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Saw some turkeys on their recently harvested Hayfield when we were driving back to KC on Sunday morning.



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Went to the lady's parents place south of warrensburg over the weekend and the mutts enjoyed the front porch with their own fan.


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My dad is going Rambo against this raccoon according to the email I just got....

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So, its like a chess game, but I keep losing.

Despite locking down feeders, minimizing garage door entry space, etc.

This medium sized racoon manages to lift the garage door about an inch to gain entry to eat cat food (and mess up cat feeders).

He has avoided live traps.

I may put a live trap inside the garage right where he enters kind of forcing him into it.

If that fails, it is going to be staying up late w/a shotgun.

The time I've invested in resolving this issue.

I have added about 5 new Santa Rosa plum trees North of the house.

You might be correct on that berry plant I thought was a vine.  We shall see.

Dad

Got an update at fathers day yesterday and it went something like this

Ben ji - So did you get that coon that was getting into the cat food in the garage?
dad - Yeah, finally. I put the trap on the other side of the garage door where it enters and put a bunch of bricks next to it so that was the only way in...First night I caught a cat but the next night I GOT HIM.
Ben ji - Good stuff, did you drive it somewhere to let it go or.....
dad - We don't have to worry about the troublesome raccoon anymore.....

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Guyz, my dad is living the hobby farm retired dream life. I emailed him back because his phone died or broke or something and this was the response

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Berries are about the same.  Ones doing good fine, ones that died are dead.
 
5 Santa Rosa plum trees planted now.  All have rabbit wire.  Two have deer wire.
Half inch of rain last night.  Bit of a surprise.  We just planted milo.  I've been running the irrigation.  Back tomorrow to get a new phone (mine will not charge).  Monday back here to monitor irrigation.  Leaving birds & Tazee here at the farm.  A week from Sunday is the Wohler reunion - but not at the Randolph senior center.  Mom is in charge this year.

Mr. Skunk has a trophy pair.  So fat he waddles when he runs.  Just opened the Morton West door, looking to see if I could see a kitten scurrying. It was mid day, getting hot out, Mr. Skunk wanted to run from outside to inside through my door.  Surprised me.  Funny waddle he has.  Ran to the big bales.  He is nocturnal so I'm sure he was hot and wanted the coolness so he could better sleep.  He pretty much ignored me.  Would have been a great video clip.  Careful as he will spray the dogs - bad thing to happen.

Very young fawn at the West end of the trees.  So new and slow I could catch it.  Careful to keep the dogs from that area.  Momma deer can kill a dog.
I've been eating on Hannah's sour dough bread.  Yum.  About a slice a day.

Also saw a 3.5' bull snake outside by the Morton West door.  Beautiful reptile.  Good shape, well fed.
About  1/3rd mile East saw a 2' stick laying South to North in the road.  Stopped, backed up to see it.  Yep.  Snake.  A fat garter snake.  Big around as a big hotdog.  Well fed.

See you Sunday.

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In regards to the last part...I planted a couple raspberry/blackberry bushes out at the cat ranch last year and when they came back this year my dad was convinced they were an invasive vine like the one that grows in our cedar windbreak....


Nope, just a berry bush doing berry bush things.



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My dad is going Rambo against this raccoon according to the email I just got....

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So, its like a chess game, but I keep losing.

Despite locking down feeders, minimizing garage door entry space, etc.

This medium sized racoon manages to lift the garage door about an inch to gain entry to eat cat food (and mess up cat feeders).

He has avoided live traps.

I may put a live trap inside the garage right where he enters kind of forcing him into it.

If that fails, it is going to be staying up late w/a shotgun.

The time I've invested in resolving this issue.

I have added about 5 new Santa Rosa plum trees North of the house.

You might be correct on that berry plant I thought was a vine.  We shall see.

Dad

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: June 13, 2025, 09:38:11 AM »
Woof

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: June 13, 2025, 06:49:49 AM »
Going to JW Marco with Mrs sd for 4 nights 2 weeks. Pretty stoked to do rough ridin' NOTHING for four days guys, guys.


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I was in Marco in February staying in a house and we bought a day pass to use the JW beach/pool which was pretty awesome. The only downside was the drink service on the beach chairs was pretty slow, like order then get your drink 30-45 minutes later.

I'm a big fan of all the burrowing owls on the island, they are adorable and heavily protected so they are pretty fearless of humans. You will be walking down the sidewalk, pass a burrow and the owl will just sit there screeching at you thinking its some big hot shot scaring you off.

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Hell yeah, I wouldn't have to buy an out of state license to fish my trout honey hole on the N Platte river in what is currently (NOT FOR LONG) SE Wyoming.
Except you would now be a resident of Missouri.


