Thursday - November 14, 2013

EEEEEEK!!

We have a mouse in the house!!

Some little whiskered fellow had the audacity to stick his head under the bathroom door yesterday ... and stared right at her!! SHRIEK!!!

And later it was found that he’d been nibbling on the chocolate!!!

I’ve been tasked to capture the rotten blighter, post haste!

But don’t hurt him, he’s so cute.

Women.

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   Saturday - November 02, 2013

neighbor pushed beyond barking dog limits, takes out family and dogs. Good!

I kinda think that many of you reading this, perhaps all of you, are more civilized than I am.  I never made any great claim to being such.
On the other hand, I guess it all depends on what one means by ‘civilized.’
The reason for me saying this, is a short story I read in a morning paper a couple of day ago.
Since it happened in the USA and as far as I know, we’ve never read about this sort of thing or at least not been reported.
Anyway, I fell compelled to share it but mostly my personal thoughts and opinion on the subject.
It’s doubtful anyone will agree with me, and that’s okay.  No harm done. My wife doesn’t either and I still love her.

I guess because I have been through this more than once, and one time worse than anything I can describe, I will tell you.

Had the shooter here been taken alive and gone to court and had I been on his jury, there is no way on God’s green earth I would vote to convict.
In fact, I would suggest a tax free life and a medal and a cash reward.
The way I see it is .... as bad as it appears, if it give even one dog owner pause for thought, and I have been a dog owner and love the damn things as much as I do cats, if only one got the message this guy left I say well done.
He’d been pushed to his limits and boy do I personally understand that. 

My wild ass guess is that it’s possible the victims here knew why it was happening and their last thoughts might have been, “god damn those fuckin dogs”.  Naturally, being the type of owners they were, they would not think to blame themselves for being inconsiderate turds who cared only for their own comfort and convenience, neighbors be damned.

Ever had a dog owner say to you ... “my dog doesn’t bark” when you know damn well it does?
And it never stops?

And then people are surprised when a poor guy like this, driven to the wall, grabs a gun.
Well, bravo and good for him.  I’m sorry he killed himself though. A good lawyer might have gotten him, if not off, a low sentence for diminished responsibility after having been driven to it.  This guy who is the real victim here, did not wake up that morning and ask himself what he should do to break he boredom. Oh, I wonder if I should shoot someone today. No. Not at all.  You can bet ur boots this extreme annoyance had been going on for a long time.  And sometimes some people can take only so much abuse.

Sgt. Steve Martos said authorities can only speculate on a motive for the killings.

Huh?  Is this maybe the deputy from the old Andy Griffith show?

Barking dogs suspected to have triggered killing spree in Arizona

by Arun George

Phoenix: For months, Michael Guzzo complained to neighbors about incessant dog barking, even putting up fliers on doors throughout his Phoenix townhome complex, advising people of pet ordinances and fines.

This weekend, police say, Guzzo went on a rampage, methodically killing four members of a family and their two dogs that lived next door before killing himself with the same shotgun. While his motive died along with him, neighbors and family members of the victims say he was becoming increasingly unhinged over dog noise.

Neighbors in the complex of two-story townhomes where a central courtyard looks like a tree-laden park said Guzzo made no secret that the barking dogs were irritating him. He often left printouts of the city’s dog barking ordinance on doors throughout the community, said Joni Flood, 27, who lives a few doors down from the victims. “He hated them. But everyone here has dogs,” Flood said.

Killed in the Saturday shooting were Bruce Moore, 66; his daughter, Renee Moore, 36; her husband, Michael Moore, 42, who used his wife’s last name; and Renee’s son, Shannon Moore, 17.

Family members of the victim were in shock Monday as they walked into the crime scene for the first time since the killing, standing amid pools of drying blood on the home’s back patio where the two men were apparently killed first. “It’s angering beyond belief,” said Patrick Riley, 41, Michael Moore’s brother. He found his brother’s silver necklace amid the blood. “It just angers me looking at all this because I just feel for my brother. The helplessness.”

Police haven’t given specific details of the attack, but Riley said he thinks Guzzo shot his brother over a 6-foot (1.8-meter) cinderblock fence while he worked on a car engine. “He had no idea what was coming,” Riley said. He said police told him Guzzo, 56, killed the two men first, then walked through the family’s unlocked front door and shot Renee, her son, Shannon, and the dogs. Phoenix Sgt. Steve Martos said authorities can only speculate on a motive for the killings.

