and put that dude in his place. There's always one ( in many cases more) that doesn't want to do their fair share!
The first time I took my wife to the mountains was in the late summer of 2009. We weren't married yet and she tagged along with me on a work trip for a class I had in Denver. After my class was over we headed up to Estes Park and Rocky Mtn. National Park for 5-days. When we rounded the last crest of the highway that then overlooks Estes Park, and you can see the big mountains for the first time, my wife broke into tears and said she'd never seen anything that beautiful. She had never seen "real" mountains before. We got engaged that weekend and the rest is history! Ever since that has been "our place".
P.S., our daily driver is past due for it's oil change too, do you want to come do mine??? Funny how I wouldn't think of letting my bikes or my 442 go past any needed maintenance, but it's so easy to do on the car we rely on to go almost everywhere. Go figure!
Chris - Your pictures are great. I entertained myself with ~10 hours of landscaping the Ponderosa today. My **** is dragging. Gorgeous weather, I believe I can taste a bit of fall weather approaching - thankfully! It's been torrid hot this summer and extremely muggy. I would not do well living on a small island in the Bayou of Louisiana where my only means of transportation was a boat or a very large mosquito. I'm hungry, time for dinner.
Chris - Your pictures are great. I entertained myself with ~10 hours of landscaping the Ponderosa today. My **** is dragging. Gorgeous weather, I believe I can taste a bit of fall weather approaching - thankfully! It's been torrid hot this summer and extremely muggy. I would not do well living on a small island in the Bayou of Louisiana where my only means of transportation was a boat or a very large mosquito. I'm hungry, time for dinner.
Norm - That's a whole lot of landscaping, no wonder your **** is dragging. Our only granddaughter arrived from Colorado Springs today, she's only 3. She's cute as a button, but man can they wear you out at that age. The horsey's back is broke if you know what I mean. I'd have been better off if they'd thrown a saddle on me! Have a nice evening!
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