For a less cliche mid-life crisis, Try Falconry (whole video) pic.twitter.com/kqwzUUZf2Y
— Frederick Weller (@FrederickWeller) June 28, 2021
Don’t worry, it’s safe to post it here, as long as nobody on social media tells him to check out his own blog…
WaterGirl
I laughed out loud more than once, watching that!
edit: My favorite: “Should I take a pill, or what?”
Tickraw
“Orno Porno.” I cannot stop laughing…
Steeplejack (phone)
Cole is still at the peak of his man-stuff!
piratedan
expectantly waits for the Tamara video with a duck perched on her wrist
zhena gogolia
Very cute. I love the guy with the low voice.
zhena gogolia
Wasn’t he in Buckaroo Banzai?
I guess that was Peter Weller.
WaterGirl
I had a $2,700 car repair bill this week.
A hundred bucks, or Cole gets a link to the video. (I wasn’t sure how to find the creepy blackmail note font.)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
are the crows too close to the house? I knew it was coming
Catherine D.
Open thread – watch Summer of Soul when you can. It’s on Hulu now and in theaters soon? Questlove’s documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival made from original footage and current interviews. So wonderful. I’m going to watch it again.
Miss Bianca
I may have to send this to my eighty + y.o. falconer acquaintance!
zhena gogolia
@Catherine D.: It looks great. I just can’t sign up for another streaming service.
Catherine D.
@zhena gogolia: How about a 7 day free trial? ?
Martin
@WaterGirl: Here you go.
RandomMonster
A rap about Epsom salts might get his attention.
BC in Illinois
Okay, let’s look into this. From UAE Exotic Falconry and Finance.
@Falconry Finance
People keep saying I should diversify.
RSA
Nice!
Also, given Tiktok user demographics, I think Anne Laurie’s repost has given the video makers an enormous boost in reaching their target audience of middle-aged men. :-)
Baud
Via reddit, folks might like this music montage.
Nicole
I love this video so much I watched it twice through. Thanks for posting it, Anne Laurie!
Oh, and today’s entry in The Number Ones was “Eternal Flame” and it’s a wonderful read:
https://www.stereogum.com/2152102/the-number-ones-the-bangles-eternal-flame/columns/the-number-ones/
trollhattan
Can you mop while wrangling raptors?
Asking for a friend.
trollhattan
@BC in Illinois:
Dollar falcons? I’ll take three! (Squirrel and rat issues.)
zhena gogolia
@Catherine D.: My problem is then I just don’t drop it. I don’t know why. I now have HBO Max, which I got to watch In the Heights, and then they offered me Clueless, which we really enjoyed, so I can’t bring myself to drop it. Not to mention Disney+, which I got for Hamilton and still haven’t dropped because I keep thinking I’ll watch Hamilton again.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Media companies have a photo of you in their offices, don’t they?
MomSense
@Catherine D.:
OOOH thanks for the reminder. I’m going out for dinner tonight and then I’m going to settle in and watch. I love Questlove.
The woman who bought him his first turntable and records is the best friend of a friend.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscentermaine.com/amp/article/entertainment/music/whereisellie-the-roots-questlove-seeks-woman-who-gifted-him-a-turntable-and-records-in-portland-when-he-was-5/97-a8891e7e-328b-47c2-853b-315640f0b897
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@WaterGirl:
I’m 2K into the vet on the dog’s heartworm treatment, am having two refrigerators and a dishwasher repaired Monday, and just had a new aerator pump installed on the spray septic. Figure I’m 4K in dumbass expense this month….
Catherine D.
@zhena gogolia: Ha! I watched Hamilton until it was gone and then dropped Disney+, but I did catch the Muppets and other stuff until I cancelled. I got HBO Max for a few shows, so that’s ok for now.
Rob
@Tickraw: That was the best line for me, a birder
Falling Diphthong
After peering very closely at red helmet guy, I conclude he is not my brother-in-law.
Eerie though.
RandomMonster
@RandomMonster: The Cole Rap:
Got my balding pate
Watching my prostate
Soaking my feets in magnesium sulfate
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Oh, yeah. I have about six different ways I can watch Inspector Morse.
satby
I’ve had the most annoying last couple of days. The storms over last weekend caused power outages more than once. Apparently one of the power restores caused a surge, because my air fryer AND my toaster both bit the dust, which I noticed Wednesday.
