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Mornin' dudes.

One of my neighbor's chickens is dead. Not sure what killed it, but Tank woke up at 0500 wanting to get out in the yard... so I went out with him and a Turkey vulture was sitting on my neighbor's roof waiting for daylight to begin the banquet.

Saw Tank and he took off... sun's up and I can hear the other chickens fussing.

Beyond the back fence is woods... possums, raccoons, deer, and any other number of things. Our yards are fenced with vinyl fencing, except the back part going to the woods... it's black aluminum with gaps in it. Not sure why they did it that way, but just about all of the ones I have seen are like that.

Neighbor has his blocked off with chicken wire for obvious reasons, but it didn't keep whatever it was out. Tank keeps them out of my yard.

Morning folks. Painting crew wrapped it up last night. Happy to have my patio back. Gonna be 43/72 today and clear.

Chupacabra is my guess.

Drafter saw bigfoots boobs once.

Good mornin' fellas!
I love banter threads.
Hello to danmdevries. Great to see in that other place where some of us lurk.
Have a dead ass perfect day everyone!

Welcome highsierra. That other place died over the past few years. Used to be more lively than here. Hell, this place used to be more lively than here. But there's a core of FOGs that don't stop posting here till they're dead, so I've built some great friendships here. Stick around and Z might take you camping.

Possums don't typically cause problems as long as there's other stuff around for them to eat. I don't even shoot em when I catch em in the live traps, only when they get stuck in the hand-clamp traps (breaks their leg). Raccoons on the other hand... I had one rip a hole through the seam in my asphalt panel roof on the coop, lift it up and break off a few pieces to get into the coop. Proceeded to kill every single chicken and only eat part of one. I had another raccoon find the one small gap in hardware cloth at the roof line and bend it down to get in and kill everything. Before I put an automatic solar door on the coop if I forgot to close it for the night, raccoons would kill at least one.

When the hawks get em, they kill them on the ground outside and pick at the carcass. If I don't catch it early enough the hawk will eat all the meat and there will just be some bones and all the feathers.

Skunks get after em too, but that's easy to identify.

Raccoons will kill for sport and food. Possums have to be pretty desperate and it has to be easy.

Windy and seasonal temps.
Garbage out. Inch and a half of slush schlepped off of the driveway.
Three egg omelet with spinach and fresh mushrooms. Sautéed them in Marsala wine first. Placebo buzz in place.
Hash browns, sausage, two slices of sourdough toast.
Need to get the dog walking. The current 16 mph winds bump up to 22 around noon. Gusts up to 35.

Appears " Rocky Racoon " is the culprit in the case of the dead chicken.

4 hours of conference calls today.

Packing crew is here boxing up the house.

Pool repair guy coming shortly.

Chaotic day. I hate moving.

Shpo Notes for the week.

Guy brought his 2024 Porsche 911 in. His issue was his exhaust system was not loud enough. New custom loud exhaust- $7,000. One the care left, it was getting some super stealth radar detection system install for something in the neighborhood of $1,500.

Drive of the week. Maserati Levante or something like that. The official vehicle given to affluent white women in the 35+ years of age demographic who caught their executive husband banging the babysitter. SUV kind of thing. Estimated purchase price $150,000.

I just watched the teardown of a broken Maserati Ghibli F160 Twin Turbo V6 Engine, high dollar rides break too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXanLM7_zZ0&t=2s

I'll bet the 911 exhaust system that wasn't loud enough is worth a few $$$'s

I just got added to a one hour call tomorrow with a half hour call today to prep for it.

Enjoy the show.

Great to be here brother.

buddy had a female GP a few years back...big lovable snowball.
She'd sit on my feet so I couldn't get away when I was patting her.
Soooo sweet.

Good afternoon fellas

Off to look at campers I'll never buy. And then to Giordanos for pizza after.

Matty like pizza. Pizza gooooood.

You could have a gator come out and eat you while you are sunbathing in your back yard?

One Sunday morning a while back I went to let the chickens out and found 5 headless birds. The other couple dozen were naturally freaked out. In our house we refer to it as Bloody Sunday. I don't know exactly what did it but the next night I saw three foxes working as a team to scare the chickens from one side of the enclosure to the other and there would be or two foxes waiting on the other side when the chicken came that way. I beefed up the caging so they never got to the birds and eventually stopped coming by. Some people say it could have been racoons or fishercat but seeing the trail cam I think maybe those foxes.

Another covid death... tragic. Wear ya mask and get ya booster!

Yikes! My daughter is an official car owner as of today. She got her driver's license a couple weeks back bought a car today. It's a used car, Ford Fusion. I didn't want to buy a new vehicle or expensive used one since odds are new drivers will get into an accident within a year. I wanted something safe, reliable, and in her price range (deal was I pay one third, ex-wife pays one third, and she pays one third).

Tomorrow they go to the registry and get it registered and the plates and stuff.

It's a high mileage car and CarFax says it was not in any accidents. It spent most of its time in Connecticut, regular oil changes at dealerships and routine maintenance. Nothing on the CarFax history raises red flags.

It drives good but I told the dealer to give it a brake job before it gets picked up (I gotta get something free from the deal). I don't think it needs them but before we take it off the lot at least have them put on a fresh set of pads and rotors.

Probably pick it up next week on Tues or Wed since Monday is a holiday.

Just a heads up. A new first time driver will be on the road by the middle of next week. If you don't live in central MA, you are safe. If you live in central MA, look both ways while walking across the street and check your blind spots while your are driving (typical stuff folks should do anyway).

Aligators can climb fences? Had noooo idea.
Let's not share that with my wife.

Happy Friday fellas

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