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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,460

    Headwax said:

    yes I I found the the icon gadget and and also the the microphone where where in. Like your version the best :) still candlepowering 

    I feel for you, that's a long time without power and too stormy to even go surfing 

    I guess painting by candlelight not easy either 

    have you at least got gas?

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,764

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Headwax said:

    yes I I found the the icon gadget and and also the the microphone where where in. Like your version the best :) still candlepowering 

    I feel for you, that's a long time without power and too stormy to even go surfing 

    I guess painting by candlelight not easy either 

    have you at least got gas?

    Gas from eating Baked Beans cold ?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,460

    Bunyip02 said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Headwax said:

    yes I I found the the icon gadget and and also the the microphone where where in. Like your version the best :) still candlepowering 

    I feel for you, that's a long time without power and too stormy to even go surfing 

    I guess painting by candlelight not easy either 

    have you at least got gas?

    Gas from eating Baked Beans cold ?

    he better not sit too near that candle  

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Ha ha thanks yes I have gas, trouble us, boiled chicken looks like boiled cabbage in the dark 

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,200

    what! you don't have a gas barby! devil

    you city folk laugh

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Stezza said:

    what! you don't have a gas barby! devil

    you city folk laugh

    Oh yes we gave a few but the man who comes ti fill the bottleß never turns up ;) pity the air fryer needs ' lectricity. Lots of rich peoele around though, with generators and solar. Love the sound of generators in the night. Romantic.

     

     

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,764

    Rats have infested my Gas BBQ .... They were stealing the Macadamias off the tree and carting them onto the BBQ at night to eat !!!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Bunyip02 said:

    Rats have infested my Gas BBQ .... They were stealing the Macadamias off the tree and carting them onto the BBQ at night to eat !!!

    Possums love ours but they leave the macadamias on the tree thankfully! 

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,200

    the cockroaches have scared the possums off down here for now and after the rains the mozzies are carrying away the cockroaches.... 

    circle of life 

    the barby is safe however

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264

    Bunyip02 said:

    Rats have infested my Gas BBQ .... They were stealing the Macadamias off the tree and carting them onto the BBQ at night to eat !!!

    Macademia nuts are expensive here in Texas, around $1 per ounce, I wish we had a tree.  We do have a backyard set up to attract birds, including sunflower seed feeders.  The squirrels laugh daily at the idea of "squirrel proof" feeders.  But we do live trap rats, nearly fifty in the last several months, all delivered to a city nature park several miles away.  They can't find their way back, can they?  

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060
    edited January 21

    Steve K said:

    Bunyip02 said:

    Rats have infested my Gas BBQ .... They were stealing the Macadamias off the tree and carting them onto the BBQ at night to eat !!!

    Macademia nuts are expensive here in Texas, around $1 per ounce, I wish we had a tree.  We do have a backyard set up to attract birds, including sunflower seed feeders.  The squirrels laugh daily at the idea of "squirrel proof" feeders.  But we do live trap rats, nearly fifty in the last several months, all delivered to a city nature park several miles away.  They can't find their way back, can they?  

    rats have no sense of direction :)

    Macadamia's nuts are slightly expsnsice here.

    I found the reason on Reddit quote 

    My macadamia nuts are quite possibly from somewhere

    First time I ever noticed a spider in my nuts, most likely an isolated incident. I doubt the spiders survive the nut roasting oven.

     

    Oh you didn't see this here for squirrels . I think its wholly sick and am only posting it for educational poiposes. Not safe for work,

     

    excerpts from the comments section

     

    Did this once in my life. Goal was to launch squirrels and chipmunks into a field (cushy tall grass) behind the neighbor's yard. Tested several times and worked perfectly. However, very first actual squirrel sailed over the fence into neighbor's yard, right past neighbor cutting his grass, scaring the hell out of him. I laid low. He later complained about how aggressive the squirrels were getting, jumping from trees when he was right there. I said nothing
    Can you guy's please make a launcher big enough for my mother in law a.k.a Satan
     
     
     
    Damn. The squirrel space program is moving forwards quite nicely. At this rate they'll be the first rodents on Mars.

     

     

     

    good luck @Stezza with the cockroaches, we don't have any here because the ferrets that live in my socks drawer ate them 

     

     

     

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,221

    Steve K said:

    Bunyip02 said:

    Rats have infested my Gas BBQ .... They were stealing the Macadamias off the tree and carting them onto the BBQ at night to eat !!!

    Macademia nuts are expensive here in Texas, around $1 per ounce, I wish we had a tree.  We do have a backyard set up to attract birds, including sunflower seed feeders.  The squirrels laugh daily at the idea of "squirrel proof" feeders.  But we do live trap rats, nearly fifty in the last several months, all delivered to a city nature park several miles away.  They can't find their way back, can they?  

    Are you getting snow in East Texas, @SteveK?

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264

    Diomede said:  

    Are you getting snow in East Texas, @SteveK?

    Lots of snow overnight and into this morning.  Maybe 4" and it all stuck in deep layers.  Apparently our suburb about 30 miles ESE of Houston (toward Galveston Bay) got more than most areas.  It's been a decade or more since we last had snow, so a lot of the neighborhood kids were having a ball, good snowball snow.  The sun came out after lunch so its all melting now, but still around 20F tonight, about 20F below normal.  Got the pipes wrapped, the potted plants in the garage, and a bottle of bourbon opened..