Yesterday and today I’ve been struggling to get my phone to text again… well, it can create texts, but no one gets them. Went through all the inane troubleshooting steps, no results. Turns out there was an update, and a bunch of people left negative reviews about the same problem on the Play store starting around when I noticed it too. Now I’m told to contact my carrier, which is Google Fi. Or to wipe and reset my phone, which will also wipe my e-SIM. I hate all this shit.
zhena gogolia
@Catherine D.:
IT’S GONE????
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
On the good side, I did score a 4 lb tomahawk ribeye two days ago; conversely, wife says “no, you can’t have it all on your plate only.”
I have Makers 46 and Herradura Reposado for civilized straight drinks (along with a LOT of gin for martinis and a choice between Oliva Serie V Robusto and Rocky Patel Black Barrel Aged Toro sticks to smoke….
Geminid
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to set up a rent-a-possum operation. People in central Virginia are terrified of ticks and tick-borne diseases, and possums are prodigious tick eaters. Some folks are already making good money renting out goats to eat up brambles, multiflora roses, even poison ivy. I just can’t figure out how to get around the legal prohibition against keeping and using wild animals.
But now, I think I could maybe make better money just selling possum futures, or Non-Fungible Possum Tokens..
Catherine D.
@zhena gogolia: Yes, I think so. I searched for it several times and it was gone. I will buy it as soon as I can.
Spanky
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Ummmm … Am I the only one …?
Ken
@zhena gogolia: Have you been tested for toxoplasmosis? Though usually that results in accumulating cats, not streaming services.
zhena gogolia
@Catherine D.:
It’s still there on mine.
zhena gogolia
@Ken: I think it goes the other way — you get toxoplasmosis from your litter box.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Geminid:
I remember when we fed our old indoor/outdoor cat on the porch. Possums and raccoons would get into his food, and he’d just twitch his tail while laying in the porch chair. He wanted NOTHING to do with the trash pandas – he was a giant fat fuck, but you knew they’d tangled in the past.
Cacti
There’s actually a falconry school not too far away from me, up in Canuckistan…if they ever open the border again. :-(
But it seems like an expensive hobby.
Spanky
OH & I were yelling at clouds in the morning thread about how electronifying everything is drastically shortening (shorting?) MTBF and making products prohibitively expensive to repair, thus replacing shit becomes the standard. Not really happy to see multiple examples cropping up here, but not surprised.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Spanky:
Toro is a cigar size, but I did experience eating ox penis in Beijing a few years back, so…..
Spanky
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Had a talk with the Mrs. this AM after observing a possum on the side porch going after some cat food she’d put out for the neighbor’s cat. Well, it’s the neighborhood cat, actually.
WaterGirl
Thank you, @Martin:
Catherine D.
@zhena gogolia: Hmm, it disappeared about six months after I subscribed last July.
NotMax
Couple of items which caught the eye.
Next up to have their portraits affixed to the Elba-a-lago dart board?
Does the term “bad penny” ring a bell?
CaseyL
Frederick Weller!
So now I can finally put a name to the character actor I see every once in a while and keep wondering who he is, because he looks so maddeningly familiar. “The one who kinda looks like young Christian Slater.”
Cole’s thing, though, is providing housing to local non-predatory birbs starting families. Falcons would ruin his nesterhood.
WaterGirl
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You win. And by win, I mean lose. :-)
Dorothy A. Winsor
Well crap. I had a mole removed for biopsy on Monday and it came back positive, so now I have to have a “procedure.” I may be hallucinating but I think it’s called “scrape and burn.” They need a PR person to rename their procedures.
FlyingToaster
@zhena gogolia: Fred Weller is the US Marshal from In Plain Sight, which was a USA TV series I really enjoyed back in the day.
Peter is his first cousin.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I second that! I thought I would be able to watch it whenever I wanted!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I get something removed every time I go to the dermo.
AM in NC
True fact, I had a Chaucer seminar in college with Frederick Weller. And danced with him at a frat party. He was a VERY pretty young man.
MomSense
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Rooting for you!
Ken
“No, really, they’re tame.”
(Opossum rears up and starts growling and hissing, showing its remarkably large collection of teeth)
“Tame-ish.”
