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09-30-2020, 07:18 PM | #1 |
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My FB people have already seen, the mountains and foliage are not the only beauty we have seen this NH trip. Driving down a back road through the forest and we came across this beast.
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09-30-2020, 08:40 PM | #2 |
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Tesla be verwy verwy quiet.
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10-08-2020, 03:39 AM | #3 |
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747 won the Fat Bear Contest this year...
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10-08-2020, 06:47 AM | #4 |
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Nice work 747!
I saw a fisher cat yesterday, that was pretty cool.
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10-08-2020, 02:24 PM | #5 |
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You mean one o'these?:
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10-08-2020, 08:22 PM | #6 |
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I was neck deep in the river, leaning back against the bank, and one of them (we call them fishers 'round h'yere) came hiking down the creekbank, came within about 6 feet of me. Gave no indication he knew I was there. I think he had somewhere to be.
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10-11-2020, 07:03 AM | #7 |
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I hope this poor baby doesn't get carbon fiber splinters in his gums...
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10-13-2020, 08:54 PM | #8 |
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10-14-2020, 06:33 AM | #9 |
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Wow. Shitty day
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10-14-2020, 06:43 AM | #10 |
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Good kitty
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10-14-2020, 07:07 AM | #11 |
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I think my instinct would be to throw rocks immediately, probably get me killed.
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10-14-2020, 11:16 AM | #12 |
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She just wanted him gone and her actions were to menace not attack.
Effective as hell, I'd say. |
10-28-2020, 05:23 PM | #13 |
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Caught a flying squirrel in the floor joist cavity. With a towel. Last edited by glatt; 10-28-2020 at 08:39 PM. |
10-28-2020, 07:11 PM | #14 |
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10-28-2020, 08:32 PM | #15 |
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So there had been an occasional rustle coming from the eaves. I thought it was birds in the gutter outside. My wife thought it was a mouse in the eaves. So she got me to set several mouse traps. I also set a big rat snap trap. I was skeptical. That was a week ago.
This morning at 6am we woke to a loud snapping sound and a small animal dragging a trap around in the eaves in our bedroom. We've got lots of suitcases and stuff stored in there, and it was banging its way all around our stuff in the eaves with a snap trap attached to it. Then I heard two more loud snaps as it spasmed into other traps I set. Not what you want to hear. I was hoping for a loud snap and then silence. We listened to it drag itself around in the eaves and then it dropped down into one of the joist cavities and started dragging itself across the living room ceiling and across the ceiling in my daughter's bedroom. I figured it would die in a day or two, and I just wanted to track where it was so I could cut a hole in the ceiling and retrieve the rotting body. So I began my work day, sitting at the computer in my makeshift office, and just made a point of paying attention to where it was. Then I heard it from the eaves in my office (my son's bedroom). I had been thinking about how to catch it, and decided a towel thrown over it would be the safest thing. Leather gloves, of course. I moved a shitload of my son's furniture out of the way so I could open the hatch of his eaves, and when I got the hatch cracked open slightly, I saw the flying squirrel just sitting there in my flashlight's beam with a plastic mouse trap clamped to its face. I wasn't suited up yet and didn't have a towel to throw over it, so I closed the hatch and got my stuff together. I came back and opened the hatch, and the flying squirrel was gone. So I turned back to my actual job and got a lot of work done. Eventually, in the late afternoon, I heard the squirrel again in the same eaves, so I quietly put on all my gear. I opened the hatch and saw it way at the back of the eaves where a tiny little passage about 4 inches wide leads to the wall behind the bathtub. I climbed into the dusty eaves, and crawled toward the squirrel. It was hung up between a stud and the bathroom vent duct, and was trying to back away from me, but the mouse trap was snagging on the stud. I grabbed for it and pulled it toward me. In my movement doing that, I knocked the mousetrap clamped to its face right off. It was momentarily stunned, with my headlamp shining right into its night vision eyes, and I grabbed frantically for it with just my gloves on as it tried to start running away. I was able to grab it, and shove it into the towel. I kind of wadded the towel up around it and then backed slowly out of the eaves. Went downstairs, looking like a madman, and asked my daughter to drive me to the local woods, 6 blocks away, where I could release it from my tight grip. So she did. And when I unfurled the towel to let it go, the dead flying squirrel dropped onto the ground. Apparently holding a squirrel in a death grip for a few minutes will actually kill it. At least it will rot in the woods and not in my ceiling. I just bought a real trap on Amazon, so if another one gets in, I can actually trap it in a way that it won't go dragging the trap around. |
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