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264
    edited January 22

    ☃️ SNOW DAY IN DEER PARK☃️ Our Parks and Rec Commission Chair, Eric Ripley,  hit the trails this morning to grab some awesome park photos! City offices  are closed today and tomorrow.

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,200

    getting windy again here.. another southerly surprise

    temps getting a bit cooler also, dropping to 23c ( 76f )  cool

    may have to put a jumper on soon.... angel

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Stezza said:

    getting windy again here.. another southerly surprise

    temps getting a bit cooler also, dropping to 23c ( 76f )  cool

    may have to put a jumper on soon.... angel

    Southerly just hit here 10 mins ago, good luck finding jumper

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Steve K said:

    ☃️ SNOW DAY IN DEER PARK☃️ Our Parks and Rec Commission Chair, Eric Ripley,  hit the trails this morning to grab some awesome park photos! City offices  are closed today and tomorrow.

    Beautiful image 

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,764

    Headwax said:

    Stezza said:

    getting windy again here.. another southerly surprise

    temps getting a bit cooler also, dropping to 23c ( 76f )  cool

    may have to put a jumper on soon.... angel

    Southerly just hit here 10 mins ago, good luck finding jumper

    34 degrees celcius here today, can you send that Southerly up this way ?

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Bunyip02 said:

    Headwax said:

    Stezza said:

    getting windy again here.. another southerly surprise

    temps getting a bit cooler also, dropping to 23c ( 76f )  cool

    may have to put a jumper on soon.... angel

    Southerly just hit here 10 mins ago, good luck finding jumper

    34 degrees celcius here today, can you send that Southerly up this way ?

    Done! we have plenty of wind to spare ;) 

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264

    Headwax said:

    Steve K said:

    ☃️ SNOW DAY IN DEER PARK☃️ Our Parks and Rec Commission Chair, Eric Ripley,  hit the trails this morning to grab some awesome park photos! City offices  are closed today and tomorrow.

    Beautiful image 

    Thanks, but not mine, taken by a city park dept. employee as part of a group around town.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Steve K said:

    Headwax said:

    Steve K said:

    ☃️ SNOW DAY IN DEER PARK☃️ Our Parks and Rec Commission Chair, Eric Ripley,  hit the trails this morning to grab some awesome park photos! City offices  are closed today and tomorrow.

    Beautiful image 

    Thanks, but not mine, taken by a city park dept. employee as part of a group around town.

     

    I saw snow once. Wel twice actually. We went skiing. I paid for parking at the ski resort thingy and the guy gave me sticker. He said "What ever you do, dont stick it on your windscreen, you'll never get it off."

    My wife, who is deaf and in her late nineties stuck the sticker on regardless. 

    It was green. It had thje date June 1996 on it, written in beige in Trajan Font.

    I know because I got to stare at the back of it for six years.

    Then, six years later, when I dove past a small mini a gravel road and the windscreen broke, the sticker was still on the inside of the windscreen.

    I left it on the side of the road with the other smashed bits of glass. (the windscreen guy cleared it up.)

    My wife, who is now 126 years old, has promised never to do it again. 

     

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,460

    I visited Mt Buller once and experienced snow

    unsuccessfully tried to stand upright in skis and push along flat ground

    hired a toboggan instead and had quite a bit of fun

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    The trickisto close your eyes....a d ask everybody to get out of the way ;)

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264

    I grew up in Oklahoma, occasional snow but only an inch or two usually.  Covered the ground but gone by afternoon.  So my first ski trip to Colorado, I see wonderful snow just off the walkway and jump onto it.  Chest deep.  Cool.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060
    edited January 24

    Steve K said:

    I grew up in Oklahoma, occasional snow but only an inch or two usually.  Covered the ground but gone by afternoon.  So my first ski trip to Colorado, I see wonderful snow just off the walkway and jump onto it.  Chest deep.  Cool.

     

    Literally ;) 

     

    another couple of k4's sculpted up as pawns 

     

     

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264

    Headwax said:

     

    another couple of k4's sculpted up as pawns 

     

    I used to play chess online until I realized how bad I was.  But I did learn that pawns can be pretty savage critters.  These fit the bill.

    P.S. Bill Gates also learned about his chess ability, admittedly with a better opponent than I ever played.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,060

    Steve K said:

    Headwax said:

     

    another couple of k4's sculpted up as pawns 

     

    I used to play chess online until I realized how bad I was.  But I did learn that pawns can be pretty savage critters.  These fit the bill.

    P.S. Bill Gates also learned about his chess ability, admittedly with a better opponent than I ever played.

     

    Chess is good until you realise that for the last two hours you've been waiting impatiently  for the other guy to move ..... and it's really your move. 

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,264

    Headwax said:

    Chess is good until you realise that for the last two hours you've been waiting impatiently  for the other guy to move ..... and it's really your move. 

    Chess GM David Bronstein (once nearly World Champion and twice Soviet Champion) once took 40 minutes, with his clock ticking, to decide his first move as white.  I recall he was asked what he was thinking about, he did not say, "It's my move?"  He said" I was trying do decide the best move".  cool  

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