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| Chat - Saturday, July 11th, 2009.; Wishing everyone a happy weekend! | |
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| petra | Jul 11 2009, 07:53 AM Post #31 |
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wow JILL how nice.....and that bromelia plant is beauty...... |
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| Jillers | Jul 11 2009, 07:56 AM Post #32 |
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I didn't realize it was a bromelia Peetie. Thanks for the education. I just knew it as an "air plant"! I do think the little flower is so cute & one of the other ones had a lot of them on it, but I wanted the one that still had flowers that would be opening!
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| ojailala | Jul 11 2009, 08:02 AM Post #33 |
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![]() ![]() Morning !! I have a pair of Ash Throated Flycathers 'starting' a nest in my birdhouse.... I think its kind of late in the season but I guess they know what they're doing.... |
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| Artsy Mom | Jul 11 2009, 08:08 AM Post #34 |
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I have been debating with myself...Again!!!....about whether to post this information because it will make you very :angry: and very upset but I think you all need to know what is happening with regards to birds of prey being systematically destroyed by torture and other means by pigeon fanciers no less
I hate to start your weekend off with this but it is so unconscionable I had to post it. Do not read this article if the callous killing of birds will get you upset. I think there needs to be some kind of grass roots petition started to make sure the new legislation to The Migratory Bird Act is enacted as soon as possible. Do not go here if this information will ruin your weekend. ![]() Thousands of birds have been tortured and killed in California, Oregon and Washington. ![]() Click on images for stories Legislation to Ensure Bird Killers Become Jailbirds And after all the things which have been done to protect falcons in the wild...what is this all about?????? Something is very, very wrong!!!! Commission approves peregrine falcon season in N.C. The second image has a 'feel good' story to offset the first one ![]() |
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| ojailala | Jul 11 2009, 08:12 AM Post #35 |
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Penny , I appreciate what you are doing... it truly is horrible.. but I can't go there.. I'm too close to my hawk to even imagine what they do...... |
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| wrightflyer | Jul 11 2009, 08:13 AM Post #36 |
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Email received today - Awesome paint job..... "Check out what some of our boys overseas did to their helicopter. Some Afghan is probably freaking out right about now . This very special Mi-24 helicopter is presently flying in Afghanistan, where it is no doubt causing quite a stir." God Bless the U.S.A. ![]() ![]()
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| KareninSoCali | Jul 11 2009, 08:13 AM Post #37 |
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"Mackerel scales and mare’s tails, make lofty ships carry low sails." The mare’s tails are wispy cirrus clouds while the mackerel scales are small clumpy altocumulus clouds resembling fish scales in the sky. In the days of large sailing ships, this meant a storm would be approaching soon and the sails should be lowered to protect from the accompanying high winds. (From About.com) |
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| sandie | Jul 11 2009, 08:31 AM Post #38 |
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Penny I'm glad you warned me.....I can not go "there" without getting very mad. I got upset and called police at kids just throwing rocks at a egret once. Kid will be here soon and as CatM we are going fishing also. We'll be just going out on the pier and playing out there. Hope the wind stays away. High tide will be around 1pm. I'd rather be lake or stream fishing but the ocean is pretty darn close. When I find it I'll show you a picture of my almost 6 lb catfish I caught in Lake Casitas....many many years ago!!! Lake/stream/river fishing is much more peaceful I think than fishing at the pier. Lots of activity there George seems like 6:45 is early enough for them to get your new toy to you??? I can't picture US Mail in business soon or the newspaper for that matter. I never thought I'd say something like that! Were you able to talk to your father? Hope all is well. Thinking about Hula birdy. Hope all went well with whatever she is having done. for speedy recovery too. Prayers for her and others that are incapacitated . Cat have a wonderful time. I hope our goes welll and we are blessed with catching some. I'd like to turn it over to Peter....but he's a bit far away.Lala I guess you are not the only one that scrapes "road kill" up and feeds it to wildlife. My BBQ is out there all shinney an dpretty . I hate to cook on it it's so clean
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| sandie | Jul 11 2009, 08:36 AM Post #39 |
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I wonder if they give rides in those helicopters!!
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| wrightflyer | Jul 11 2009, 08:49 AM Post #40 |