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Spanky:
Do outdoor cats ever eat at just one home? Ours weighed like 20 pounds, but we were the ones with the vet bills…
germy
Spanky
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Well shit. And yeah, that’s a little too descriptive for comfort.
Mary G
I need to get my house retrofitted for earthquakes to eliminate one of the excuses my homeowners insurance is using to try to cancel my policy and sent requests for estimates from three companies on Angi’s List. Two came the next day and gave me verbal estimates of $16,000 and $14,000 reduced to $12,000 on the spot, tried to charm/bore/intimidate me into signing up that day and were sent off to send me detailed estimates via email. The third was booked up until yesterday, came, inspected and spent way more time than he needed to explaining how it works, showing me a zillion photos of the foundation, which thanks Baby Jeebus is sound and right where the builders left it under the house, and multiple photos of the 14 posts in the middle, 10 of which are fine 6×6 redwood, sorry environment, one which has moved almost off its pad, one that is cracked, and two that were cut on the days the drunk builders’ guys were working and are shimmed to make up for being so far off square. He even brought samples of each of the three fasteners they will use to show me how strong they are. Estimate including the two shimmed ones that I could try to get away with not replacing if the city inspector is lazy: $6,684.82. Yay. Feel relieved I waited. Still a lot of money, but I feel confident they will do well. I hate round number estimates. I want parts and labor to the penny.
Ken
Ah, the long-unawaited conclusion to his The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
MisterForkbeard
@germy: …He Hobbited a documentary? Ye gods.
Mary G
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Ugh. Everyone here has had those, except for me, because I had body image problems and would wear a cable knit cardigan and long pants until the second before I got into the water at the beach.
germy
Here’s a fun thread of cats who served during world war 2
trollhattan
@NotMax:
I’m all in for reversing anything Peter Navarro had a hand in, and presumably that includes most of our China “initiatives.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: @MomSense: @Spanky: @Mary G: I’m assuming this is a pretty routine thing for older people. I appreciate the good wishes
trollhattan
@germy:
That’s the most Peter Jackson thing since…you know. He’s the Ken Burns of Stanley Kubricks.
ETA saw a trailer for the Beatles project and am intrigued not because Peter Jackson, but because he got hold of hours of vault film never released.
WaterGirl
@germy: Those kitten photos are adorable.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I get yelled at a lot about sunscreen and floppy hats.
germy
Here’s a good article on “Get Back”
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/the-beatles-get-back-exclusive-deep-dive-peter-jacksons-movie
He assembled a six-hour documentary from stuff that sat in a vault for over fifty years, and restored it to high definition.
germy
@WaterGirl:
Big ears and adorable faces.
germy
@trollhattan:
The original “Let It Be” movie always looked like crap because it was originally shot in 16mm for a TV special (that never happened) and then blown up for a grainy theatrical release.
Lyrebird
Doesn’t look like debbie or Ozark are around, but for anyone else interested in Sha’Carri Richardson’s situation, here is a MoveOn petition to reinstate her, and also, she has a Cameo site fwiw.
Not hopeful, since the Olympics folks seem to be trying to make the women’s tennis powers look less awful or something. I mean the ones making Naomi Osaka and Taylor Townsend suffer over petty BS.
Spanky
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I’m an older people, and I never had a “scrape and burn”, though like the Count I never escape the dermatologist unscathed. My guy just goes nuts with the liquid nitrogen.
Come to think of it, LN might be the “burn” part there.
NotMax
Speaking of Disney –
1) Not my thing, but the trailer has some cute moments. Although this link says July 24, understand that has now been rescheduled to July 30 for simultaneous streaming and theatrical release.
2) On a less magical note, Walt’s HUAC tetimony.
dnfree
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Mohs surgery? That’s the usual for a malignant mole. They take a layer, check to see if they’ve got all the cancer, then take another layer if necessary. Repeat until a layer is clear. Ask me how I know. It’s used for basal, squamous, and melanoma. Between my husband and me, we’ve had them all.
Spanky
@Lyrebird: Part of me wonders if Ms. Richardson didn’t (rightfully) conclude that the Olympics are going to be a covid clusterfuck and calculated a way to avoid the thing. This would require her to conclude that not getting covid trumps her shot at the Olympics, something unheard of (by me).
Jay
@Spanky:
have you tried turning it off, and then on again?
