Kansas Crimson

KUTradition wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:32 am

TDub wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 1:47 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 10:08 amimmigrants

dammit! I didn't think about that....im going searching for the nearest Haitians after work.

watch, in like a week we’ll see a viral story about immigrants stealing farm animals from rural PNW properties

imma get on the horn woth JD, ASAP

Hilarious bit on SNL last night!

definitely one of the better skits i’ve seen recently

not quite beavis and butthead good

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 3:43 pm definitely one of the better skits i’ve seen recently

not quite beavis and butthead good

"beavis and butthead"
Probably the funniest skit ever on SNL.

Crap, I feel terrible.

We have a screened in deck. The envy of the neighborhood in the land o skeeters.
I put up a bird feeder a couple weeks ago. It's on a bracket attached to the deck. It's super popular, I have to refill the thing 3 times a week. Squirrels try to get in but it's Squirrel proof.

Anywhoo, I hear a ruckus going on outside of the deck. No birds but lots of loud chirping.

I go out and my kid's cat is freaking out a a Squirrel running around the roof. I try to scare it off but it's trying to get into the sawfit. So I go and get a water squirter and let him have.

No it's freaking out even more and the stupid cat is trying to tear through the screen. I hit it with another stream and this GD thing jumps about 25 feet into my garden and the chicken wire fence.

Took off, but I'm afraid I may have hurt it. I don't think he will be back.

it fucked around and found out

we’ve got rats under our shed due to chickens (ours, and two close neighbors). it’s a never ending battle, but it’s gotta be done. i don’t at all enjoy being the merchant of death

I assume you are using your 90 round drum M4 with night vision?

ha!

that might actually bring small bit of enjoyment

Northern Lights pretty strong tonight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/portlandme/s/htG7bGsGL2

I'm gonna check em out.

Lotsa light pollution here though

pdub wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:56 pm Northern Lights pretty strong tonight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/portlandme/s/htG7bGsGL2

My friend that is up there sent me these last night. Amazing.

stupid clouds kept us from seeing it

Too much light pollution and tall trees here. Did not see it

The photos make it look better than what you see in person BUT still was pretty cool.

just got back from Great Basin National Park. Apparently the least visited park outside of Alaska, cuz it turns out it's in the middle of nowhere.

Didn't seem very big. The coolest stuff was alpine, tho there was some arid desert/sage/juniper sorta terrain at lower elevations that was pretty neat too. The views from up the mountain looking back down into the basin were, well...great. Hiked a little bit and did the scenic drive. There's a cave to tour too, but apparently you gotta have reservations...so much for being the least visited.

They give you this rundown about some disease that kills all the bats, so if you've been in any other cave in the last 10 years wearing any of the same clothes you're wearing that day, you aren't allowed in. They also make you walk thru a solution to disinfect the bottoms of your shoes.

one of the oh so very few trips I don't have a fishing rod with me, so go figure there ends up being cutthroat trout in the waters there. And they're Bonnevilles, at that! One of the few subspecies I've yet to catch!

I'd say that alone is reason to go back. It's a cool park, but in the middle of nowhere, not that big or necessarily that much stuff to do or explore, and mostly alpine stuff when there are cooler alpine parks in more convenient places. But maybe that's all to say, if I do try to cross Bonnevilles off the cutthroat bucket list then it may be done elsewhere.

And off the top of my head, I got CO River, Greenbacks, Rio Grande, Westslope, Snake River Fine Spotted, maybe Yellowstone, possible San Juan, and Coastal Cutthroats so far...but who's keeping score?

You're talking about white nose syndrome. It grows in the bats' noses and they can't hibernate in winter. There's no food and they end up starving. I thought it was only in Eastern caves. Apparently not.

yea, that's what she called it.

She said it recently showed up in caves in Oregon too, and they pretty much considered it only a matter of time til it got to the Great Basin caves.

The pair of bald eagles who have been nesting at the end of the block since at least 2001 have returned. Their nest seems to have weathered the hurricanes successfully, but they've been working on it like they do every fall, for several weeks. If we're lucky, sometime in late Dec we might discover they're raising a/some chicks when we see they're dark little heads poking up above the rim of the nest.

I took this photo yesterday afternoon from my driveway. Fortunately, they regularly drink and sometimes bathe in the pond across the street from my house: