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[mac_1103]

Safer to hang out in the neighborhood with dogs than out of town where all the guys with guns are this time of year.

The regulations are quite convoluted around here, but I'm pretty sure it's bow season right now. Muzzleloader season starts 11/2 and firearms season 11/16.

I had no idea that pumpkin was on their diet...

The deer around here seem to eat a whole lot of stuff that they used to turn up their noses at back when we first moved in 26 years ago. Makes sense I guess considering that the population has probably quadrupled.

 

[balrog]

The regulations are quite convoluted around here, but I'm pretty sure it's bow season right now. Muzzleloader season starts 11/2 and firearms season 11/16.

The deer around here seem to eat a whole lot of stuff that they used to turn up their noses at back when we first moved in 26 years ago. Makes sense I guess considering that the population has probably quadrupled.

Here in Western MA, the deer go after <insert different green varietal here> each year, and you never know what you're going to lose.

One year, about 6 years ago, the long, exceptionally snowy, winter ended with all my hemlocks denuded at about the 4-1/2 to 5' level.

 

[Sailingeric]

"This means something. Pass the potatoes!"

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[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Fun way to use a stick

 

[DBerg]

Fun way to use a stick

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Best do this around noon. If you try it early or late in the day you'll be lost unless you live near the equator.

 

[day_trippr]

How tall is the "stick"?
We have a sundial and for sure the distance between two points 15 minutes apart is nowhere near as significant as illustrated...

Cheers!

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

How tall is the "stick"?
We have a sundial and for sure the distance between two points 15 minutes apart is nowhere near as significant as illustrated...

Cheers!

I don't think it really matters, I think I saw in a caption around 3 meters

 

[day_trippr]

Well...three meters (!) would certainly cast a much longer shadow than nearly any conventional sun dial (which typically have a gnomon under 6 inches height) so perhaps it might work...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

PFSH!

In Boy Scouts they showed us how to use a stick and a watch. With a sundial you have to carry around your Equation of Time correction tables.

'Course, if you're out in the woods, cooking fish or heaven knows what on an open fire, you likely have no need for super accurate time, but that's not important here.

Related fun read: https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/using-a-watch-or-a-stick-as-a-compass/

 

[mac_1103]

In Boy Scouts they showed us how to use a stick and a watch.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, they taught us how to use a compass.

 

[balrog]

When I was in the Boy Scouts, they taught us how to use a compass.

... and when without watch or compass, how to use the stars.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Sticks, compass, watch… allow me to save you from yourselves.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

 

[Rish]

Use your sun screen! 3.5 hours at dermatologist doing Mohs for pea sized basil cell skin cancer ends up like this. One of many I've had over the years.

 

[day_trippr]

Woof! Sound advise! Have a beer and heal up soonest!

Cheers!

 

[ba-brewer]

A speedy recovery to you @Rish

 

[Sailingeric]

Nice rainbow at my house today

 

[BongoYodeler]

Use your sun screen! 3.5 hours at dermatologist doing Mohs for pea sized basil cell skin cancer ends up like this. One of many I've had over the years.
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Oh man, I'm sorry you have to go through that. Hopefully they got it all. Unfortunately I know quite a few people around my (our?) age that have had to go through similar procedures. For the past several years I've made it a point to schedule a full-body exam with my Dermatologist. She has had to freeze off a couple precancerous spots, but otherwise good so far.

 

[GrogNerd]

I had the Mohs done a couple years ago.

not near as large or as close to the eye.

It was right after the Caps won the Stanley Cup... I was telling people I was hit by a puck & it was TOTALLY WORTH IT!

Use your sun screen! 3.5 hours at dermatologist doing Mohs for pea sized basil cell skin cancer ends up like this. One of many I've had over the years.

 

[Sailingeric]

Now y'all need to have good bar fight stories to go with the scars

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[hilljack13]

I had no idea that pumpkin was on their diet...

Who knew...so if I dump my old pumpkins out on the WMA to naturally decay I shouldn't have to worry about the warden asking questions.....

 

[Brewskey]

Use your sun screen! 3.5 hours at dermatologist doing Mohs for pea sized basil cell skin cancer ends up like this. One of many I've had over the years.
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Ouch! Hope you get healed up soon.

 

[GrogNerd]

Now y'all need to have good bar fight stories to go with the scars

no bar fight stories or physical scars

only salty sea tales, emotional scars.

I know I've posted this, but in my 6 year Sonar Tech career, I chased exactly 1 submarine.

this one.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Sunrise with a sliver of moon this morning.

 

[balrog]

It is time.

 

[Rish]

Now y'all need to have good bar fight stories to go with the scars

"You should see the other guy!" I ended up with a pretty good shiner, too; first one in about 50 years.

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[balrog]