Can't disagree with you on that. They are the largest woodpecker in North America, about the size of a crow I'd say. They are the ones that sometimes sound like a jackhammer/impact drill when pecking.
Bob
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Why is the pot on fire?
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I use that pan like a little habachi. There is an air hole in the bottom and a charcoal grate in it. The twigs burn down to hot coals in less time than starting charcoal.
Years ago my dad was working nights during pea harvest for Green Giant and a woodpecker decided to hammer on something metal on his roof and right above his bedroom. After two days of the hammering, the 12 gauge got set by the front door and on the third day when the hammering woke dad up he got out of bed got the gun walked out of the house and from the front yard blasted the bird.
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The first thing I thought of is Charlie is making charcoal, but there is no cover............
I know this is supposed to be a wordless picture but I couldn't help myself.
Apparently this car was released to the U.S. public 112 years ago today.
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If the wording below the picture is too hard to read, here's what it says:
'T'-riffic Launch: Folks with a sense of adventure and $850 were in for a treat on Oct. 1, 1908.
That's when the Ford Model T was introduced to the public-the first car that was affordable for the ordinary citizen in the U.S.. The "Tin Lizzie" sat two, and by the time it was discontinued in 1927, nearly 15,000,000 had been sold.
It was good value for money, as this Aug. 4, 1944, photo attests. That's Mrs. Mildred C. Reniff of of Ashfield waving good-bye as she starts up her vintage 1914 Model T. Ford. Mrs. Reniff was taking the advice of federal agencies to make cars last as long as possible and had it gotten it in tip-top shape. An extra touch of Yankee ingenuity: A tank on the running board mixes carbide and water to form gas for headlights.
Every time I see a Model T Ford I think of Babbitt bearings, for some reason. How things have changed. When I started at a pulp and paper mill in 1974 I was amazed that they still had a mulewright whose job it was to do Babbitt bearings. The old fella's nick name, appropriately enough, was Babbitt Mike.
Bob
Hmmm. Not entirely wordless.
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Ok----now it's wordless :w
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Did you perform the bris?
It could be a Phallus impudicus, Stinkhorn mushroom or a Boletus edulis, Penny Bun mushroom. There are literally tens of thousands of different kinds of mushrooms, I believe 50,000 or more and lots of them look like penises. Some of the Psyllicibin mushrooms in particular Psyllicibe cubensis also look that way. Although I'm pretty sure the cubensis don't grow that far north.
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Nope....its spelled correctly.
Here too!
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Stilpnochlora couloniana: Florida giant katydid.
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This one's a female. Females are larger
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I give. What is that!?
It looks like three antelope in the back of a truck.
What kind of deer. The hide's look like some type of sheep. I've never seen a deer with hair like that, before
Rusa maybe?
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Glad someone else is getting that white stuff too.
Bob
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We had a mix of rain sleet and snow today and it must have been a perfect mix.
This was when I got off work. I was facing east. Our parking lot is arranged by shift times and the chevy 2 spots down from me had a smaller one.
No other cars or trucks in the lot had one. Maybe angle of the windsheild played a roll also.
I lead a boring life if that makes my day fun! LOL