99% of the time, when customers had an issue with an appliance ranging from a furnace to a stove locked on self clean, killing power for 30 seconds, allowed the small computer controls to reboot, and reset function.
if I had been less ethical, I would have charged $375 to show up, and for the first hour, then poked at stuff for another half hour for additional charges, like most of the repairmen here.
instead I did it by phone, no charge.
mrmoshpotato
What the fuck did I just watch?
James E Powell
Anecdote from my high school classes. One thing I do is have the students explore careers and part of that is taking the various online career interest tests. They ask a ton of questions like “Would you rather cook dinner or mow the lawn?” “Do math problems or read a book?” and so on. The produce lists of suggested careers. One time a student’s No. 1 career was falconer. I didn’t even know that was still a job. I wanted to go back through his answers to figure out how he got that result. After I explained what a falconer does, he insisted he had no interest.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@dnfree: Probably. The phone conversation was quick. It’ll be fine.
Frank Wilhoit
Somebody won the Internets…but somebody also doesn’t know the difference between raptors, owls, and an eclectus parrot. (Except they all bite — maybe that’s the point.)
Nukular Biskits
@WaterGirl:
Feel your pain.
A few weeks ago, dropped nearly $3K on much needed repairs on my truck (tires, brakes, front suspension/steering).
Today, I dropped another $1K on my oldest son’s truck (I told him I’d half it with him) given I had been driving his truck while mine was in the shop.
Nevertheless, still cheaper than a new truck.
Jay
@Mary G:
funny the difference a good, ethical Contractor makes. When I did it, half the “quote” time was spent educating the Customer.
debbie
@Baud:
Heh. I didn’t go to public high school. I had no idea there was so much jostling.
NotMax
Falcons?
Montecore misjudges the landing.
Stick around for the actual notice put into that episode’s closing credits.
;)
WaterGirl
@Nukular Biskits: Yeah, that was my conclusion, too.
Jeffro
Falconry is being offered as one of many July 4th celebration activities at the local country club…for the low low price of $400 for a half hour. Um, thanks but no thanks.
I see “Make America Florida” is off to a great start with another condo building being evacuated due to ‘unsafe structure’ etc etc. You run with that, though, DeSantis! That and the video of
Christie hugging Obamayou praising Biden should be all we need for 2024. Next!MomSense
@AM in NC:
I haz envy.
NotMax
@James E Powell
Absolutely true tale. #1 for li’l ol’ moi on that test came up hermit. During the required follow-up meeting with one of the school’s guidance counselors, he told me that in all the years he’d been there while they’d been administering the test he’d never once seen that result.
(#2, by some cosmically convoluted path, was bricklayer.)
Steeplejack
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Hi, skin cancer poster boy Steep here! Years of experience, going all the way up to big-time Mohs surgery, but hitting (almost?) all of the lesser stops, including “scrape and burn.”
Note: I’m not a dermatologist, just a concerned patient. (Remember: “minor surgery” or “minor procedures” happen only to other people.)
“Scrape and burn” is technically called “electrodesiccation and curettage,” which might have sounded more frightening, if less icky. It’s typically used for small, well defined, “superficial” lesions. (If your mole tested positive it’s officially a “lesion.”) And it’s exactly as advertised: the lesion is scraped off with a knife and an electric needle is used to burn the area to create a clear “margin.” The area is anesthetized, of course, and the procedure is very quick. Much less hassle than a dentist’s visit. Depending on the size, you get a small bandage or even just a Band-Aid. No stitches, so no follow-up visit. It does leave a small scar, but in my experience that’s more like a circle of slightly lighter skin.
I presume your doctor will tell you what “positive” meant (i.e., type of cancer).
debbie
@NotMax:
There had to be a gun at Johnson’s head when he signed the letter.
Jeffro
@Mary G: sorry to hear about all of this! =(
If we took a map of the U.S., eliminated the earthquake-prone areas, Tornado Alley, the hurricane-prone areas, the wildfire-prone-areas, the WAY-below-freezing for 6-9 months of the year areas…what’s that give us?
I am showing my geo-prejudices here but I think it gives us central VA and the (very boring) interior of the Delmarva peninsula. Anywhere else?
debbie
@Lyrebird:
Thanks!
