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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 31, 2023 4:20:50 GMT
Today's cuteness. Mule deer fawns ... twins and an only child. ![](https://i.ibb.co/ggcy9sV/mule-fawn-FB-CAS00820.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/dppB0h2/fawn-twins-FB-CAS00771.jpg)
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Post by jackscrap on Jul 31, 2023 8:14:22 GMT
Golden wattle with bees 🐝 ![](https://i.ibb.co/8XGryhN/IMG-3298.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/cFzK58N/IMG-3299.jpg)
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 31, 2023 8:27:42 GMT
Golden wattle with bees 🐝 It's late July here so you are just about to go into February down there; ain't it a bit early for you to be having flowers and bees; or, am I not fully understanding this down under business ?
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 31, 2023 8:48:21 GMT
So my grandson told me last summer about "boat parties". I am going to surmise that he didn't tell you the whole story.
Our Lake Cumberland is notorious for huge boat parties, especially at a place called 76 Falls - a 76-foot water-fall --- where anywhere from sixty to a hundred or more boats will gather and the inebriated inhabitants will throw all their inhibitions overboard; biker gangs seem rather tame in comparison.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 31, 2023 9:04:49 GMT
Bin chicken (ibis) ![](https://i.ibb.co/F4B9zwb/IMG-3257.jpg) That looks like that big old aggravating bird that is on that South African cooking detective lady with the pet chicken TV showwhich affirms my refusal to eat anything at a potluck dinner.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 31, 2023 9:18:50 GMT
Still an excellent photo Clive! Thanks for sharing. We don't have hummingbirds where I am, so its a treat to see your photos of wildlife and nature. Kind regards Chris My aunt has them by the hundreds; it is dangerous to sit on her front porch; I think they get drunk on whatever it is she puts in them feeders.
I don't even have a feeder out and was standing in the open door the other evening and one flew right in my face; he almost came inside; they are like bullets.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 31, 2023 20:53:46 GMT
My aunt has them by the hundreds; it is dangerous to sit on her front porch; ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) I get that. A (late) friend had a house with a porch on a river on the edge of the mountains. The hummers were annoying when you sat out. Wish we'd see more at home and at the summer place.
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Post by jackscrap on Jul 31, 2023 22:59:52 GMT
Golden wattle with bees 🐝 It's late July here so you are just about to go into February down there; ain't it a bit early for you to be having flowers and bees; or, am I not fully understanding this down under business ?August is the last month of winter, but Spring is already lurking and many native trees are flowering, the bees are around all year as there is always something in bloom for them to gather their supplies.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 1, 2023 6:16:35 GMT
I don't plan to be buried Are you thinking maybe a scaffold instead ?
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 1, 2023 6:53:09 GMT
Three days ago, neighbours came home, to find an estate agents sign had been put up at their house. Several years ago, our shop was in a very busy street corner that tended to collect signs; auction signs, real estate signs, campaign signs, yard sale signs, etc.
There was this huge two-legged realtor's sign that, for months and months, had been laying face-down beside where the shop truck always sat.
Me and another guy got sent on a mission that I knew would take us past the home of this super-annoying not-so-bright guy that we had the misfortune of having to work with.
When we were getting in the truck to leave out on our mission, nobody in the shop was paying any attention, so I heaved this huge sign over in the back of the truck; and, when we passed this guy's house with no other traffic in sight, we made a quick stop and "listed" his home by standing that big old realtor's sign in the middle of his front yard.
The steel frame of the sign was made with a long spike at each end with foot-plates to stand on and press the spikes in the ground; so, in that crawdaddy ground he lived in, it was only a matter of seconds to have the sign standing tall and proud.
His wife was the first to come home and see the sign; and, her being no quicker than he was, it was amusing to observe and hear their reactions to this new development.
It was hard to maintain a straight and innocent face while listening to the episode play out.
When he called the realtor to ask who gave them authority to be putting a sign in his yard, of course they had no clue whatsoever what he was going on about and dismissed him for the lunatic he was as they hadn't been out putting up signs anywhere for several days.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 1, 2023 7:11:00 GMT
I love that old weather-worn wood. What an interesting shape the roof has also. That is a "Hip Roof"Now, regarding your avatar, jim: Way back a million years ago when I was a kid, we had Squirt in our big old ice-cold drink cooler at our filling station; I thought it was nectar from heaven; cold enough to bust your teeth coming out of that old cooler that only had one setting = ice cold. The thick glass bottles hung by their necks in "tracks"; and, you worked your selection out of the track and pulled it up and out via this bear-trap of a mechanism that your money released the jaws to allow one drink bottle to pass. Those old thick glass bottles were wonderful and it should be illegal to sell a drink in anything else. My wife was in Cracker Barrel where they somehow have many of the old drinks one remembers from childhood, for sale in glass bottles and six-pack cartons; and, she brought me a six-pack of Squirt; it was every bit as wonderful as I remembered as a kid.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Aug 1, 2023 16:59:05 GMT
Are you thinking maybe a scaffold instead ? Neither. Just a can of ashes spread somewhere in SW Alberta. Possibly even this cemetery.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 1, 2023 17:34:32 GMT
Are you thinking maybe a scaffold instead ? Neither. Just a can of ashes spread somewhere in SW Alberta. Possibly even this cemetery. What if Cold Case Files discovers later that you have been murdered and here you have done went and incinerated all the evidence ?
Even so, you need to put up a $3,800 monument either way, else you won't get to be in Find a Grave.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Aug 1, 2023 17:59:57 GMT
Even so, you need to put up a $3,800 monument either way, else you won't get to be in Find a Grave. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) We bought my dad's ground-level "monument" for $750 CAD.
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Post by Jim on Aug 1, 2023 21:37:18 GMT
Now, regarding your avatar, jim: Way back a million years ago when I was a kid, we had Squirt in our big old ice-cold drink cooler at our filling station; I thought it was nectar from heaven; cold enough to bust your teeth coming out of that old cooler that only had one setting = ice cold. The thick glass bottles hung by their necks in "tracks"; and, you worked your selection out of the track and pulled it up and out via this bear-trap of a mechanism that your money released the jaws to allow one drink bottle to pass. Thanks, Buckskin. I remember those old pop machines also - where you'd have to drag a bottle along the row where it was hanging by its bottle-neck. We also had that kind of machine at our school except there it had choc. and white small bottles of milk in it instead of pop (Oops. I guess everyone calls it "soda" these days ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) ). BTW, I have an original early '50's Squirt decal/sticker like we had as kids so I made my avatar from one of those. We would soak the decal in water until the photo would slide off its paper backing and then carefully apply it to a window or our on bike fender, etc. where it would stick nicely. ![](https://i.ibb.co/KjBLq4j/Little-Squirt.webp)
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