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Quoted from Daditude:One of my rose bushes:
Nice blooms on that Floribunda! My father was a Rosarian and had hundreds of Roses. Its all we can do to keep our little rose bed alive. Did get it cleaned up and mulched this year, but no buds for us yet 500 miles north of you (we have had freezing temps the last three nights) 
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Quoted from LTG:I don't think anything is squirrel proof.
I watched that too - tricky squirrels, they even learned to avoid the obstacles all together.
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Quoted from DBLM:I am roughly 20-25 years younger compared to most of my waterfront neighbors but we made the decision to take the leap now so we can enjoy what the bay has to offer, even if it means I have to work a little longer.
We did the same thing 18 years ago when we moved from the city to a lake in a small town. Increased my commute time but the kids got to grow up on the lake and go to a school that didn't have 2000 kids. Its been 18 years of projects and we are not done yet, but nothing beats sitting down at the water under some shade trees with a cold one ...
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That is a very well composed picture - looks like it would make a great 500 piece puzzle!
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When I first entered the Military, I was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. Stock photos off the internet below, but they give the idea. Most of the jumps were at night with full combat load, which was about 30-40lbs more than I weighed. Seems like we were always sitting around while chuted up waiting on the plane to be repaired (and no going to the bathroom after the chutes went on, sometimes for hours). When we finally got airborne, sometimes the pilot would get lost or not lined up correctly on the drop zone and we would have to circle back around. Meanwhile the guy next to you is throwing up from partying the night before and that smell is permeating throughout the aircraft. I didn't like jumping so much but believe me, by the time the light came up and we shuffled out the door, I was ready. Of course, we would still miss the drop zone and be put in the trees, and you had to recover your chute and hoof it back to the rally point, usually 2-3 in the morning, and be up and ready for PT the next day at 6 am.
Yeah, I am not voluntarily going parachuting these days ...
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Quoted from jaytrem:Man, with all the fires, hurricanes, etc., I don't know what I should be upvoting.
While I dont want a Facebook smorgasbord of emoticons, a sympathy or stay strong choice might be nice, more so for health / deaths posts.
Quoted from catvilledoorman:The day we had the honor of World's Worst Air....
Looks like it has cleared up some since last week according to the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency. Hope that trend continues for you and all the Pacific Northwest.
From my trip last week: Military Police practicing high risk traffic stops, Engineers on our CERFP (Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package) doing search and rescue, and Chemical Specialists on the CERFP team practicing decontamination operations after an event. The CERFP supports civilian authorities in response to a CBRNE incident.
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The lake was drawn down earlier this year and deeper (about 5 feet) while siltation controls and basins are being constructed in a couple of locations including the back of our cove. This is what our lakeshore looks like now and they are about ready to start digging a out a big section of it.
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Quoted from Sputnik:Some fall color in the trees. The leaves don't look so nice in the yard.
This is my view this fall. Lake erosion control and dredging project. Water was drawn down just after labor day.
20201022_103001_HDR.jpg20201022_103139.jpgQuoted from Sputnik:Cherokee Lake varies 30 feet yearly.
30 feet is a lot, that is getting close to the deepest part of the lake. This drawn down was about 6.5 feet. I live in flatland!
Quoted from pinwiztom:A fall view out the back window at the cat feeding station
Japanese Maple looks great! Ours is really red this year as well. Just took this pic. Planted it about 15 years ago.
20201105_164821_HDR (resized).jpgQuoted from dirkdiggler:My boy is 13+ and enjoys the cold now in his senior years. I shoveled him a bed of snow and he's been out there for about a half hour now
Better get that picture posted in the dogs rule! thread! That's awesome
Quoted from Bud:Flew over the pinball capital the other night.
Looks like Chicago is doing a poor job of converting Sodium Vapor streetlights (yellow) to energy efficient LEDs (white ones). They still have a ways to go.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Round two underway
Looks like your living in Whoville...