“If he had left a note, maybe, but nothing like that occurred in this case,” Martos said Monday. Michael Moore’s mother Jacque Alderman, 70, said Renee “told me all the time the man was crazy. He just couldn’t stand the dogs.” Libni Deleon, 26, said that just a few months ago he returned home from work to find Guzzo standing by his back gate where his two dogs were on the patio barking.

“He said, ‘Your dogs are barking. I’m here to live in peace,’” Deleon recalled. Deleon says Guzzo tried to kill him on Saturday, too. Moments after the shooting, Guzzo walked across the courtyard and began kicking on their front door. Libni Deleon’s wife, Vanessa, had just gotten out of the shower, grabbed their two children and ran upstairs to hide in the bathtub. Libni went toward the door as Guzzo blasted two holes through it, sending about 20 shotgun pellets into the walls at the back of their home. He ran upstairs to get his own gun, opened the window and began to yell at Guzzo, who opened fire again before walking back to his home to turn the gun on himself. “I feel pretty darn lucky,” Libni Deleon said.

H/T First Post

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   Thursday - September 19, 2013

Bird, Brained

Thwock Robin

So I’m sweeping off the patio late this afternoon, and suddenly I hear this loud thwock! plop! sound. I look around, and there’s this robin lying there on the concrete next to the grill. Twitch twitch with the wing, then he goes still. The first thought that pops into my head - who’s the bird brain here? - is “Who would throw a robin at my house?” - then I realize the little dope probably flew into the siding. Birds used to hit my mother’s back window so often that she had to resort to hanging up a big picture of a hawk in the window. But they did leave some pretty dust pictures!

Twenty minutes later the dead bird has come back to life, and he’s just sitting there panting. Half an hour later he’s fluttering around a bit, and soon after that he was gone. Man, what a headache he’s gotta have!

Bird brain. Red Robin ... dumb!

via Flickr

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   Monday - September 16, 2013

Gator Done

Vicksburg, MS - A half-century old, cold-blooded, and weighing a third of a ton: there’s a new record for heaviest gator killed in Mississippi.

Three men struggled for hours to pull the beast out of the Mississippi River in Port Gibson. They say they finally got it out of the water on Monday morning.

The Mississippi Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Parks official calls it a record-breaker at 727 pounds.

Right now it’s being kept in deep freeze at a Vicksburg meat processor - a frigid end to the heated battle with completely inexperience gator hunters.

The tag-holder is 27-year-old Dustin Bockman, a UPS driver who lives in Vicksburg.

“It was about 8 o’clock [p.m. on Sunday] and it was me, my brother Ryan, and one of my best friends Cole Landers,” Bockman said.

“He marked him with a buoy with the first shot,” Cole said of Bockman’s strategy. “And we also snagged him with a rod and reel.”

“After you get a hook in him then you just have to fight him and wear him out until you can get him up,” Ryan Bockman, Dustin’s brother, said.

“It was like trying to pull a tree out of the water,” Dustin Bockman said.

“It just would go to the bottom and would not move. It didn’t matter what you did. It’d just stay there until he decided to move,” Bockman said.

After two hours of fighting the 50-something-year-old gator slipped up but it wouldn’t break the surface of the water.

Three shots to the back of the head killed it but also earned it a nickname.

“Elmer,” Bockman said.

“When you stick a gun in the water and it shoots, the pressure, the gas comes out and it can’t come out the end of the barrel. It exploded the gun barrel back like a banana he said that it looked like Elmer Fudd on the cartoon so he called him ‘Elmer’,” Bockman said.

Oh God. Bubba, Earl, and Skeeter in a pirogue. Trying to fire a rifle underwater.      It’s a small miracle they didn’t also earn themselves a Darwin Award.

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tough guy

A Fairbanks man punched a grizzly after the bear entered the camping tent he and his girlfriend were sleeping in at Sourdough Creek Campground.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that Jason Lauesen and Liz Pawelko were awakened about 6 a.m. on Labor Day by shaking and the entrance of a bear head, or maybe a paw, into Lauesen’s side of their tent.

At the time, Lauesen didn’t have his glasses on, and doesn’t know what part of the bear he made contact with. But whatever part of the bear entered the tent shredded the inflatable pad he was sleeping on.

After the encounter, the couple found the jacket Lauesen had been using as a pillow soaked in bear saliva that reeked of fish.

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   Monday - September 09, 2013

whale of a tale

Migaloo, the white Humpback whale from Australia, spotted recently breaching. The picture at imgur has received nearly 1.2 million views in less than 20 hours.

