Beets,

Here is the first of quite a few eagle pics.

This was taken from my back deck.

Wow!!! Great pic, Bob!

I love the scenery, and you can really feel the flowing motion of that eagle. You nailed down a great shot there!

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Just a bit of a laugh. :]]

That's hilarious...The funniest thing i've seen all day...and i've had quite a few laughs today...That beats 'em all.

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Just wanted to stop in and say “Hi”, Beets. :)

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Just wanted to stop in and say “Hi”, Beets. :)

Kenzie!!!

Wow!!! How great to see you!!!

Thanks for Puff the Magic Dragon wave! From sea to shining sea, may we always see each other. :]]

How've you been? It's been such a long time! This really cheers me up.

Thanks!!!

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How's the eyes doing Beets? any better?

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Just wanted to stop in and say “Hi”, Beets. :)

Kenzie!!!

Wow!!! How great to see you!!!

Thanks for Puff the Magic Dragon wave! From sea to shining sea, may we always see each other. :]]

How've you been? It's been such a long time! This really cheers me up.

Thanks!!!

I am fine. Figured that it might be safe for a wee (and somewhat abrasive) Canuck girl to stick her nose back into things around here.

So far so good.

Do you still have a "Comics" thread? I really miss that!

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Thanks Beets,
Here is another one:

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Do you still have a "Comics" thread? I really miss that!

Hi Kenzie! Although I'm not Beets, I can point you in the direction of the comic thread. Just follow the yellow brick road till you get there. ---------------> Here it is!

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I am fine. Figured that it might be safe for a wee (and somewhat abrasive) Canuck girl to stick her nose back into things around here.

So far so good.

Do you still have a "Comics" thread? I really miss that!

You're going to come back and have fun with us? Why, that's the very best news I've had all day!!! :]]]

Seeing that's the case, I'm going to make a special effort to put up some more comics. Have you got any favourites among the comics I used to put up?

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Thanks Beets,
Here is another one:

Hey! That's another real nice pic, Bob! :]]

Which leads me to this question (if you know): men have trained falcons but I never heard of anyone having a trained eagle. Are eagles untrainable or unable to be domesticated?

Just wondering. :]

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How's the eyes doing Beets? any better?

Thanks for asking, John. :]]

It's been much better since I started taking the strong antibiotic eyedrops, though I won't find out until Tuesday (opthamologist appointment) whether this treatment will really work. We still don't know whether this is a bacteria, a fungus or a flesh-eating virus. I'm going for Door Number 1. LOL

"Here's looking at you, Kid." - Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca"





HAHAHAHAHAH!

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Thanks Beets,
Here is another one:

Hey! That's another real nice pic, Bob! :]]

Which leads me to this question (if you know): men have trained falcons but I never heard of anyone having a trained eagle. Are eagles untrainable or unable to be domesticated?

Just wondering. :]

Hi Beets,

No I haven't heard of such either. I do know that there are eagles in captivity, and their handlers handle them like the falcons But I think it is because of their size that they are not trained they can weigh over twenty pounds compared to the ten to twelve pounds of the falcons. they are about twice the size of a falcon, and Their natural prey are not the same.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Thanks Beets,
Here is another one:

Hey! That's another real nice pic, Bob! :]]

Which leads me to this question (if you know): men have trained falcons but I never heard of anyone having a trained eagle. Are eagles untrainable or unable to be domesticated?

Just wondering. :]

Hi Beets,

No I haven't heard of such either. I do know that there are eagles in captivity, and their handlers handle them like the falcons But I think it is because of their size that they are not trained they can weigh over twenty pounds compared to the ten to twelve pounds of the falcons. they are about twice the size of a falcon, and Their natural prey are not the same.

They are gorgeous birds though. They must have one of the longest bird wing spans in the world. Have you got any pics of an eagle gliding with its wings spread? I'd love to see one of those. :]]

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Good to see you Beets! ;-)

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Good to see you Beets! ;-)

Thanks Moon of my Moon!!!

