I just hope my only encounters with bears are in videos and the zoo.

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In my experience with bears the problem was that they think, and I can't read their minds!

I cant even read human minds:)
Most of our bear encounters when they attack humans are to hunters with a rifle!
Maybe bears are mind readers...

However Mothers Little Olle:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDXYSaTZKzA

I saw someone skid a pickup truck nearly off the road to avoid a Canada goose the other day. Damn things have no sense of danger.

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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 hear that German cars are much more careful .....

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Good luck Vic. :-)

Thanks TL.

The LG LW1015ER a/c unit is installed, it works great, plus the unit comes with a remote control with 1 battery, yep that's all the remote uses, the installer used caulk all around the a/c unit and the plexiglass window that He installed, the temp is better now since I closed up some windows that I had open, I did that at 1:19pm, it's now 2:50pm. The a/c unit also has a vent that can be opened and closed at the unit, that is closed too. The temp inside before was 86F(the temp on TV is for nearby Barstow CA and is 1F less than in Yermo CA), the temp is now 78F inside and dropping. Grace likes the a/c unit.. I'll have to install a new window behind the desk here soon enough, but there goes about $330 or so, for a custom sized dual pane vinyl window.

Here's a pic of the a/c remote, it's not much, but this only uses 1 AAA battery.

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

I saw someone skid a pickup truck nearly off the road to avoid a Canada goose the other day. Damn things have no sense of danger.

Yes. Same problem here.
I was biking and met a bunch of Canada geese once.
They didn't move!
Stupid animals.
Why are they here?

Canada Goose poop...

I saw someone skid a pickup truck nearly off the road to avoid a Canada goose the other day. Damn things have no sense of danger.

Yes. Same problem here.
I was biking and met a bunch of Canada geese once.
They didn't move!
Stupid animals.
Why are they here?

Because you choose to live beneath their flight path...... :)


In 68 years as a Colorado native, and I fish and hunt fowl in the mountains regularly, I've only encountered a bear once.

30 years ago a friend and I used to fish the Beaver ponds in South Park(yes it's a real place), and we would always stop on the way in at a sawmill with a giant pile of 'cut offs' that made great campfire fuel. We got there after dark one Friday and as I rounded the end of the pile my flashlight caught a young bear right in the eyes coming around from the other side.

Scared both of us, he/she sat back on his/her rear legs, 'Whoofed' once and took off running in the opposite direction from the way I took off running......we got wood the next day.

";D)

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Hold on there, aren't we all looking for ET?

Lets hope they don't swing by this place, they'd end up with an entire asylum filled with people shouting "winning!".

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Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

They would have their own "wow" event.

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Hold on there, aren't we all looking for ET?

Lets hope they don't swing by this place, they'd end up with an entire asylum filled with people shouting "winning!".

they'd probably think it had something to do with Charlie Sheen.

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Reality Internet Personality

The only problem I can see with this is that when the men in white coats turn up and find out that Eric spends his days searching for Aliens, it might be hit and miss as to which one of you they take away.

LOL!!!!

Actually, I'm not the only one around here who bursts into song about the animals in our backyard. After Mother's Day brunch on Sunday Eric spotted a nice big lizard sunning itself on a retaining wall outside. Eric asked our nephew Nico (age 4) and our niece Claire (age 2) if they wanted to go see the lizard. When both children said "yes" Fun Uncle Eric (...or "Funcle Eric", as we call him...) held hands with the kids and skipped towards the back door singing "We're off to see the Lizard!!!"

The only problem I can see with this is that when the men in white coats turn up and find out that Eric spends his days searching for Aliens, it might be hit and miss as to which one of you they take away.

LOL!!!!

Actually, I'm not the only one around here who bursts into song about the animals in our backyard. After Mother's Day brunch on Sunday Eric spotted a nice big lizard sunning itself on a retaining wall outside. Eric asked our nephew Nico (age 4) and our niece Claire (age 2) if they wanted to go see the lizard. When both children said "yes" Fun Uncle Eric (...or "Funcle Eric", as we call him...) held hands with the kids and skipped towards the back door singing "We're off to see the Lizard!!!"

Here we have both Squirrels and Lizards, just north of the park here.

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

"We're off to see the Lizard!!!"

Sounds like it was a lot
of fun to us here as well.

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Eric always laughs when I sing songs like this one. I'm pretty sure it is just a polite laugh to hide the fact that he is quietly looking up the addresses of nearby insane asylums on his cell phone.

That man is a keeper.

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The only problem I can see with this is that when the men in white coats turn up and find out that Eric spends his days searching for Aliens, it might be hit and miss as to which one of you they take away.

Nah, they live in Berkeley. Having been to Berkeley and Oakland many times (visiting friends and Shipmates), I can say that Eric and Angela are much closer to "normal" than "crazy", at least by East Bay standards.......

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I saw someone skid a pickup truck nearly off the road to avoid a Canada goose the other day. Damn things have no sense of danger.

Yes. Same problem here.
I was biking and met a bunch of Canada geese once.
They didn't move!
Stupid animals.
Why are they here?

Because you choose to live beneath their flight path...... :)

HeHeHe.
First Sweden introduced the first canada geese as prey, at the initiative of Bengt Berg. In 1927 he brought the first two individuals from a zoo in Holland, because they were so nice. 1940 moved Bengt Berg to Eriksberg, Blekinge. Since then it has spread to large parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, and since the 1960s the Northern European population had an almost exponential expansion.

The police was once contacted by the parents of a child that have been attacked by an aggressive goose at Djurgårdsbron. The daughter must have fallen and got mild concussion and lacerations, said the Stockholm police.

This a very rare incident.

The only problem I can see with this is that when the men in white coats turn up and find out that Eric spends his days searching for Aliens, it might be hit and miss as to which one of you they take away.

LOL!!!!

Actually, I'm not the only one around here who bursts into song about the animals in our backyard. After Mother's Day brunch on Sunday Eric spotted a nice big lizard sunning itself on a retaining wall outside. Eric asked our nephew Nico (age 4) and our niece Claire (age 2) if they wanted to go see the lizard. When both children said "yes" Fun Uncle Eric (...or "Funcle Eric", as we call him...) held hands with the kids and skipped towards the back door singing "We're off to see the Lizard!!!"

Since you liked 1776 so much, here's one you'll love, 'Momma Look Sharp - 1776 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)', this echoes the Boston massacre of 1770 by the armed Red Coats.

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

...or "Funcle Eric", as we call him...

HeHeHe
I was called Fake Granddad by my GF's grandchildren:)

Off to see the lizard, the wonderful lizard of "OZ".

I get fruit bats in my back yard. Flashing them with my 800 lumens tactical torch makes them move on.

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Well as long as the Bats, Monday, aren't driving you, Batty..

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