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Whoa yeah. That is big time cool. But big time expensive.

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A friend of mine always said "It only costs a dollar more to go first class"....:)

LockDoc

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More like a fist full of dollars..:lol:

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View from the lanai this morning, 9:45 Maui time

This vacation was supposed to happen over a year ago..

Finally!!!

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Awesome!

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If you’re smart you’ll stay there

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If I wasn't on a "ranch" (60 acres can hardly be called a ranch) in Montana, the I would probably be on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. ;)

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Funny I’ve been on both stretches, the one you speak and the one Tim speaks. The Virginia section of 50 is by all means my old stomping grounds.

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Random shot of one of my hobbies when I was much younger... and stronger... in a galaxy far far away. LOL.

That's me with the backwards hat. You can see the backside of my Dad's 1970 CST/10 sitting there.

All aluminum Buick 215 with an Offy intake and Predator carb, mated up to a 36" harvester bar runnin' 3/4" harvester chain. Saw weighed in at a tick over 500 pounds. This was a 25" hunk of cedar we were practicing on. But in competition we cut through 30" of cottonwood in around 2 seconds. ;)

Gary

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That is is is JUST INSANE , can't imagine !!!!!!!!!!!1

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How I miss our hot saw competition at our local fair. Great picture!

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Yeah, the Gunnison/Tomichi valley is not all that far from where you are now. Funny, my daughter is at this moment in the process of moving to a childhood friend's place off 50 a little bit east of Parlin (but in Saguache County). Her friend's husband was born the same day, same hospital as our twins, but we didn't know that family. Her friend basically lived right across the street from us in town for a while :)

We need to go down to Monte Vista for a task someday soon. That's almost right over the hill from you ;)

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Yeah that's small, we had a "Ranch" near Darby Mt. it was 50 Acres we had 100 ewes and two rams. We also a had about 10 Llamas too. It was right on the Bitter Root River. In my 16th summer my step dad sent me to his best friend's ranch near Wibaux Mt. he had 15,000 acres and leased 25,000 acres from the BLM. It was a cattle ranch with around 1000 cows mostly black angus but a few Charolais cows. The biggest thing a remember was artificially inseminating them! That was a lot of work. We also had to move them from pasture to pasture on horses! That summer whore my butt out!!!

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It's pretty rough right here: rocks, pine trees, juniper, sagebrush, and a little grass. Just a couple horses. Our neighbors do raise some sheep, and then there's a multi-section cattle ranch 1/4 mile away where we can go ride.

Funny thing, some Amish are buying up a bunch of property in this neighborhood. I'm not sure how they will make it work.

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Random

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0:820, on my way to my job in New Strawn Ks.
By 14:00 it all melted.
Gotta love east central Kansas.😎

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This passed me yesterday, looked really nice.

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The spring at Fairfax Stone. The source of the (N. Branch) Potomac River at the SW tip of Maryland. It marks the southern boundary with Virginia all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Now West Virginia, the stone is the extreme southern point that the due north line surveyed by Mason & Dixon extends from. The last two pictures show Marker 3 up the line on top of Backbone Mt near Hoye Crest, Maryland's highest point

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We went to Olde Town Arvada while visiting my son and his family last weekend. I had to take these pictures just 'cause.

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on the way into work this morn
load of paper in the ditch
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Caught this fellow enjoying the sun warmed bricks behind my woodpile last Tuesday right before the front came through and temps dropped 15-20 degrees. Always happy to see a king snake in the yard.

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When I lived in El Paso, Arkansas I had one of those fellows about 4 ft long come from under the lawn chair I was sitting in right between my feet. I was also generally happy to see them around the place, but not so much that time!

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Me too. I hate rattlesnakes.

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Is that Al Quiring,lol

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I have a couple of copperhaeds living in my shed in SC,gosd to keep the mice population down!

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What variety is that?

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That's called a king snake in our part of the world.

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king snakes, bull snakes, gopher snakes, and black snakes are the most common of the larger non poisonous snakes back home..

they usually make good neighbors by keeping varmints down and only the occasional poop your pants surprise encounter :lol:

this guy tried crawling in the longhorn while I was resting with the door propped open with my foot..

my last or almost last load of hedge brush and I was tuckered out and needed a little time out..

so this guy came out of the weeds and tried to join me, scared the crap out of me :lol:

so even after I pulled my foot in and shut the door he still wanted to hang out with me..

luckily I had the broom in the cab so I unscrewed the handle and poked at him until he left me alone..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/5n0oybhi1dh..._9776.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/i3mqgpso87r..._9940.jpg?dl=0

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He's just trying to talk to you about your truck's extended warranty ;)

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Weird. This is what they look like in California.

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Yup. That's what the last fella in my driveway looked like.

Unfortunately. Just like my ex wives and girlfriends. He didn't stick around. :(

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healthy gopher snake I waited for to cross the road at seal beach weapons station years ago..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/rwaumhxhpx8...e%20I.JPG?dl=0

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Sorry no photo, but my grandmother used to be quite proud of an estimated 6 foot bull snake that lived on their central Texas "hill country" ranch. She often took photos of it when she encountered it in the barn or out in the garden. Bull snakes I've been told eat a lot of vermin and other small animals.

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The ones around here look about like that.

One spring quite a few years ago we were driving back from our barn and saw a pair of them on the bank next to the county road. They were right in the middle of doing their thing. And that's all I'm going to say about that :lol:

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I ordered some stuff shipped directly to the farm and mom sent this text to me today..

"Your other package just arrived. There is a long black snake on the gravel by the back door. The UPS guy almost had a heart attack. I told him to watch out for the snake and thought I was pointing for him to put the package down. When he saw the snake he jumped back and shivered"

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/t4yyxp5khwo..._1598.jpg?dl=0

disclaimer: no delivery personnel or snakes were harmed in the making of this post :lol:

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I took this picture near my mom's place. I have yet to use a GPS. No particular reason, just never felt the need. Might have something with doing just fine getting where I needed to go before there was such a device. But this gives me another reason. I hate getting bad directions. I can sniff a place out easier than find it on incorrect directions. The road takes a hard turn left here and it seems GPS takes you straight down these people's lane. Happens so much the state hiway dept had this sign made
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Then last summer I was down in Virginia, headed back into the hills, and I see this sign

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But some people won't read signs if it hits them right in the face! :lol:

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a couple pictures taken out at the end of my front lawn at Joggins Beach,looking out at Chignecto Bay,part of the Bay of Fundy and the highest tides in the world

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A year or so back I was riding my horse down the county road headed home. We come across this guy in a pickup just parked in the road among the pine trees (part of our land now). So I stop and talk and he says he is looking for such-and-such road. I tell him that he just passed it about a quarter mile back, didn't he see the sign?

He says "yeah, but the GPS says it should be right here" (in the middle of the pines with no roads or driveways :rolleyes:).

I told him to turn that damn thing off! :devil:


Sometimes the signs do get stolen or knocked down, but Geez! if you see the sign for the road you are looking for, why would you just keep driving ?????

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The black “dirt” is actually surface coal. Apparently the San Juan basin is one of only a few places in the world where there is coal naturally present at the surface. I know of several places in the basin where it’s at the surface. I’m a nerd and find geology pretty interesting.