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Gross

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 10, 2025, 10:34:14 PM »
People who obsess about how good their pizza is are weird to me. It's pizza, there is like 5 degrees of separation between domino's/pizza hut/shuttle/etc or cici's all you can eat buffet and Minsky's or Providence.

Like yeah, Minksy's and Providence 51 are better but are they THAT much better to be 3x the cost? (Not IMO)

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Hell yeah, I wouldn't have to buy an out of state license to fish my trout honey hole on the N Platte river in what is currently (NOT FOR LONG) SE Wyoming.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: June 10, 2025, 10:25:40 PM »
I bet he’s like a lefty Carson Coffman


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Carson Coffman made a bowl game as a starter......I would obviously love more than that but if our floor is a 7-6 season I'm happy. So far HCCK floor has been higher.

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Kansas finally gets its mountains back.

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This one is my favorite. It got blown down in a storm last week but said "I AIN'T HEAR NO BELL" and is currently growing horizontally.


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I planted 2 sunflowers in a pot last year in this area and now a bagillion of them popped up this year.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Horse Riding
« on: June 08, 2025, 10:32:49 PM »
When I got around the corner I just stopped and waited for some oncoming traffic to show up and flashed my lights, they pulled up along side and I warned them about the cattle on the road around the corner.

Job done I went on my way.

https://twitter.com/ben0ji/status/1547339981676593160?t=J4DjcIWnRd99o3pZiBcxyw&s=19

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Horse Riding
« on: June 08, 2025, 10:26:31 PM »
Reminds me of when I helped an old fashioned horse back cattle round up in WY a couple of years ago and prevented like 20 of their cows from being flattened.


As everyone knows cows are dumb as eff so they just kept going higher as the dogs tried to herd them and eventually one slipped and slid down the mountain side a bit then just rough ridin' laid there on its side like a stupid cow.

At this point the cowboys horse said eff this crap I'm out so the cowboy went down the mountain a little and got off the horse. The horse took off onto the road while the cowboy and the dogs climbed up to check on the cow that had fallen.

As soon as they were next to it the stupid cow got up and the dogs started trying to herd it but it just ran to the edge of a cliff.


The horse takes off down the road where the other cowboy has most of the cattle herded next to the road. 2nd cowboy see the 1st cowboys horse just prancing down the road and grabs the reigns then heads over to see what the hell is going on and make sure he is okay.

While I'm watching this unfold I notice all of the cows the 2nd cowboy had herded are now standing in the middle of the road around a blind U turn. My hayseed instinct kicked in and I figured I better get around the turn and warn oncoming traffic.

I deftly navigate the field of cows without spooking them.



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I've got a linguistics thing for the BLOG.

Basically I sell stuff and most of our meetings are over the interwebz where we show them how awesome our software is. The other day when we finished a meeting one of our guys who works remote said

"This is about the 4th time I've noticed this with someone from KC (probably about 75% of our team is based in KC)...you don't say "specifically", you say "in specific". Is that a KC thing? Why don't you just say specifically?

An example being "Is there anything in specific you wish your current XYZ could do that it cant?" "Is there anything in specific you are looking for?"

There was about 3 of us from KC on this after call wrap up and we both just looked at each other like....yeah I guess I say "in specific" too.  :dunno:

If I was typing it in an email I would say "specifically" but when I talk I say "In specific"

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Horse Riding
« on: June 08, 2025, 05:17:00 PM »
Per SD's point there is a reason horses have been replaced on almost all ranches/farms by SxS or ATV's.

Basically the only people raising horses now are rich people and ranchers in the mountain west.

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Took the whole fam on a Euro trip.  After some time in Prague and Vienna, we stayed in a couple small villages in the Austrian Alps.  Summer activities are just opening up so both were nice and quiet.

Pertisau - Beautiful little resort town right on the Achensee.  We rented e-bikes for a pleasant ride up through pastures stopping at the Kasalm for lunch.  Then booked it back down to town to beat the rain.










Ehrwald - Took a cable car up to the main base area, hiked to the Seebensee and Hochfeldern Alm, then back down for a relaxing evening at the farm.












The second picture with the clouds below the mountaintops is great.

I also loved that you snapped a pic of some European mountain cows. I'm assuming that was a hot fence keeping them in? It kind of just looks like a string...maybe European cows are more docile or something.

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Accountant 2 was a thrill.

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I watched this last night and enjoyed it. I haven't watched the original in a while but I feel like Affleck's character is more autsy in this one than the first.

Great flick where you just turn off the realism meter and enjoy the action.

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Clearly it's a stegosaurus back spine.

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maybe its some sort of hammer head/blacksmith tool? Put a wood piece in the middle hole and it seems like you could crunch some metal with it.

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