What do you know about snakes then? Probably never even seen one.Quote:
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What do you know about snakes then? Probably never even seen one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
My family has been in the US for several generations. Seen snakes, caught snakes, had a snake as a pet briefly, and have killed snakes. It's not the snake I have a problem with.
How do you keep the kilt on the snake?
not sure but you use a good adhesive to keep their tinted contacts on. They make the perfect sunglasses .Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
The only snake I've ever seen above 8000 ft. in CO has been a Western Garter Snake. Way back, Grandma would encounter a snake behind the cabin and Grandpa would kill it with a shovel. Always a Garter Snake.
I don't kill snakes. Not here in Colorado. I've caught and moved rattlesnakes before and might relocate a rattlesnake that was near the house but have never needed to.
Snakes eat mice. I like snakes.
Listened to a really interesting podcast with a snake biologist the other day. He was saying that in most of the US, for every squirrel you see, there are 20 snakes that you don't see.
They're all under my back patio. Much to her dismay, the wife seems to find them all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Over the years, we've had a few more than she cared to find slither into the house.
I think I've seen only a single snake at our place in the seven years we've lived here. I need way more snakes in my life.
If you like rattlesnakes, my neighbor bought a house in a new development out Titan Rd. from 85 by Chatfield that had a very large population of 'em.
When I was 10 or so & helping my dad remodel, I found a flat, petrified garter snake under the carpet in the basement. When I held it up, it was a perfect 'S' shape.
We typically just found live ones & never figured out how they'd get in. It wasn't me but it was always my job to relocate them as my dad doesn't like snakes.
Side note, my mom would flip out about spiders. Couple times a year I'd say: hold still & I'll get the spider off you... & then watch her start to dance about while swatting & screaming. So funny.
We've been in the land of snakes, scorpions, and lizards for 3 months now, and the only thing we've seen are lizards. Oh, and some big ass spiders (like baseball sized).https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8ee4bf66b2.jpg
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Pretty sure since she grew up in Bisbee, that's what she imagined was on her.
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My wife can't stand spiders of any size. She has an understanding that spiders are fine as long as they keep their distance and she can't see them.
We had both of our desktop computers in the home office in the basement and we were doing some gaming together. I hear her announce that there's a spider on the wall near her. I tell her I'll be right there and then I hear this *SMASH*. I'm like, "What the hell was that?!". She couldn't wait a second longer and tried to smash the spider with her keyboard.
Day 2 of the garage sale. Guns & tools are moving well. We shall see what today brings, a good friday usually means a slow saturday.
No wonder there are many entomologist in AZ.
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I just came from shooting range.
I had to zero 3 scoped rifles and 2 were way off.
Took hour at a 50yd range just to get on a paper and went to 100 to zero.
I was extremely impressed with pencil barrel Savage 110fcp 243winmag that I purchased from forum member. The cheapo fudd bushnell 3-9x scope was so horrible. Looking at 100yd with it was like looking at 800 yard with precision scope.
My daughter refused to shoot her 10/22 I zeroed for her.
Maybe next time she will feel comfortable shooting.
Lastly the psa pa10 gen3 20" was another surprise. It was shooting as accurate as non (to very little) customized 700P.
One more.....
SIG P210 new would not lock the slide after the end of round fired. I initially thought it was a weak mag springs.
I was starting to think of contacting sig or buy a woff mag spring (if they have one for p210 mags).
Later I thought it was mag release being stiff and oiled the heck out of the mag release lever. Works perfectly after.
P210 loves oil.....
I shot the BBTR today & managed to make it through for all five stages! Set up early & broken down late & synced nooks after for match scores per usual too.
I was super slow, really out of practice & scored pretty far down the list because of it. Mostly 'A' zones so that didn't change much. Im thrilled regardless because I shot my first post surgery match & tested my current limitations.
Don't snitch on me to my doctors because I wasn't supposed to yet, not even close to yet. Giggle
Nicest day I've had in a long while ... nothing irreparable but I'm already paying for it & tomorrow is going to hurt even worse.
Don't care. Made me happy. Worth it.
These are the days that try a fathers patience.
I have a flat is totally different then I ran over something and lost tire pressure. Kid fails to communicate. Two trips to Golden. Run flats and no spare in the TT. Luckily the spare from the other German fit.
Now to either find a rim fixer or order a new one if it?s within 10% to get a new rim. ?Sorry man my supplier is closed, I will get back to you on Monday ?.
Excuse me. Time to find some libations...,,
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Originally Posted by ChickNorris
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Welp been without power since 4:30. Guess i hope the groceries we bought yesterday hold up in the ice coolers because the deep freeze just got plugged in 2 hours before power went out.
No generator? Or even an inverter that you can run off your car for a few hours now and then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazin
Naw man we are just finally for the first time since 2015 finally starting to be able to get some small things again. A generator is on the list, We just got the deep freeze delivered thursday so we could stock some meat, glad I havent made that order yet.
So your freezer blacked out Aurora?
Lol yea and its only a 7.5cu [ROFL1]
Mazin,
What ever happened to that taco truck that used to sit at 6th n Laredo? I miss that guy...
Dude haven't seen that guy about a year after I moved out here. Theres one on laredo and hofax ish also Jalapenos has pretty good food (same area).
Power came back about midnight so the coolers seemed to hold the food pretty good.
Looks like a pretty good storm came through yesterday while I was gone. I saw very large branches broken off a lot of the old Elms and Silver Maples laying on the streets in Denver on my way home. Power was out until a few blocks from my house but I didn't realize it went that far east. Glad your new freezer kept until the power came back.
Yup. Very uncomfortable today as I suspected I would be. Still worth it.
I had so much fun seeing my friends & shooting again.
trigger therapy always works.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
Sayin' Howdy.
Hope everyone had a good weekend, and a good week ahead.
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Hey, that's great! Life almost back to normal with some well earned fun.
We returned to the cabin last evening. I had hoped to do some shooting while in Mesa County but had too much to do. Maybe this week now that the Boulder Sheriff transitioned from a stage 1 to stage 2 fire order, so I can shoot in the national forest.
I'm shopping only in Mesa where Covid-19 hasn't hit, yet. Brought back 185 lbs. of sugar which might last a month....
Man what a pisser, ran out of shielding gas right in the middle of a welding job.
That is the original bottle I put on the machine when I bought it, several years ago. Took me couple minutes to figure out what the deal was. Been a long time since ran out of gas.
FLUX IT BABY.Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalobo
Greedy hummingbirds?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
Got a roll of flux core around here somewhere.
go old school. battery cables and some fence wire.Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalobo
Yes. Mrs. Hummer cleaned and filled about 30 feeders yesterday between the ones in Palisade for Black-chinned Hummingbirds, and here off the Peak-to-Peak for Broad-tailed Hummingbirds. In another month the northern migrant Rufous and Calliope will begin coming through in their southbound migration. That's when things get really busy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
Hum, I don’t think I’ve seen a hummingbird in the wild since I left AZ. Unless you count the hummingbird/hawk moth that freaked me out last summer.
Sounds like quite the operation, we've got one feeder the birds enjoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
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(Don't mind the back yard, it was a blank canvas when we moved in, slowly getting it squared away).
I don't see them much, but I sure hear them a lot. Neighbor has a hummer nest over there as well. Wifey and I have been discussing putting up a feeder.
My folks in WA have a feeder over a fountain and they get tons of visitors either getting nectar, water, or a quick bath.
The wall/fence reminds me of CA and NV houses.Quote:
Originally Posted by hurley842002