Well thanks, I'll keep this patina around a little while. It would be a real pain to sand off the 3 coats of poly I have on it.
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It's all about the huckleberry here. Of course they've been long gone for over a month. I ventured out for them only once this year. The drought caused a small crop and the serious pickers didn't leave much behind. The ones for sale were small, tart, and expensive.I am moving around not even close to 100% yet feeling pretty good just the same thanks for asking
I am really really enjoying the down time . And the fact that things are slow is ok with me . I haven't lifted my head up for many years its nice to chill .
I hope everyone is enjoying there summer . I went blueberry and black berry picking yesterday it was a wonderful day feels great to step back and enjoy nature
Blackberries? Got a gallon out of my yard. My blueberries produced 7 edible berries from 6 plants.
I swear the blackberries around here are carnivorous. The amount of flesh they've exacted with their shark tooth-sized thorns goes well beyond simple self defence.
Sorry Papa, but with a large population of rattlesnakes, Gila Monsters, Bark Scorpions, Tarantulas, Black Widows, swarms of biting Black Flies, etc and the very real possibility of heatstroke a few thorns just doesn't seem like much of a nuisance or deterrent to me.
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Can you tell it's 3AM and I'm bored?
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Sorry Papa, but with a large population of rattlesnakes, Gila Monsters, Bark Scorpions, Tarantulas, Black Widows, swarms of biting Black Flies, etc and the very real possibility of heatstroke a few thorns just doesn't seem like much of a nuisance or deterrent to me.
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Can you tell it's 3AM and I'm bored?
Fair enough. No scorpions or black widows (or brown recluses) here.
Just these...
While there are a lot of black bears in that state Papa, they are not found in the SW corner of it where the berry patch is. But that area is prime cougar country. Neither would matter though. There has only been one fatal black bear attack ever recorded in that state, about 10 years ago 300 miles north of there; and there has never been a fatal cougar attack recorded there. The years I lived there I saw quite a few cougars because I spent so much time in the areas wild country almost every day. I also intentionally called a couple in there with mouth calls I made just for the thrill of pitting my skills against theirs one on one.
My mother was a school teacher, mostly on Vancouver Island. In her career, she lost 3 students to cougar attacks... all while picking berries. You'd have had a field day - in fact, several of my teachers during that time were active in the cougar culling scene.
Wow, you guys... You're making the ticks we have to watch for here in Oklahoma while berry picking seem like friendly little pets. Ha.
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Kids killed by Cougers.
Heeeeere kitty kitty!
I was gonna like this post til I scrolled down and saw all the nasty pictures!!Sorry Papa, but with a large population of rattlesnakes, Gila Monsters, Bark Scorpions, Tarantulas, Black Widows, swarms of biting Black Flies, etc and the very real possibility of heatstroke a few thorns just doesn't seem like much of a nuisance or deterrent to me.
lol Jan!
Yeah, gators are different, all right. When I lived in Upstate N.Y., animals that were potentially dangerous were out there, but not often seen, unless you were in the woods, in their habitat. Here in Florida, gators are everywhere, and often in close proximity to humans. Every pond, canal, or even golf course water hazard, may contain gators. I saw a couple pretty good size ones this morning, while I was playing golf.
I had no idea golf was so dangerous!
When I was stationed at Ft. Stewart, Ga (about an hour from Savannah), they used to close the golf course for several hours in order to get the gators off the GREENS. Then again, everything was a problem in that swamp, I remember the airfield once pumped upwards of 20k gallons of aviation fuel before they realized it was just a mosquito that had landed on the runway
I'm lurking per usual. Having great fun with all the cheap squonk knock offs and modders planning their new squonkers and endlessly promising and all the imbeciles just following right along....it's comical. There is no place like Reoville and all the wannabe imitators these days just put the REO higher and higher up on the pedestal.
I am moving around not even close to 100% yet feeling pretty good just the same thanks for asking
I am really really enjoying the down time . And the fact that things are slow is ok with me . I haven't lifted my head up for many years its nice to chill .
I hope everyone is enjoying there summer . I went blueberry and black berry picking yesterday it was a wonderful day feels great to step back and enjoy nature
Enjoy the fruits of your labor. You remind me so much of a dear friend down the road, he builds airplanes and only knows "to work, work, work" and even in his down-time at night he tells me he is "thinking about solving a problem" he ran into on a wiring harness or something
or building a floatation tank thingie for a bunch of diver friends we have. It's good, he loves to work. Maybe work is play to him. But downtime is necessary part of HEALING after surgery, so glad to hear you are taking it a little easier!
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