Duck Pond Redneckery

[Uncle Birchy]

When I go in my back door there's about a 6x8 room. Another door into the house is immediately on the right and the steps down into the basement are just after it.

For some reason the dog is terrified of that little room. It's hard to get him through there when we take him outside to fertilize the grass.

He will get "used" to it eventually..

Had him what a week now..

He is still used to that waitress lady and her apartment..

He doesn't quite understand what's going on yet ..

Years ago my Ex Wife took in a "shelter dog" and that thing was a pain in the ass starting out..

Eventually it adjusted and my kid would bring that mutt to my house on home visits

Now my house different to him but eventually he could handle a weekend when my boy was over even knew the routine both places

 

[Duck]

Coyotes ate one of my neighbor's little yip-yip dogs.

He has like 5 or 6 kids and their mom is a bitch. They got divorced about ten years ago and she got the kids & the house and he moved in with his mom, half a mile down the road from me, my closest neighbor on the same side of the road. His mom went to Wisconsin to live with one of his sisters.

As each kid turned 18, they moved in with their dad. And each kid has a little yip-yip dog. They're always coming in and out of the house.

They've known for decades about the coyotes. But one of them let their dads favorite yipper out at night & it became coyote food.

 

[Fageol]

Each of the last three gals I've been "associated" with had little dogs. But none were those miserable little yip-yip critters. Around here, those with little dogs aren't concerned about coyotes. But when out and about, those gals were and are concerned with eagles.

I am not sure where dogs come in on the taste preference spectrum of eagles. Maybe they're included in #3 preference. From my unscientific population studies, I'd conclude that the #1 dining preference is garbage -- at any time there are about 100 eagles at the Anchorage dump (excuse me, "landfill"); and many more than that at the dump in Unalaska (Dutch Harbor/Unalaska). Next to garbage, I think the #2 eagle dining preference is fish guts. Around here, little dogs are definitely not safe. And since so many are yip-yip suckers, good riddance.

 

[Duck]

I hope I don't break the trailer hauling this one

 

[Duck]

I got it. Didn't break the trailer.

 

[Duck]

Each of the last three gals I've been "associated" with had little dogs. But none were those miserable little yip-yip critters. Around here, those with little dogs aren't concerned about coyotes. But when out and about, those gals were and are concerned with eagles.

I am not sure where dogs come in on the taste preference spectrum of eagles. Maybe they're included in #3 preference. From my unscientific population studies, I'd conclude that the #1 dining preference is garbage -- at any time there are about 100 eagles at the Anchorage dump (excuse me, "landfill"); and many more than that at the dump in Unalaska (Dutch Harbor/Unalaska). Next to garbage, I think the #2 eagle dining preference is fish guts. Around here, little dogs are definitely not safe. And since so many are yip-yip suckers, good riddance.

From Wikipedia

The bald eagle is an opportunistic carnivore with the capacity to consume a great variety of prey. Fish often comprise most of the eagle's diet throughout their range.[55] In 20 food habit studies across the species' range, fish comprised 56% of the diet of nesting eagles, birds 28%, mammals 14% and other prey 2%.[56] More than 400 species are known to be included in the bald eagle's prey spectrum

 

[Fageol]

From Wikipedia

The bald eagle is an opportunistic carnivore with the capacity to consume a great variety of prey. Fish often comprise most of the eagle's diet throughout their range.[55] In 20 food habit studies across the species' range, fish comprised 56% of the diet of nesting eagles, birds 28%, mammals 14% and other prey 2%.[56] More than 400 species are known to be included in the bald eagle's prey spectrum

Wikipedia is probably right if fish guts are included in the "fish" category. From my experiences on the shore of Chignik Lagoon, if an eagle lands near a gut pile, seagulls and ravens stay about one wingspan away from it. If no eagles are present, ravens get first pick and seagulls, if they value their time on earth, stay about one wingspan away from ravens. At a gut pile, I've witnessed a raven jump a seagull and 2 pecks later, that seagull was no more.

 

[Duck]

Wikipedia is probably right if fish guts are included in the "fish" category. From my experiences on the shore of Chignik Lagoon, if an eagle lands near a gut pile, seagulls and ravens stay about one wingspan away from it. If no eagles are present, ravens get first pick and seagulls, if they value their time on earth, stay about one wingspan away from ravens. At a gut pile, I've witnessed a raven jump a seagull and 2 pecks later, that seagull was no more.

Can you imagine being a small wild animal & having to worry about flying beasts that can come out of nowhere and rip you to shreds?

