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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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That's interesting. For at least a decade, we've had a red-shouldered hawk that has routinely taken up a post in a large oak tree across from Fort Winslow (usually just a stop on its patrol, rather than a nest proper). I also used to hear a great horned owl in the pre-dawn hours, right outside my office window - but not this year. The crows have been moving in with such numbers lately, I can't help but wonder if they're displacing some of the "regulars."
I like 'em on principle, but still... we want our raptors back, [bleep] it.
That's interesting. For at least a decade, we've had a red-shouldered hawk that has routinely taken up a post in a large oak tree across from Fort Winslow (usually just a stop on its patrol, rather than a nest proper). I also used to hear a great horned owl in the pre-dawn hours, right outside my office window - but not this year. The crows have been moving in with such numbers lately, I can't help but wonder if they're displacing some of the "regulars."
I like 'em on principle, but still... we want our raptors back, [bleep] it.
It's probably Randall Flagg's doing. Speaking of which, about time to watch the series and read the book again.
It depends. That also happens to be a common post I will make in a poll thread.
That's my favorite form to use when greeting certain people...
Bullet holes work well.
Here's a great song from the era that mixes disco, funk, and jazz.
Similar for bass strings (long and shiny).
I move them about six miles away aross a fairly major river.Right, once they've been on the first visit, they think they've got an all season pass!
I wonder if it would help to take in some eagles or owls. Or at least some hawks.
ETA: I see the situation is other than a quick return from nearby. Could I interest you in a trebuchet then? Or a compressed air punkin chucker?
It's definitely Flagg. The clocking of his boot heels on the road at night is the giveaway. I reread the book early-ish last year.
I read something years ago about moving chipmunks. It was a paper put out, IIRC, by Virginia Tech. A guy got fed up with the chipmunks tunneling in his garden and flower beds and would trap them and drive them a few miles away and release them. Back they came. He thought he recognized a couple of them. So the next time he trapped them he painted numbers on their backs before releasing them even further away. You guessed it. They came back. After several ever-longer excursions over an I-don't-remember-how-long period of time it turned out that, at least for the chipmunks that liked that guy's yard, twenty miles was the distance from which they couldn't find their way back.
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Cats will do the job
We had the original paperback and I bought it on Kindle a few years ago. Kindle updated it with the 400 or so pages cut when it was originally published. It's almost 1200 pages now. Still my favorite of his books. The Dark Tower series is excellent, too!
When the mini-series came out we had some reservations on the casting (Molly Ringwald, really?) but now we can't see anyone else in it. Jamey Sheridan was outstanding as Flagg! The series made reading the book even better.
Until you have to start catching all of them to get them to the vet for neutering... And then you start getting raccoons again that need to be taken away long distances after getting themselves caught in the humane cat traps...
Of course you know how I know this, right?
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Another fine outing...good meds for a GOF Monday.
These folks are amazing. I'm hoping they get somewhere near me on their next tour. They'll be in Orlando 10/02/21. Gots to try to go.
EDIT: Just found out they have a composer who writes all their music: Comrade Reguspatoff.
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My music stand is solid. Many musicians have ones with holes. They make it a bit lighter but I don't see any other advantage.
Won't the notes fall through?
Won't the notes fall through?
Cats don't get put out at night much anymore.
Never saw the series, and don't know whether I want to. Afraid it'll mess up the mental pictures I have of everything and everyone. The drawings in the expanded book are bad enough, to me.
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less top-heavy.
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