Tritip grilling on the corner. Tritip is a national sport in Santa Maria.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
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Tritip grilling on the corner. Tritip is a national sport in Santa Maria.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
YepQuote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
And yepQuote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Some pretty good eats in this little town.
Hit the bar[s]Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Nice !
Happy Memorial Day, friends...and howdy.
Hope everyone has a good week.
if not, at least it's a short one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
Morning ladies. How was your Memorial day weekend?
My camping plans were undone by snow and rain in Estes park combined with a massive cold.
The weekend was salvaged by a trip to the Wild Animal Rescue.
Wow, what a place.
The place in Kersey? I've been trying to get out there. Also been fighting a cold all weekend.
It was the Estes city camp ground, they were the only ones kid and dog friendly on short notice.
I meant the Wild Animal rescue.
Ha, that's a " who's on first" moment.
Proper name is The Wild Animal Sanctuary. It is located in Keenesburg.
Folks consider this a PSA: get out there and check it out. This is the closest thing to seeing these animals in the wilderness without going on a safari. I'm not a fan of zoos and this place is like the anti-zoo. Relaxed animals, acting "wild", as you walk 30' above acres of enclosures . Bring binoculars, I had a 7x and 20x set and used them both.
I will post a pic when I get some wifi.
Yes that's the one. I've had my eye on it for a while now.
Here is a few snapshots.
Thee tigers chilling right next to the walkway.Attachment 58543
Pair of grizzlies playing around with a view to the walkway.
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Jump!Quote:
Originally Posted by Erni
Kriss kross?
Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.
Been there, Erni...it's a cool experience. Rock on, Eddie
Howdy fellers. Busy day, but a good day for THIS Cat. Attitude is everything..;)
Happy Camel Day tomorrow...and stuff.
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Originally Posted by Monky
"I kill your wife, you kill my momma"
LOL
"YOU DON'T HAVE A COUSIN PATTY !!"
Wham !....Clang !...
G'nite ho's.
2nd morning with the sun shinning. Time to get behind the trigger / range day.
Shot my first exploding target this weekend.... IT WAS AWESOME!
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130423134837Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Like this? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Someone had to do it.
Kinda?Quote:
Originally Posted by thvigil11
The the population here is about 1/2 Hispanic, 1/3 Asian/Pacific Islander, and the rest of us are whiter than a sheet.
Been busy this week. Friday night we had a good storm happening. I woke up at 1am feeling weird. Half awake I thought to myself, "I know this feeling. Where do I know this from?" Seconds later "BLAM!" the entire room lit up blue. Wife screams, I'm outa bed with the pistol in my hand. (stupid, you can't shoot lighting) So I start checking the house inside and find half the panel is tripped. Smell of burnt electronics is pretty light but there. Once the lightning tapers off, I head out into the rain the check the outside. Can't find a mark on the house or nearby. So go back in and wait till morning. Can't sleep after that and the TV was dead. The next day I check the house and surrounding acreage and still can't find the strike mark. Spend the day checking circuits and appliances. Here's the final damage tally. Every GFI in the house was completely blown, bathroom fart fans timers blown, AC/DC phone power source dead, one cell phone charger dead, two single throw wall switches dead, TV dead, DVD dead and a couple of LED bulbs are dead. The TV and DVD suck to replace, but both were over 10 years old, so I finally got to upgrade (42" flatscreen) Switching out the bad boxes is not hard, but GFI's are damn expensive. Looks like most of the bad stuff was on only one of the legs. (staggered on the panel) Good reminder for me to add whole house surge protection, but the weird thing to me is how some stuff like the LED's blew. The switch was off, so there was no physical connection between the bulbs and the hot. (unless it arc'd the gap) It was a close strike so my guess was it energized the neutral or came up the ground. Well, got the new TV plugged in last night and couldn't get a good fix on a station. Put up the ladder and went to check the antennae. Found the littlest little burn mark on top. Started looking real close and found more evidence. The TV antennae is mounted on a 1" pole that is sunk into the ground. It definetly took the hit. COAX cable was completely intact and ohm'd out fine. Antennae itself is one of those wound coil units. It's fried. There is a small arc mark between the pole and the roof line, so my current guess is that part of the charge lit up the roof and traveled through the house ground. Whatever happened, the final result sucked. I have decent protection on the house, it just sucks that even good surge protection and ground doesn't always protect during a direct strike like I had. If anything, I'm gonna change the TV antennae to a outside wall/ roof mount instead of the pole. That way, at least I figure, the lightning rods will be a more attractive target to ground than the antennae pole.
