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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 5, 2022 21:46:42 GMT -5
Big wind and rain storm just blew through. Temp dropped 30 degrees in about 20 minutes. We needed the rain. The cool isn’t bad either. Could you please send it down here when you are done. People who complain about the rain have no idea. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 5, 2022 21:51:52 GMT -5
Dogs and thunder… We just had a terrific boominflasher roll thru here. Right over the house with thunder, lightning, the works. Almost an hour of it before it got bored and went off east. Electric flashed on an off a coupla times. The boyz ignored the whole thing. I’m lucky they’re so casual about it as my lap is not big enough for two Shorthairs. I’m sure part of it is the gun training they get as puppies.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 5, 2022 22:05:02 GMT -5
Dogs and thunder… We just had a terrific boominflasher roll thru here. Right over the house with thunder, lightning, the works. Almost an hour of it before it got bored and went off east. Electric flashed on an off a coupla times. The boyz ignored the whole thing. I’m lucky they’re so casual about it as my lap is not big enough for two Shorthairs. I’m sure part of it is the gun training they get as puppies. Lacy completely ignores all thunderstorms. Squirrels, birds, and nothing at all will send her into an all day barking fit. But thunder, fireworks or gunshots are ignored. |
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Post by Goldbrick on Jul 6, 2022 7:57:40 GMT -5
You're lucky, Ron. gunfire, fireworks, a knock at the door, the doorbell, or even a doorbell on TV, sends my beagle into a fit of barking loud as a foghorn.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 6, 2022 9:39:57 GMT -5
Herb, it's embarrassing when we have a repairman over. She never shuts up. When friends stay with us it takes hours to get her to accept them. When the plumbers were repiping the house she barked constantly for a week. But I can take her out in the yard and shoot a pistol and get zero reaction.
She's the same as yours about knocks and TV doorbells. Not as loud as a beagle though.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 6, 2022 9:46:01 GMT -5
 Buddy is not scared but curious where noise is coming from, visitors he want to jump on them, one man stopped to inquire if my Jo Boat was for sale, wife went out to his truck, he started to get out and wife said she had never heard him growl like that, told the man you’d better stay in your truck. He loves my wife, if someone would attack her, Buddy would kill them!
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Post by Goldbrick on Jul 6, 2022 10:23:40 GMT -5
Herb, it's embarrassing when we have a repairman over. She never shuts up. When friends stay with us it takes hours to get her to accept them. When the plumbers were repiping the house she barked constantly for a week. But I can take her out in the yard and shoot a pistol and get zero reaction. She's the same as yours about knocks and TV doorbells. Not as loud as a beagle though. Unlike your dog, Buster has yet to meet a person he doesn't love  and everyone loves him. He can't see a blessed thing, but he must like the way everybody smells. When his favorite friends come over, he rushes to them, squealing with joy, and when they sit down, he backs up and sits on their toes, so he'll know when they're ready to leave...there is a treat jar near the backdoor, and everyone must pay the toll. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 6, 2022 10:30:00 GMT -5
Buddy is not scared but curious where noise is coming from, visitors he want to jump on them, one man stopped to inquire if my Jo Boat was for sale, wife went out to his truck, he started to get out and wife said she had never heard him growl like that, told the man you’d better stay in your truck. He loves my wife, if someone would attack her, Buddy would kill them! I always trust my dogs about their people judgments. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Jul 6, 2022 10:39:45 GMT -5
Herb, it's embarrassing when we have a repairman over. She never shuts up. When friends stay with us it takes hours to get her to accept them. When the plumbers were repiping the house she barked constantly for a week. But I can take her out in the yard and shoot a pistol and get zero reaction. She's the same as yours about knocks and TV doorbells. Not as loud as a beagle though. Unlike your dog, Buster has yet to meet a person he doesn't love and everyone loves him. He can't see a blessed thing, but he must like the way everybody smells. When his favorite friends come over, he rushes to them, squealing with joy, and when they sit down, he backs up and sits on their toes, so he'll know when they're ready to leave...there is a treat jar near the backdoor, and everyone must pay the toll. That's like my dog. King Charles spaniels are very docile. They would kill you with love. They're TOO needy though. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 6, 2022 10:52:20 GMT -5
People + Dogs = The ESSENTIAL Combination. |
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Post by Goldbrick on Jul 6, 2022 11:29:40 GMT -5
At the moment, I'm hiding from the heat...there's a Dutch oven full of yellow squash reducing down on the stove, seasoned with fresh grounded black pepper, salt, and a small scoop both butter & bacon drippings.
After a while, I'll split it up, and mix some with fresh corn, cut from the cob, and perhaps some diced potato, to go with supper. The rest will wait in the fridge, for a squash casserole, over the weekend.
We sent squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers, over to the neighbors, and now the wife is napping, as are the dogs...I'm breaking for a pipe, Life is good!
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 6, 2022 11:56:58 GMT -5
At the moment, I'm hiding from the heat...there's a Dutch oven full of yellow squash reducing down on the stove, seasoned with fresh grounded black pepper, salt, and a small scoop both butter & bacon drippings. After a while, I'll split it up, and mix some with fresh corn, cut from the cob, and perhaps some diced potato, to go with supper. The rest will wait in the fridge, for a squash casserole, over the weekend. We sent squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers, over to the neighbors, and now the wife is napping, as are the dogs...I'm breaking for a pipe, Life is good! I need to get in the kitchen and start chopping veggies. I have summer squash and turnips and I don't know what else. |
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Post by bigwoolie on Jul 6, 2022 14:28:28 GMT -5
It’s the second to last week of school for the summer, and real feel temps are over 100 last 2 weeks. Sure is putting a cramp in classes.