This extremely rare whale, about 28 years old, was long thought to be the only albino Humpback in the world, but it seems he has bred, and now there’s another one.

How many other whales have their own websites? This fellow has several of them. Very popular down under.

Migaloo, the world-famous white humpback whale, has reportedly been spotted on the annual mass whale migration to the Great Barrier Reef.

The 14m-long albino male, previously the only documented white humpback whale on the planet, is a star feature of the 12,000km journey

This time he is again joined by another, as yet unnamed, white whale.

Known by the aboriginal word Migaloo, or “white fella”, the acrobatic animal is believed to have spawned at least one all-white offspring after a white humpback calf was photographed in the Whitsundays in 2011.

Scientists are trying to obtain DNA samples from Migaloo and the newcomer to confirm if they are related.

If so, experts say, it would be an incredibly rare natural phenomenon.

Experts have predicted as many as 16,000 humpback whales have been making their way north for the annual migration into warm Great Barrier Reef waters for the mating and calving season.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received 45 reports of whale sightings from the public during the past couple of weeks, ranging from Mackay to north to Cape Tribulation.

The whales have been putting on quite a show for sailing boats off Mission Beach, with clear waters bringing the big sea mammals closer to shore, much to the delight of tourists.

Neat. Still, 1.2 million views in less than a day. Seems like everybody likes Migaloo. Somebody better get Fat Les to update his tune with some alternate lyrics.

Migaloo, Migaloo
Migaloo, Migaloo, na na,
Migaloo, Migaloooooooo
And we all like Migaloo ...

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   Monday - August 19, 2013

For The Birds

I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perched on my window sill.

I’m not a morning person.

Reporting in from Mom’s ... so we’re eating lunch at the dining table, and a little bird lands on top of the window A/C and looks in on us. We’ve always been bird aware here, knowing our finches from our towhees, our warblers from our vireos. But this little fellow we’ve never seen before. OF COURSE I don’t have a picture. He was only there for a second or three, then flew off. But for a small to medium sized small songbird (5"-9", sparrow-ish), this fellow was quite distinctive. He was here and gone so fast that I can’t even describe his overall color, other than this it wasn’t notable. But he had a strong, short, conical bill like finches and cardinals. Except that it was brightly colored, yellowish orange. And he had a red Mohawk. A crest, though it seemed a rather thin one just a single feather wide on the top of his hea. Cardinals and similar birds have a thicker crest; they appear to have nearly pointy heads when seen straight on.
My view was so short that I can’t tell you his body color, although black and white like most of the little woodpeckers could have been. All I had time to notice was the short seed-buster colored conical bill, and the thin but bright red crest that was a very strong contrast to the color of the rest of his head.

We do get blow-ins. Vagrants, accidentals. Birds that shouldn’t be here. And sometimes people catch songbirds and keep them in a cage and later they get loose.

We looked through all our bird books - and in my family, the bird books go back for generations - and found very little. Online, the closest thing I could find was an “illegal Mexican”, the Desert Cardinal or Pyrrhuloxia. A bird more than 2,000 miles out of his natural range. Don’t know. Maybe mom will keep a sharper eye out from now on and get a better look some other day.

Thin red crest. Yellow-orange conical bill. Songbird. Who knows?

We’ve no idea.

Pyrrhuloxia, from South of the Border
Red crest, colored beak, insanely far from home

Cassin’s Finch, a Rocky Mountain resident
Some bit of a red crest, many younger birds have colored beaks.
This guy is only 2,000 miles out of his range if he’s here

Purple finch is from around here, but has more of a head ruff than a crest. And the ruff isn’t high contrast
compared to the rest of his head. And he’s purple, not bright red.

UPDATE: never mind. It’s a young cardinal. They start out rather gray/olive colored, and the red comes in a bit at a time. We saw him again this morning, and had a better look. His crest is still thin, but it’s bright red, and while he’s still growing, he’s cardinal shape. Hardly a bit of red on him anywhere else.
Hey, it’s tough trying to ID juvenile birds.

I wonder if cardinals have named stages of development, the way we had names for the ripening of tomatoes back when I worked in the grocery store: green, breakers, turning, pink, red.

A cardinal. Crivens. Common as mud. Nothing to see here, move along.

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   Tuesday - July 30, 2013

Rescue Ranger

Just another day here in the wilds of NJ.

I took a bag of garbage out to the dumpster. Opened the door to the corral, lifted the lid on the 3 cubic yard dumpster ... and saw dark and shiny eyes staring at me from behind a burglar’s mask.

