"Omelet" wrote in message
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Sheldon wrote:

You once said you ring it to spook the deer during hunting season. G

Yes, I've done that a few times... but then realized it didn't help
the deer, just drove them through the woods to the next road, with
more hunters.

The only way you are going to keep your deer from being hunted is to
purchase adjacent property, post it and deer fence it.

And provide them with feed when their numbers get to be too high for the
local environment to feed them.
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"Omelet" wrote in message
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In article .com,
Sheldon wrote:

The only way you are going to keep your deer from being hunted is to
purchase adjacent property, post it and deer fence it.

And provide them with feed when their numbers get to be too high for the
local environment to feed them.
--
Peace, Om

Doesn't work -- 100 acres behind us, loads of acreage 360º. A deer was shot
probably very near our property, or on it because it died well 800' into
our place from the posted, fenced 100 acres behind us. It was not in
hunting season. You don't think I raised hell -- to no avail.
We wear bright orange hats outside all during hunting season. Probably
should wear them year-around.

They do feed in our yard, but they wander the large amount of acreage.
Dee Dee

notbob said...

On 2007-08-27, Andy q wrote:

cool, andy!

I'll be kicking myself in the ass till I die for not getting a picture
of the astounding Hale-Bopp view I witnessed in the flesh. The thing
hung in the Winter sky and loomed so large and looked so intense, I
almost bumped my head on it when I got out of my car. It was
positively brilliant. By contrast, Haley was a mere smudge, a minor
bug splat in the sky. I saw the very nice Comet Hyakutake, also.

I later joined an astronomy club, but after NASA started publishing
Hubble shots on the net it seemed absurd to look through a $3-5K
hobbyist telescope to see a mere spec of light in the night sky when I
could see these fantastic images on my computer screen. Recently, I
was going to do the new google "sky" thing, but after reading the
software agreement, I said screw you and went back too just visiting
the NASA website.

nb


I didn't photograph Hale-Bopp either. We BUMS!!!

A few years back for the Leonid meteor shower, in the freezing cold I went
to Rose Tree park and with my night-vision monocular w/mag lenses, watched
and counted them.

The crowd was every so often Ooh and Ahh-ing, while I was counting as fast
as blazes, into the 400s+ within an hour timeframe.

It was worth freezing my toes off for!

Andy

On 2007-08-28, Andy q wrote:
The crowd was every so often Ooh and Ahh-ing, while I was counting as fast
as blazes, into the 400s+ within an hour timeframe.

Yep. Used to watch 'em yearly. Not so much anymore.

nb

kilikini wrote:

It's supposed to be a red orb by 5:00 am Florida time tomorrow. I hope I
can get my camera to focus!

kili

Let us know if you are able to see the eclipse. People on the West
coast will not have a problem, but it may be difficult for people on the
East coast to see the full eclipse.

One of my friends in Utah says he may not be able to see it, because
they are expecting a storm. I hate it when that happens.

This should be a mirror image of the eclipse we had in March, but I was
moving, so I missed it. I plan on catching it this time!

BTW, I did see the Perseid meteor showers a few weeks ago, when I was in
Ohio. In December I am going on a cruise to watch the Geminids. Those
are my favorite meteor showers. OK, all meteor showers are my favorite. g

Becca

"Becca" wrote

Let us know if you are able to see the eclipse. People on the West coast
will not have a problem, but it may be difficult for people on the East
coast to see the full eclipse.

I got up at 5:30 and looked around. No moon, darn it.

Last night it was so bright white it was eerie.

nancy

In article ,
"Nancy Young" wrote:

"Becca" wrote

Let us know if you are able to see the eclipse. People on the West coast
will not have a problem, but it may be difficult for people on the East
coast to see the full eclipse.

I got up at 5:30 and looked around. No moon, darn it.

Last night it was so bright white it was eerie.

nancy

I had rather a lot of freaky nightmarish dreams last night...

Do moon eclipses influence that sort of thing? I woke up from that
nonsense about every 3 hours.

Om- who has no idea how she got that rather painful cut on her middle
right toe...
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