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 6, 2022 16:53:01 GMT -5
A coyote came into the rear yard today. Very unusual. We have a lot of them but they stay away from people, unlike those you read about in California and Colorado that fearlessly eat small dogs right out of yards. Eli told me he was there and took an instant dislike to him. But by the time I stuck a rifle thru a stealthily opened back door he was gone, of course. I think they sense evil intent at a great distance. I don’t pursue them altho many do here. But they can’t come around my house or buildings. That is a no-no that carries dire results.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 6, 2022 17:02:05 GMT -5
Yep a couple yrs ago while living in my RV and putting my 100 yr old house together after moving it 10 miles to my farm., Kiyan started barking, went outside with my shotgun to see arse end of coyote boogieing acreoss the road to my neighbors property, she had been complaining of something scareing her chickens, I hopped over the road into her field and started running the coulee, by that time the old lady was tromping in the field, we looked and finally the old lady said look, she had good eyes, I saw a nose sticking out among the water Lillie’s, back off I told her. BYE BYE COYOTE. I thought she was gonna kiss me, her chicken problem gone, if she wouldn’t have been there I would have missed him!
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Post by instymp on Jul 6, 2022 17:24:23 GMT -5
Buddy is not scared but curious where noise is coming from, visitors he want to jump on them, one man stopped to inquire if my Jo Boat was for sale, wife went out to his truck, he started to get out and wife said she had never heard him growl like that, told the man you’d better stay in your truck. He loves my wife, if someone would attack her, Buddy would kill them! Thats because shes a better cook than you. |
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Post by trailboss on Jul 6, 2022 19:54:11 GMT -5
Worked in and around Tucson today, I think the humidity of Kansas recalibrated my sweat trigger.
104° and 12% humidity… never broke a sweat!
Either that, or Kansas wringed all of the sweat out of me. 😉
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Post by adui on Jul 6, 2022 21:38:03 GMT -5
Worked in and around Tucson today, I think the humidity of Kansas recalibrated my sweat trigger. 104° and 12% humidity… never broke a sweat! Either that, or Kansas wringed all of the sweat out of me. 😉 Right there with you Charlie. While I was in Oregon I was sweating constantly, and its considered a relatively mild humidity to many places. Funny thing is the temps ere never really that high, it was just muggy to me. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 6, 2022 22:09:46 GMT -5
Worked in and around Tucson today, I think the humidity of Kansas recalibrated my sweat trigger. 104° and 12% humidity… never broke a sweat! Either that, or Kansas wringed all of the sweat out of me. 😉 It all evaporated before you could notice. |
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Post by urbino on Jul 7, 2022 0:53:55 GMT -5
Well, just to make sure I didn't get too relaxed, another interesting day at the office. Ransomware bit our parent company. I feel confident they're going to come up with more things to make my job difficult, as a result.
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Post by Silver on Jul 7, 2022 0:58:51 GMT -5
Well, hey there urb. Sucks to hear that.
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 7, 2022 7:41:01 GMT -5
Well, just to make sure I didn't get too relaxed, another interesting day at the office. Ransomware bit our parent company. I feel confident they're going to come up with more things to make my job difficult, as a result. Ransomware should be a capital offense. Find ‘em, kill ‘em, get a medal. |
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Post by sperrytops on Jul 7, 2022 10:24:52 GMT -5
Surprisingly cool this morning, though expected to reach 100 this afternoon.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 7, 2022 13:50:13 GMT -5
Hot this morning and hotter now. In Jefferson 5 degrees cooler than Linden, only 94/104
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Post by Silver on Jul 7, 2022 14:28:05 GMT -5
Crawling around in planting beds, pulling weeds. They are flourishing with the recent rain. 77 and sunny here.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 7, 2022 14:41:05 GMT -5
Hmmm! Maybe a summer home in Detroit? 🤔
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Post by bigwoolie on Jul 7, 2022 15:20:13 GMT -5
Another super hot, super humid day. We’re having classes early, then shutting down until after supper when things cool down a little before saddling up again. So this gives me the afternoons to hide out in the a/c in the cigar lounge drinking coffee and trying new sticks.
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Post by urbino on Jul 7, 2022 15:31:02 GMT -5
Waiting while updates install in things. Don't know about you fellas, but my electric bill jumped more than 50% from May to June. Yikes.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 7, 2022 15:39:38 GMT -5
Mine jumped too. Over 200 more than last year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2022 16:42:31 GMT -5
We had 48F this morning when I woke up (around 5) and it's currently 70F, with a rather cool light wind. Summers are fairly dry in Gaspésie (and winters, cold but also dry), which is good. This year, however, seems to be slightly below average temperatures.
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Buddy is not scared but curious where noise is coming from, visitors he want to jump on them, one man stopped to inquire if my Jo Boat was for sale, wife went out to his truck, he started to get out and wife said she had never heard him growl like that, told the man you’d better stay in your truck. He loves my wife, if someone would attack her, Buddy would kill them!
and everyone loves him. He can't see a blessed thing, but he must like the way everybody smells.