Steeplejack
@dnfree:
“Scrape and burn” is different from Mohs surgery.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It is pretty routine. My sister and uncle both had to have skin cancers removed pretty regularly once they hit their mid 50s. Good luck with the procedure!
debbie
@Spanky:
She’s still going. They may have her on the 4 x 100 relay.
Another Scott
@NotMax: “long-awaited” is not a term sensible people would use, I don’t think…
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
@Mary G:
?????
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Good luck and don’t watch!
HalfAssedHomesteader
Will it work with a duck?
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Oh, I hope it isn’t too painful.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
I checked and it’s still there on my Disney+.
CaseyL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Good luck with the procedure; hope they get it all with a minimum of fuss and pain!
I had a skin tag removed from an eyelid with LN. But it was just a tag, not anything malignant, so the freeze was all I needed. It was over very quickly.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: Jeezuz, that poor bird !
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ken: …or how The Beatles broke up.
Lyrebird
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Hey that actually sounds like good news, like maybe it’s actinic k not the c word since they are not sending you for Mohs or for cutting out several millimeters. Been there.
Best wishes!
Amir Khalid
Is there anything to this, or is CNN just trying to gin up an “in disarray” story about the Biden administration?
Lyrebird
@debbie:
Glad I caught you! What I posted earlier did not capture my level of wanting to pound my head on the wall for her…
@Spanky:
That’s an interesting thought! I still think it was lousy of the reporter to bring up the death of Ms. R’s biological mother without checking whether that was cool right before such a big event. The whole mess makes Ms. R’s quotes after her race make more sense, where she was saying something like, no matter what, I am an Olympian. Racing so well with so much on her mind, wow.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Steeplejack: Thanks, Steep. That’s useful.
Gin & Tonic
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I never (almost never) use sunscreen and have nearly as many spots and things as a leopard, but every yearly visit to the dermo results in “nothing to worry about.” I guess I’m lucky.
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
Not the brightest bulb in the bazaar.
“Whut? I meant to do that! Anybody got an aspirin?”
:)
Ruckus
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I used to have so much frozen off with liquid nitrogen that I think they engraved my name on the side of the sprayer. Like fighter planes used to have flags painted on for each kill. Been 2 or 3 yrs since last time. Fun at the docs, yes sir.
Timill
@Jeffro: East Tennessee. I keep looking for retirement places, applying those criteria, and coming back to where I live already…
Starfish
@WaterGirl: For that much money, you could have bought yourself a starter falcon.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Politico has been running hit pieces in Kamala and CNN is trying to cash in.
Martin
@Amir Khalid: There’s enough gin to kill any of us in that.
Is there tension in the office? Sure. I dare anyone to set up an office full of ambitious people and not have that.
One of my first stints as a unit manager had a bunch of drama after a round of hires. My supervisor told me if there wasn’t drama, then my hiring standard was probably too low. Takes a little while to get even the best team all rowing the same way.
Spanky
@Nicole: Here’s a Bangles concert that was a bit of an eye-opener for me. Shows them playing a lot of their non-hits, which I find more interesting than their hits. They cover their hits too, of course. I think it also shows that Suzanna Hoffs is the third-best singer in the group.
MomSense
@Amir Khalid:
CNN is riffing off of Politico which ran stories on the same day about Harris office in disarray (!) and why the Trump org indictments were good news for trump.
fuckem
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Here’s what you need to know.
Jay
@MomSense:
and Medialite ripped the whole Politico story a new €hole.
https://www.mediaite.com/analysis/the-problem-with-politicos-kamala-harris-hit-piece-is-not-that-the-sources-are-anonymous/
basically, a small group of donors and Lobbyists are having a hissy fit that the VP is too busy working to take their calls and smooch with them,
and “access journalists” are choked that they don’t have access or gossip.
Baud
NoraLenderbee
@NotMax:
They should have to go on national TV and explain that they supported everything that asswipe did, and they are utter hypocrites, and that they really do depend on Dems to fix all the problems they cause. And then STFU for a long time.
sab
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I have freckles and I grew up in Florida before sunscreen. I’ve had a few scrap and burns. They sting a little for a few days, and it leaves a little paler spot. That’s about it. My routine cooking burns hurt more. Good luck.
Nukular Biskits
@WaterGirl:
Maybe I’m a cheapo but I refuse to pay +$45K for a comparably-equipped F-150 (and I’m not talking about a Lariat or King Ranch) when I paid only $20K a few years ago.