5353539615_bd12fb76ab_b.jpgQuoted from jamesmc:Bike ride time. Daughter and granddaughter riding harley-davidson electric bikes we had built.
Those look neat! Custom build or a kit?
Quoted from dirkdiggler:A couple pics from a short trip to the auction house yesterday
Did you mean Auctioned House, winning bid must pick up same day?
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Quoted from jaytrem:Damn, they opened the dam...
We have been living with mud flats since September, as they put in erosion control and excavated out a large amount of silt in our cove. Gate still open, but excavated area has filled in with water so the view is a little better now. Won't start filling in till February this year. They took a lot of silt out, but of course wish they would have taken more. Normal pool will still be just around 24-30" by our dock.
Jealous of you guys with the White Christmas. Barely missed it last year, no where in sight this year. Still, its a balmy 15°F/-9.4°C, so got that going on .... At least the sun is shining and its not as windy today as it has been
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Surely your florabunda are not still blooming this time of year, even in Texas?
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Quoted from pinwiztom:Here in Salem OR we got hit on Friday nite with an ice storm.
Sorry to see that - and loss of some nice street trees too. I echo @poppapin, hope nobody got hurt.
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Quoted from 29REO:The large birds were out in full force this morning. Never had wild turkey, heard they are all dark meat.
My sister's boyfriend usually brings wild turkey for Thanksgiving, he smokes it and it tastes great. Its important to prepare it by brining it first as that helps to tenderize the very lean and dense meat that wild turkey not breed for meat production have.
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Quoted from TractorDoc:Heading down the drive this morning.
Well we got off easy - light dusting nothing really stuck and temps climbing already. That looks like it is going to do some damage to spring growth...
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Quoted from TractorDoc:These guys greeted me as I pulled in the drive the other night.
That's a great shot, well composed!
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Quoted from ImNotNorm:Anyone know the species?
Quoted from LTG:Looks like a Common Golden Eye.
Yep, female with her ducklings. Male has a lot more white plummage and a white spot on the face. Should be some yellow on the tip of the bill but I think can't see due to the picture resolution.
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Nowhere as clear as @tractordoc's - taken from about 50' with a cell phone camera. I am on a 2600 acre, mostly wooded campus at work and it is not unusual to see as many 30-40 deer on the evening commute home exiting the campus. They are usually in groups of 4-7. Pretty bold too, will feed right up to road.
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Quoted from Spyderturbo007:Anyone know what this wasp was doing? He flew past my head with it and landed on the tree. I don't even know what he was carrying.
My guess, it's dinner. Probably an egg mass from another insect, a common meal. It could be temporarily storing the left overs.
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Here are a few shots from the last few weeks while I was in Egypt. Street scenes from Cairo (including the Nile) and the countryside. Mediterranean Beach on the North Shore, very blue water! Of course, Giza Pyramids and the obligatory Camel shot.
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Quoted from GrahamStrong93:I enjoy reading through posts he’s posted, I’m thankful to have them. Guess I’m just taking the time to vent about our situation. Though I’ll never understand it, a great guy that didn’t deserve it, he’s fighting a damn good fight. A few months ago he posted about being in the hospital and here we are.. he’s fighting.
I have often thought about your dad's situation over the past few months and have always hoped for the best and will continue to keep him in my thoughts and continue to hope for the best for him and your family.
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First frost and rut has begun, saw these guys go at it this morning 1,000 feet from my office door. Pretty evenly matched, dark coat buck won. Sorry for the bad pictures, was worried about my car getting rammed - only 30 feet away!
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Debris from the Amazon Warehouse Roof hit by Friday's storms in Edwardsville just outside my office window. We are about 2 miles east by northeast of the distribution facility. Campus lost power till late Saturday morning, amazingly that and debris were about the only impact here. EF3 Tornado. Terrible loss of life, it is also amazing no other buildings in the industrial park collapsed, they are just about all tilt up construction, massive warehouses over one million square feet each with the roofs holding the walls together.
