Alaskan's Journal

[Alaskan]

Ha! And... on the way to the orthodontist... we tossed trash...

I thought you guys would like photos of the flying rats.

 

[fuzzi]

Snow... we still got it.



These were taken at 4:30pm

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Oh, that looks cooooold!

 

[rachels.haven]

Ha! And... on the way to the orthodontist... we tossed trash...

I thought you guys would like photos of the flying rats.

Truth. They used to nest in number where I lived in highschool. Road kill is their favorite. Not fish. Dead stuff is easier to catch and easier to get covered in blood while eating.

 

[farmerjan]

They are hated in the counties west of me... and some of us hate them here. They will carry off chickens, kill and carry off lambs. One dared me to approach the portable camper that I housed some of the free range hens in, that I used to have to sell eggs... finally after one particular bird dispatched 122 layers one summer... remember these were "free range" and the "purists" got bent out of shape when I started locking them up longer and longer periods to try to save some of them...and they would come out and watch the resident beautiful eagle.... I quit having free range hens and selling eggs...
They have decimated the sheep that used to be a HUGE part of Highland Co agriculture.... at least you can shoot the da#@ coyotes...
I have no problem with them until they decide my chickens or animals are their new preferred selection for dining... then I should be allowed to shoot the one doing the damage...
They are as big a bunch of scavengers as the buzzards... and meaner.... and you have NO RECOURSE with them... True SSS situations.
There was a $25000 reward for "whoever" shot and killed a pair out in the county west of here... no one knows anything.......

 

[Alaskan]

They are hated in the counties west of me... and some of us hate them here. They will carry off chickens, kill and carry off lambs. One dared me to approach the portable camper that I housed some of the free range hens in, that I used to have to sell eggs... finally after one particular bird dispatched 122 layers one summer... remember these were "free range" and the "purists" got bent out of shape when I started locking them up longer and longer periods to try to save some of them...and they would come out and watch the resident beautiful eagle.... I quit having free range hens and selling eggs...
They have decimated the sheep that used to be a HUGE part of Highland Co agriculture.... at least you can shoot the da#@ coyotes...
I have no problem with them until they decide my chickens or animals are their new preferred selection for dining... then I should be allowed to shoot the one doing the damage...
They are as big a bunch of scavengers as the buzzards... and meaner.... and you have NO RECOURSE with them... True SSS situations.
There was a $25000 reward for "whoever" shot and killed a pair out in the county west of here... no one knows anything.......

I am with you!

 

[SageHill]

Not good when they are dining and decimating local livestock. Sure isn't regal.

 

[Alaskan]

These photos are from back when we had that big dump of snow...

When we lost power...

Pretty though...

 

[farmerjan]

Merry Christmas from NO SNOW Virginia !!!!

 

[Alaskan]

Well... i think I lost my glasses... 1 pair of inexpensive readers, and 1 pair of EXPENSIVE progressives. There were in a nice leather double glasses case.

Just yesterday was stressful... what with almost accidentally stealing a car, while I was playing taxi driver for a visiting priest.

Yeah... walked out of restaurant with priest... we got into a car, I put my box of leftovers behind me thinking "huh, I don't remember that green whatever being on the floor behind my seat"

I start up the car (modern push button), we both buckle up... I pause before driving off and say "who put mail on the dash of the car?"

While sitting there in the running car, wondering why spouse would have been driving through town, seen my car, and put mail in it..... the waitress from the restaurant comes running out with my forgotten hat... at the same time the priest says "is this even your car? I don't remember this coat being here in the passenger seat."

I look around at the inside of the car.... actually LOOKING... and say, uh.... not my car!!!!

So... I TRIED to be careful to get all of my things out of the car... and turn it back off...

But there was a guy from the BIBLE COLLEGE right there next to us.... and the lady from the restaurant.... and if she hadn't come out with my hat... I WOULD HAVE BEEN DRIVING and wondering about the mail WHILE I drove!!!!


Well.... needless to say... I was flustered...

I did make it home with my wallet, coat, and leftovers... glasses are nowhere to be found!!!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I did make it home with my wallet, coat, and leftovers... glasses are nowhere to be found!!!

Holy Cow! That's crazy!