Check out the current contest over on "beets contest 70"...

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

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Check out the current contest over on "beets contest 70"...

Aw shucks. The picture you posted was Joker. He's a good boy, he is. A good boy.

I believe photos like this was one of the reasons the thread Bugs and Insects was created. Someone didn't want these things popping up unexpectedly.

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~Sue~

Channahon Woman’s Squirrel Photo Wins September Portion of Forest Preserve Contest

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a roadrunner

I've only seen one of those in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Got'em in Oklahoma too.

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Got'em in Oklahoma too.

Really? I kind of always thought they were imaginary like reindeer.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Got'em in Oklahoma too.

Really? I kind of always thought they were imaginary like reindeer.

Look back a number of posts on this page. There is a picture of one the feathered birds.

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Got'em in Oklahoma too.

Really? I kind of always thought they were imaginary like reindeer.

Look back a number of posts on this page. There is a picture of one the feathered birds.

Ah yes! Handsome fellow he is.

(Or lovely lady bird)

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

You may know them as caribou, sir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer

https://firsttoknow.com/history-santas-flying-reindeer-traced-back-shamans-magic-mushrooms/

“Santa is a modern counterpart of a shaman, who consumed mind-altering plants and fungi to commune with the spirit world,” said John Rush, an anthropologist and instructor at Sierra College in Rocklin, California. “As the story goes, up until a few hundred years ago these practicing shamans or priests connected to the older traditions would collect Amanita muscaria (the Holy Mushroom), dry them, and then give them as gifts on the winter solstice. Because snow is usually blocking doors, there was an opening in the roof through which people entered and exited, thus the chimney story,” Rush told LiveScience.

In these same regions, caribou (or reindeer) also happen to be fans of Amanita muscaria and they seek out the mushrooms and eat them for the high. At least, that’s what people would like to imagine. One interesting thing about ibotenic acid is that only a fraction gets metabolized in the body to form muscimol, the rest—about 80 percent of that consumed—is passed in the urine. And the reindeer have learned that licking ibotenic acid–laden urine will produce as much of a high as eating the mushroom itself. In fact, this drugged urine will attract reindeer from far and wide. The Chuckchee people of Siberia have not let this go unnoticed, as they themselves collect the urine of their Amanita-eating shamans to trip out.

Hallucinatory perhaps, but not imaginary. ;-)

Raccoons v Toronto: how 'trash pandas' conquered the city

May all your raccoons be calmly curious - but not too curious.

https://i.imgur.com/UmIRhL5.gifv

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Caribou (or reindeer) also happen to be fans of Amanita muscaria and they seek out the mushrooms and eat them for the high.

Interesting little factoid. Thank you, Sir. :~)

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These reindeer have been fed a mushroom that makes their urine hallucinogenic. Or have they? Sam Williams visits Carsten Höller's new 'scientific experiment'
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/dec/21/carsten-holler-soma

What could be more festive than spending a night locked in an art gallery with a dozen reindeer and a fridge full of psychedelic drugs? Soma, Carsten Höller's current installation in a former railway station in Berlin, purports to be offering exactly that. A pen running the length of the Hamburger Bahnhof, now the city's contemparary art museum, contains 12 reindeer, 24 canaries, eight mice and two flies. Giant toadstool sculptures are planted on a mushroom clock that the reindeer can turn with their antlers, and at the centre is a mushroom-shaped "floating hotel" – a bed on a platform complete with minibar, yours for €1,000 a night.
Those tempted to make a Christmas visit should bear in mind that the Hamburger Bahnhof is closed on Christmas Eve. "The reindeer have somewhere else to be that day," the museum explained.

Carsten Höller is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. LOL:)

Another seasonal find at Walmart. This is described as a candy jar. It's smaller than a cookie jar. Only about six inches (15cm) tall. They have a cookie jar version as well, but I already have a raccoon cookie jar from last year.

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You might be able to it sell for enough to finance your furnace repair job.

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You might be able to it sell for enough to finance your furnace repair job.

I agree! I'll bet it's worth a few dollars. Have you ever checked on its value?

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Nice looking piece, far from my style, but if it is porcelain then read on:
ebay is not the best place to get a proper valuation on this sort of item - I know someone in the UK who has access to the pottery marks catalogue, who, if he saw a picture of the mark might be able to trace the actual pottery, and thus give a pretty good idea of its value. Please be aware that it might be worth a few cents, or could be worth a "decent slice". A couple of questions, how tall is it, and which part is the lid - neither of which are obvious in your photo.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?