Dang! That sucks, man!
a few weeks ago, I had a very close bolt of cloud-cloud lightning right over my house that tripped most of my GFIs and fried a few electronic things like my garage door opener and my nice sound bar by the TV. I guess I got lucky. [Dunno]
The sound bar you were trying to get us to buy?Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
I spit on a whole family of raccoons at work today. What'd you guys do at work?
Lightning strikes suck.
We had a direct hit on our big tree at the corner of the house several years ago. It survived but has a huge seeping crack about 12 feet up. I had some large dead limbs pruned off last summer by a pro that was working at the neighbors (funny what a Benjamin will get ya). He initially thought the tree had been recently struck and was potentially going to have to come down. When I told him it had been a few years and he looked it over better when he got roped up into it, he agreed it was still healthy. The last snowstorm has done a little more damage, so I don't know how much longer it will last. Big ass "hybrid cottonwood." Someone once told me "Russian Cottonwood," but I don't really know.
Last night, we had one of those flashes that light up the room and the crack came nearly instantly. It seemed like it hit just on the other corner of the open space behind the house. Probably 300 meters away.
Luckily, we've never lost anything electronic that I recall. My primary AV stuff and all computer stuff in my office is on good UPS.
Shot a few 10mm's for the first time today. A S/Action Kimber, the other the new SIG . Fuck me standing. The snap / re coil on those puppies was
non-existent. So much so i'm considering dumping a few toys for one of those wrist breaking, shoulder wrenching units.
Thank you johnnyego.
I might be offering one (IAI Javelina) in the near future. I'm overinvested in new projects and need the funds. I'm going 300 BLK ACR, Friend and I are colluding on either replacing the barrel on my new ACR with a 300 or maybe even making up an entire assembly from a mix of scratch and factory parts. Looking to modify the gas reg to a 3 or 4 setting setup to get the piston to work right with all ammo. Outa be fun. Got my Colt New Service Project put back together, still need parkerization. Got my latest stamp in, so my new 6" Ti suppressor won't take long. Some people are amazed at my total disregard for "taking a dremel" to a brand new high priced firearm. But, like I've said before, tools are fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Ha! No. The speakers I was trying to sell were standalone bookshelf speakers and a center channel speaker with a separate sub... Which now I'm keeping because my soundbar died. [hammer]Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
My soundbar was on a really good surge protector (almost brand new too) but I'm guessing all the wires connected to it acted as a big antenna to collect just enough of the electromagnetic pulse from the lightning to fry some little component inside. The soundbar sent audio to the sub and surround speakers over Bluetooth and those still worked, but the main speaker bar didn't put out any sound. Bummer. [Dunno]Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
Found out last night, my new tv only outputs audio through an optical port. New sound system is RCA. Not like the adapter is expensive, but damn, more crap to buy. I guess this model does not support audio through the HDMI. First world problems.
I have some RCA jacks (somewhere) if you need themQuote:
Originally Posted by thvigil11
Thanks, but I've got all the wires. I need to pickup the little box that converts an optical audio cable signal to RCA. What sucks is you lose the dolby surround capabilities, but it will only effect what the TV picks up, not what the DVD plays. Again, first world problems, lucky to have what I have. In other news. Shipping notice on my ACR shows it will be here manana. Cut down my SCAR 17 to 14.1 and perm'd the suppressor mount. Will get it back together tonight. Tools are fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Howdy fellers.... good to see ya, Vigil. Bummer on the lightning program though.
Let's have a good Friday and ensuing weekend.
Headed out "camping "! Anybody got any input on how to fish Jackson res?
Bait usually works.. Along with hooksQuote:
Originally Posted by Jamnanc
Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.
I'd agree with using bait. Some would say I'm a master at it. [LOL]Quote:
Originally Posted by Monky
I haven't had a line in the water in a long time, I have no idea. We used to use power bait balls, worms and salmon eggs on spreaders if fishing the bottom, or the same stuff suspended from a good bubble. I've never had much luck with lures or jigs.
Howdy Ho's.