20211213_073309_HDR (resized).jpgQuoted from yzfguy:Aweful. With the terrible loss of lives, I didn't think about that... is there Amazon merchandise all over the place?
No, surprisingly not really, at least not here. Mostly roof insulation, some sheet metal, roof vents - light or aerodynamic parts mostly. Here is an aerial from the web. Its about a 1.5 million square foot building, and about 1/2 of it gone. The aerial from the internet below shows the extent -
amazon (resized).jpegQuoted from dirkdiggler:Mom's cats wrestling. The orange one won
I am going to guess that floor is circa 1975 but it looks like the Harvest Gold appliances have been replaced with white ones
My wife wanted lights up this year - this is what I gave her. The doe's head bobs down for a drink. I use to climb on the roof and do the icicle lights on the second story but not doing that anymore. I am amazed by those guys that start back in October getting their displays ready. Just don't have that time and/or ambition I guess.
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Quoted from EJS:Anyone had this happen to them before?
One time, the bigger damage was the big chunk of yard that was plowed up - driver missed the road by about five feet. It was aluminum and just the post was damaged - about $30 to repair the mailbox post.
Quoted from dnapac:as that was a geothermal HVAC.
Went off propane for heat 19 years ago and switched to geothermal. It paid for itself around 3 years (went in in 2002 - propane prices spiked in 2003 and kept rising. I remember my neighbor complaining, meanwhile I was paying just 5.5 cent a kilowatt from the CO-OP).
The inside unit is now 19 years old but had one of its two pumps replaced under warranty and is still going strong. Pipes in the ground will last 50 years or more.
In the summer, even more savings as the average ground temperature is around 13.88°C/57°F.
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Quoted from TractorDoc:First appreciable snow this year. I know much of you to the South and East have it worse!
We just got a dusting over the past few days - even the driveway didn't completely cover. The neighbor kids did manage to sled around a little but so far we have had a pretty mild winter (whoops, shouldn't have said that ...)
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Quoted from dirkdiggler:Playing laser pointer with mom's cats
I am giving your mom props for the carpet - avocado green certainly compliments the burnt orange she has going on in the Kitchen
floor (resized).jpgQuoted from dirkdiggler:You see the awesome red and black hotel style carpet in the hallways? Lol.
I totally missed that! Too funny. My mom & dad had a moss green wool carpet from the late 40s when the house was first built. It was actually worn to the backing in the hallway and it still took moving mountains to get my dad to replace it in the late 80s.
Quoted from zombywoof:Why the apostrophe? Is he Irish?
According to Reddit, O'possums are Irish possum's that escaped Ireland when the Potato famine hit...
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Quoted from EJS:Another car that makes me nervous to be behind. And yes I’m only taking these if it’s safe to do so.
When I saw this picture of a car tilting to one side my first thought was VBIED (vehicle borne IED, it is one of the things you kept an eye out for over in Afghanistan)
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Quoted from punkin:EJS i think it was, just went through a similar experience in the game room thread a few months ago. All machines were reported as back on and working, hopefully no long term damage to the ply.
I think he raised his up over the water on chairs (except for one that fell in) Those look like they are going to be to far gone. EJS any comments?
Quoted from jaytrem:Added a pic, water just about hit the bottom of that Disco Fever. Everything else was a little higher on bar stools and paint cans.
I still cringe seeing those pics - better post one after the fix so we can all feel a little better.
Quoted from jaytrem:Here ya go, still gotta do the window trim, but all is well!
Looking good!
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Not sure they are the same but they look like what we call bag worms.
Hard to tell from the picture but I think Fall Webworms - not generally a problem pest.
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Cardinal nest in our front bushes. They will become fledglings in about 11 days from hatching (this is about 5-6 days I think). Total time in the nest from egg laying to end is about one month. Then Cardinals will then abandon this nest and make a new one for another round (up to three a year)
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Newly born Fawn at our office front door. We are on 2600 acres of woods and fields and the deer population is pretty large. This must have seemed like a safe place to leave the Fawn when it was early and no one was here. Mama should be coming back to collect her baby ... No deer strike reports today.