Awww. A widdle waccoon, stuck in the dumpster. Went over to the garage, got a 2x4, set up a ramp so he could get out, and (for once!!) had a camera handy.

Silly raccoon. Don’t he know that the garbage gets picked up Tuesday mornings??

At least it wasn’t a bear. This time. And I hope I get my board back.

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   Friday - July 26, 2013

Tourist Alert

Visitors to one of France’s most beautiful tourist areas were today warned to be on their guard after a pack of feral cats launched an attack on a young woman.

About six cats pounced on the unnamed dog owner as she walked her poodle in the city of Belfort, in the popular Franche-Comte region, on the Swiss border, dragging her to the ground and mauling her.

She was bitten repeatedly and left with a torn artery which could have proved fatal, while the dog was also badly hurt.

It is thought that particularly high summer temperatures may have made the cats far more aggressive than usual.

Josette Galliot, the mother of the 31-year-old victim, said: “They jumped on her and managed to knock her over.

“The feral cats bit her on the leg and on her arms. They even pierced an artery,” Mrs Galliot told l’Est Republicain newspaper, adding that her daughter had been “living a nightmare” since Sunday’s attack.

The woman was rushed to hospital where she received treatment for her wounds, and a number of injections including one against rabies. The poodle was treated at a nearby veterinary clinic.

A local police spokesman meanwhile suggested that the attack was “very unusual” and therefore “a cause of great concern”.

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   Saturday - July 20, 2013

Daddy’s Home!

semi-viral vid; a soldier’s homecoming after 6 months deployment. +100. yeah, everybody is linking it; guess why? my lab used to be like this every morning when I came home. she’d jump right through the open car window before I even got out. furpeople are so awesome.

and any “culture” that hates dogs is barbaric (ie jizzlam).

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   Thursday - June 27, 2013

Rural Life

So I went and got my chest X-ray. The radiologist is just a couple miles away, right on our local North-South county highway. It’s not a wooded area, but it is adjacent to a good sized farm on the back end of the Exxon-Mobile corporate park. A housing development backs up to their parking lot, and in front we’ve got the town traffic court and Sheriff’s office, with the poor recruits out doing PT in the parking lot on this hot and sweaty day.

So I go in the driveway, and see two deer chewing away on the lawn. Nothing special there; deer are like lawn ornaments around here. Everybody has half a dozen.

Get the X-ray. It’s easy. Except they made me wear pasties. WTH? Little stick on nipple covers. Beats me, but whatever.

All done, I walk out the door. And come to a dead stop. There’s a bear in the parking lot.

Ok, he wasn’t quite in the parking lot, he’s moseying along the back fence under the trees. But it was a bear. A black bear. And while he wasn’t BearZilla, he wasn’t a little cub. His back was as high as the bottom of the driver’s window of a Tacoma 4x4 pickup. About 4 feet, maybe 4 1/4? I’d guess about 350lb, but I’m no bear judge. His ears looked tiny, so I knew it wasn’t a cub, and he had some white fur alongside his nose. An adult. So I just stood there for a few seconds, not moving. And he snuffled his way along. At which point I veeeeery smoothly got in my car, quietly closed the door, and decided (heat be damned!) that, yeah, I think I’ll roll up the windows. And lock the doors.  A little frightening, a bit unusual, but really nothing that out of the ordinary around here. I’m living in Wild Kingdom.

Wikipedia and other web sources of ... the bear facts ... somehow don’t take NJ and eastern PA into account. “The typical black bear, Ursus americanus americanus, is typically 150-300lb”. Yeah right. And every year, hunters bag ‘em right on the other side of the border, weighing in around 600, 700, 800lbs. We grow our bears extra large. As big as a sofa, chest high, with claws on. But mellow. That’s a Jersey bear.

I keep saying that I’m never going to leave the house without one of my digital cameras, but somehow I always do. One of these days, I’ll actually get pictures of all the crazy stuff around here, from the fighting deer to the blimps doing a turn around right overhead to the hot air balloonists landing in the back yard to the pair of nested red-tailed hawks having aerial skirmishes with a big flight of turkey buzzards. And our Peeping Tom Cat, a scrubby little moggy who comes by every day or so and sits outside the kitchen slider, staring at us like we owe him money or something.

http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2013/05/active_bears_in_nj_prompt_warnings_from_officials.html#incart_river
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2013/05/bear_sighted_in_clinton_townsh.html
http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2013/06/bears_found_in_ridgewood_likely_from_same_litter.html
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/06/at_least_two_black_bears_spott.html

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   Thursday - June 06, 2013

The Mane Attraction

No, not another redhead post.