Having said that, however, I do realize that a new one would be more efficient so I do struggle with that daily as this one only gets 15mpg.
Pappenheimer
@Tickraw: In Douglas Adam’s book, Last Chance to See, he visited a bird sanctuary on a small Pacific isle where the staff was trying to prevent the local hawk species from going extinct. To gather hawk semen, the chief researcher would put on a specific hat, which the one captive male hawk would then…have sex with.
frosty
@Nicole: The Bangles were great! Got overshadowed by other bands like the Go-gos, but jangly guitars and three part harmonies? Unbeatable.
ETA Reading the article, I see Eternal Flame wasn’t one of those. I’ll go back and finish it now.
burnspbesq
We had to say goodbye to Spouse’s 19-year-old cat early in the week, which was sad.
But we are now the property of two two-month-old kittehs, who are sources of endless entertainment and delight. Thank you, Austin Humane Society.
Starfish
@burnspbesq: Oh no. You have to send in photos of new kitties.
Brachiator
@NoraLenderbee:
Seven Republican senators sent a letter to the White House asking Biden to repeal tariffs and other trade barriers that asswipe implemented during his time in office
Yes! Yes! Maybe Biden should ask McConnell to write a letter.
The Republicans knew these tariffs were nonsense from the start. Biden needs to rub their noses in it.
frosty
@Jeffro: Add most of the mid-Atlantic: PA, central Maryland along with Virginia. From what I’ve read global heating isn’t supposed to hit it too bad either, other than more rain.
Jude
@RandomMonster: Ok, now i really freaking want an upvote system, because this is sublime
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
Condolences on the old cat. Nineteen is a good run.
Good luck with the little monsters!
Anne Laurie
The CNN Media Mudlarks successfully avoided using the word ‘uppity’ for a Black, female Vice President and her Black, female Chief of Staff. That’s the newsiest part of this non-troversy, IMO.
(The CNN Mudlarks are very proud of this achievement & fully intend to submit for a Murrow Award next year.)
persistentillusion
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I’m sorry. Be confident in your doctor, and persistent in following their advice. Been there got the t-shirt and the scar.
Origuy
Since this is a dead thread, comment moved to the next one.
glc
@Pappenheimer: I don’t recall that. It seems memorable.
What I do recall, mainly, is the kakapo. And I see a video in a similar vein:
https://youtu.be/sCsHuoVABgI
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Oh, good!
WaterGirl
@Nukular Biskits: I imagine you struggle with that every time you fill up!
Albatrossity
Okay, every falconer I know is going to have to see this!
LiminalOwl
@zhena gogolia: Thank you. I am so glad to know I’m not alone in this.
patrick Il
I owned a near beachfront condominium in Virginia Beach and a rented a home nearby. I mentioned to someone walking in my condo’s neighborhood that I would be putting it up for sale in a couple of weeks. They made a full price offer plus closing costs on the spot. I did not even get a chance to put it on the market. I am renovating my house and someone noticed and knocked on the door and asked I was going to put it up for sale. They plan to take me to lunch tomorrow and make their offer. I have not put a house on the market yet and I’ve almost already sold two. I Wish I had a couple more.
DocH
@Miss Bianca:
Does your acquaintance ride Peruvian pasos?
DocH
@Pappenheimer: Very common raptor breeding technique (if you’re going to do AI, obv). You can even buy yourself a ready made hat!
J R in WV
@Mary G:
That’s wonderful, Mother-in-law needed new siding, set up three appointments for a Thursday to get estimates. Guy showed up on Tuesday, offered to do the job for something like $15,000, 2 grand off that price if she signed that day.
Thankfully, she called us before signing… I was keeping close track of prices at the time, knew she only needed like a dozen or so squares of siding at a few hundred dollars each, so that job had nearly a whole decimal place of high price built in. In the end a local business did the work for under $4K !
So I saved her nearly $10K in high-way robbery… did anyone say thank you? Nope.
Congratulations on your new expert and his quality estimate!!
J R in WV
@Jeffro:
Most of West Virginia may do OK, as long as we get enough rain to keep the forest alive and replenish our aquifers.
It was 53 here last night, open window dropped the interior temp to 67 overnight, our A/C appears to be keeping things comfortable on hot afternoons. Well water is cold!