That would suck.

 

[Fageol]

Can you imagine being a small wild animal & having to worry about flying beasts that can come out of nowhere and rip you to shreds?

That would suck.

From what I've seen, most of those yappy dogs are oblivious to the presence of predators. I can think of no exceptions to my favoring their ignorance of their environments.

 

[Duck]

Wind blew the liner out of Blueford, even though it was anchored at all 6 stake pockets and the tailgate was closed.





It also blew 5 panels off the greenhouse. Sarah and I spent 11 hours fixing it & beefing it up. Just finished a little while ago.

 

[GAnthony]

Can you imagine being a small wild animal & having to worry about flying beasts that can come out of nowhere and rip you to shreds?

That would suck.

yes, back in my youth, we feared the pterodactyl's flying over us during recess, going home/school, and playing in our caveyards.

talk about being worried, when you'd seen Ogg getting hoisted into the air.......

 

[GAnthony]

Wind blew the liner out of Blueford, even though it was anchored at all 6 stake pockets and the tailgate was closed.

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It also blew 5 panels off the greenhouse. Sarah and I spent 11 hours fixing it & beefing it up. Just finished a little while ago.

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Sarah does good work...probably faster than you'd ever.

mostly cuz she doesn't yap, or stop every 3 seconds to take stupid pictures...

 

[Duck]

Sarah does good work...probably faster than you'd ever.

mostly cuz she doesn't yap, or stop every 3 seconds to take stupid pictures...

I stop every few minutes to go to Menards and get what I didn't plan far enough ahead for on the previous ten trips.

Fixing the greenhouse required a trip to Ace to get a $21 box of 10-24 lock nuts, then a trip to Farm and Fleet for more fender washers and rubber ones to put under them, and more 10-24 machine screws and some foam rubber weatherstrip.

Then later, after F&F was closed, I went to Walmart for more of that weatherstrip.

Today I might go git a couple pieces of angle iron.

 

[Duck]

At the top & bottom of the panels, the ends tuck into a channel. The channel is half inch wide but the panels are like 1/8" so there's a constant rattling even in light winds.

I guess they don't have wind in China where this thing was designed by ten year old child slaves.

That's what the weatherstrip stuff fixed.

I know you want more pictures with detailed explanations @GAnthony

 

[Duck]

The funny thing is that the panels that came off were all on the downwind side of the greenhouse.

The doors & vents were closed, so how did the interior of the greenhouse pressurize enough to blow off panels?

Methinks it didn't.

Methinks the panels were sucked outwards by the low pressure behind it.

Just like how there's a low pressure area behind a van trailer going down the highway.

Maybe I should put trailer tails on it.

 

[Duck]

This is what happened



And this was the fix for it



55 times

 

[389 Hood]

I sure hope that for all that work, you get something edible out of the greenhouse.

Going to the local grocery store may not yield food that tastes as good, but it would be a hell of a lot cheaper.

 

[GAnthony]

The funny thing is that the panels that came off were all on the downwind side of the greenhouse.

The doors & vents were closed, so how did the interior of the greenhouse pressurize enough to blow off panels?

Methinks it didn't.

Methinks the panels were sucked outwards by the low pressure behind it.

Just like how there's a low pressure area behind a van trailer going down the highway.

Maybe I should put trailer tails on it.

instead of farting around with projects that take like 4200 pictures and several years to complete, why don't you go to fucking weatherman school and be a meatheadologist..???

 

[GAnthony]

I stop every few minutes to go to Menards and get what I didn't plan far enough ahead for on the previous ten trips.

Fixing the greenhouse required a trip to Ace to get a $21 box of 10-24 lock nuts, then a trip to Farm and Fleet for more fender washers and rubber ones to put under them, and more 10-24 machine screws and some foam rubber weatherstrip.

Then later, after F&F was closed, I went to Walmart for more of that weatherstrip.

Today I might go git a couple pieces of angle iron.

well, no one said ever, that duck was good at planning things in one trip......

you ain't getting paid by the mile...dumbass......

 

[Duck]

instead of farting around with projects that take like 4200 pictures and several years to complete, why don't you go to fucking weatherman school and be a meatheadologist..???

Weather forecasting is boring

Except for the guys who chase tornadoes.

I sure hope that for all that work, you get something edible out of the greenhouse.

Going to the local grocery store may not yield food that tastes as good, but it would be a hell of a lot cheaper.

Maybe I'll grow some weed and become a drug dealer.