This one is about a Victoria Australia zoo who found a great way to show off their lions: they put big chunks of raw meat on the hood of their safari car. Yikes!

The four passengers in the jeep must feel a whisker away from death as a lion jumps up on to their bonnet for lunch.

But that’s all part of the attraction. The jeep is a new zoo exhibit which allows visitors to get incredibly close to the lions.
...
It makes for an exhilarating experience, according to Robyn and Davin Price, both 34, who visited the Werribee Open Range Zoo, in Melbourne, Australia, with their children Ariel, five, Eden, three, and baby Evie.
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This incredible Lions on the Edge exhibit, which puts you just inches from a lion’s jaws, is one of the biggest attractions at the zoo.
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Davin added: ‘The children were trying to reach out to touch the lions. It’s a brilliant idea.  I’ve never been so close to such incredible animals before.’

Heather Sargeant, who was also at the zoo on Friday, said: ‘You don’t realise just how big they are until they are staring you in the face like that.’

Gee, ya think? Nothing gets the heart pumping like a 450lb giant cat on the hood of your car having a quick snack of raw pot roast. And you’re sitting right there. And he’s still hungry. No worries mate, Australia always has more tourists!

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   Friday - May 03, 2013

because I needed to beat Drew to the Friday Eye Candy and also

Because Eye Candy comes in more than one flavor, and these are just too darn cute to pass by without sharing.

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   Friday - April 05, 2013

Just Buggin

Cicadas To Invade Tri-State Area

After a 17-year slumber, cicadas will be making their unwelcome debut throughout the Tri-State Area in about a month.

Experts said the cicadas will not be out until mid to late May.  ...  scientists said the spring and summer will bring record numbers of the noisy insect.

“In places where they’re going to be present, it’s going to be spectacular. There could be as many as one billion cicadas emerging per square mile,” Michael Raupp, a professor of Entomology at the University of Maryland, told 1010 WINS. “This is really a spectacular opportunity for children, for adults, for students to go out and learn about one of Mother Nature’s rarest, most interesting events.”

That’s one way to look at it. Another way is ... egad, great giant bugs all over everything, making a bloody great racket. The upside is that we’ll soon thereafter have some very well fed birds, racoons, and even fish. Cicadas make great bass bait, and can even be nearly self casting if you set them up right.

After the cicadas have counted 17 years—"we really don’t know how they count the years,” Kritsky said—they are ready to emerge, which usually happens in late spring when the soil reaches a temperature of about 64 Fahrenheit (18 Celsius).

When twilight of their emergence day hits, the one-inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long) nymphs crawl out of their holes and up just about anything vertical—trees, barbecues, walls, tombstones.

Firmly latched onto the surface of their choice, the nymphs begin their overnight transformation into adults: youthful skin breaks open, milky-white cicada emerges, wings flush out, and the body darkens as its outer shell hardens.

This emergence also marks the beginning of a huge feast. “It’s well known that pretty much everything starts chowing down on cicadas,” Clay said. Dogs, cats, birds, squirrels, deer, raccoons, mice, ants, wasps, and, yes, humans make a meal of the insects.

According to Kritsky, the best time to eat a cicada is just after they break open their youthful skin. “When you eat them when they’re soft and mushy, when they come out of their skin, they taste like cold, canned asparagus,” he said.

Some scientists believe the mass emergence of the cicadas is part of a survival strategy. With so many of them, they collectively satiate their predators within a few days. Then the billions left uneaten are free to mate.

A bit of quick research shows that we’re actually going to get off easy here in the east; this group of bugs is known as Brood II, which is much smaller than Brood X which won’t come up until 2021. Oh, lucky us!

Magicicada is a genus of periodical cicadas known for emerging in massive numbers in 17 or 13 year cycles/periods. The cicadas emerging in 2013 have 17 year life-cycles. Magicicada are also organized into broods. There are 12 broods of 17 year cicadas, and the brood emerging in 2013 is Brood II (Brood Two).

There are 3 species of 17-year Magicicada: M. septendecim (aka “decims”), M. cassini, and M. septendecula. The adults of all three species have black bodies with orange markings, and almost all have red-orange eyes (some have white or multi-colored eyes.

So there you have it. We get some of the bugs every year, from different broods. This just happens to be one of the larger ones. And folks all over are gathering their ingredients, getting ready for the big feast. Yeah right.

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