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Below is an article written by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated.He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in a F-14 Tomcat. If you aren't laughing out loud by the time you getto 'Milk Duds' , your sense of humor is seriously broken. This is the aircraft referred to... ![]() Someday you may be invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have. John Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this opportunity,let me urge you, with the greatest sincerity... Move to Guam. Change your name. Fake your own death! Whatever you do. Do Not Go!!! I know. The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I was toast! I should've known when they told me my pilot would be Chip (Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach . Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff) King looks like, triple it. He's about six-foot, tan, ice-blue eyes, wavy surfer hair,finger-crippling handshake -- the kind of man who wrestles dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the other way. Fast. Biff King was born to fly. His father, Jack King, was for years the voice of NASA missions. ('T-minus 15 seconds and counting'. Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear his dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-year-olds waiting for him to say, 'We have lift off'. Biff was to fly me in an F- 14D Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60 million weapon with nearly as much thrust as weight, not unlike Colin Montgomerie. I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning. 'Bananas,' he said. 'For the potassium?' I asked. 'No,' Biff said, 'because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down.' The next morning, out on the tarmac, I had on my flight suit with my name sewn over the left breast. (No call sign -- like Crash or Sticky or Leadfoot. But, still, very cool.) I carried my helmet in the crook of my arm, as Biff had instructed. If ever in my life I had a chance to nail Nicole Kidman, this was it. A fighter pilot named Psycho gave me a safety briefing and then fastened me into my ejection seat, which, when employed, would 'egress' me out of the plane at such a velocity that I would be immediately knocked unconscious. Just as I was thinking about aborting the flight, the canopy closed over me, and Biff gave the ground crew a thumbs-up In minutes we were firing noseup at 600 mph. We leveled out and then canopy-rolled over another F-14. Those 20 minutes were the rush of my life. Unfortunately, the ride lasted 80. It was like being on the roller coaster at Six Flags Over Hell. Only without rails. We did barrel rolls, snap rolls, loops, yanks and banks. We dived, rose and dived again, sometimes with a vertical velocity of 10,000 feet per minute. We chased another F-14, and it chased us. We broke the speed of sound. Sea was sky and sky was sea. Flying at 200 feet we did 90-degree turns at 550 mph, creating a G force of 6.5,which is to say I felt as if 6.5 times my body weight was smashing against me, thereby approximating life as Mrs. Colin Montgomerie. And I egressed the bananas. And I egressed the pizza from the night before. And the lunch before that. I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth grade. I made Linda Blair look polite. Because of the G's, I was egressing stuff that never thought would be egressed. I went through not one airsick bag, but two. Biff said I passed out. Twice. I was coated in sweat. At one point, as we were coming in upside down in a banked curve on a mock bombing target and the G's were flattening me like a tortilla and I was in and out of consciousness, I realized I was the first person in history to throw down. I used to know 'cool'. Cool was Elway throwing a touchdown pass, or Norman making a five-iron bite. But now I really know 'cool'. Cool is guys like Biff, men with cast-iron stomachs and freon nerves. I wouldn't go up there again for Derek Jeter's black book, but I'm glad Biff does every day, and for less a year than a rookie reliever makes in a home stand. A week later, when the spins finally stopped, Biff called. He said he and the fighters had the perfect call sign for me. Said he'd send it on a patch for my flight suit. What is it? I asked. 'Two Bags.' |
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| petra | Jul 11 2009, 08:52 AM Post #41 |
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wow MARTI that helicopter....wow a very biiiiiiiiiiiig eagle.... |
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| wrightflyer | Jul 11 2009, 09:11 AM Post #42 |
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Thanks Peetie, hope you're feeling better! |
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| sandie | Jul 11 2009, 09:16 AM Post #43 |
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Poor confused dog http://video.yahoo.com/network/100284668?v=5482844&l=3774740 |
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| lmorton2001 | Jul 11 2009, 09:17 AM Post #44 |
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Great helicopter pic and great F-14 story, Marti! Thanks for sharing!
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| Naturegal | Jul 11 2009, 09:19 AM Post #45 |
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Marti - The eagle helicopter is fabulous and old "Two Bags" is hysterical.
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I do think the little flower is so cute & one of the other ones had a lot of them on it, but I wanted the one that still had flowers that would be opening!



but I think you all need to know what is happening with regards to birds of prey being systematically destroyed by torture and other means by pigeon fanciers no less
Do not go here if this information will ruin your weekend. 





for speedy recovery too. Prayers for her and others that are incapacitated .
goes welll and we are blessed with catching some. I'd like to turn it over to Peter....but he's a bit far away.



8:49 AM Jul 13