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Message 1064676 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 16:45:38 UTC - in response to Message 1064660.  

When the birds come to the feeders, I sit with a catapult and many 1/2" ball bearings to shoot at the neighbours if they try to hunt the birds.

Great sport with the ....

Drones and Water bombs sounds interesting, At least from here. ;)
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Message 1064725 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 20:01:23 UTC

Water bombs can be made from A4 sheet. Makes a great splash
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Message 1064765 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 21:38:14 UTC

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Message 1064766 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 21:42:11 UTC - in response to Message 1064765.  


That's just awesome!

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Message 1064890 - Posted: 9 Jan 2011, 8:30:58 UTC


She´s so cute and getting same popular in germany as Knut was.



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Message 1065223 - Posted: 10 Jan 2011, 13:47:14 UTC

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Message 1065314 - Posted: 10 Jan 2011, 18:53:01 UTC - in response to Message 1065304.  

Doesn't look that old to me .....?


Probably a non-smoker then.

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Message 1065419 - Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 1:07:20 UTC

Are we sure this is not the grand daughter of the original kitty?


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Message 1065502 - Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 5:22:21 UTC

One thing's for sure.... looks like ol' Lucy has held up a whole lot better than I have.
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Message 1065570 - Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 12:07:31 UTC

Cats can live up to ~20 years (that's your pampered Siamese) For a feral non descript tabby 'we saw her in the fish shop in the 70ies' to claim 39 (or rather for the villargers to claim 39)...
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Message 1066859 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 4:42:19 UTC

May or not be true.....although I doubt it, judging from the pic.

Apparently, there are documented cases of cats living almost this long, although I never would have believed it.


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Message 1066966 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 15:01:27 UTC

Like I said, it is all about life style. Maybe the cat doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't stay up late and doesn't chase after the opposite sex. Then it died of boredom at 39.

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Message 1066976 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 15:47:54 UTC - in response to Message 1066966.  

Like I said, it is all about life style. Maybe the cat doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't stay up late and doesn't chase after the opposite sex. Then it died of boredom at 39.

Actually being Cats are Nocturnal, They by definition do stay up late, We Humans though just go to sleep too early for them.
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Message 1067073 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 20:23:00 UTC - in response to Message 1067020.  
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A couple of critter photos I found as I was scanning old slides.



Elk in the Valle Grande

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Mule Deer in Bandelier National Monument.


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Message 1067131 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 22:57:09 UTC

Nice, John! Thank you for posting these pictures.
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Message 1067137 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 23:09:36 UTC
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I haven't forgotten my last promise to post some fox videos I took, but I haven't set aside time to do it yet. I will though....

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Message 1067146 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 23:26:47 UTC

One of these days I'll start in earnest on moving My Dads 1400 or so Kodachrome slides to the PC and to CD's or maybe DVD's. I've got the scanner to do It with Bit I have no idea how big a hard drive I'll need or how many slides will fir onto a CD/DVD at Max Resolution(Same as an HD TV really for ease of viewing). But I think I'm getting closer.
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Message 1067159 - Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 23:59:53 UTC - in response to Message 1067146.  

One of these days I'll start in earnest on moving My Dads 1400 or so Kodachrome slides to the PC and to CD's or maybe DVD's. I've got the scanner to do It with Bit I have no idea how big a hard drive I'll need or how many slides will fir onto a CD/DVD at Max Resolution(Same as an HD TV really for ease of viewing). But I think I'm getting closer.

Figure 5MB / Photo. Should be about 10GB or so of HD space for you.

BTW, you are lucky. I have several thousand. My dad has several thousand, and my grandfather has several thousand.

I need a better solution than the flatbed scanner I am using now. It tends to mis-frame.


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Message 1067160 - Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 0:01:04 UTC

And just to tie things all together, here's the world's oldest Deere, John.
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