Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Feb 22, 2023 - 9:56pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
For the second time, I got to work before they texted me to stay home.
What a diehard!
I remember going to work, about 30 years ago now. The sun wasn't up yet and the sand was blowing so hard, I brought goggles with me.
I was 1st coating the joints on a commercial unit and the sand stuck to the wet joint compound right after I coated those joints.
I earned the name die hard because of that.
Well... probably way before that after another ridiculous work stunt.
86 degrees and reliving Spring Fever days! Went to local family nursery and brought home two Crepe Myrtles and on-sale 4" pot Asparagus plants. Familiar with this up & down til Mid April, it's carpe the outdoors whenever you can. Possible freeze first two weeks of March; always keep the freeze cloth handy.
Ya know how dogs will writhe in the grass cuz it feels so good? Dat's da feelin'
Location: right behind you. no, over there. Gender:
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Feb 22, 2023 - 9:09am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
For the second time, I got to work before they texted me to stay home.
In the 20 years I've worked here, they've closed due to inclement weather exactly 2 times, and I was here working for both of 'em. Today? We're open and business is brisk. People are nuts.
White stuff just up the hill. Tomorrow snow forecast for even lower. Still waiting to get a rare snow on the beach. Only seen a few here in northernmost Cal.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Dec 30, 2022 - 8:53pm
westslope wrote:
All true. All standard textbook wisdom.
If I hike a new area high up in the Rockies, I will wear not one but two canisters of pepper spray on my belt. I would probably refuse to hike with greenhorns who own a poorly trained dog or appear ready to panic run at the first sight of a bear.
Wearing jingle bells or tin cans with pebbles or some other forms of constant noise makers are standard, traditional advice. Which I ignore.
I prefer to be dead quiet in the bush/backcountry and.... this is really hard for many .... pay attention. Both griz and blacks generally make a huge amount of noise if actively feeding. You can hear grizzlies working terrain from 400 to 500 metres away. Signs (prints, scat, scratched trees, worked over rocks and tree stumps) are usually highly visible, if one cares to actually look.
I will however make noise when traversing thick dense underbrush or negotiating noisy creeks. I woof like a Grizzly. And then sometimes I will hit my chest. Territorial communication. Not for everybody perhaps.
And here he is showing everybody... this is his territory...
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday. Gender:
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Dec 30, 2022 - 4:12pm
Well we set a record today. It was a beautiful 64° day so I used it and got some major Spring cleaning â2022â in my screen house done.
OK so Iâm off by 8 months.
