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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

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I have a colleague who did that once. I asked her to remove the pic:))

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LOL! We do keep a reasonably well stocked bar at the Hotel Korpela...

I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

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I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...

I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...

Angela....LOL.
You instigator, you.

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I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...

You wouldn't want Me drunk, if I passed out I'd be almost impossible to move, last time I was unable to move on My own, it took 6 guys to lift Me. I'm built like a tank.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...

You wouldn't want Me drunk, if I passed out I'd be almost impossible to move, last time I was unable to move on My own, it took 6 guys to lift Me. I'm built like a tank.

Vic...
No need to apologize for abstaining.
There are times I wish I could have or would have.

It's all good.

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I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...

Yep:))

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I have a colleague who did that once. I asked her to remove the pic:))

How much did you have to pay? ;)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...

You wouldn't want Me drunk, if I passed out I'd be almost impossible to move, last time I was unable to move on My own, it took 6 guys to lift Me. I'm built like a tank.

I don't drink much because I've never felt the need, I don't like the taste of most forms of it, I don't want to get addicted, it's expensive, and it's bad for me medically. And Vic's reason too.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I have a colleague who did that once. I asked her to remove the pic:))

Ooooh do tell ;-))

LOL...seek and ye shall find.
Nothing on the internet ever dies......you just need the right Google terms.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Get more data and do a search. All might then be revealed ...

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I have a colleague who did that once. I asked her to remove the pic:))

How much did you have to pay? ;)

Come to think of it, she did ask me to work a Saturday in her place...

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Would you do something this crazy for a bet?

Why a drunk crossed a river on a log

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Would you do something this crazy for a bet?

Why a drunk crossed a river on a log

Yeah, well.....
Mate wasn't carrying his full satchel, now, wuz 'e?
Whut a bagger, the bugger wuz.
I could have dun that wit a dozen kittens on me back, ya see........

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Where's the Ark?

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Where's the Ark?

Methinks there were more than a pair of raccoons stowed away on the ark........

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Hello friends!

I figured it was high time I actually posted a raccoon update in the Raccoon Update thread.

Eric took this picture of Magoo tonight.


Like little Izzy from a former litter, both Marcel and Magoo have learned to climb the rail that runs around the window well in our backyard. The part of the rail that runs near our back door gives these little beggars an unobstructed view of my kitchen, so of course that is where they tend to park their lazy behinds. Such a position ensures them dinner, as who could possibly pass by those mournful raccoon eyes and not reach for a scoop of cat food and a cluster or two of grapes?

We see Marcel and Magoo, our bachelor brothers, with great regularity these days... a little too regularly for Eric's taste. Donna is long gone. This is normal and natural for this time of year. We assume she is off somewhere nursing a litter of kits. In all probability we will not see her again. A mama raccoon as young as Donna is unlikely to have the size, strength and cunning to claim and defend our backyard as her own. I also would be surprised if Gigi returns this year, given that at some time after she established her territory last summer, she had the misfortune to break one of her front legs. This would give her a distinct disadvantage this year, assuming of course, that despite her broken leg, she still found enough food and avoided/resisted diseases to live another year. Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.

In all probability, some big, bad, dominant female raccoon from a prior litter of babies will claim our backyard this summer. Perhaps this will be the year that Izzy returns? The first thing that big, bad mama raccoon will do is kick Marcel and Magoo right out!!! No mother raccoon would tolerate bachelor brothers near her babies. The process of "encouraging" those two to leave might take several nights, but eventually some mama raccoon will scare and/or scar Marcel and Magoo so badly that they will not dare to ever return again. Some raccoons are slow learners. As regular readers of this thread may recall, a few years back Interloper Mama had to work long and hard to convince Arthur that he should go away and never ever return! Eventually he got the message.

Marcel and Magoo's days of sloth and lethargy are numbered. They just don't know it yet...