Fawn (resized).jpgQuoted from littlecammi:So you looked out the front door and spotted that fawn?
I didn't see it when I came in, but co-workers did - it was literally five feet from the door! I just checked, gone now, mama must have circled back.
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Quoted from Grayman_EM:Silver Maples IMO should never be planted on a property as they are soft wood and attrac
Yeah we inherited it when we bought the property. Sugar Maple right next to it, no damage. Neighbors Silver Maple, no damage. We have talked about cutting this down before, but we will probably just trim it up. It is pretty far from the house so no danger there.
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A second storm, Saturday night, just 36 hours after the first one - Silver Maple took another beating. Still mostly intact but I am getting tired of cleaning up storm damage. Haven't even touched the downed trees in the woods. Can't remember back to back severe storms like this ever. Good news - Electrical COOP pretty much keep the power on. Cable went out for a couple of hours, that was about it. Bad news, some of my neighbors lost some nice trees and had home and garage damage.
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Quoted from mbwalker:I *think* it's just a harmless watersnake
Yeah, looks like a northern water snake. The older they get, the darker they get and can become almost be black. Not poisonous but they can bite. We are on a large lake and have lots of these guys roaming around. As the saying goes, they are more scared of you than you are of them.
Quoted from screaminr:Looks a bit like a tiger snake I saw while walking the dogs but these aren't harmless .
You guys in Australia have way more than your fair share of highly poisonous snakes, spiders, snails, etc. Seems like everything is trying to kill you there...
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Quoted from hwyhed:Working on the 40th floor..not a bad view
What are those guys in the black doing on the roof across the way - looks like some James Bond sh** going on over there.
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Quoted from RyanStl:Went to a friend's lake house this weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks.
No pictures of Party Cove?
Quoted from Hayfarmer:Officially retired today, farmed for 40 years
Congrats - thanks for being one of the less than 2% of Americans who farm and provide sustenance for the rest of us!
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Just got back from a trip to SC - stopped at Biltmore in Ashville along the way. Largest private residence in the US (It is still privately owned but open for tours) Total estate about 8,000 acres, down from 125,000 acres (of which 85,000 was sold to the US government for part of the Pisgah National Forest).
House has a game room (Billiards), two lane bowling alley, indoor swimming pool and gym... Pretty cutting edge for 1895.
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Quoted from Irishbastard:Second year attending "Flames of Hope" night for my wife, Breast cancer awareness month.
My thoughts are with you and your wife - my wife is a 10 plus year survivor, caught early by our family doctor. Went through the whole thing (lumpectomy, radiation, chemo). Last year her Oncologist declared her fully cured and no need to go back. And breast cancer treatments are even better today. We don't even think about it anymore in future planning. Fully expect her to outlive me, though in my case I will probably fall off the roof or blow up my garage before I get to old age 
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Quoted from Atari_Daze:Simply relocated it to the neighboring wooded area.
Quoted from Zartan:Copperheads are so pretty! Glad you didn’t kill it!
They used to say the babies were more venomous - I think that has been dis-proven. Still a bite from any Copperhead would not be fun and is painful, but it is very unlikely to kill you (very low venom compared to rattlesnakes, for instance). Most bites don't require anti venom (many are "dry", no venom at all), just observation and standard medical care.
This maple in our front yard is usually the prettiest of all our trees this time of year. There is a small paperbark maple with red leaves in the planter that is growing very slowly in the shadow of the big tree. But it manages to add an inch or so every year.
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This is all that is left from the 100 vehicle wreck on I-55 in Central Illinois last Monday that killed 7 and injured many more. Dust storm from farmers plowing fields to plant and super high winds.
My daughter travels to/from work this way but was working from home that day...
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