It's always a delight to see you here! That "Welcome Back" pic is real nifty! :]]

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This just in...


Man sets new world record for flying in a garden chair.


So some of you are bored, sitting in your garden chairs during the midst of a lazy summer? Try this! what this man did.







In a craft that could have been plucked straight from a Heath Robinson cartoon, Kent Couch covered about 235 miles over Oregon and Idaho in about nine hours.

Taking off from his home town of Bend, Oregon, in a green garden chair suspended from more than 150 helium-filled balloons, he sailed across the state’s high desert and into Idaho.

He landed in a field in Cambridge to be greeted by a surprised farming community.

Mr Couch, 48, a petrol station owner, said his mode of flight was “not that dangerous”. He navigated with a satellite-guided tracking device but his other aviation techniques were as unconventional as the aircraft.

Take-off was assisted by throwing out ballast in the form of cherry-flavoured Kool-Aid, a sickly-sweet soft drink that the pilot spilled from his chair.
The landing was equally novel. Mr Couch pulled out a ball-bearing gun and kept shooting balloons until he settled on the ground.

“If I had the time and money and people, I’d do this every weekend,” said Mr Couch.

“Things just look different from up there. You’re moving so slowly. The best thing is the peace, the serenity.

“Originally, I wanted to do it because of boyhood dreams. I don’t know about girls, but I think most guys look up in the sky and wish they could ride on a cloud.”

His wife, Susan, said he was eccentric. “It’s never been a dull moment since I married him,” she said.

It was his third attempt at reaching Idaho. In 2006, he had to parachute out after he popped too many balloons. Last year, Mr Couch flew 193 miles, coming down just before he got out of Oregon.
As a result, he added more balloons for his third attempt. Dozens of volunteers wearing “Dream Big” T-shirts filled balloons five feet wide and attached them to strings in clusters of six.

Each balloon provided 4lb of lift. The chair weighed about 400lb, and the pilot and his parachute about 200 more.“I’d go to 30,000ft if I didn’t shoot a balloon down periodically,” Mr Couch said.

He supplemented his BB gun with a blowgun equipped with steel darts. He also had a pole with a hook for pulling in balloons, a satellite phone and supplies of boiled eggs, beef jerky and chocolate.

Mr Couch, a former hangglider pilot, said he was inspired after watching a television show about a 1982 lawn chair flight over Los Angeles by Larry Walters, who was fined $1,500 for violating air traffic rules when he floated to a height of three miles.

Local people in Cambridge rushed to meet Mr Couch as he flew past the town some 100ft to 200ft off the ground. Mark Hetz, a plumber, said “When he hit the ground he released all the tiny balloons.

“People were racing down the road with cameras. They were all talking and laughing.”

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Thanks Beets,
Here is another one:

Hey! That's another real nice pic, Bob! :]]

Which leads me to this question (if you know): men have trained falcons but I never heard of anyone having a trained eagle. Are eagles untrainable or unable to be domesticated?

Just wondering. :]

Hi Beets,

No I haven't heard of such either. I do know that there are eagles in captivity, and their handlers handle them like the falcons But I think it is because of their size that they are not trained they can weigh over twenty pounds compared to the ten to twelve pounds of the falcons. they are about twice the size of a falcon, and Their natural prey are not the same.

They are gorgeous birds though. They must have one of the longest bird wing spans in the world. Have you got any pics of an eagle gliding with its wings spread? I'd love to see one of those. :]]

Sure do one of those coming right up.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Here you go Beets. Their wing span is over 6 feet.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Here you go Beets. Their wing span is over 6 feet.

HOORAY!!!

That's a great shot, Bob!!! The shadow really makes it all work.


Well done!!!

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Hmmm... ;-) I see Eagle having fun with posting photos..so I have desided to try to post 2 photos to say welcome back to our Beets.. ;-) I promise i will not fill up your thread totally.. but i have some kind of abstinence.. ;-)

The first one here is one of my neighbours who came a little too close.. but it is not hurting coconuts, so its ok really.. ;-)

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