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One thing that made me happy today. - confused2 - Jun 13, 2018
My new solid state drive perks up my old computer like magic. Compilation time down from 36 seconds to 6.
On the not-so-happy front I saw a baby seagull that had fallen out of its nest think a car was a new friend.
Turned out not to be a friend at all.
Sniffle.
I choose to dwell on the good things.
Some of the time.
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - Secular Sanity - Jun 13, 2018
I won my property boundary dispute, which my made me really happy. I picked up another three acres. It pays to do your homework. I thought I might have bit off more than I can chew. I was looking for something to give my older son a little boost. I found a piece with old growth redwoods, a river, a water fall, and a swimming hole. It’s beautiful and it was dirt cheap because it needs a lot of work. There’s an old house with a good foundation and I think it may be salvageable. It was cheap because the old man was a hoarder, and then squatters moved in, and put up an illegal grow. After they left, people started using it as a dump site. I have my work cut out for me but it’s going to be worth it in the end.
Scary thing happened, though. I was burning some brush with plenty of clearance but one little tiny ember landed on an old camping trailer with exposed insulation. The thing went up in flames in less than a minute. No cell coverage, no water, and forty five minutes out from any services. I ran to the neighbors and thank god they had a land line. By the time I got back, one of the redwood trees was burning. I started to panic. My son was great, though. He said to grab as much sheet metal as I could find. We were able to contain it until help arrived. The volunteer fire department was first on the scene. The driver was stoned out his gourd and the other one was way too old to be working fires. We had to help them figure out how to hook up and manage the hoses. I tore my shoulder, but with little prednisone and physical therapy, I’m back in action.
My youngest son is a Marine. He’s coming home on leave. He’s in a special unit and his last year will be spent in a hell hole. I want his time home to be absolutely perfect. My house is spotless.
I’ve had a little bad luck lately, but with a little hard work, things are looking up. I’ll be busy for a while. So, I’ll see you when I see you.
Cheers!
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - Zinjanthropos - Jun 13, 2018
Our cottage was visited this morning by a huge Snapping Turtle. We are on the summit of a steep hill so she had to climb up to lay her eggs last.night. I just love seeing wildlife doing its thing. Hoping to locate where her nest was dug but there is another hill behind me where turtles have been seen laying eggs before. Will be watching for hatchlings later on. I followed it back to the water, made me feel good..
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - Magical Realist - Jun 13, 2018
This is inspiring..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28koWiIMMig
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - C C - Jun 13, 2018
(Jun 13, 2018 05:59 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Our cottage was visited this morning by a huge Snapping Turtle. We are on the summit of a steep hill so she had to climb up to lay her eggs last.night. I just love seeing wildlife doing its thing. Hoping to locate where her nest was dug but there is another hill behind me where turtles have been seen laying eggs before. Will be watching for hatchlings later on. I followed it back to the water, made me feel good..
I hate accidentally stumbling upon the nests of birds which lay eggs on the ground. You'd think after all these centuries that most predators would be afraid of human scent, but I seem afflicted with non-conformist rebels that follow a trail. The clutch getting wiped-out shortly afterwards after surviving a period before that sort of adds doubt to it being the mother's own scent being responsible (especially if she flies down rather than walks there).
Recoiling immediately from the discovery (not touching it or anything) and back-tracking to adding chaotic paths to make the original trail confusing doesn't seem to negate the future damage done, either.
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(Jun 13, 2018 06:37 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: This is inspiring..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28koWiIMMig
Yep, looks like just the kind of hipster rebel that would perversely follow a human-scent trail rather than avoid it.
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RE: One thing that made me happy today. - confused2 - Jun 14, 2018
This might (or might not) be helpful:-
I report from a previous incarnation...
"You rub your hand up the crack of your ass and rub it [the hand] across the trail. No animal [for some reason] will cross that line and you set your snares either side of the trail."
With hindsight I'm not sure why you might not be better off just setting snares on the trail but quite a lot of that particular incarnation is a bit hazy.
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - C C - Jun 14, 2018
(Jun 14, 2018 01:27 AM)confused2 Wrote: . . . With hindsight I'm not sure why you might not be better off just setting snares on the trail but quite a lot of that particular incarnation is a bit hazy.
Lots of traumatic experiences one might want to be hazy memory-wise, if the past embodiment was either Hugh Glass or "Liver-eating Johnson".
Doubt that it could have been one of those Down Under rabbiters circa the late 19th and early 20th centuries, unless one had some narrow escapes from the ultra-lethal snakes and spiders of the continent in the pursuit and snaring of fearsome bunnies.
"You can’t go wrong for rabbits: they’re everywhere. And they’re as good as cash all the time." --Unnamed trapper quoted in the Evening News ...Sydney... 25 May 1906, p4.
Of course, the shame of having once been a bygone poacher would be emotionally troubling enough to obscure transmigratory details, too. But we'll stick to the plucky frontier and outback legends as possibilities.~
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - confused2 - Jun 14, 2018
I'm absolutely sure it was a frontier pioneering incarnation. Strikes me (now) ... if you leave your snares on the trail another passing frontier pioneer might pluck up your snares and any rabbits therein - it does make sense. In context you just need to stop animals following you - please let me know if it works.
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - Zinjanthropos - Jun 14, 2018
Quote:You rub your hand up the crack of your ass and rub it [the hand] across the trail. No animal [for some reason] will cross that line and you set your snares either side of the trail."Had.to laugh. Reminded me of old Boy Scout solution for want of toilet paper when out on the trail. Find a broad leaf, insert your longest finger clear through the middle of it and wipe. Careful not.to lick your fingers after.
RE: One thing that made me happy today. - confused2 - Jun 17, 2018
The seagull chick that got run over wasn't one of 'ours' - the delight at seeing 'our' two fluffy little scraps of life bouncing up and down and flapping their wings was tinged with sadness for someone else's little scrap of life that had been snuffed out.
John Donne - Ask not for whom the bell tolls...
https://www.gradesaver.com/donne-poems/study-guide/for-whom-the-bell-tolls